Lessons for Life #82

There are many people around us and they may be based on different classification. One of those classification is depicted by the image above which is here is teach us our next lesson. According to this one people are of two types:- those who "play you" and others who "pray for you".

But it is obvious if your mind thinks that these two types don't have equal distribution for they actually don't. They number of person who play you far outnumber the ones who pray for you and want good for you. The simple reason being that human nature nowadays tend to make people more self centered and no matter what they do, in the end it will only be for themselves thus making you feel like you have been played. The one who actually have the courage to pray for others but them are far better but less in number.

So keep that in mind and you do wanna keep your mind and eyes open if you want to differentiate between these two types of people.

Paul Walker: Tribute

Paul Walker, known for the role of "Brian O'Conner" in the famous "Fast and Furious" Series died in a single-car accident on November 30, 2013 alongside friend Roger Rodas. This video pays a tribute to him and contains some moments from the same series.

The seventh installment of the series "Furious 7", releasing on April 3rd, 2015 is his last one. You can watch the trailer on the YouTube link provided below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISKeT6sDOg 

Forgotten History

Now this one is a great speech by Gurpreet Ghuggi where he talks about heroes in the Sikh History which are almost forgotten in-spite of amazing things done by those who never could do at that time. While some of those things achieved back then by them in history could never be repeated. Like for example Tremur in Afganistan could only be won once in the entire history by Hari Singh Nalwa and no other could achieve the same feat, not even Alexander or the USA.

And for this America even requested India regarding the permission of establishing a statue of Hari Singh Nalwa in front of White House. But those permission request are today only files somewhere in offices of Delhi.

So this is only one example, there are many more which people should know but only cinema could serve this purpose. Lets see if future gifts us to know some of those from the past.

From 4 years to 4 days

"Two events happened to me recently about which I want to share my experiences.

My dad passed away about 5 months ago at the ripe old age of 94. He had retired in 1975 as Supdt. Engr in CPWD in Delhi and was getting the central govt pension from 1975 to 2014 (about 40,000/-per month).

In the year 2010 he wrote to the ministry of pensions asking to include my mother's name Sharadha, now 89 yrs as the family pensioner. In the year 2012. due to my father's failing eyesight I reminded them by email as well as by phone to Delhi. I was told they are processing it and will send the revised papers "soon". 2014 came and my dad had still not received confirmation of my mom's name as family pensioner. He passed away assuming his wife will not be the recipient of around 25,000/-PM as her pension. When I went to the bank after my dad's death with all papers they said my mom's name was not in the pension payment order.

Frustrated I sent a copy of the earlier correspondence of 2010 to the pension ministry. Within 4 days I got an email from some clerk saying the papers will be ready within a week( not a vague "soon"). On the 5 th day I got a phone call from a person who introduced himself as Dr Jitendra Singh and he said the papers with my mom's details have been sent to the bank that very day.

I hung up thanking him. When I checked their web site Dr Jitendra Singh was the minister of state for pensions and personnel grievances,reporting to a Sr. cabinet minister who was Modi himself. When I called back to thank the minister himself ,he modestly said it was the PM's directive that no woman who has lost her husband recently should be further traumatized by delayed paperwork on pensions.
(What Manmohan did not do in 4 yrs Modi did in 4 days)

And last month when my mom had to give her life certificate to the bank a bank officer came home to get her signature due to her old age. (Last year I had taken my 93 years old dad to the bank with great difficulty). The bank also confirmed it was Finance ministry directive to treat Sr. Citizens with extra sensitivity!"
-Col G Pratap Raju

Source: Logical Indian

When You Realize

“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

You can't carry all the people you meet in your life with you. They came in your life to teach you something. At any moment in your journey of life you will only be accompanied by a handful of people, but in the end its only your journey and you will realize that in the end you will be alone. So stop worrying about people who couldn't make it.  

Source: Lessons Learned in Life

Do Right, even if it Hurts

There’s only so many times you can allow someone to let you down before you will no longer tolerate being disappointed. When things go wrong between two people, something has got to give. You get to the point where you get tired of being the only one trying to fix things, it’s not giving up, it’s realizing you had enough. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts.
~Brigitte Nicole

You can't allow anyone to disappoint you forever and still hold on to them. You should know when to let go of them.

Source: Lessons Learned in Life

An important Lesson to Remember

This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a bad year:-

"Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt a real heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you’ve seen evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve hit rock bottom"
~Anonymous

True happiness comes when we rise from the bottom. :)

Source: Lessons Learned in Life