YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE

PEOPLE AROUND - A MIRROR TO ONESELF

Many a times we grumble and complaint that no one loves us, no one gives consideration to us and no one cares for us. Have we ever thought that the people around us are a reflection of us?  When you complain that you never get a visitor to your home or no one comes to visit you in hospital, have you asked yourself whether you have visited any home, or hospital.  Have we ever realized that depending on our face’s expression, those who come across respond?  To know whether you have a happy face, look at the face of the other person that comes opposite of you.  If he/she smiles, that means you have a smiling face. If, still with your smiling face, some one looks grouchy or melancholic remember that the one who comes opposite of you must either be preoccupied with something in his/her mind and have not noticed you or he/she is mentally sick. He/she needs your compassionate care.  Smile when you see another person coming near you - give this a try - you will see the difference.  I also have noticed that once we smile at someone, we ourselves receive a positive energy and it lingers in us for a few more seconds; if not a few minutes.  It becomes a habit eventually and it shall transform your character.

Once there was a mad woman who believed that her body was composed of celestial matter and not of gross earthly stuff.  She often used to say that in beauty and perfection her body had no equal on earth.  One day they brought her a full-length mirror and she saw her own reflection.  She was so enraged that she threw a chair at the mirror, breaking it into a thousand pieces.  Then she heaved a great sigh of relief.  When they asked her why she had broken the mirror, she replied that she had done so because the mirror wanted to spoil her beauty by trying to transform her heavenly body into an earthly one.

      Family and friends are mirrors that reflect your real self.  Breaking the mirror is stupid, and so is renouncing the world.  You have to transform yourself, not the mirror.  And this transformation can happen where you are right now.  Revolution begins at the centre.  Trying to start it on the periphery is a sheer waste of time.  You have to start with yourself.  Your family and friends are not standing on your way.  If anyone is standing on your way, it is you.