There are NO accidents!

From the fall every leaf to the birth of every being; there are no accidents!

Every person we meet, every breath we take, and every sip of water we drink are no accidents!

How I wish I could convince everyone to understand this; how I wish I could tell everyone that if they believed, they’d lived a happier life, but it seems that I can’t find out the way. The hard part is that if you even don’t believe, you’ll live a life and breathe as everyone else does!

Albert Einstein once said: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

He was right and will always be!

It’s only the way we view things that has to be changed; the way we think; the way we perceive!

I love these conversations from the movie ‘Kung Fu Panda’:

Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfill his destiny, nor you until you let go of the illusion of control. 
Shifu: Illusion? 
Oogway: Yes. 

[points at peach tree] 
Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time. 
Shifu: But there are things we ‘can’ control: I can control when the fruit will fall, I can control where to plant the seed: that is no illusion, Master! 
Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach. 
Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung! 
Oogway: Maybe it can, if you are willing to guide, to nurture it, to *believe* in it. 
Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master. 
Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu, promise me you will believe. 
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Oogway: [walking towards Po] Ah! I see that you have found the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom! 
Po: [Po turns around with a lot of peaches stuffed in his mouth] Oh! Is that what this is? I'm so sorry! I just thought it was a regular peach tree! 

Shifu: But who? Who is worthy to be trusted with the secret to limitless power? To become the Dragon Warrior? 
Oogway: I don't know. 

Po: Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles. 
Oogway: Quit, don't quit? Noodles, don't noodles? You are too concerned about what was and what will be. There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present." 

The ‘present’!!!  The ‘time’!!! … How fast it flies!!!

I guess our time is too short not to believe. It often reminds me of a Persian pop singer named Reza Sadeghi who says: "بعضی وقتها خیلی زود دیر میشه!" which translates: “Sometimes it gets too late too soon!” :) .

I want to think why it is hard for some people to believe. Maybe they think if they believed there would be better ways, better options, better choices that they could lose; but … there are no better choices as long as we don’t believe in them! It’s us who make the option best; it’s us who make the way best; it’s us who make the choice best, and this happens when we believe.

How I wish I could convince them to understand this!

How I wish…

Oppositeness

Opposite!
I like 'OPPOSITENESS'.
Do you know why?
It's simple; It's everywhere, it's what pushes us forward, it's what we always depend on to keep breathing, it's what we're made of!
This is the fundamental concept of how computers work; zero and one. If we were all good, the first thing that we couldn't really comprehend would be goodness, if  we didn't feel warmth, we couldn't really feel coolness, and if we didn't hate, we couldn't 'love' let alone feeling it.
Yes, it's always the presence of one's opposite that gives life and value to it. That's how the nature works and more importantly that's what it 'is' !
This teaches us to change our perspective about our opposites. This teaches us not to be afraid of them but love them because they help us keep alive, succeed, ................ they complete us.
When we arrive at the above dentition we'll find out that every entity in this world has an opposite corresponding to its own kind. Humans are no exception, men and women, the two kinds that are opposite, depend on each other, one's presence gives warmth to the other,  help the other one grow, succeed, keep alive and ................ complete each other, 'that's the beauty of an opposite'. That's the beauty of a man, that's the beauty of a woman.

I Think we need to thank our opposites, the ones that help us keep going forward, be successful. We should thank them because they complete us. 

Thank you!


Cheers,

Rules!

Rules are important .... & .... following them is equally important !

Most people think that rules stop them from living an easy and comfortable life or progress faster, but quite on the contrary, rules do not!
The problem is that it's the human nature to think subjectively and not objectively. Imagine yourself driving your car and have to commute a 10 km distance to get to your work everyday but there are no traffic lights at the city junctions or no speed limits etc. I can't even imagine when you get to work in the first place let alone arriving safely. Therefore, rules are good for us, although most people don't like them.
This might be quite a social life but the same is true for our individual lives too.

It's extremely important to have rules for ourselves too (or what people usually call 'principles'). We may not like them but we MUST have them. They might stop us from doing things that we like, from thing we're comfortable with but we must have them.

A problem in having rules at individual level is that we can not see the effect of not having them instantly; It's not like crossing the red light and having an accident, rather the effect would appear much later in life or maybe even after one is no more. Absence of them has the potential of influencing generations after us and at times we can not even imagine the depth.

A major part of most of the couples' conflicts and eventually separation is that they don't have principles. If they knew that their partners follow a specific line in their relationship, their trust in each other would never fade.

So.... lets have principles for our lives and respect them no matter what people might think about them and follow them at all times.

Cheers!
Iman