Tags that I hate to write about

Do you judge yourself? I do it all the time. I have to put a tag on my actions. "Good, very good, devil, pure devil, Kind, rude, silly, smart, dumb, dumber, dumbest "- and 1000 other personalised tags which comes handy all the time.

There are loads of good tags. Sometimes it keeps me on to nth cloud for long. Like the time I helped an old lady. It happened a year back. I met this Indian couple in the lift, and the lady had a troubled breathing .Thirty years of experience was more than enough to make me see its the Asthma attack. Upon speaking I learnt the old couple were on the tour with family and forget to carry her medicine. I promptly took out and gave my inhaler. Since asthma attacks are unpredictable I always carry it with me. Thank god Asthalin is the common prescribed drug. I was already late to work so I asked them to keep it. Couple of days later, their whole family was at my door. They wanted to thank and return my inhaler. They also gifted me 1kg of Indian sweet. I was so happy to have helped someone. I felt so special to have been used. I tagged myself as hero, kind and lovable for quite sometime

There were loads of bad tags too. Especially when I forget something. Couple of weeks back I forgot my shopping bags in the bus. I was so lost in my own world with Paulo and Corrs that I failed to notice 10$ worth shopping bags kept next to my feet. I know it’s not a big amount but the hoopla it created on my mind was so damn irritating. Also when clash happens with my acquaintances. I keep repeating the scene in my mind without any closure.” Why did he speak like that? Why did I respond like that? How can I act like that? I meditate; I read spiritual stuff and preach them. I seemed to have not changed at all" and umpteen why’s , what’s and how’s. By then, I would have tagged myself like that of temple tree.

After a while, I ponder on one thing - what’s the lesson learnt? But recently I read that we don’t need them to remind about our learning. For we have already learnt them, they are part of who we are. For example, you may have fallen few times when you learnt to ride a cycle then. But if you have to ride the cycle now, you don’t try to remember the time you fell down or the lessons on how to handle the bar and sit straight. You simply do it, its part of you.

I was thinking about these tags few days back. Perhaps it's the need to assure myself that I am always at the right place doing the right thing. But what if I were not? Why there is an obsessive need to control and assure everything happening to me? I left these questions hanging and forgot about it. The answer popped as I cleaned my living room. Just like a search result from a long computer query. All my past relationships which I considered bad have only helped me to understand about love and what I really want from my partner. All my life whatever I considered bad has indeed happened only for my good. “This awareness is what I wanted, Awareness leads to better choices”. I told myself as I got rid of the tags with the trash.

Comments

Eyomer said…
wonderful. u helped somebody on need. good show. keep it up.

v all learn from past. gold in fire is polished. ur a gold now and wish u get a diamond. and diamond is just carbon ;-)
Anonymous said…
Thanks for reminding myself, AGAIN.

When you hurt about something that has happened to you in your life, You can be sure that what comes out on the other side of hurt is definitely going to be a fantastic lesson on the road to becoming a better person.

Glad to see you realizing that :)
sri said…
@ Eyomer
//
v all learn from past. gold in fire is polished. ur a gold now and wish u get a diamond. and diamond is just carbon ;-)//

Hello enna solla vareenga ?
I am just carbon LOL ?
sri said…
MeProteus

//When you hurt about something that has happened to you in your life, You can be sure that what comes out on the other side of hurt is definitely going to be a fantastic lesson on the road to becoming a better person.
//

How true my post has shrunk to summary in these lines.well said. Thanks!
G3 said…
//I told myself as I got rid of the tags with the trash. //

:))))) Thelinjiteenga pola.. good good :D
G3 said…
//I am just carbon LOL ?//

Nalla padinga.. ungala goldnu sollitaaru. ungalukku varravanga carbona iruppaangannu soldraaru :)))))
sri said…
G3

//Nalla padinga.. ungala goldnu sollitaaru. ungalukku varravanga carbona iruppaangannu soldraaru :)))))//

Ahaa ammam ellai ?
Annam said…
//The answer popped as I cleaned my living room//
oru valiya solution kidachuduchu pola:)
Prats said…
Aha the good karma and the bad karma is what u talking abt :-)
sri said…
@ Annam

//oru valiya solution kidachuduchu pola:)//

Hey thanks for coming, ammam ellam clean panna dhaan olunga work agudhu
sri said…
@ prats

//Aha the good karma and the bad karma is what u talking abt :-)//

huh did i spoke about that too. wow my posts has got different levels ! just like how pheobe says in friends, the smelly cat has got so many levels! :)

LOL
Anonymous said…
nice photo on that....ek 1000 thoughts per second...How true??

