Change to Win

Life does not get better by chance, it get’s better by change – Jim Rohn

Let me start with a story that I know. An art teacher assigned a task to two students in her class.

To one student she said “Plan, design and create a perfect artwork and your grade will be assessed by the work that you show.” And to the other student she said, “Create as many art works as you can and your grade will be assessed based on the best work you created.”

The first student spent enough time planning, come up with innovative designs and finally started working on one to make it look perfect.

While the other student started putting together some vague ideas that she had in mind and started creating different art pieces.

At the end of the class, the grades came out and the best artwork came from the person who worked on creating different artworks than the other one who was concentrating just on one on a quest for making it look perfect.

We often want to change something in life, but get discouraged too early not waiting until what the end result would finally look like. But let’s take the above story into consideration, it is a proven fact that when we start working on something new we are always enthusiastic but as time goes by our interest fades and our energy wears off and we end up achieving nothing. That is what happened with the first student, her approach of making the artwork was driving her only towards one thing. She was only preoccupied with just finishing what she started, never thought of choosing a different path to come up with something creative or different as she lacked vigor.

While the second student was always working on something new, the way she saw things was different each time. She didn’t want to repeat the mistakes she previously did, she grew even more passionate while creating each artwork. That’s because of the “change” in the perspective she had while seeing things and she worked towards getting something extra ordinary rather than just getting an artwork done.

Circumstances will not turn out the way we always want them to and it’s absolutely okay. Embracing our mistakes can help us deal with the change effectively; help us grow as a person. Starting with the toothbrush we use to the career we opt for, in every walk of life change is inevitable, be it good or bad it is always our choice whether to grab an opportunity or to let go. Change becomes our greatest teacher, but only if we give ourselves permission to learn from it.

A little change in everything we do will bring in more zest in life than most of us can even realize. In every day life where we have to deal with numerous issues and multi task on several occasions, our mind cannot be narrowed down in a cage. We might be so burned down sometimes that keeping our mind open to change can actually help us bring some light into our life. Change is awareness about our past and path to future, change is a new hope to something new.

Angels on Earth

Selfless, loyal, enthusiastic, energetic, happy, adorable…I wonder if I can come up with enough adjectives to describe the most wonderful creation on the earth- DOGS! This place would have been so much different without them. Dogs can never be stereotyped for just being a man’s best friend; it goes without saying that they are everyone’s best friends.

Some of the researches suggest that humans and dogs shared an ancestral relation millions of years ago, so it would not be surprising to say we may have similarities in our traits. Or may be get along so well because the some of the refluxes in our brain work along the same line. We may be alike at certain times, yet we are very different extensively.

We come across many people in life; they may or may not stay with us through out. One person might not fit into someone else’s shoes, but unlike us dogs have an incredible skill of replacing their own species even without trying hard. Human relationships are always under constant stress and scrutiny; they can suffer from good and bad times, but with dogs the equation never changes. Even the most strenuous pain seems to fade away the moment we see them.

We always have a lousy habit of remembering all the people who have wronged us and hold grudge against them for the rest of our lives, but dogs are gifted with greatest sense of forgiveness. No matter how we treat them, they forgive, forget and ensure to give us everything in their ability to make us happy. Depressed, thrilled, happy, sad, excited.. any state of mind we are in; dogs try to match up to our emotional mood swings in a way we expect someone to be. Call it coincidence or art of interpretation; their intense odoriferous sense helps them judge people better than we do, assertively making them look out for us in the crappiest situations.

They can be friends when you need them to be, a child when you treat them to be, a toy when you squeeze them, a “dog” when you want them. They bring in energy into our life making us more enthusiastic and healthy. They inspire you in a way no one else does, by surrendering himself yet expecting nothing. Disappointment is never a part of their dictionary. Unnecessary aspects in life do not ridicule them; they follow the idiom Live and Let Live. If only we all could be as beautiful as dogs are, we would not be trying to live our life vicariously through them.