Life

i wrote this when i was going thru a very difficult time in life.. when ever i'm down reading this helps me..hope it works for you too..
(mailed it to manish who published in his blog..so if u've already read it.. read it once more!)

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LIFE

Life is strange. To live it even stranger. One day you are going about your daily routines, relatively happy and wham-bham-sorry-ma’am, but here’s where the twist comes in your life. A twist so big, a shock so tremendous, a tragedy so deep that it can shatter your very existence. It can. But that depends on whether you let it.
Whenever you are faced with a situation, there are two things that you can do – face it with a smile or face it with tears. But face it you have to. Agreed that at that point smiling hurts more than crying. But sometimes you have to smile. For the person who is looking at you for strength. For the person who is looking at you for help. For the GOD who is looking at you for faith.
FAITH.
A very strong word with an even stronger meaning. They say – “Faith moves mountains.” That’s not true. Faith moves GOD and GOD moves the mountain. So trust him. If HE has given it to you, he knows that you can take it. Go about life and it’s daily routines like nothing has happened. Don’t let the anger and the frustration and the hurt get to you. Rather let the warmth of the sun get to you. Let the swiftness of the breeze get to you. Smile- for it costs nothing. Absolutely nothing. Smile so that GOD feels guilty for trying to make you cry. Smile so that the person who loves your smile can smile.
So pull up your pants and face your problem. Or problems. One at a time. Look life square in the eye and say – “O.K. dude. Challenge accepted.” And then, prepare to win.
It’s not going to be easy. No ways. It’s not even going to be difficult. In fact, it’s going to be very very difficult. But you have no choice. The only choice you have is whether to smile or to cry. So choose to smile. Let go of the dreams that will never be fulfilled now. But don’t let go of dreaming. Dream new dreams. And aim to fulfill them. Let go of friends who no longer consider you worthy. But don’t let go of friendship. Make new friends. And keep them. There is this advertisement being flaunted all over town. It says:

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world that they have been given rather than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s a opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing.”

Read it. Again. And again. And again. Until it registers in your head that nothing is impossible. Not even putting toothpaste back into it’s tube. Not giving up an addiction. Definitely not a miracle. Do you believe in miracles? I do. And you should too. Our life is a miracle. Each breath that we take is a miracle. They do happen you know. You just have to believe in them to see them. To feel them.
When tragedy strikes, just being able to survive is a miracle. When going about your daily routine, one moment, time will stand still, and you will wonder – what am I doing? How can I be so normal after everything that has happened to me? How can I pretend that nothing has changed, when the entire meaning of my life has changed? And then you will remember the first sentence that you jut read.
Life is strange. To live it, even stranger.

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and yeah manish -- it's not fat ppl in general who are so nice, and approachable..
anybody can be that..u can too..it's whats within that reflects outside..be comfortable with what u are, who you are, dont think you are a lesser mortal.. no one on this earth is less or more than anybody else.
we're all different.. all unique.. and yet, all the same. we're all people who desire money, happiness, satisfaction (that type, and the other general one too!) and at the end of the day: appreciation and acceptance and love by other ppl.
so have confidence in what you are, who you are, how you are.
i'm going to quote a movie as usual...

"tumhare hisab se tumhare pass jo hai kam hai, lekin kisi aur ki nazar se dekho to tumhare pass bahut zyada hai! hason, jiyo, muskurao, khush raho..kya pata..kal ho na ho!"

its from kal ho na ho (obviously) and the way HE(shah rukh kahn) says it..uff!!
think abt it... and live by it..
i do and u can too.
untill next time...