Patience- Key that unlocks Good times

December 22, 2011. Boarded D70, for work. Into the bus and the only empty seat that was ahead of me was just occupied. Decided to stand closer to the person who seemed like they may leave for the nearest stop, so that I can be seated. MMDA, Ashok Pillar, Kasi Theater, with each stop, people did get down, seats were vacated, but I did not get to sit. While I was busy , trying to gradually move and stand in a place, where someone may seem to vacate, folks from my earlier position, vacated – only to be occupied by ladies who got into the bus later. Three stops and I seemed to be the only girl in the bus, waiting for a seat. In process of hopping positions to be seated, I missed an opportunity which was lying in wait for me, in the place right where I earlier stood.

“I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all” - Ecclesiastes 9: 11.

A happening so trivial though, carried with it a powerhouse of philosophy. Often, we do exactly the same thing - Compromising the best in want for even better. Job, Lifestyle, Relationships, Gold, Money,…..the list just does not seem to end. We tend to forget, life is that which happens when we being busy, making our plans and exerting our efforts to catch up to this shimmering world (inspired from a Quote). You may be caught up in a bad phase of life, where nothing whatsoever you do works, it may be that your life is on a lonely planet with a or series of Relationship failures, or it may be that financially you are batting to meet the ends or it may be that you just feel drained of your sense of happiness and peace. Whatever your mess is “Wait, Right where you are!”, “Just Wait!”. “Go through your bad times” Don’t quickly Move on,… For all you know, what looks good on the outside, as happy next, may be just another nerve wrench episode. Wait in your own bad time and make your decisions both cautiously and carefully! Be patient and silent. Tides will change!!! It’s all about time and chance,… and your turn for happy times can come, only if your go through bad first! People who left you will come back! Money will pour in! Your Work or career will be a success. Most of all when everything is back, you’ll realize Life is just not about Things or People! Your new world will whirl around the Lord (or Conscience) – which means you’ll never repeat the mistakes that created the loss or Bond with passer by friends who mean nothing but waste of Time/Money/Emotions or be obsessively attached to those you choose to live your new life with. End of it: “ALL good things happen to those who wait on the Lord”!!!

All said, but to be done is but still a Virtue for me,….

“You are!!!” – Dare to be yourself

“I’m Thanks to all those who said No To Me, It’s because of them I Did it Myself!!”

An Outlook Communicator Tag Line, which hit me hard, as if it was awakening my Senses back to life. So True and Real…. Indifference, Apathy, Rejections or failing relationships has almost left every human I know with an scar, faded but not fully washed out, yet. Dreams which sketched our Fairy Tale Future, brutally washed away with rains of Realism called “Life”…. Rudimentary as it may sound, but with Time, these very failures of Life, help us evolve, to who we are today. If not, for those, who said no to me, I would have never known that Life is much more than what meets the eye. I would have never learnt to WAIT for Good Things, nor would I have taught my Impulsive ever hastening Nerve to calm Down, for Time (in my world God), to Change Things…. Never Ever, I would have learnt to live life Myself, and see my family and friends around me as Lovable companions and NOT my Obligations to pace up to, gratify and Live for, as Society wretchedly terms it to be….

There is a Power in being yourself. Doing the right things you really want to do, saying and keeping the words spoken, taking time to be in silence to be drenched in the rain of Self-Awareness and most of all not giving into the roller-coaster ride of pleasing your loved ones – to expect their Love in return. How on earth, did we think we could earn any love by flattery? Is Love not based on Legs of Inspiration and intimate friendship? and that Pleasing or Flattering your loved ones, robs you of your confidence and makes you appear more boring to your Partner?? As my Old Friend puts it “It’s the very individualism in you that keeps you Happy and Peaceful, both in Relationships and as a Person”. The more you brim as the person you are, the real self, the more you will send out ripples of Inspirations to your social world. Something that I learnt from Landmark Forum, We are constantly draining our precious God Given life in trying to be who we are not. But, Can a Square become a Triangle or Triangle become a Rectangle? or Rectangle a Circle? Not just the Literally Shapes, but the nature of shredding one real Core Self, to impersonate another, shows up as Stress and as Aliments or Diseases at an later stage in life. It’s time we stop, take a pause and look inwards, just once. To listen to our Souls Cry be restore it. “Surely, He Restores my Soul,…”, as a Psalmist writes, but only if we are committed with a purpose to do so. After all, We are all united with one same destiny, to Die. Life is just one God Given Chance to “BE”. Take pride in who you are and Just be natural self. You will see the magic of how the very lost things of Life being restored, multifold, though God’s Time and Grace in you,…

