This is the lovely ಆಕಾಶಬುಟ್ಟಿ at my place with a magical halo accompanying it....

Light is the incarnation of prosperity... of wisdom... of wealth...

The festival of lights brings with it a renewed hope for a better day...a better life...

May this Deepavali usher in success & prosperity to all the seekers in all that they seek for....

vidyArthee labhatay vidyaam .. dhanArthee labhatay dhanam

putrArthee labhatay pautram .. mokshArthee labhatay gathim..

Today i was watching a reality show on TV . My God! So much of emotions involved..... Excessive jubilation on success and extreme suffering on failure...not failure, but unsuccessful....
Its like they have conquered the world when they taste victory and as if the there is nothing left worth living when they are unsuccessful...

In today's telecast, mostly people who succeeded were shown. And as they say that happiness is infectious, i too felt happy at their victory. At that moment a thought struck me.... " Have i ever been as jubilant or as expressive during victory/when i tasted success? "

I cannot come up with one occassion when i have celebrated victory with so much of joy and emotions ,etc....
Now there are 2 questions to help answer the above situation....
1. Have i not had enough moments of victory in my life?
2. Have i not celebrated my wins with all d pomp and show?

After some thinking i have come to believe that it is mostly reason 2 and a little of reason 1 too.....
Lets look at reason 2...
Through the years, we experience that the appreciation of victory is less inversely proportional to the criticisms during failures.. But as we grow old, we realise that success and failures are more personal entities which primarily affect us . The appreciations and criticisms from others are external factors and are secondary which can differ relatively . For example, a mediocre achievement to me may seem to be a highly commendable one to the other person's eye.

Also i recently realised that i have been practising the saying "Success is a journey and not a destination" without my knowledge. I will be badly wanting something to happen and taken lots of steps to see that the goal is achieved. But once it is achieved, there is happiness and satisfaction but not a jubilant celebration... The focus quickly shifts to the next level of achievement (Does all this give a picture that i have achieved great things ??;) Factually have achieved nothing... All the events i'm talking about are miniscule events/things)

Now coming back to reason 1..
If i look back, i feel that there are very few victories that are worth celebrating. Few things i have dreamt of/wanted have not materialised with lots of disappointments in the journey. But learnt a lot of things.
Feels like a really long time since a really joyful / event worth a celebration happened.


But all these failures are not going to hamper my goals and i've decided to enjoy every bit of this journey .... because i have the power of choice.. to choose what i take from the past and use them to build the future.. my future...

So agenda for now is to create more opportunities to celebrate.... and actually reward myself for the good work done when such a thing happens :)