Legacy Of Love

From an infant to a toddler,
The way you bring us, you caress, to name a few,
Mom for everything that you do..

You are the source of life on earth,
Making God's presence everywhere from heart to toe,
Mom for everything that you do..

Imparting knowledge and lessons from your experience,
And all the good deeds that you make us go through,
Mom for everything that you do..

At our tender age you stood by us as a friend,
Sharing life's nostalgic secret with us which we never knew,
Mom for everything that you do..

Whenever we are in the havoc of life,
You bid away the enemies and tell them shoo,
Mom for everything that you do..

Mom for everything that you do, this one comes to thank you,
For making life so much fun & for all that you have done..

A person once went for an interview in a very reputed company.
While entering the room, he slipped and fell on the ground. Humiliated, one might think.
Documents scattered all over the place.
The man picked himself up
And with a smile on his face he spoke out loud, "Finally, I have fallen into right place!".
He was hired the very next moment.

source : Qoura

JUST READ IT - 3..!!

There lived a carpenter who was ready to retire. He told his employer his plans to leave the house building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife. Now, he would miss the paycheck each week, but he wanted to retire. The employer was sorry to see his good worker leaving and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter agreed and started working on the last project of his life. Since it was his last project, he worked half heartedly. He said "Goodbye" to overtime. He did not consider to find the best cement mixture. He did not consider having a swimming pool in this project. He did not use quality wood for doors. The furniture was not of good quality. 

The employer called the carpenter to his office and gave the keys of this newly built house to the carpenter saying "This is my gift to you for your commendable service for over 15 years". 

The carpenter was shocked. What a shame. If he had only known that he is building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.

So, it is with us. We build our lives a "DAY" at a time often putting less than our best into the building. Then, with a shock, we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, we would do it much differently. But understand, we cannot go back. 

YOU ARE THE CARPENTER OF YOUR LIFE AND EVERYDAY YOU HAMMER A NAIL, PLACES A BOARD OR ERECT A WALL.

Life is a project with yourself. Your attitude and choices that you make today help you to build the house you live in tomorrow.

BUILD IT WISELY.

Love you all...!!

Source : Heard in a speech from youtube..

Keep Walking ...

Swami Vivekananda was having a long trek in the Himalayas when he found an old man extremely exhausted standing hopelessly at the foot of an upward slope. The man said to Swamiji in frustration, 

‘Oh, Sir, how to cross it; I cannot walk any more; my chest will break.' 

Swamiji listened to the old man patiently and then said, 

' Look down at your feet. The road that is under your feet is the road that you have passed over and is the same road that you see before you; it will soon be under your feet.' 

These words emboldened the old man to resume his onward trek.

Rejoice that you have done so much. When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing, we have the eyes of the world fixed upon us now — Swami Vivekananda

A  small  story  which  beautifully  illustrates that  what  you  sow,  you  reap.

" Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  small time  business  man  from  a  small  village who  used  to  sell butter  in  the  nearby town.  A  big  shop  owner  in  the  town  was his  regular  customer.

The  villager  used  to  deliver  every  month the  shop  owner  the  required  butter  in  1 Kg.  Blocks  and  in turn  he  used  to  get grocery  items  like  sugar,  pulses  etc  from the  big  shop  owner.

Once  the  shop  owner  decided  to  weigh the  butter  and  to  his  surprise  every  block of  butter weighed  900  gms.  instead  of  1kg.

Next  month  when  the  villager  came  to supply   Butter,  the  shop  owner  was  very angry  at  him  and told  to  leave  the  shop, to  this  the  villager  replied  him  courteously " Sir,  I  am  a  very  poor  villager,

 I  don't  have  enough  money  to  even  buy the  required  weights  for  weighing  the butter,  I  usually  put the  1Kg  sugar  you give  me  on  one  side  of  Weighing  scale and  weigh  butter  on  another  side"

This beautifully  illustrates that  what  we  give  to  others  comes  back to  us.

Ponder over and make it a great week ahead...

