Wishlist Wednesday No. 4

A new year deserves new beginnings...as I was sitting and wondering what was 'new' about the year and how would I make this year fulfilling, I happened to browse through Preeti Shenoy's blog. Wishlist Wednesday No 4 seems like a god-sent inspiration for me to make a new beginning and take the first step towards something that I love to do... writing :-)

I wish everyone loved themselves enough to find their true passion in life, because when you know what makes your heart happy and your eyes twinkle, then life changes. We spend our lives doing things that others, or our own conditioning, make us believe are good for us..we choose a path that's safe and comfortable. If each one of us loved oneself enough to embark on a journey of self-discovery, and would make the effort to find that one (or many) thing that makes us truly happy, the world would sure be a more joyous place to be.

I wish everyone loved and cherished the simple gifts that life offers us..a healthy body, loving family & friends and an opportunity to live our life the way we want to. I cherish the time I get to spend with my little son, the opportunity to read and travel and feel blessed to have loving people all around. As Rhonda Byrne beautifully conveys in her books: being thankful and grateful has the power to change lives.

I wish everyone loved their city/country as much as we love our own homes and spaces. The sense of ownership and responsibility can work wonders in a country like ours.

With this fantastic new year, my journey begins once more..

Am I ready...

I asked myself, 'Am I ready to write my first blog-post'?
'Am I Ready?' That's the question that keeps us away from just taking the plunge, trying something new, just diving in and finding out whether we are ready, whether we like it..whether that's our calling..
Probably we are conditioned from the very beginning to take no risks, play it safe, not to take the road less travelled..but when we are young and not afraid we dare to dream to be all that we are capable of; we want to fly, to try new things and to find what we really want to do in life...
Slowly, that fire burns less bright as we 'grow up' and look for safe and comfortable options..a regular kinda life..good work, good money, planned holidays, weekend parties, the works.
The 'comfort zone' is another big hurdle in our race against mediocrity.. it gives us a false sense of complacence and completeness..like we've done all we needed to and we can just sit back and enjoy our popcorn..slowly we give in to it and stop growing, stop learning, stop exploring...
Thank God for that small inner voice that never gives up..and thank God for friends..both urge us incessantly to rise up and be the person we are capable of being..
For some, finding a calling comes early and easy...for others like me it's a journey in itself..but as long as we are looking out, trying new things, learning every day..we're ALIVE!