Inspire

Inspire

Topic given to us as part of this training was "Inspire".

Very first thing comes to our mind by listening this word “Inspire” is the big names Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Amitabh Bachhan etc…

We always think that we get inspiration from great personalities only. It’s really difficult to think that we can also inspire others to do something.

And when we have been told that at the end of the training we have to come with some sort of thoughts to represent our topic… this was the first thing came to my mind. How on the earth we can inspire others?

Then we have decided to use metaphor of “Mustard seeds” to explain that it's not always size or current position that matters when it comes to inspire others. If tiniest seeds of Mustard can give inspiration in so many different ways ….we are over quarter century old people with grown over 5 feet …why can’t we inspire others.

Soon we have started searching for positives sides of those seeds which can be a point of inspiration. And in very little time we have come up with below points…..

·         Mustard seeds are tiny but very important food ingredients....it gives that punch to the taste of food. If you have all other Ingredients but not mustard seeds that taste won't come in food.

·         Mustard seeds are tiniest seeds....but they are very quick grower...and it can grow till 6-8 meter (at times). So it may be small at start but in the end it beats most of competition

·         There is pattern in seeding mustard seeds. It needs to seed by keeping some distance among them. Then only they grow up and give proper return of investment. Same way For organization each employ is mustard seeds. To grow them in tree...proper care is must but along with that little space for each individual required as well.

·         There is one saying in bible  "Have faith of mustard seeds" which explains May be you are the smallest one among the people surrounded you....but if you keep the faith.....and do right things you can out play them

·         Each one of us have so many positive things in us may be tiny at the moment....just like this mustard seeds....but if we take proper care of those little positive things and grow them it....will be grow like a tree and give you....proper outcome.

So by the example of these tiny mustard seeds we have tried to explain that it’s not size or position that matters to inspire others.

Very small acts of yours towards achieving something can also give inspiration to others.

Feeling Happy is our Choice!!

Feeling Happy is our Choice!! 

I probably had one of those bad days at office. After slogging hard for so many years something didn’t came in my plate and went into someone else’s plate. It was tough to digest the fact that the person half deserving than you getting something which you wanted. 

Half dejected … instead of going home (where I live with friends) I went to cousin’s place. Little nephew was throwing his tantrums for going outside for playing with his friends. My arrival was blessing for him and he knew that his work is done. He grabbed his shoes quickly and came towards me to hold my hand and drag me outside.

It was odd evening time when all the kids of his age were at home for food. We started roaming around the play area and found one more kid there playing alone with his Superman toy. Kid was son of the caretaker living there. Soon my nephew and he started playing together with his little toy.

They started making story some sort of skit with using that toy of Superman …. Putting it on slide and catching it at end and making noises. Suddenly what happen by nephew threw it in the air and it fall on hard surface. Leg of the Superman toy was broken and got separated. 

Suddenly so many thoughts came to my mind….how this kid will react will he start crying… may be he won’t have so many toys at his home….how dejected he will feel due to this broken toy. I threw angry glare at my nephew and he knew what he did so he got scared as well. Then suddenly that kid picked up the toy and told my nephew that he has magic glue at his home and he will join this hand again. Soon this will be okay like it was before. And he is also going to get remote control car in next week. Hearing this nephew got smile on his face back.

On back of my mind I knew that glue can join it back but it can’t be same working toy again and that kid knew it too. However, he never dropped his spirit. Then I asked him that who is going to bring that car to you. He just shook his head, gave me a loopy grin and said, ‘It is a surprise. I will have it next week.’

He was never getting a remote control car….but he has such a generous spirit…. that he shrugged away his gloom and made up a story about magic glue and a remote control present so that the other kid would stop feeling guilt-ridden… that he had broken his only toy.

Disappointment did hit him…like it hits all of us…but he pushed it aside…just like we wave away annoying fly so that he could continue being happy.

The bitter fact of life is that we try to chase happiness….sometimes with buying materialistic things like car…home…or some latest gadget. But a five-year-old boy didn’t stops smiling even when his only toy got brake …. That smile taught me that happiness is not a pursuit or a purchase; it’s simply a way of being.

Next morning when I entered office and someone again reminded me of that stuff which affected my mood last day…. Just to tease me. I just recalled that smiling face of kid and told him that I never really wanted it. I actually have something better planned for that time and thank god that it didn’t came to me. I felt happy even while Lying and it was fun to see the face of that other person.

P.S. – My birthday is there next weekend and I am thinking of buying that remote control car for that Kiddo ….to make his lie come true. He surely deserve that in return of smile he brought on my face.