I Have more to write,… Which I Hope to Sometime.

Day 2: Floating and Kicking

Leg Kicking is said to accelarate swimming speed. Though I doubt it to be an hypothesis, it is proven that effective kicking sure pays off, especillay in smoothly gliding forward (reducing the drag from countered by water pushed against the swimmer ) and reduced effort exerted for swimming.

On Ground:

1. From Hip, Legs straight and toe outward: Key for effective kicking while learning to swim is to kick from the hips with legs straight and toes pointed straight outward. Start this off from ground, let the feet’s ankle help you to keep the toe pointed outwards, straight out and opposite. This should feel like a strech at feet’s ankle and leg’s femer. Now with legs straight, WITHOUT ANY BEND ON THE KNEE, start kicking from off the Hip. Straight and upward, 5 sets and 15 Reps. Bending legs from the knee creates a negative thrust from water thus reducing swimmer’s speed for forward motion. Hence, make sure the legs are as straight as possible right from hip to streched out ankle.

INSIDE WATER:

2. Float and Kick: Floating from Day 1, is now to be combined with Kicking on Day 2. Stay aflot, HOLD YOUR BREADTH INSIDE WATER, head fully immersed and start kicking. Kick from your hips, Legs straight and Feet streched out, toes pointing fully outward. An outward toe, provides an positive thurst from water, enabling a swimmer to get that extra drag to glide forward (may be this helps in increasing swimming speed). Remember the key for effective kicking is Not to bend from Knees, but to start out from Hip, Legs Straight and Toes fully Outward. Repeat this for as many times as possible, may be 10-20 laps, back and forth sides of the four-feet pool. Be sure to halt your feet on the ground, to break or gasp for breadth.

Floating and kicking oneself forward may sound like a leap, especially on Day 2. But, if tried, real-time, it would be evident that this is but a varitaion to Gliding. Intent here is not to move forward at a schumacher’s Speed. It is to get comfortable is floating and “Gently/Smoothly” gliding forward via leg kicks. Kicking oneself forward while gliding forward in water, is also a proven Ab Workout. 30-40 mins of this aqua excersice, sure, shreds out considerable chunk off one’s flab.

Swimming for Beginners- Day 1

Swimming is not rocket science, so they say. It is True. Folks who are fresh to water, be it a tadpoles like tots or an old hulk, if given a sincere initiative, it is easy. IT feels like gilding through water, like fish but without fins,… and here is a step-by-step guide on how to learn swimming and in five days. Yes in 5 days.

Swimming is 5 days will have 5 base foundation learning:

Day 1: Floating

Day 2: Kicking. (on water and on Ground) b) Repeat Day 1 Floating.

Day 3: Kicking, Forearm Strokes and Basics of breathing. (on water and on Ground). Repeat Day 1 Floating.

Day 4: Combination: Floating and kicking to go forward. (b) Repeat Day 3 Forearm/Breathing Basics.

Day 5: Combination: Floating, Kicking and Forearm stroke - Swimming. C)Repeat Breathing basics, inside water for perfection.

Note: The steps are instructions that were tutored to me, by my coach at SDAT and this should largely serve as a guideline for readers. It is highly recommended that a trained swimmer or a coach is beside the learners and the learning is within a pool of 4.5- 5 feet water.

