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If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?

A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands. Her mum

came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile: “my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?” The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a quick bite on one apple, and then quickly on the other.

The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment. Then the little girl handed one of her bitten apples to her mum, and said: mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one.

No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, always delay judgement. Give others the privilege to

explain themselves. What you see may not be the reality. Never conclude for others. Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded, but because they value friendship above money. Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility. Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them. Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you anything but because they see you as a true friend. Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing better to do but because you are in their heart.

One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything & nothing; the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare… One day our children will see our pictures and ask “Who are these people? “And we will smile with invisible tears because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say: “IT WAS THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE WITH”

Always Delay Judgement

A man flying in a hot air balloon realizes he is lost. He reduces his

altitude and spots a man in a field down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?”

The man below says, “Yes, you’re in a hot air balloon, about 30 feet above this field.”

“You must be an engineer,” says

the balloonist.

“I am. How did you know?”

“Everything you told me is technically correct, but it’s of no use to anyone.”

The man below says, “You must be in management.”

“I am. But how did you know?”

“You don’t know where you are,

or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault.”

Engineers and Managers


You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

We all encounter a va-riety of problems in our life. Problems

are an inevitable part of life. We simply can’t escape or ignore these problems. Problems have the capacity to polish or pollute you. It is you who decides what you will become with the prob-lem; polished or polluted. If you handle it effectively you come out polished; if not then polluted.

There are some problems which do not have any solution. They simply stay with you for uncertain

period, sometimes forever. You try to understand it, solve it but all in vein. Why? Because; it does not have any solution at least as of now.

So what to do with these kinds of problems! Dis-solve them. Yes, all problems do not dissolve with time. Some need your attention and consideration. So you dis-solve it by not trying to solve it. Then what you do; you change the way you think about it. You think in a different way. You look at the brighter side of the story.

When you change your thoughts about the problem; it is no longer an obstacle. Suddenly it disap-pears. It does not disturb you the way it used to. You did not solve it; you simply dissolved it by changing your thought about it.

This is about my father, Dr Khageswar Biswal, Pathology & Microbi-

ology Specialist (now retired). - By Shibani SR PatnaHere I’m going to describe two of his experiences that are known to me.

Those days we used to stay at Rourkela, Odisha as both my par-ents were working there. We used to visit our ancestral home once or twice a year. During one such trip, when we were a few kilometers away from our ancestral home, we decided to stop and visit the ancient Devi maa temple like ev-ery time. We went for Darshan af-ter parking our car. By the time we finished our ‘puja’ and were back to the parking lot, we found one middle-aged lady with her 8-10 yrs old son waiting for us. They looked very poor and frail. The son was apparently in pain. The

lady, seeing the “red cross” on our car, approached my father. My fa-ther checked him up thoroughly and asked a few questions related to his pain. He gave few tablets that he was carrying along. In re-turn he didn’t charge any money from them as usual. He refuses if anyone offers money for the treat-ment as he believes that he is al-ready being paid by the Govt. in the form of salary to treat patients. He has turned down many offers from private hospital till date.

In another incident, my father read the newspaper and came across story of road accident to a young boy. He took down the boy’s ad-dress from the newspaper and went to the boy’s house. Later, boy’s leg had to be amputated and he has resorted to begging after get-ting better. When my father came to know about the boy’s hearten-

ing story, he went to meet him in his village and gave Rs 5000.

Apart from all this, he has helped many people financially (accord-ing to his capacity) when they are in need. He is always con-cerned about people’s suffering. He, with much interest & con-cern came forward asking for my help in registering his organ for donation. Finally I got him registered for donating all his organs and now he’s carrying along the card wherever he goes.

Don’t solve that problem; dis-solve it - Tapas Dasmohapatra

An Inspiration - Dr. Khageswar Biswal


It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

GOD: How to keep God happy? Frankly speaking, I have no clear idea about it. You may please re-fer to other religious or spiritual people or text to get enlightened on this issue. In my limited un-derstanding, I can only suggest that we are doing our best to keep the above five customers happy, then the chances are God may re-main happy with us. Still if you want some ideas from me then I would like to suggest the follow-ing which I have heard from other people and I do my best to prac-tice them as much as I can:

“Nobody can do everything. Everybody can do something. if everybody starts doing what they can then lot of things can be done.”

