Don't Lose Hope: Show Faith, Share Love

When Shree stepped off the bridge in mid-2017, she had every reason for wanting to throw in the crappy hand life had dealt her. Recently divorced, her career was going nowhere, living on her own was proving to be financially tough.

But on her way down, she had a realization. If she checked out now, her own children would suffer precisely the same mom-shaped hole in their life as she had. So instead of giving up when she hit the water, she swam to safety.

This was despite suffering a collapsed lung, shattered ribs, and burst spleen—all so she might see her kids again.

But that isn’t even the amazing bit. That came two weeks later when Shree’s story made it to the newspapers and caught the eye of a serial investor. Specifically, he read about her experience, and it just so happened that she was freaking amazing organic farmer.

Within a week of reading her story, he had tracked her down and put two other potential investors in touch. After literally years of trying, Shree had finally able to start her MSE & make it big enough to employee 37 other people —all because someone cared enough about a stranger’s misery to sacrifice few hours of his life helping her.

There are thousands of stories of sons, daughters, friends, sisters, brothers, parents who came so close but realized at the last moment there was someone out there who still loved them. 

There are always people who will miss you when you go, no matter how hopeless things might feel. There are always people willing to help, even if it doesn’t seem like it at the time. 

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Yesterday Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide. If depression can happen to him, it can to anyone. Don't let it get better of you. 

RIP Sushant Singh Rajput

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Anger Is Deadly

A close family member of mine gets so mad that he starts smashing things. His rage blinds him by insecurity and anger. At some point, it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong. His trembling voice poisons his mind beyond his own control and things get ugly. What follows is bad mood for days, turning of frustrations inward, leading to more abuse or deliberate self-harm. 

A lot of people don’t realize their anger is destructive. It intensifies with time due to the trigger points that make it more uncontrollable. 

Anger is unnatural

Human body is made to feel the experiences around us. The beauty of nature, little moments of joy, vast horizons of talents, incredible gifts of the Almighty, sweetness of relationships, warmness of compassion – the list is endless. Anger blinds us from these and takes us to the dark world inside where the mind starts to justify offensive behaviour. 

Seeds of this poison work their way out in the form of jealousy, hatred, unhealthy comparisons, ego, and loathing of others. As these emotions consume a person’s mind, the body starts to react. We develop certain behavioural aspects that become a part of our personality. For example, we begin to ignore/not give importance to others’ opinions, try to impose our view point or simply give a death stare to show our displeasure.


Effects of anger
From higher anxiety levels to change in the basic DNA – anger is more deadly that you can imagine. Experts suggest that anger has become so common that an average person feels its wrath about once a day and gets annoyed about thrice a day. 

About 45% of adults regularly lose their calm at their workplace, whereas 38% feel unhappy at work. More than one third of the world population suffers from anxiety or depression, which have become the largest causes of long-term sickness. More of these statistics can be read here at Mind Your Anger.
  

Anger Management
A lot has been said about anger management. Other than stress management, it is perhaps the most requested topic for discussion during my meditation workshops. Though people are generally aware about their anger and want to actively use anger management in their lives, their own personality restricts them sometimes. 

Anger management aims to reduce these very issues. It encourages acceptance towards emotional variations and physiological reasons that provoke anger. You can’t control external circumstances, nor can you put a stop to others’ habits, but you can control your reaction to it. There’s a complete post written on anger management of this blog which you can access here.