Quote hanger...

I read this quote this morning and it has been playing in my head ever since, "There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened." Thought I should look it up on Google search, and discovered that it's a quote by Mary Kay Ash, an American business woman.

Although this post originally began about this quote,(about me belonging to which type and all...) I came across several other interesting ones by Mary Kay Ash and have now lost my train of thought, just posting a few that I really like:

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

PMS... the interpreter of all maladies...

If you asked my mum what PMS means, she probably will say it means, Personal Mail Service or something similar (this is based purely on assumption and in the faith that she doesn't read my blog :D) 'cos I have never heard her use the word to describe her moods, the weather, the political situation or the economy, unlike us today who use it as a comprehensive blanket for all problems and in all situations.

Alder keeps using the word with alarming frequency to describe all of us, especially when he is at the receiving end. It has somehow become acceptable that any deviation from the 'normal' is a direct consequence of PMS. It cannot be that women today are afflicted by this particular blight and our mothers and their mothers were not.

So what do you think they took refuge under or what envelope did they hide in...

Whoever says loving is easy needs to be shot... preferably where the sun don't shine

All we hear and read and is told to us, is that loving is the easiest thing in the world and that it should come naturally since it is the most exalted of all emotion and that it makes us pure, better than we aspire to be and is a gift in itself.

Ah no... I don't think it's as simple as that (the first person to raise her very beautiful eyebrows at this post will be Anjali for sure, I've been questioned after the last post about my harping on the theme of love). Anja... you know, you and me are damn cynical about most things, love included... yet I believe that deep rooted in this cynicism is an unshakable faith and hope and trust in love and now Shut Up and let me get on with this.

Yeah... is loving easy? Is it really as simple as that... in the first throes of courtship and love, it comes easily enough, when you hold your new born in your arms and as they grow into toddler's... it's a lark... The real test is when we are 'old' in a relationship and when the kids are in their teens and growing. The similar analogy can be used in any budding relationship, at work, with friends and pets even.
When it's new, it's magical!

All those poets and writers who spoke of love being easy, obviously spoke of early days... either they stopped writing as it got older or began writing ode's to inanimate objects, or they kept falling in love over and over again, maybe with different people or maybe with the same person.

That, I think is the secret, to fall in love repeatedly, with our partners, friends and children and all of those that we have loved. Falling in love is seeing things in new light, a new perspective and with fresh eyes, like dew drops in the early morning breeze as they capture the first ray's of the rising sun in their little crystal droplets which sparkle like tiny diamonds. That feeling of warmth and unbridled joy is intoxicating and those who have experienced this mania will always remain devoted to seeking it... This love negates every flaw, overrides all handicaps and overcomes all strife, infusing new life into the relationship, splashing it with new color and embellishing it with fresh flavor.

So fall in love... 'cos every time we fall, we rise a little bit above from the ordinary, ordain ourselves with magic dust and that is real exaltation in it's truest form...