Amazing!! I just read it at the right time.. Very inspiring!
June 25, 2007 12:54 PM
Barbara Nickel said...
Dear Shailja Sharma,
I'm a children's author writing a book about the winds of the world and I'm extremely interested in your comment about the "Elephanta wind" in this post ("...there comes this nice Elephanta wind...") I really need some first hand information about this wind, which apparently is from the Malabar coast in southwest India. Would you be able to help me out or point me in the direction? Someone who has experienced this wind and can give me some good details.
Many thanks,
Barbara Nickel barbaranickel@shaw.ca
October 26, 2010 10:30 PM
They say food helps in alleviating a bad mood, so I got this Baskin-Robbins black currant ice-cream.
But the thought still stays.
This is too much. I mean, just when things start to fall in place, there comes this nice Elephanta wind marking the end of serenity.
Some days I laugh it off. But then suddenly there come these one-off days when I feel that I have owned the right to complain. I dun generally ask why me, not until it reaches the point of 'why always me'
I know God tests, and he doesn't give anyone more than s/he can handle, but really I would prefer to be low down on his enriched-with-strength list and lead a happier life.
I don't want to eat the ice-cream, I had it in the morning, and the day before as well. F&B might help people get in a good mood, just only if they are something different. Sameness is stale, succeeds only in adding to complaints. ----------
I wrote this and I thought about it. Who said that God gives you the answers only if you remain quiet enough to hear His voice? I want to amend it. God gives you the answers even when you are shouting at the top of it!
I looked at the ice-cream. I remember how when I was at school ice-creams would be a daily-sought-rarely-got luxury. On Sunday outings, once in a blue moon picnics, or if lucky, happy Parent Teacher Meetings! And, my, weren't they priced!!
And today I have the liberty to buy ice-creams anytime I feel like. There's no one stopping me, there's no dearth...They are the same, yet they don't taste so. I don't think they have made changes with the ingredients. I think it's just coz I have enough of them.
And I realized I'm God's special child. He doesn't want my life to become like the ice-cream. A life that isn't sprinkled with troubles and crisis would never feel the happiness of true joys. A life that hasn't seen failure can never feel the highs of sitting on the throne of success. If you've not seen the trenches, what a pity, you'll never appreciate the view from the sky. If you've not reeled in pain, you don't know what's ecstasy.
I am going to lead a full life. The wind might ruffle it up, but I'd set it right again. I would make it beautiful. I am not going to die not knowing the joys of finding joy. I got too much and I lost it for the ice-creams, but I'll still win the thrills of life!!
posted by Shailja Sharma at 11:17 PM on Feb 4, 2007
"Less is More!!"
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Amazing!! I just read it at the right time.. Very inspiring!
June 25, 2007 12:54 PM
Dear Shailja Sharma,
I'm a children's author writing a book about the winds of the world and I'm extremely interested in your comment about the "Elephanta wind" in this post ("...there comes this nice Elephanta wind...") I really need some first hand information about this wind, which apparently is from the Malabar coast in southwest India. Would you be able to help me out or point me in the direction? Someone who has experienced this wind and can give me some good details.
Many thanks,
Barbara Nickel
barbaranickel@shaw.ca
October 26, 2010 10:30 PM