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| The Critical Eye(Season 1) |
The Gratitude REMIX: By DJ “Meee”
Thank You!
for lending me a helping hand, Thank You! For being so nice to me, Thank You!
for the abundance I have in my life and so
on............................................
Doesn’t
this sound familiar or should I say, doesn’t this sound and look like a
GRATITUDE JOURNAL ENTRY on any given day? Doesn’t it? Assuming that all my Sexy
Readers, Ah-ha!! Already know what gratitude stands for and I am assuming again
that you all, also know, that how these days people can’t do without showing
gratitude and keeping gratitude journals. Am I sounding like I am talking about
some fashion statement that has been launched recently or some Bollywood trend
that has hijacked our lives again. No No No..... J
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| GRATITUDE JOURNAL |
I
am exercising my vocal chords not for any instagram movement but a new muddle
that has taken over the world like plague. If you still trying to figure out
the head or tail of it, then here is the breakdown. From the time Rhonda Byrne’s
“The secret” was out people started taking note of what I call is the
“alternative HOPE”. Yes the hope that they can latch on to something for
getting their desires manifest in real. Earlier only God was the entity that
they looked upto but with deeper grazing into alternate practices like Law Of
Attraction etc the populace gained a whole new perspective on life and desires
and destiny. The recent fad being GRATITUDE PRACTICE. The book “THE MAGIC”
written by Rhonda Byrne again is a beautiful way of bringing back a little
humanness in the so called human beings of today.
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| THE MAGIC by Rhonda Byrne |
It
talks about the thousands of years old practice of being grateful for each and
every thing you have in your life. I have total and absolute respect for this
practice and this thought in toto. But the way people are implementing it in
their lives is what really bothers me or if I say bluntly, it irritates me.
Having read the book “The Magic”, I would like to give you all a little glimpse
of what you might read in case you haven’t:
The
book gives you a description about why the author is writing on that topic and
how it inspired her to write about it, followed by a 28 days of uninterrupted
magic practices to be done without fail everyday for the next 28 days. There is
no hocus-pocus kinda magic that she talks about. She only asks you to be
grateful for every single thing, from a microscopic cell in your body to the
biggest achievements’ and things that you might have in your life. The whole
book revolves around the fact, those who show gratitude will be given more and
those who fail to acknowledge of what they have already, will also be taken
away from them.
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| I am immensely grateful FOR...... |
Coming
back to the point I am trying to make, people today definitely are tuning
themselves in with the BEING GRATEFUL attitude but the most important thing
that they are sitting out is, “THE FEELING”. Yes the feeling of “FEELING” real
gratitude, from the heart and not just say it for the sake of saying it. The
populace is adopting or rather have embraced the practice superficially/out of
fear/for looking good in the public eye etc.
Lets
elucidate the above reasons. Firstly people are hugging this gratitude practice
so that they also form a part of the section of people actually doing it. Such kind
of individuals don’t feel anything, gratitude per se. They just exist. USELESS,
that’s what I would like to call them. The second subdivision comprises of such
folks who do it out of fear. They have wronged people in their lives so much so
that, they think that by holding hands with gratitude practice they would be
able to nullify their transgressions or for some it gives a kind of license to
keep doing wrong because, hey! Gratitude is there NO... :P
| Wrong doing |
At
the moment my thinking brain could come up with these 3 categories but there
might be more, if you are thinking of any other please comment down below and
let the world KNOW. J
So,
the last group are those special and extraordinary A****LES who incorporate the
gratitude practice because they love to SHOW OFF. Yes, you heard me WRITE,
RIGHT!! Some people show gratitude because they want to look all Fancy Schmancy in the public
eye. I can prove it my LOVEz right here, right NOW....one of my acquaintance recently got into this Jazz and he ended up exhibiting his laurels on
FACEBOOK, of giving food and clothes and various items to people from different
sections of the society. Now this act is enormously praise worthy in my eyes, but the reason
why it is not NOW, is the very fact of giving it and then posting pictures for
the world to see. The whole event was not for raising donations or anything of
that sorts, then why the show off? Some might argue for the fact
that he was trying to inspire others, what’s wrong in that. Inspiring and
broadcasting are two different brothers from different mothers who live in
SOUTH AND NORTH POLE respectively. You know what I mean. Helping people is for
personal satisfaction and upliftment, not for public display, is what I feel.
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| Helping to Show Off (Latest Trend on Facebook) |
Another
interesting story comes from my own relatives very near and NOT SO DEAR,
atleast to me :D one fine sunny day I realized that two of my oldie relatives,
a pair of husband and wife started saying ”GOD BLESS YOU” to everybody. Like their
heads hit a Tsunami last night and when they woke up, POOF they became ANGELS...(for
me it was like, believing that the SUN has now changed its color to purple and
comes in its all new slim AVATAR of a TRIANGLE. OUCH!!) after a lot of
brainstorming what came to the forefront was the fact that a pandit(PRIEST) had
told them that if they started blessing every other person when they greeted
them, it would help to ward of bad effect of the stars and the planets because when
you say GOD BLESS YOU, you are kinda showing gratitude or thanking the person
who is greeting you.
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| Say It Like You Mean It. |
I hope after reading what I had to write, you might have gained a retain- worthy perspective on the GRATITUDE saga. So, next time you really feeling thankful for a thing or to a person say it out loud but to them, not to the world. Believe it and feel it and you need not do it like 10 times a day. People write 10 to 15 things that they are grateful for at the end of the day and feel no appreciation of even one thing. Why not say thank you from your heart at any point of the day, anytime of the day for one thing that really makes you feel lucky and leaves you with moistened eyes. Its then, your thank you would penetrate the walls of the universe and multiply your blessings. That’s what I truly believe in, and apply.
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| Say Thank You From Your Heart |
I do have an amazing story to share in context
to this topic, but it is a little more related to the theory of giving, as
opposed to the theory of saying thank you. So, I would leave that interesting and
mind spinning story for the coming episode of THE CRITICAL EYE. Do read it and
enjoy the “twisted mentalities” of the populace around you. Until next time,
LOVE
ME &
MISS
ME!!!!
Ta-daaaaa!!!
J J
