Installing Love...

 

Dear readers!

To love is happiness,& to be loved is a bliss. Isn't it???

Some anonymous had written in a magazine about love technically & I simply loved the way it was taken through & concluded.So, I have posted it for you all. Enjoy the fun &  the hidden philosophy as well!

Customer Service Rep: Can you install love?

Customer: I can do that. I’m not very technical, but I think I am ready to install now. What do I do first?

CSR: The first step is to locate your HEART. Have you located your HEART ma’am?

C: Yes I have, but there are several programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running? I have PASTHURT.EXE, LOWESTEEM.EXE, and GRUDGE.EXE & RESENTMENT.COM running right now.

CSR: No problem ma’am.  will automatically erase PASTHURT.EXE, from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGHESTEEM.EXE. However you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. So, go to your start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.

C: Okay, LOVE has started installing itself automatically.

CSR: Yes, but remember you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other HEARTS in order to get the upgrades.

C: Oops....It says “ERROR 412”- Program not run on internal components.

CSR: Don’t worry ma’am. That’s a common problem. It means that the LOVE program has set up to run on external HEARTS, but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non-technical terms it means you have to LOVE your own machine before it can LOVE others. Ma’am, can you find the directory called SELDACCEPTANCE?

C: Yes, I have it.

CSR: Click on the following files & then copy them to the “MY HEART” directory: FORGIVESELF.DOC, SELFESTEEM.TXT, REALIZEWORTH.TXT & GOODNESS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete SELFCRITIC.EXE from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone & never comes back.

C:  Got it. Hey! MY HEART is filling up with really neat files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now it shows that WARMTH.COM, PEACE.COM & CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART!

CSR: Then, LOVE is installed & running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go ma’am. LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it & its various modules to everybody you meet. They will, in turn, share it with other people & they will return some really neat modules back to you.

C: I will. Thank you for your help

With smiles...

Swathi

(Investing myself completely in the art of living)

If Love cannot, nothing else can!

Love can! 

Yes! I believe love can. It can transform a cruel countenance into a benign one; it can bring a smile to the lips that have forgotten to express joy; it can bring a tear to the eyes that have decided to be dry always. And it can give your life back when you are afraid to take any decision. It can help you lift up your status in life making a revolution!

Yeah! Certainly, I’m not a pro at psychology or it's related & I don’t know any studies or survey that can prove this to you. All I know is," it's true" & I have experienced it in my life.

Ms.Anusha stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of the school & told the children a damn lie! Like most teachers, she looked at her pupils & said that she loved them all the same, & that she would treat them alike.

And she was not that cautious to keep her lie revealed, because the very next moment she made Krish who seemed to be awkward to sit on the back bench who was right in front of her, slumped in his seat in the second row, because Krish wore unkempt clothes & wouldn’t play with other children ‘cause he was a sullen little boy, no one else seemed to enjoy his company either.

Ms.Anusha when reviewing each child’s record pushed Krish’s to the last. But when she happened to open his file, she was surprised by what she found.

His first-grade teacher had written-“Krish is a bright inquisitive child with regular laughter."

His second-grade teacher had penned-“Krish is an excellent student, well liked by all his classmates, but is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness & life at home must be a struggle."

His third-grade teacher had noted-“Krish continues to work hard, but his mother’s death has been hard on him."

His fourth-grade teacher commented-“Krish is withdrawn & doesn’t show much interest in school. He doesn’t have many friends & often falls asleep in class. He is tardy & could pose a problem."

 That year on teacher’s day, Ms.Anusha’s children bought her a present wrapped in brightly coloured paper tied with beautiful ribbons.Krish’s alone was clumsily wrapped in heavy brown paper from a grocery bag. Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, & a bottle that was only quarter filled with cologne.

She stifled the children’s laughter by exclaiming how pretty the bracelet was & put it on; she also dabbed some of the perfume behind her wrist. That day, after the class,Krish stayed in the class just long enough to say,” Ms Anusha, today you smelled just like my mom used to”.

That very day, Ms Anusha decided to work with Krish. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, faster he responded. By the end of the

year, he had become one of the highest achieving children in the class &, well, he had also somewhat become the ‘Pet” of the teacher who had once vowed to love all her children exactly the same.

A year later, she found a note under her door from Krish, telling her that of all the teachers he’d had in the elementary school, she was his favourite. Eleven years later, another letter came. The letter explained that she was still his favourite teacher, but that now his name was not just Krish.

It’s Ram Krish Gupta M.D.,

Yeah!...Love can!...

& If love cannot, nothing else can!!

I heartily dedicate this post to my grade twelve botany teacher, Ms.Bakyalakshmi.

With smiles...

Swathi Mohan 

(Investing myself completely in the art of living)

Voice of love...!!

We experience a lot in life, which enlighten us a great lesson that the books and curriculum cannot. Sometimes we feel great about what we learned from it & many times we forget to implement that in our lives. This is true especially for the experiences that are emotionally bonded to us.

That was one fine evening on October 24; 

I was sitting merely having my slambook opened & my mind enriched with the old memories.I was diverted abruptly and opened the chat as I heard the cling sound. It was the voice of love,my childhood friend Bhavadharini!

We hardly had two conversations & maybe it’s true.....A best friend can find your tone even with the letters you type.She was very sharp & crisp,”temme love, what’s your problem?”. I smiled & typed “nothing”. She typed back angrily,”oh, nothing! Then bye...”I typed,”no bow (I usually call her so)...Today is her birthday, so I was plunged by all those old memories. Every year we used to enjoy this day like anything & never surmised that a few years later we will be apart like this. You very well know how we were. She has been in all my extremes holding my hands tightly. Even if she can’t give better solutions at times, she never failed to cry along with me! Now nothing else is left than the misunderstandings. I earnestly don’t want to justify or being justified by anyone or any situation that prevailed exactly before 3 years, but still is everything over??????”

She replied, “I can help a person caught in the jaws of a crocodile. But how can I help a person caught in the jaws of a crocodile, while all she has is just the picture of a crocodile under her feet? The past has no reality except in the memory in which it is processed.Yet, you are caught up in the whirlpool & pretending that your past is still real dear!! By abusing your todays over the regrets of the past, you endlessly lose your todays that could’ve been used to build up your tomorrow”

I know she is right, but still, I didn’t break the silence.

She continued, “Nothing is a greater retardant to growth than the burden of the emotional baggage of your past.So, to unburden yourself from the past & to offload your emotional baggage embrace “forgiveness”. This can be the most selfish thing you do in life to liberate yourself from the clutches of hatred. Guilt is as much a retardant as hurt. Liberate yourself from both, because when you don’t forgive others, you suffer from hurt: and when you don’t forgive yourself, you suffer from guilt. Remind yourself that you are only human & humans err...”

I felt some profoundness in her words...but as she said, I remind,”am a human”. Sometimes our brain knows what is right, but it takes some time for the heart to realize it and honour it as well. Ha ha...I took these many  days!!!

Yes! It’s better to have loved & lost than to have not loved at all. It’s better to be cheated than to be a cheat. It’s better to have suffered the  wrong than to have done the wrong.Bitter yesterdays can create better tomorrow with all the maturity we gained out of those experiences.

So, I put a premium on my tears, so that I can encounter many more beautiful moments in my life, more worthy than my tears. There is a saying –“today can be the last day in your life”.This can be true in some cases, but equally true is the fact that today is the first day for the rest life.  I began today and you.....????

With smiles..

  Swathi  💚

(Investing myself  completely in the art of living)