A penny to your thoughts

Life is so simple and beautiful, yet we never seem to get enough of it.

Let me take a moment to mourn for the loss of my colleague, Kalai Arasan. Yes, we lost him day before yesterday. I pray the almighty to provide his family with the strength to endure the upcoming days.You will always stay in our hearts, Kalai. There will be people who cherish your memories and miss you forever. This post will be a tribute to my lost friend.

I barely know Kalai. Yes, he is not even a friend of mine. Yet, when i heard the news , i had mixed emotions within me. I regretted that i  knew nothing other than his identity in the four years of college life, though we had studied in the campus , we had existed in the same place. We had been there for four years , yet i know nothing of him other than his name.

Barely in a few minutes, i heard another news that one of my friend's cousin was blessed with a girl baby. I wasn't able to decide whether to mourn or to celebrate.

I realized one thing. Life is so uncertain. We lose a person in the same minute where another family is happy for a new entry in their lives. The same minute gives happiness to a person, sadness to another, physical stress to one , mental stress to another and so on. We cannot expect life to be always a bed of roses. Yes, There will be thorns, but we have to keep moving on with a tone of Positivity. The positive vibes that we spread, will always be a source of smile in the face of people around us. 

Ten years from now,  I might not be in the same place with the same character and attitude. I might not even remember half of the people i meet in the journey of life. But, when the end comes nothing can give me the peace of having a satisfied life, without having the vengeance of anyone. 

People, life comes your way only once. We can not even be sure that we will come again on the earth again or that we will stay with the same people again. Let us all create happy memories while we still have an oppurtunity to live, rather regretting it later on our deathbed. 

People of our generation , we are so engrossed with our gadgets such that we fail to appreciate the smallest of the blessings around us.The world appears more beautiful when we value people and feelings more than money and time. Money and Time always flee in a glimpse. Meeting people and spreading smiles is a real bliss which you can feel only when you try it.

A person who is capable of saying sorry once he realizes his mistakes, believe me he is the strongest person. He tends to live a happy and joyuous life. Life is simple when you say sorry and let it go, rather holding on to it with stress in your head. Forgiving and Forgetting makes you move forward always.

I realized this very much and felt it truly , when i said sorry to some of the most important persons in my life, and put an end to the 1 year of grudge that we had been holding. And now, we rejoice it. Once i said sorry, they were brave enough to accept their mistakes and say sorry too. Had i done it even more sooner, i would have had more memories with them.  I regret that now.

Still now, there are people to whom i barely speak , people who might have grudge against me, people who wish to speak to me and befriend me , people who wait to stab me at the back and so the list goes on.None in this world are born perfect. Mistakes are everywhere. People are of various kinds.We can handle anyone if we have a heart that can listen to anyone. 

So, people.. stay happy with abundance of love and positivity.

Care to help people around you and make their lives beautiful too.

We all know that the above said facts always lie deep in our hearts. This is just an added penny to your silent thoughts. An added motivation to steer your life in the right direction. 

#spreadsmiles 😊  #spreadlove💜💜 

~Akshaya Venkatesan~