Day 1: Learn to Float

1. Walk and get acquainted: Walk to and fro on the 4.-5 – 5 feet pool. Walk slowly and feel the waters through you. Repeat 4 sets. This exercise gets the learner acquainted to the water and technically walking in hydro resistance, against the water pushing the thigh and leg muscle forward.

2. Walk with hands forward: This a progressive variation to (1). Let the foot be fully grounded on water, legs straight on the knee, bend of you hip – let your upper body be in water, breathe normally (do not hold your breath at this stage), with both arms forward and on the surface of water, walk to and fro to the entire pool. Repeat this for 4-6 sets, until you feel a little natural push to be in sync with the water. This exercise sets the base for floating and it quite critical for a learner. Make sure to bend on your hip right from the naval, this will let the learner feel the flow of water, when the arms are forward.

3. Hold your Breath:

(a) Outside water: Feet on the ground or in water, practice breath hold. Inhale through your mouth, hold your breath as long as you can and exhale through your nose. Repeat this to close, 15-20 sets, until you feel confident about the breath hold. Let the learner hold his breath as long as possible, for while swimming under water, it all about breathing techniques combined with arms and legs strokes.

b) Inside water:

Feet on the pool’s floor, bend on your hips and head inside the water, practice the breath hold. Inhale through your mouth, get the head inside the water, hold it as long as possible inside water.

Exhale through your nose inside water, if possible, otherwise, you may get the head out to exhale through your nose. Remember to Inhale through your mouth (as in Pic) and Exhale through your nose. Holding ones breath inside, makes the lung a vacuum that keep the trunk afloat.

4. Walk with hands forward and hold your breath: Combination of (2) and (3). Bend on your hips, Legs straight on water and arms fully forward on surface of water, walk back and forth with the breathe hold, first few sets breathe hold outside water and then Inside water. Inhale through your mouth, hold is as long and hard as possible and exhale it all out slowly and steady through nose. Repeat this for 5-10 sets. Walking with hands forward and holding the breadth INSIDE WATER, get the learner acquainted to floating, for the legs will robotically lift off from the ground and a instinct to go horizontal is likely. Repeat Walking with hands forward and hold your breath “INSIDE WATER” sets indefinitely until legs lifts itself up or there is a feeler to go horizontal kicks in. Learners should not resist hard trying to keep the legs on the pool’s floor. Let loose and feel the water,….

5. Floating in water: Bend forward on your hips, head straight forward - FULLY IMMERSED in water, hold your breath inside water. Repeat this until your are fully comfortable with the concept of breath hold with heads straight inside, immersed in the water pool. If done sincerely, the learner will feel a natural lift of legs, if not throw your legs up, or kick yourself forward from the walls of the pool, stay horizontal on the water, and now hold your breath as long and smooth as possible. One may also, get help from fellow mates, by holding the tip of their finger, trying to float straight and horizontal on the surface of water and your HEAD STRAIGHT AND IMMERSED in water.

Learner can be sure, that floating is NOT effective if the head is not fully immersed. Half immersion will not aid natural float. While floating, let your hand and legs be fully lose, any pressure or resistance from forward arm or afloat legs, may induce the learner to go sides while floating. So, if you feel a waters trying to get you on your sides or tossing you, be sure you are to let yourself more loose and relaxed, so to float, horizontally on your stomach.. Deadman’s float so it is called, is the base for swimming. Floating and Gliding forward on the pool, will be the result of efforts from day 1, when done sincerely. This should take about 2 continuous hours of real and hard time initiative, and be sure it’s worth it,….

6. Gliding: Kicking your legs from the wall of the pool to float forward, propels a smooth forward motion and this is gliding. Make sure the legs are together (should not spread out) with your toes pointing fully outside, like a swan, and hand forward and together as much as possible, Head straight and immersed to glide forward. Hold your breath until halting.

