R V THANKFUL!!!!!??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???

3-4 days back i was having horrible lunch in my office cafeteria...and cribbing as usual about the insipid food served everyday.. just after sometime one person came and sat two chairs away from mine.. people keep coming and going so i kept chatting with my friend but something suddenly caught my attention.. the guy had sandwich and juice.. and i saw he was praying before going to start his meal.. and whoooshhh.. i was completely taken by surprise and then remorse and realization dawned upon.... the same food i was cribbing about.. someone is actually thanking God for that meal...and shouldn't we actually be thankful.. for each meal we are blessed with..
There is a board put up in my office.. which says... "Don't waste your food... i haven't got mine.." But how many of us actually even give a single thought to this line...We humans are just never satisfied.. well i feel if you are unsatisfied... you will keep working towards perfection.. but that does not mean we should not be grateful.. for this life we have got.. for the life everyday we are living..
Life is so uncertain that we are not even sure that we'll be seeing tomorrow's sunrise..but still we spend each moment complaining about our life.. How many of us actually thank God for whatever we have..even I myself keep complaining about every smal thing... "yeh nahin hai.. woh nahin hai.. life aisi kyun hai..".. hardly do we say.. "wow yaar.. what a life i have..Thank God i have this life.."
My mom always gives me a very simple example about the movie SAJAN... where there is a scene when Sanjay Dutt goes to the Church to challenge God for his physical disability but when he sees a man without both the legs praying and thanking God he realizes his mistake...
This example really touches me but i always believe.. "If you want to be contended.. look at people below you.. and if you want to be successful always look at people above you.." but in all this thoughts and beliefs..why do we forget to be Grateful.. Its good to aim high but that never implies that we should not be indebted for what we have..
Thank every person who had even a small part to play in your life.. who touched your life.. even for a second.. Thank God for giving us this wonderful life.. Ending with a reflection on what Lord Buddha had said “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” and “If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped”.. Cheers..

Before it's too late.........

Just now my friend was narrating a short movie they are planning to make..the story talks about 3 friends.. one couple and another friend.. and something about 26/11 incident where the girl dies before she could get reunited wid her lover... and hearing the story just left me thinking.. sometimes we just take things for granted and forget to do/say things before it's too late...
A recent incident in which we lost one of our close friends... due to certain issues i hadn't spoken to her from quite sometime.. and now... hah... i can never hear her.. i was just taking things for granted... and now there is nothing left other than just regretting and praying that wish i could go back in time and mend things... but now it's just too too late..
"TIME PASSES..EVEN WEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE..Even wen each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise...pass does it" as time is the best healer...but time can never surrogate for someone...
Go tell someone if you love them.. care for them.. miss them.. tell mom that you are evergrateful to her for bringing u into this world.. for loving you so much.. for nurturing u so that u can become a beautiful human being..tell ur dad how much proud u r of being his son/daughter...tell your friends u love them as they are one of the reasons for your being.. before it's too late to turn back time.. let not our ego come in between... let not our busy schedule hold us from making someone feel how important they are for us...as rightly said by Benjamin Franklin Lost time is never found again and we can never get back whats lost..