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Loving and trusting yourself is the first and foremost step that makes you a better person and brings quality to your life. It's all about being honest with yourself. If you trust yourself , you do not have to worry about people trusting you. Sacrificing who you are, just because someone has a problem with it, is not worth.  The second important thing that comes after self love, is not caring about what people say. As soon as you start loving yourself and ignoring what people say, you will know how to live peacefully. When someone hurts you or breaks your trust, it forces you to either blame the world, or to look internally. It forces you to accept that trust and love are always, always blind leaps of faith with the understanding that people will let us down, they will hurt us, and we will likely do the same.  When someone has broken your trust, don’t focus on adjusting the measure of how you place your attachments and predominantly, don’t just think that you now ...

What’s meant to be will be. Life isn’t perfect, but it sure is good. Have Patience. Don’t let your heart get attached to something that isn’t meant for you. It’s not always good to wear your heart on your sleeve. It’s good to express your love, happiness, fear or any emotion that you go through but not everyone in your life deserves to be aware of your feelings. If something/ someone leaves your life, it’s only because something greater will replace it. Stop thinking that the world is over and that you can’t live anymore because the people you loved have left you. The truth is not all the people who come to our lives are meant to stay. Some enter your life to stay and some to leave. I know it hurts, It really does. It feels like it's the dead-end, like there’s nothing left in life, or your life doesn’t have a meaning anymore. But trust me, everything happens for good. Right now you may be hurt. But one day you’ll look back to this phase of our life and laugh at how naive we ...

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but i can’t accept not trying.   - Michael Jordan When it comes to talking about motivation and trying, how can I not mention Michael Jordan? He was left out of the basketball team just because he was 5’9’’ at that point in time. He took this as a challenge and never gave up. He took out time from his everyday schedule and practiced daily without fail. Soon he was 6’3’’ and was a part of the gold-winning team in the Olympics. There are thousands of people like him and stories around us to look for. Life is hard. Yes, it is. But the hard times bring the best out of us. All we have to do is to not stop trying. The basic step of achieving what you want is to pick yourself up. Things may seem unfair at first. But overcoming these obstacles leads to acceptance, acceptance towards your potential, willpower, and your strengths. What I believe is to make yourself your own best friend at that point in time. Let yourself know that you are...

If you search for the definition of a mother, Wikipedia says: “Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offsprings” A woman becomes a mother when she gives birth to a child and becomes a stepmother when she raises somebody else's child. Here, this little girl in the picture lost her mother when she was four. Her father got married to another woman who now has the responsibility to raise her, who now is her 'stepmother’. She has a story that will send cold creeps down your bones. She is Nisha, my neighbor, about ten years of age. She asked me if I could teach her mathematics, so I asked her to come home after school time. Are you wondering about the brown colored patch on her face? it's neither allergy nor an infection, they are the burns given to her by her stepmother. Now wondering why? Heh, nothing much, she just asked for mere five rupees before going t...

While on a survey with a friend, in a rural area of my city, I found something that actually sent a frightening chill down my spinal cord. Talking to people there made me feel the agony they were going through.  Big families. Less money. No education. Interminable excruciating problems. She is 'Phono'. I smiled after I heard her name. She laughed and said it was her grandparents who gave her this old name. When I asked this lady the total members in the family, she said 'seven'. Kids? Six. The 7th member was her! Her husband died when she was 7 months pregnant. At present, she has a two months old baby. Among the other kids, the eldest one was not more than 8 years old. None of them were sent to school. We asked her what she did for a living, she said Daily wage work.  But it was difficult for her to leave her 2 months baby and other children alone in the small hut they lived in.  She said, if she was lucky, she would get some work in a nearby place that would sat...

In small cities, bus travelling is irksome! Buses are filled with people pushing each other. Here's an incident that took place while I was travelling alone from Lucknow to my home town.  There was so much of traffic on the way and the bus was stuck from the last 15 minutes. It was summer and I always kept a water bottle with me that had ice that would not melt until my class hours. This was the trick told by Maa, which I called magic as a kid. She used to wrap an icy frozen bottle with a towel hanky and tied it with a poly-bag around it. This way I had cold water till the end of the day in my school days. So, in the bus, I was sitting on the front window-side seat. Suddenly, I heard someone shouting 'Paani thanda paani' I looked down to see, it was a boy, barefoot, not more than 8, selling water bottles. He was continuously yelling and looking for someone who would buy a bottle from him. Though I had my own bottle, feeling pity, i took one from him. It was for 25 Rs. I ga...

"she abdicated her duties towards her family" they said.  it was by then, she stopped anticipating her dreams.