Me, My guru - I am what I read!

Me, My Guru

Today, the whole day I was thinking and reflecting on the statement “I am what I read”.  I was wondering as to why and how my feelings cloud my ‘seeing’ and ‘listening’ skills! I couldn’t understand why people couldn’t appreciate others, see good in others and validate someone’s help, good nature or their affection most of the time?(Me helping Priya with the caterer is one such example)

I couldn’t find the answer but my head was ready to split into thousand pieces because of severe headache.  Just then, my niece asked me to play scrabble with her – it’s a word game.

With no other option given to me by her, I started to play with her…sometime passed and she got stuck at a point…she is just 6 years old…I waited for 15 mts for her to make a word with the 7 alphabets that she had.  She couldn’t.  Her brows which were closing in told me that she was about to cry. I volunteered to look into her alphabets and immediately said ‘wow! You got ‘fathom’ word with you’.  She asked what does that mean?  I was surprised and asked her in return ‘ don’t you know fathom?’ very sweetly she replied ‘I don’t.  if I had known it I would have made that word’.

It hit me then…ofcourse! If I can’t be good to others, how can I see good in others? It’s like “ if I am colour blind, though the colour exists I can’t see it.  Because I can’t see it can’t expect it to be there. Simple.

Likewise, what I didn’t have (attitude) I can’t see.  So I am what I read. If I can’t see good in others, it’s because I don’t have it in me and therefore can’t know that it exists….simple…

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