Infactuation, Friendship and Love

Anyone who comes across this blog am sure will first read through this post only, such an captive topic, right.. So I thought for a long while as to how to make it so interesting that people would care to read the other posts as well.. So here it is..

Infatuation
Liking a person just by the sight of them.. Major problem among the youngsters today.. It prevailed only among college students, but these days its spreading so fast that even school kids tend to fall in this pit.. So bad.. Never ever follow this teenage instincts and regret later after you come to know what life and the world is..

Friendship
The very word that will bring back the sweet memoirs since our childhood.. Ya its friendship which one can count always.. The understanding once developed will remain forever no matter whatever turn the life takes..

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

So choose your friends carefully and your life will go accordingly.. Nothing else can replace the position of a true friend.. So cherish true friendship forever..

Love
The very first thought that comes to one's mind on seeing this word is love between a guy and a girl.. One fact that we need to feel bad about is that the love that parents shower on their children have been totally forgotten.. This bond can doubtlessly be taken as the epitome of true and divine love..

Mother's Love

I humbly appraise my mother's worth
It began with pain to give me birth,
Which triggered off a love so strong,
Blossoming into a life-long bond.

When needed, she was always there,
Someone I realized would always care.
And the older I got the more I knew,
A mother's love sincere and true.

Now as I watch Mum age in years,

I'm happy to help and ease her fears.

Privileged now to play my part,

As she did for me from the very start.

Let me make one thing very clear by this I don't mean that true love can never exist between a guy and girl, it sure does.. No one can deny that.. Each one's way of expressing it differs.. True love needs to be felt not read or explained..

Love is a tender touch, a warm embrace
Its something that leaves on everlasting trace

Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but
in looking together in the same direction

In love the hard times will surely come,
and no lover is without flaw,
but
you must have patience to see the rainbows
and endure the thorns to have the rose

Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional....

Everyone of us wish our life to be painless, but that is not what happens always... Each one of us do come across a situation where our life seems painful and miserable... That is coz its natural.. There sure will be a reason behind it..

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, its easily endured;if severe,it'll without doubt be brief.. We cannot learn without pain

Every pain inflicted upon us by nature is to make us better. Its our approach towards it that makes the difference. Most of us think that we are only suffering and others are all happy, but that is major misconception prevailing that tends us to lose hope in life. One should understand that everyone does suffer but the attitude is what increases or decreases the magnitude of it.

Life indeed consists of "ups" and "downs". The "ups" motivate us and the "downs" teaches and corrects us. Both of these together is what makes life interesting and the total absence of any one of it will make life monotonous and bored. So when you are suffering just have one thing in mind "This will pass for a better beginning"

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

Self Analysis

Paulo Coelho's books made me realise how important the analysis of self is in a person's lyf... So here am just writing down some thoughts of mine which am sure would help everyone who reads this.... Self analysis should be done about each and evrything one does in their life and more importantly it should'nt be dropped as more often one tends to postone it and gradually it gets forgotten....

If you are willing to spend some time learning about yourself here are 2 easy ways of doing it

1. By penning down everything , then analysing it

2. Sitting calmly and thinking over

There is ofcourse a difference between the will to be honest and the capacity to do so... Every obstacle surmounted in overcoming this difference means understanding the inner self more which will helps to approach the next with more inner strength... So my suggestion to anyone who reads this is

" No one can go back and make a brand new start, but anyone can start now and make a brand new ending... "

So start it today to feel the difference for a better tomorrow....

Paulo Coelho

The moment I thought of starting a blog I wanted to write about this great man born on August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janerio, Brazil... "I always knew," he says, "that my Personal Legend, to use a term from alchemy, was to write." I admire this man a lot for his attitude and am sure all his fans would also accept it..

He is not only one of the most widely read, but also one of the most influential authors writing today. All his works are thought provoking , motivating and it creates in us a virtue of approaching life more optimistically.. We all know "Attitude is what makes a person", he shows us a different dimension of looking at things and changes our attitude towards life helping us in facing any situation more confidently...

Here are some of his views about life:

1] All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

2] Each human being has been granted two courses of action: that of deed and that of contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

3] Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift. Power drives man to meet his destiny, his gift obliges him to share with others that which is good in him. A man must know when to use his power, and when to use his gift.

4] Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

5] Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

6] Each human being has his own Personal Legend to be fulfilled, and this is the reason he is in the world. The Personal Legend is manifest in his enthusiasm for what he does.
Single paragraph - the Personal Legend may be abandoned for a certain time, provided one does not forget it and returns as soon as possible.

7] Each man has a feminine side, and each woman has a masculine side. It is necessary to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition objectively.

8] Each human being must know two languages: the language of society and the language of the omens. The first serves for communication with others. The second serves to interpret messages from God.

9] Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

10] Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness. And must behave like a normal person.

11] The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one’s neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
we shall love our adversaries, but not make alliances with them. They are placed in our way to test our sword, and deserve the respect of our fight.
we shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.

12] All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.
A man who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective manner of adoration and of sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, he alone is responsible for his actions along the Way, and he has no right to transfer to religion the responsibility for his steps and his decisions.

13] Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

14] Of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

What great thoughts.... Awesome... Am sure anyone who cared to read all through this would want to know more about his works and here is a list of it.. I assure, by reading his works you are gonna gain a lot out of it...

Year	Title
1982	Hell Archives
1986	Practical Manual of Vampirism
1987	The Pilgrimage
1988	The Alchemist
1990	Brida
1991	The Greatest Gift
1992	The Valkyries
	The Diary of a Magus
1994	Maktub
	By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
1996	The Fifth Mountain
1997	Love Letters from a Prophet
	The Manual of the Warrior of Light
1998	Veronika Decides to Die
	Essential Words
2000	The Devil and Miss Prym
2001	Fathers, Sons and Grandsons
2003	Eleven Minutes
2004	The Genie and the Roses
	And on the Seventh Day (collection of three previously published novels)
2005	The Zahir
	Revived Paths
2006	Like the Flowing River
	The Witch of Portobello
2007	Life: Selected Quotations
2008	The Winner is Alone
	The Wizard (biography by Fernando Morais)

Official Site:
http://www.paulocoelho.com.br/engl/

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