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I went for shopping at a famous mall, with one of my friends. As I was going through my shopping list, picking up the choicest of fruits and flavored syrups, my friend came across some champagne bottles. She asked jokingly, "Should we try this out?" I shook my head vehemently saying, "Haha ... I don't drink!" However, my friend wasn't going to quit so easily, so she pulled out the bottle and suddenly yelped in excitement, "Hey, it says 'non-alcoholic champagne'; c'mon be a sport!" To which I replied, "Why would I drink it even if it says non-alcoholic? Who am I fooling - The world or myself?" My friend reflected over my response for while and replied, "Hmm ... makes sense!" and placed the champagne bottle back in place.
There might be many occurrences wherein you may fool yourselves, consciously or inadvertently, isn't it? You set the clock forwarding it by fifteen minutes just to be ahead of your time commitment, and each time you look at the clock, you knowingly subtract those fifteen minutes to make out the precise time. You're very well aware that it runs ahead, then who are you fooling?
We spend hours together in the temple pleasing our Lord; we chant our prayers with supreme dedication and perfect diction, and pleased with our effort we leave the temple. However, the minute we are out and some passerby annoys us, every second sentence is garnished with a fury of words; in fact we wouldn't cringe a bit while choosing bad words. If truth be told, uttering the 'four-letter' word is the latest trend, without which you are considered uncool, if you don't use them. Why do we forget that God doesn't reside only in the temple? Hardly any minutes before we offered our prayers with utmost genuineness, thinking that our life will progress... on what grounds are those prayers of any value when you put out of your mind how to live for the rest of day? We are fooling not only ourselves, but our Almighty too!
We live with the conviction that we will be esteemed wherever we set foot, only if we are beautiful with a fair complexion. A little blemish on the skin and teens go into deep depression! Is true beauty only skin-deep? Is there no worth for a person's character or his purity of heart? Beauty may be found skin-deep, but love isn't (skin-deep)! There is much more to love... yet, every time a new product throngs the market; we buy it believing that we would look stunning in few weeks! How is that possible? This, regardless of the fact that we're well aware that exercising, yoga, drinking ample water and maintaining a balanced diet, cutting down on junk, etc., will give us the desired outcome, we still discover the effortless way out, only to fool ourselves all the way through it.
We don't like it when somebody attempts to fool us. And if suppose you fall prey to it, it leaves you devastated, impairs your self-esteem, upsets your composure, and leaves a dent in your mind. Then imagine how many times we are denting our own image by fooling ourselves, doubting ourselves; only and only to seek the uncomplicated way out.
We look ahead to love and respect from humankind, but before that, stop fooling yourselves. We rather ought to have love and respect for ourselves first, than from this world.
I went for shopping at a famous mall, with one of my friends. As I was going through my shopping list, picking up the choicest of fruits and flavored syrups, my friend came across some champagne bottles. She asked jokingly, "Should we try this out?" I shook my head vehemently saying, "Haha ... I don't drink!" However, my friend wasn't going to quit so easily, so she pulled out the bottle and suddenly yelped in excitement, "Hey, it says 'non-alcoholic champagne'; c'mon be a sport!" To which I replied, "Why would I drink it even if it says non-alcoholic? Who am I fooling - The world or myself?" My friend reflected over my response for while and replied, "Hmm ... makes sense!" and placed the champagne bottle back in place.
There might be many occurrences wherein you may fool yourselves, consciously or inadvertently, isn't it? You set the clock forwarding it by fifteen minutes just to be ahead of your time commitment, and each time you look at the clock, you knowingly subtract those fifteen minutes to make out the precise time. You're very well aware that it runs ahead, then who are you fooling?
We spend hours together in the temple pleasing our Lord; we chant our prayers with supreme dedication and perfect diction, and pleased with our effort we leave the temple. However, the minute we are out and some passerby annoys us, every second sentence is garnished with a fury of words; in fact we wouldn't cringe a bit while choosing bad words. If truth be told, uttering the 'four-letter' word is the latest trend, without which you are considered uncool, if you don't use them. Why do we forget that God doesn't reside only in the temple? Hardly any minutes before we offered our prayers with utmost genuineness, thinking that our life will progress... on what grounds are those prayers of any value when you put out of your mind how to live for the rest of day? We are fooling not only ourselves, but our Almighty too!
We live with the conviction that we will be esteemed wherever we set foot, only if we are beautiful with a fair complexion. A little blemish on the skin and teens go into deep depression! Is true beauty only skin-deep? Is there no worth for a person's character or his purity of heart? Beauty may be found skin-deep, but love isn't (skin-deep)! There is much more to love... yet, every time a new product throngs the market; we buy it believing that we would look stunning in few weeks! How is that possible? This, regardless of the fact that we're well aware that exercising, yoga, drinking ample water and maintaining a balanced diet, cutting down on junk, etc., will give us the desired outcome, we still discover the effortless way out, only to fool ourselves all the way through it.
We don't like it when somebody attempts to fool us. And if suppose you fall prey to it, it leaves you devastated, impairs your self-esteem, upsets your composure, and leaves a dent in your mind. Then imagine how many times we are denting our own image by fooling ourselves, doubting ourselves; only and only to seek the uncomplicated way out.
We look ahead to love and respect from humankind, but before that, stop fooling yourselves. We rather ought to have love and respect for ourselves first, than from this world.
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