Learn to be calm and you will always be happy...........

Dear Blog,

Today, I was kidda doing some things that I do not usually do. And when I was recollecting back at the end of the day, I realized what has been wrong. And that main thing is “Calmness”.

I’d like to define calmness as the key to everything. As long as you’re calm, your mind and your body is always ready for anything. Always try to practice calmness in your life and there will be actually a day that you will be always smiling. Smiling outwardly and inwardly. If this is well practiced, there would not be a day known as “Miserable day/Fed up day/Screwed up day or F***ed up day”.

Always remember that getting calmness interrupted is like getting the equilibrium or the balance of your brain out of the line. Then your thinking procedure would not be normal anymore. For then, even you wouldn’t know your actions until it comes back to normal.

So my dear friend, always remember,

“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy”

Cheers :)

-Irosha de Silva

We shall overcome

Dear Blog,

Problems, who doesn’t have them? But how many of the people just let their problems to dominate their lives and live doing nothing?

What made me actually write this was some talk given by my mom. She told the story of her life and at the same time I too recollected the things that I’ve done in life.

It might be true that you are very poor and do not have anything to achieve those dreams that you are dreaming of. As I said before, what most of the people do is just let their problems dominate their lives and say goodbyes to those sweet dreams. What I feel is that, you can almost achieve anything in this life as long as you don’t give up.

Previously I used to think that as I’m not in very much of a “Lucky” family with all the riches and with a background of some “Narrow thinking” people, I wouldn’t be able to go to those dreams that I wish day and night for. But , then somehow I realized that there is absolutely nothing in the world that could be considered as “Impossible”. So, hopefully, I’m in the process of “Overcoming”.

Just sing daily and urge to yourself,

“We shall overcome”

We shall overcome

We shall overcome

We shall overcome…………”

Cheers :)

-Irosha de Silva

Change, Change, Change

When you are down, Change.

When all the hopes are gone, Change.

When all the blames are on you, Change.

When life seems upside down, Change.

Change. Change. Change.

The world keeps on turning, the wheel keeps on moving,

The seed keeps on growing, once an infant became an Einstein,

Dearly beloved,

Day today, is only a fact,

Tomorrow will knock before the light turns off,

Is it the “Success” that you are seeking?

Then,

Change.

Forget your demented past,

Forget the failures before,

Burry all the heart breaking love stories in the sands of time,

Once killed a man? Give life to a thousand more.

Dream. Dream. Dream. Always dream.

Work. Work. Work. For them to come true.

Fail. Fail. Fail. To broaden your horizons.

Try. Try. Try. For one day you will fly.

Impossible is nothing. What you can do is anything.

Now I know this secret of life.

With “Change” I will find life.

With “Change” I will know death.

With “Change” I will change destiny.

With “Change” I will create history.

-Irosha de Silva :)

Two worlds, one family

Dear Blog,

This is just some freaky thought that came into my mind, well…yet, seems to be very true to me.

Just think about your life for a moment, your memories, your actions and your dreams, past, present and future, all moving forward along with time. Somehow, everyone seems to be moving on with the life they are given.

As the approach to this let us consider a life of a football player.

• Really good at the grounds
• Totally outgoing
• Dating all the sorts of “chicks”
• “Dude….what the hell is gravity?”
• Etc. etc.

So, likewise, such a life moves forward. He lives on in his world.

Then a life of a “Nerd”

• Getting all straight A’s
• Einstein and Newton are his lifesavers
• Parties are of no use as he cannot apply any Newtonian physics there
• Etc. etc.

I just brought out two contrasting characters that we meet in our everyday life. The football player lives in his world and the nerd lives on in his world. One can criticize on them and there lives giving out pros and cons, but according to what I’ve learned so far in life, the both of their lives are just beautiful. Likewise, we all are living the lives that we have got and every and each one of them is beautiful if we are seeing the beauty in it in the proper way.

My sister, she is very much interested in cats and other animals. She mostly spends her time with those creatures. She often says that she wants to feed and keep all the cats in the whole world.

As you see, we all are living in our own worlds of mind while all being on a single planet. But all being connected to each other in one way or another. Probably that’s exactly why I titled this “Two worlds, one family”.

At the same time, someone might ask why I just tried to bring out a fact that merely exists. As now we know that all the people are living in their own worlds and as we know that every and each life is beautiful and gifted, why not start thinking of taking away jealousy and anger over other’s lives? Why not start helping some other person who is drowning in his own world?

Cheers :)

-Irosha de Silva

Keeping the spirit up the whole day

Dear Blog,

There’s this EARLY MORNING WORKOUT thing that I’ve been carrying out for some time. Today somehow in the very morning I couldn’t do that. Then only as I was going through the day I realized that there is actually a lot of value in this particular workout as I kidda went down to the *Down* mood (Most of the time I’m kidda the *Hyper* type person). Today why I couldn’t do this was because I thought of just studying in that time as well as I’m having some exams to face to. But…then as I was getting distracted by all the sorts of things and when I actually asked myself, “Why the heck is this ?” then only my brain answered “Dude…today you forgot to give the *WARM UP* to your mind and body”

So…I just thought of sharing this particular, (secret *wink*) workout of mine as it might be useful for at least someone else in this small world :)

                                               

*First I wake up about ½  and hour before I actually wanna wake up.

*Then I take in the early morning atmosphere a bit into my body

*Then I wash up, change clothes and become FRESH

*Then I meditate for about 15 minutes

– as Buddhists may already know, what I basically do is the “Aanaapaanasathi Bhaawana” and “Maithree Bhawana”

-         as for the other people of other religions, I do two types of meditations

o       1. Closing eyes and keeping your body in posture that is easy to you, then only concentrating about the breath that gets into your nose and gets out. (The point of this is to be concentrating only on one thing and to be rid of all the other facts that pollute your mind such as anger, jealousy etc.)

o       2. The second one is, just closing your eyes and think for the goodness sake of every single person, animal, every living thing, every non living thing in side and outside the planet. (The point of this is to calm down all your thoughts, practice kindness to everyone and to lower your anger or get rid of it completely)

*Then I get on to the physical work out. This involves some cycle riding, some jogging and some push ups. (Done for about 30 minutes may be, depending on the time and day)

*Afterwards, being all mentally and physically strong, I just think of and note down some kindness acts that I’d be able to do on this day.

That’s it. How to feel *HIGH* the whole day without ANY weed, liquor, sexual acts etc. Just try it. Just for a week. Trust me or not. You will find the results amazing. No,wait..... ASTONISHING!!.

Cheers :)

-Irosha de Silva