7. Float and Glide halting technique:

Break away from the natural float, to exhale out and breathe in again post a short halt, Bend your knees, so to have the legs land on the floor (as in Pic 1 that will result in Pic 2). This let the learner to land his foot on the floor. Halt, Exhale through your nose and then breathe naturally. Make sure all exhaling is through the nose and never to inhale while inside water or in the moment right out of water surface.

Fear is The enemy and Practice is perfection. Day 1 usually ends in muscle soreness and fatigue, due to the multiple repetitions and sets of exercise. But, as long as there is some physical sign of workout the learner is on the right track. If there is no pain, may be the learner has not put his sincere best, and may have to try harder until floating/Gliding gets natural. So happy swimming!

B'day - Journal Entry

This was the best Birthday Ever,… Topped the 2008 day’s list

The wishes were almost flooding from friends from all spheres of life, and in all means. Phone, Sms, FB, Gmail received wishes from school, college, Church, Work (Prv. & current) and friend’s friends, so on and on…. Never ever have I received this many wishes, for my Birthday,… Feels good In a way, that people are so thoughtful and considerate to stop by and take a moment to wish…. Real Genuine spirits, whose sincere wishes makes me feel friends do matter (a statement which I force to abstain from these days)

As of the day, it was gorgeous and memorable. Had a chance to watch Thor – 3D action, Power Ranges of Hollywood, so I would term. What’s a B’day without Baskin Robins, Bravian Chocolate or Mississippi Mud Chocolate topped with Almonds and Choco Crisps,… Sinfully all mine J Quickly to follow was drive through the Mariana Stretch and halt in Elliots for Vanjaram Fish Fry,… Santhosh Fish fry shop a place in Eilliots, that sure would make an Spicy lover repent his ardor for spice … In spite of the pepper, Lal Mirch, the taste was lingering…. The day ended on a good note, with near zero Carb levels and almost half asleep driving back home,….

Thanks for all the best wishes that poured in,… Thanks for your Prayers, those who have mentioned that. And Thanks for giving me such a wonderful, lovely day. Loved every bit of the day from noon.

discover???

Quite a Surprise!! Discovered a blog http://beulahevelyn.blogspot.com/.

The concept of Blogging grew more of an inspiration to me only in 2008, thanks to that spark, “TinTin and His online journals”. But never did i remember or was aware of a my old blogspot with an article posted as early as July 21^st 2005. Though a fifth grader can easily put my article’s tone or writing to shame, I’m happy, that deep down, I’ve wanted to write. Even when there was no Inspiration,…

Now which email address is that blog linked to??? I gotta delete,… Help J

Beware - Corporate Warzone

Why join Navy when you can be a Pirate? –Steve Jobs.

If you are counting on your RUSTED Seniority, Company Brand or Designation, I’m sorry but you are directly counting on becoming REDUNDANT. What does matter end of the day his how much of Sincere Impact, Creativity and Value-add that is brought on the role within your job. Don’t work for earning that fake Superficial recognition, When your immediate Boss changes, you’ll have to start building up a fresh new show from the scratch. Work ONLY to amuse your very SELF, of all the Possibilities, Creativity and Learning that can be and are accomplished... That way even Mistakes become Learning.

Feels so sorry for the Rusted brains who fail to learn and upgrade their competency and continue to count of their OUTDATED Experience in this Innovation generation of Millennials. Reminds me of a Quote “How often I find people who climb up the ladder tend to forget to be nice to people, who probably they might have to meet on their way down”...

DON’T JUST SIT THERE AND DEMAND RESPECT, EARN IT!!

Note: Copy posted on FB NOTES as "Thought of the Hour".

Birthday phrase (Self-Scripted)

This Birthday is a milestone for you indeed,
Weary days are all Gone,
To draw in four-fold of good tidings this year!!
With Lifetime changes Awaiting and our Good Lord’s Blessing Ahead!!!
Be all set to enjoy the sweet fruits of life’s bitter Re-coup,
Happiness, Contentment and quietude,
– Ripe and Plenty throughout this year!!!