New and Revamped....

Dear Friends,

September 16th, 2016 was the day when I wrote my first post for my blog and published it. I had shared it with just one friend of mine, then.

The idea behind writing the posts on my blog was to share my learnings and experiences, thoughts and ideas. I was not even sure if anybody would read them, but to my great surprise not only some of you read it but also resonated with the posts I wrote. We got connected and what started as an experiment became my second profession ;)

You all lovely people not only read them but some of you even left your comments on my blog. And a large section of you all shared your thoughts with me on my whatsapp messenger, email, text messages and by calling me on my mobile phone.

I am very grateful to you all for your act of kindness and I want to thank you all for keeping the connection alive, which in turn helped me going, and I continued writing.

Some of you liked everything I wrote and some of you helped me improve by becoming my critics. Thank you all for your support. The journey so far has been rich and fulfilling.

It’s been a while and lot of you have been asking me why am I not on social media?

So the good news is now you all can follow me on twitter:) My twitter handle is @Nilesharmaa

I have always kept my self open for new things, ideas, experiments and everything which I have not come across yet....

Writing was one such experience, I  experimented and explored and here I am now, close to becoming a professional writer of sort ;)))

Initially I had designed a very basic blog design, but today I have done a bit redesigning... Yes I do not know if you have noticed this but, I have added some new features to my blog design.

So whats new now ???

Well, to begin with I have changed the background, you will see serene image of water :)

To help you read on a particular subject I have added labels like Love, relationships, poetry's, etc...

And whats best part of my blog is that now my blogs can be read in OVER 100 languages... see "SELECT LANGUAGE" button just above the Title of the blog. (This feature available in Web Version only). If you are seeing my blog on mobile go to the bottom of the page, there you will get a link "View in Web" click on it and select your preferred language to read :)

So now, not only can you read my blogs in your preferred language, you can also share my blogs to your friends or relatives irrespective of language and country barrier and they can read it in their preferred language too. I just did that..... sent it to my Mom who prefers reading it in Hindi :)

So far I used to send my new posts to you all via whatsapp, but now I have added "Follow me by email" option... so any one of you who wants to be updated with my new post can just type in your email address and submit. You will be the first to receive my new post by email in your mailbox and this will ensure that you are not missing out on my new posts :)

You see I did not know any thing about these features but then I researched, explored, experimented and viola here is my revamped Blog :)

Send in your valuable feedback and any thing else you want to suggest to make this blog even better. It could also be a particular question you may want to ask, feel free. If I have anything to share from my life experiences I will be happy to help :)

And yes, please do not forget to key in your email address for my future posts....

Love is Freedom...

LOVE without any reason,
LOVE without any conditions,
LOVE without any limitations

LOVE without any Expectations,

In freedom LOVE resides,
In LOVE I see PARADISE...

Selfless LOVE …..

Recently a good friend of mine asked me something, which most of us ask to ourselves as well as others at some point of time in life.

Is it possible to LOVE somebody SELFLESSLY?

This is a very deep, meaningful and thought provoking question, isn’t it?

The answer to this is both simple yet difficult. It is simple to understand yet very difficult to accept and even more difficult to practice.

To begin with first of please know this, that LOVE is everywhere. It is all around us but we seldom notice and acknowledge it.

How, you may ask? Well let me try to explain it with the help of taking Natures example.

Nature is a very good example of SELFLESS LOVE. Our loving or hating does not affect its serving.

The sunlight is very important for us and sun everyday does so when it showers it’s sunlight on us and it do not expect anything in return. Sunrise and sunsets are both considered to be the most beautiful phase and almost everybody just adores the beauty of sun at these times. But at the peak of afternoon the same sun almost burns us.

Like everything else the sun too passes through a cycle wherein it is very cool when it rises and then its heat becomes unbearable as it rises to its peak and then again it starts mellowing down eventually, leading to a beautiful sunset.

So even though sun which is acknowledged and praised for its beautiful Sunrise and Sunsets, the same sun is being cursed for the heat it throws at us during the peak of afternoon. When its summer we wish for rain or winter, when it starts raining we wish it were summer or winter, while in winter we pray for summer. Isn’t it.

So who is to be blamed the sun, or rain or winter?

I feel no one should be blamed. We all just need to have the grace and humility to accept and acknowledge it as it is. It will perform its function the way it is meant to be, that was how it was in past, it is now and will be in future. Our being happy or sad with them will not make them change how they function. But as humans we have the gift and capability to change ourselves and our attitude at looking at everything.

Sun, Moon, Water, Earth, Plants, Air are supreme examples of selfless love. But then love is not just sweet always it comes with its bitterness as well. And we absolutely cannot change a thing about it.

As with sun, Moonlight is important at night, it helps one navigate the path in the dark (but today thanks to technology we do not even give Moon the credit it deserves on a dark night). Water quenches our thirst, yet the same water has brought tsunamis and have caused havoc. Earth offers us its body on which we make roads and buildings, yet at times it caves in. Plants and trees offers us medicine and fruits and vegetables and yet we are ruthlessly choping them off. Air which brings in cool breeze, at times turns into violent storm which destroys everything that comes in its path.

We as humans too go through this same kind of phases which we know and understand as emotions. Sometimes we are happy sometimes we are sad, sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry, sometimes we love sometimes we hate, sometimes we praise yet at several occasions we curse.

So even when we are the same person don’t we all go through these phases. This is how we are designed and this how everybody and everything around us is. We all pass through various emotional phases under various circumstances, and that reflects in the way we react to them.

When we look at others as we are and if we develop the ability to accept them as they are without trying to change them, we will be at peace.

And the day we will learn to acknowledge and appreciate the other person the way they are, we will be able to LOVE SELFLESSLY. However, if we fail to develop this sense of gratitude, then the same love will become a cause of pain, misery, curse and everything else. It will garner negativity in our soul and negativity only destroys it never blooms.

LOVE is one of the most powerful emotion and each of us is equally capable of LOVING everyone else selflessly, but it needs a sense of awareness, realization, patience and above all practice to remain that way always.

Expecting others to LOVE us back is not selfless LOVE. It then will become a business transaction.