Dear Me,

You’ve been through lows, you’ve been through highs, and then you’ve been in times when you just didn’t want to try.

You have surprised yourself and you have let yourself down,

You have come a long way but you still have to go a long way now.

You met so many new people and made so many memories along the way,

Some sweet and others bitter but all lessons that will stay.

You should neither be sorry that you are a changed me , nor try to change if you do not want to be a new me.

So to all the me’s that I have been and to all the me’s that I will be, you may change but at the heart you will still be me.

Count your blessings

It’s funny how you and I, can sometimes be so pessimistic by nature.
How we cling on to our losses, our failures.
How we celebrate our happiness while it lasts, but carry the burden of our mistakes forever.
How it takes one little pain to turn our smile into a frown, but so much more effort to pull ourselves back together.
How we focus all our energy to strengthen one of our weaknesses and overlook the many other strengths within us.
How that one blot of ink on a white shirt always manages to catch our attention,
and that one person who forgets to join us in our happiness manages to ruin all our celebration.
How we waste our today worrying about the unforeseen problems of tomorrow, and spend each new day regretting about what more could have we achieved before.
Let’s not be over critical of ourselves and the world around us.
Let’s count our blessings and be more grateful for everything that belongs to us.
Let’s worry a little lesser and laugh a lot harder today.
Let’s spread some positivity and make the world a better place.

Snakes & Ladders

My turn has come and I roll the dice.
I smile and take those steps that shall take me to greater heights.
My opponent tries out his luck, falls farther behind.
This game belongs to me, and victory is near in sight.

Last few steps and then I shall succeed.
I roll the dice once again, hoping to continue my journey towards victory. I check the number on the dice disbelievingly. There has to be something wrong! I tell myself frantically.

The game is brutal, to say the least.
I slide down to find myself among my shattered dreams.
He rolls the dice and cries out with joy.
I grumble as I see him scale new heights.

Within no time I see him reach where I was.
Will he succeed this time or fall is my only concern right now.
With a heavy heart I wait anxiously for the dice to roll, but he cheerfully gets up from his seat and says that he wants to play no more.

I remind him that the game isn’t finished yet and to give up so close to winning, is nothing short of foolishness.
He smiles and says this is where he had always wanted to reach. He is content that he has achieved his victory and was never aiming to be, where I had dreamed to be.

In that moment I realized that I was playing the game of life, where every success and every failure was going to be just mine.
Ladders are chances which I can choose to take or forfeit.
Snakes, failures that are lessons for me.

Life isn’t a competition and there is no final victory.
It is up to us to celebrate our own little accomplishments and overcome our own dreadful fears along the journey.
So the next time a dice is rolled and there’s a ladder in front of you,
It is for you to decide if you really want to climb it, or to let it go.

It is okay!

It is okay to not know where you want to be.
It is okay to not know what you want.
It is okay to be unsure of things.
It is okay to not know it all.

It is okay if you can not match their pace.
It is okay to be at the bottom of the ladder and not know if you will ever make it to the top.
It is okay if you spent your entire life planning an escape, only to find yourself completely lost.

Life is not a strategy, no that is not how it works.
The more you plan it, the more you get stumped.
So lay down all your cards on the table, and let the magic unfold.
Just hang in there, and someday you will be able to connect all the dots.