Wednesday 11 December 2013

[www.keralites.net] Story: The Monkey And The Apples

 

There once was a happy monkey wandering the jungle, eating delicious fruit when hungry, and resting when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful apples. He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest. He sniffed the apples and smelled nothing. He tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth. They were made of wood, but they were beautiful, and when the other monkeys saw them, he held onto them even tighter.

He admired his new possessions proudly as he wandered the jungle. They glistened red in the sun, and seemed perfect to him. He became so attached to them, that he didn't even notice his hunger at first.

A fruit tree reminded him, but he felt the apples in his hands. He couldn't bear to set them down to reach for the fruit. In fact, he couldn't relax, either, if he was to defend his apples. A proud, but
less happy monkey continued to walk along the forest trails.

The apples became heavier, and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind. He was tired, hungry, and he couldn't climb trees or collect fruit with his hands full. What if he just let go?

Letting go of such valuable things seemed crazy, but what else could he do? He was so tired. Seeing the next fruit tree, and smelling it's fruit was enough. He dropped the wooden apples and reached up for his meal. He was happy again.

Like that little monkey, we sometimes carry things that seem too valuable to let go. A man carries an image of himself as "productive" - carries it like a shiny wooden apple. But in reality, his busyness leaves him tired, and hungry for a better life. Still, letting go seems crazy. Even his worries are sacred apples - they prove he's "doing everything he can." He holds onto them compulsively.

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[www.keralites.net] Being Living in Past

 

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one."

Many people become the product of their pasts. They are the causalities of regret, sorrow, what ifs, and hindsight vision. While we can all learn from our past, staying there is not practical to living in the present. The past can't be changed or relived. To constantly dwell on it does not create an emotionally healthy outlook.

Source: Lifehack
 


 

By Junaid Tahir
If you carefully observe the people who are in stress, you will notice that they keep thinking about a specific event, conversation, failure, brawl or hard luck again and again which has happened to them in past. Such people do not have control on their thinking process hence they allow their brain to keep wandering in the past. While It's a known fact that bad luck happens to everyone, it's people's attitude and the quantum of reaction which defines the degree of stress. Since stress and happiness are vice versa so more stress results in less happiness or in some cases loss of happiness. Article written by Junaid.Tahir

Always remember that everyone passes through tragic moments in life however 

you will agree that the more you think about bad things happened in the past, the more magnitude of stress you give birth to.    Hence the chains of negativity and stress around your neck need to be broken and thrown away so as to move on with your life. 

The fact remains the same that you cannot change the past, neither you can boil the ocean so a wise person would not keep thinking about something which has already happened instead he would learn the lesson from the past and take measures which need to be done in order to prevent such happening in future. A wise man will always focus on the solutions instead of thinking about the problems.  Article written by Junaid.Tahir


So here is what I recommend: 

Take a pen and list down all the issues bothering you right now. You will, eventually, end up with a very limited number of issues causing depression back and forth. Now the next step is to split these issues into two groups. One group for which you do have some solution and the other group should contain the issues which are out of control. The worries and sorrows from the second group should be shun away. You need to train your brain not to think of something which is beyond control. Divert your focus on the issues for which you can do something. Do it now because this time will also become past and you would be cursing these moments for taking action at right time.

 


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[www.keralites.net] Fwd: MAN'S BEST FRIEND

 

 

 
 

 

 : Rolf Cordes :  mansbestfriend-title1.gif (18322 bytes)
Here are some famous quotations over the years
about our beloved dogs!
"If your dog is fat,
you aren't getting enough exercise"
--Unknown
 
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"Some days you're the dog;
some days you're the hydrant."
-- Unknown
 
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"Whoever said you can't buy happiness
forgot about puppies."
-- Gene Hill
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"In dog years, I'm dead."
-- Unknown
 
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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon;
hence the constant popularity of dogs."
-- Aldous Huxley
 
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance,
and to turn around three times before lying down."
-- Robert Benchley
 
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"Did you ever walk into a room and
forget why you walked in?
I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
-- Sue Murphy
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"I loathe people who keep dogs.
They are cowards who haven't got the guts
to bite people themselves."
-- August Strindberg
 
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"No animal should ever jump up on
the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain
that he can hold his own in the conversation."
-- Fran Lebowitz
 
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"Ever consider what they must think of us?
I mean, here we come back from a grocery store
with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow.
They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
-- Anne Tyler
 
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles
are members of a weird religious cult."
-- Rita Rudner
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"My dog is worried about the economy
because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.
That's almost $7.00 in dog money."
-- Joe Weinstein
 
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"If I have any beliefs about immortality,
it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven,
and very, very few persons."
-- James Thurber
 
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"You enter into a certain amount of madness
when you marry a person with pets."
-- Nora Ephron
 
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration
as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
-- Ann Landers
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
 
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"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him
and a cat that will ignore him."
-- Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan
 
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"Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice,
puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!"
-- Dr. Tom Cat
 
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"There is no psychiatrist in the world
like a puppy licking your face."
-- Ben Williams
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"When a man's best friend is his dog,
that dog has a problem."
-- Edward Abbey
 
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"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong,
always try to make it look like the dog did it."
-- Unknown
 
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"Money will buy you a pretty good dog,
but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
-- Unknown
 
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"No one appreciates the very special genius
of your conversation as the dog does."
-- Christopher Morley
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you
more than he loves himself."
-- Josh Billings
 
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"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be."
-- Holbrook Jackson
 
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"The average dog is a nicer person
than the average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney
 
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"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true,
to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Unknown
 
Man's Best Friend
 
"If you pick up a starving dog and
make him prosperous, he will not bite you;
that is the principal difference
between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain
 
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"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually
unnoticed by a Great Dane."
-- Smiley Blanton
 
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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes,
a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt,
and I am convinced that basically
dogs think humans are nuts."
-- John Steinbeck
 
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