MEET ME AT THE RIVER

 




“To succeed in life, you need three things:

a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”

 

Beautiful quotes are like effective capsules… Consumed at the right time, they can make all the difference between success and failure, just as the right capsules do to make a difference between health and sickness, life and death.

The other day, someone told me, that she, regularly, reads my blog posts. But, she added, “Many times, the quotes that you share inspire me to read your posts.”

I smiled and confessed, “Many times, it’s the quotes that inspire me to write my posts, too.”

Life and living are, actually, very complex… We cannot encapsulate them in small pills. But, then, as I said, consumed at the ‘right time’, the little pills and capsules can make all the difference…

It, also, indicates, that the way we choose to live our lives makes our lives complex… or simple.

For example, for a last couple of days, I have been delightfully watching some FB reels by this little angel, by the name  Ginalyn Kurylo, and I came across this capsule:




https://www.facebook.com/reel/6260328724055904 



 

Now, how often I have come across this quote, and how often I have used it in my posts, too! But, watching this ‘badi baat’ from ‘chota muh’ (Not to belittle the little soul) – made me, literally, sit up and take notice…  I found telling myself: “Hey, Life’s complex lessons can be made so simple!”

Meanwhile, my overcritical mind keep screaming inside, “Dude, the reel life is not the real life… Does this little girl know what the three ‘bones of success’  - the wishbone, the backbone and the funny bone - are all about?”

I scream back, “She may not. But, hasn’t she made me sit up and take note of them?”






Yes, at every step, along our long journey called Life, we have a choice to make it - a complex one, or a simple one.

 

GERALD ‘CUNHA

 

Pic.: Pixel/Jessica Ticozzolli

 

Video: 1. Ginalyn Kurylo 2. Mariam Makeba

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MUTHU KODI KAWARI HADA

Image
Pic.; Ashwin Mohta M y Hindi was always bad. It still is. One reason for this was, that they introduced Hindi for us only in 6 th standard. Or, was it in 8 th ? I don’t remember… I only remember struggling to write and read… leave alone speak! But, I loved Hindi movies, and, strangely, I could understand the dialogues and the lyrics of the songs… I used to sing those songs (of course when no one was around me!) as if I was the lyricist… One of the songs was a very funny one. ‘Muthu Kodi Kawari Hada’. It was from Mehmood’s super-hit comedy – ‘Do Phool’. I was a 15-year-old high-school boy when I had heard that song (not watched the movie). I could grasp the meaning of two words – ‘Muthu Kodi’… which meant ‘Give kiss’… But, what ‘Kawari Hada’ meant, I have no clue till date! It was just like ‘Why this kolaveri di’... Yes, why ask? Simply enjoy the beats… And, the beats are great… The rest... Who cares? Really! So, whatever bit of Hi
Read more

"HAPPILY EVER AFTER IS NOT A FAIRY-TALE... IT IS A CHOICE"

Image
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone… It has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin,  The Lathe of Heaven T welve years ago, when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married, the world began to hail the couple as ‘Brangelina’. It became a fashion for couples around us to call themselves so… Norbert and Teresa renamed them as ‘Noresa’…  Amol and Vishaka baptized their relationship as ‘Amoshka’… and, Salman and Nargis became ‘Salgis’! I and my wife, too, got tempted to re-christian our matrimonial relationship as ‘Germa’... That is, Gerald and Anima, to be precise! B efore I proceed any further, let me make it very clear, here… that, I have no business to judge on the break-up of Brad Pitt and Angelina’ Jolie’s marriage. I have no inclination to go into why, how, what when etc behind it… The couple ‘chose’ to split. And, it’s their choice… Only they know how good or bad… how joyful or painful that
Read more

SELLING MIRRORS IN THE CITY OF THE BLIND

Image
“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.” - Kabir T here is a universal human weakness – and it dates back to the days of fallen civilizations – and it is: to place people on pedestal and trying to be smothered by them, feel loved and protected in their company… worship them as mentors, heroes,  gurus, Mahagurus and Satgurus… Make these mortals larger-than-life cut-outs, worship them as flawless, pure and give one’s all… And, then, ‘take’ everything from them blindly as divine… Give everything to them blindly… Eventually, what happens is:  one more dangerous bondage… What was supposed to free you now becomes a new prison… It’s sad to see this happen! T his room, where I am writing this Post, has no image of any deity. I have no image of any Guru or Master around me… My question is: “Am I not able to feel close to Almighty God?  How does it matter
Read more
THE WILD, WAYSIDE FLOWERS
There is, always, something extra-ordinary in the wild, wayside flowers...