“COME ON MILIND, I AM NOT GAUTAM BUDDHA!”, she said.
“I cannot love everyone unconditionally. It is so difficult. In fact it is impossible to really be in that state.”
“Mein Gandhiji nahin hoon,” another one said.
If someone does something wrong to me, I will react. If someone hates me, how can you ask me to love them. It’s ridiculous. Yaar mein insaan hoon, bhagwan nahin.”
“Hello, I just want to improve my relationships. I didn’t say I want to become Mother Teresa.”, I heard another one say.
“Please don’t take away my right to complain. Thode bahot to complaints honge na yaar.”
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Most of us are just resigned to a life where our relationships are ORDINARY, not as beautiful as they can possibly be or as fulfilling as they once were.
And we believe that restoring broken relationships is a very difficult task and it is all the more difficult because the ‘other’ person is not taking any effort.
To make things worse, we often lie to ourselves that the other person “doesn’t matter”!
The truth is, most of us have forgotten that love is at the very core of the human soul.
And if we really choose, I mean if we really really choose, we can dip into the ocean of love that lies within us and make life so much more rich and beautiful for ourselves and those around us.
It is just one three letter word that stops us (Yeah.. guess it). And if three people who lived on this planet stood for love, there is no reason why each one of us can’t.
After all, what is possible for one human, is possible for every human.
“You ARE a Buddha, a Gandhiji, a Mother Teresa”, I tell people. “Wake up!”
But then..
Not everybody likes what I tell them.
Not everybody likes me as a Coach when I say this.
But I have to say this. I have no choice. I enter people’s lives not to make myself right and make them wrong. I say what I say not so that people like me, but so that they become uncomfortable.
And it is in their state of discomfort that they see things from a whole new perspective. And when that perspective changes it doesn’t just change the way they see one thing.
It changes the way they see EVERYTHING. Forever.