Anything Or Nothing...?

Once a student asked his Zen Master, 'Master, Zen has a mention that 'anything is nothing'. Can you please explain'

The Mater took a sheet of paper and showed the student and asked, 'What is this ?'

'A blank sheet of paper, Master', replied the student.

Now the Master started writing something on the paper and then showed it to student and asked, 'Is this writing real or unreal?'

The student replied, 'Real in the context of the paper, Master. But without that it is unreal'

To this the Master replied, 'Yes, in the sameway, anything you see is real in the context of nothing, that is, anything requires nothing for it to exist as we exist in space. Else it is unreal. So, only nothing prevails'.

The student bowed to the Master in reverence.

Good Evening all!!!! Happy Reading!!!!

What do WE get?

A Clean Spoon.

I love drinking coffee at work. 
The vending machine is placed at a very convenient distance and is frequented by a lot of our people.

To mix sugar (which I know many coffee lovers don't like), there used to be one or two spoons kept in a glass of water.
One would come, mix coffee and put the spoon back in the glass.

So if someone who's a lil conscious of hygiene went for coffee, they'd wash the spoon and use it.
And then? Put it back in the glass?

I wondered if it was possible to drive this simple point home. So I did a lil experiment.

Every time I went to have coffee, I'd mix my sugar, wash the spoon, wash the glass, fill it up with fresh hot water and place it back.
This went on for a few weeks. And now, whenever I go, the spoon is always clean. 

There was hardly any sacrifice. 
All we had to do was, show them clean spoons.

When you see a clean spoon, would you have it in you to dirty it and keep it back?
But when you see a dirty spoon, you'll only wash it for yourself and leave it dirty for the next person.

Quote the Source

Then, one day, while reading through a book ('What The Dog Saw'), I came across an article titled 'Something Borrowed.' (D'oh! There goes my plan of not providing any references in this post...) Well, it's not like Malcolm Gladwell invented the title of the article. It comes from a rhyme about what a bride should wear to her wedding. But I digress. The article (see here) talks about plagiarism, copyright laws, intellectual property, and all that jazz. It changed the way I look at the concept of plagiarism. Here is an excerpt:

Creative property, Lessig reminds us, has many lives—the newspaper arrives at our door, it becomes part of the archive of human knowledge, then it wraps fish. And, by the time ideas pass into their third and fourth lives, we lose track of where they came from, and we lose control of where they are going.

Now, let's hark back to the dialogue between PHB and Wally. Did I create these characters? No. Did I ask Scott Adams before I reused those names? No. Did I cause him great monetary harm by not quoting him as the source? Well... maybe he's poorer by 50 cents. And this is my homage to Scott. (Great Scott! Did I just quote him as The Source? Gah!)

If I were to attribute a quote to Some Well-known Guy, like Wally did in the dialogue, would you believe it? If I were to quote the source, what is the guarantee that the source is truly The Source for the article / comment / post / witty repartee? Does it matter if Han Solo first posted the same content in the community 'A Galaxy Far, Far Away'? What if he posted it A Long Time Ago? People new to the organization (or Resident Dinosaurs like me, who are new to Knome) may possibly never get a chance to see Han Solo's post... and perhaps they see the content only when Han Ravi posts it. Is that too much to Handle?

I agree that it's a Corporate Social Network. But then there's no point in employing Curb-The-Redundancy Police, or Quote-The-Source Police, especially when it will only end up Curbing Your Enthusiasm when you want to post something on Knome. Perhaps there's a programmatic way of reducing redundancy, especially since people do not usually have the time or patience to check if someone, somewhere has posted the same stuff on Knome earlier. But what happens when we support multiple languages? (Perhaps we already do?) What if someone has posted the same content earlier/later in Portuguese? Or Mandarin? How about Klingon? Where do you draw The Line? Who you gonna call? :)

Meanwhile, in another corner of The Interwebs, The Bane of the KnomeVerse, said:

Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive as they learn to serve true justice. This great portal, it will endure. Knome will survive.