"But recently I read that we don’t need them to remind about our learning. For we have already learnt them, they are part of who we are. You simply do it, its part of you."

A new realization and a different dimension..Thanks for sharing that...The cycle analogy made it more clearer....

Aana ivlo serious-aana vishayatha epdi ivlo simple-a??
sri said…
@ Savitha

//A new realization and a different dimension..Thanks for sharing that...The cycle analogy made it more clearer....

Aana ivlo serious-aana vishayatha epdi ivlo simple-a??
//

Good u got the matter :)
ahaha serious erukkaradhu edhuvumey nama seriousa treat pannadha varikkum seriousa theriyaadhu :)

appadi inniku oruthara kolapiyaach.. ;)
//Nalla padinga.. ungala goldnu sollitaaru. ungalukku varravanga carbona iruppaangannu soldraaru :)))))//

@g3 yekka
@sri

alo...avaru appdi chollala!

ungalukku varravanga carbon-aave irunthaalum, unga compression-la azhagaana diamond aayiduvaanga...wish u get a diamond-nu cholraaru...purinjikkanum :))
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G3 said…
@KRS,

Latea vandhaalum nachchunu sollitu poiteenga :))))

//varravanga carbon-aave irunthaalum, unga compression-la azhagaana diamond aayiduvaanga...//

avvvvvvvvvvvvvv.. annae unga kaalu endha directionla irukku sollunga.. oru dhaba saashtaangama uzhundhu kumbuttukkaren :)))

P.S. : Kaala vizhundhu kumbitta eppadi aasirvaatham pannanumnu suvarottila CVRkku wishes potta postla solli irukken.. poi paathu therinjikkonga :P
//avvvvvvvvvvvvvv.. annae unga kaalu endha directionla irukku sollunga..//

bed-kku 2 ft mela irukku :)
I mean kaalai window mela pottu, thoongi kitte post padichifying yekka :)

//Kaala vizhundhu kumbitta eppadi aasirvaatham pannanumnu suvarottila//

antha post pottathe naanu! nambulkevaa? :)

1000 roova nottu thaane?
kodunga! kodunga! oru nottu pothum! neenga thaan nalla akka! :)
//For example, you may have fallen few times when you learnt to ride a cycle then. But if you have to ride the cycle now, you don’t try to remember the time you fell down or the lessons on how to handle the bar and sit straight.//

he he
All that you will ever ever remember is:
To start cycling, you have to fall!

How many times? At what angles? How many teeth lost? - all fades away and should fade away! :)

To start flowing we have to fall! Even water falls!
Water falls,
Before it flows & flows!

...and the River/Brook in Tennyson's poem says
"Men may come and Men may go
But I go on forever!" :)
gils said…
avvvvvvvvvvv...mudiala....thathuva mazhi kotti theetthutada...ithula diamond carbon oxygennu oru mini chemistry class vera...enagayo poiidichi un blog :D
G3 said…
@KRS,

//1000 roova nottu thaane?
kodunga! kodunga! oru nottu pothum! neenga thaan nalla akka! :)//

Hello.. aasirvaadham pandravanga dhaan kaasu kudukkanum.. unga kaalla naan vizhundha neenga dhaanae enakku aasirvaadham pannanum.. appo neenga dhaan enakku paisa kudukkanum :P
Charissism said…
We cannot please everybody...that's the harsh reality. But as long as your heart of gold and optimism remains, there's nothing that you couldn't do. And that's for sure. ;-)

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