1. Be Humble. I am told that the only trait that God dislikes is “Ar-rogance”. Please verify it with some other source as well.

2. Be kind to other fellow be-ings. Help as much as you can. I think it also appeals to common sense because it is very difficult to remain peaceful in a turbulent neighborhood.

3. Do good and forget.

4. Respect other’s religious/ spiri-tual beliefs especially if they are not hurting anyone.

5. Add positive value to world and make it better than you inherited.

Why God Gives Pain and Suffer-ing – one of the best explanations that I have read.

A man went to barber shop to have his hair cut ad his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversa-tion. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subjects of God, the barber said: “I don’t believe that GOD exists.”

“Why do you say that?” asked the customer.

Barber said: “Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exist, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all these things.”

The customer thought for a mo-ment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argu-ment.

The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and un-trimmed beard.

He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said

to the barber: “You know what? Barbers do not exist.”

“How can you say that?” asked the surprised barber.

“I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you.”

“No!” the customer exclaimed. “Barbers don’t exist because if they did, they would be no peo-ple with long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.”

“Ah, but barbers Do exist! That’s what happens when people do not come to me.” “Exactly!” affirmed the customer. “That’s the point! God, too, DOES exist! That’s what happens when people do not go to HIM and don’t look to Him for help. That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.”

Choices - Alisha JainExcerpts from Suresh Semwal’s Book - ‘Power of Responsibility’

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.


Don’t just spend time, Make it - Mahak Vaish

Once I was traveling by train where an old couple was sitting on the

front berth. I was just noticing and feeling so nice to see them as they were really taking care of each other so well. In the due course of time from one station a person named ‘Satish’ boarded the train and sat next to them. As usual as it was an Indian train, so conversation started between three of them. Satish asked the couple a number of questions like where they are from, where they are going and who all are there in the family etc. The couple shared that they have three sons and all are married and well settled. None of the children lives with them; it’s been a week and not any of them have even called. The couple then continued that they are staying in a rented room in Delhi and serve themselves on their own. When Satish heard this he consoled the couple saying, “Uncle, its 21st century, children are not at all bothered about parents, for them family means their wife and kids. No one has time to call, to talk and sit. The only responsibility of parent’s in today’s date is to make them grow, make them walk, feed them, educate them and when they learn how to run, they run away like this only”. Satish has spent around two hours and then he dropped down at his own station saying to the couple that “This is today’s

generation, I am telling you Uncle”. Journey continued. The couple looked sad. They were saying to each other “shayad humari hi parvarish mai koi kami reh gayi hogi”. Saying this they had tears in their eyes. Suddenly a fellow named “Bhaanu” boarded the train from the same station and sat at the same seat where Satish was sitting. Seeing the couple crying he asked “Is everything ok?” The old man replied “Yes (must be saying within, I don’t want to share this now with anyone.) He again asked, “Is everything ok?” The old lady couldn’t resist and erupted the last two hours conversation. Bhaanu, listening to that asked them, before a week your children called you, they answered ‘yes’, that’s good. He asked when you make call to them do they talk to you, they answered ‘yes’, that’s very good. He asked do they visit you often, at least once in six months, they said ‘yes’ that’s wow. He then asked Uncle, “Uncle, are you still working to live your life?”, he answered “yes”, oh great, that sounds so awesome, so aunty stills cooks for you at this age too, yes she does, Wow uncle you are one lucky one. Uncle, I have known children who don’t even talk to their parents at all, don’t visit them at all, at this age, body lacks stamina and see, you are such an inspiration, you are lucky enough that aunty stills makes yummy meals for you.

Aren’t you happy to get all this?

Uncle and Aunty looked at each other and answered together,

“yes, we are happy”. They said, “You are so true, reasons to get upset are there but yes we do have reasons to smile too, we have each other, our love and care .We will cherish this. We are not complete in own self but yes we complete each other. Bhaanu said, “That’s so true, he smiled and in the span of half an hour he got off the train at his respective station. Uncle and aunty were so happy, now the tears of joy and happiness was on their faces.

My Observation was, it does not matter how much time you are

giving to people, family, friends, colleagues or even to a stranger; what matters is what exactly you are giving in that time. Satish spent two hours and gave tears and left with the old couple worried, Bhaanu spent only half an hour and gave smiles and reasons to cherish.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.


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