Recently, I stumbled across the book "The color Purple by Alice Walker" in the library, and boy! Am I glad I did so. I just love these kind of books and sadly, I am yet to find a category name for these books. Feminist won't be  a correct word, inspirational won't be either, it's a bit of everything: feminist, social, inspiring, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time (yes, that can happen a lot of times), dark as well with light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah, so I can't name a particular genre for these books. But, I have read a few of these types and this one definitely tops the list in that genre. I would love to find more books of this unnamed genre, but google allows me to search only if I have a category for that. I don't know whether beginner readers could get a hang of it, or it would be too overwhelming for them, but I would definitely recommend this book to all those who are hoping to change their life, those who want to learn to fight back against the society or the man world, as they say.

                                      I absolutely fell in love with the way the book is written in form of letters to God and a sister. I love the way the gradual change is shown in the protagonist Celie, it is just so natural and spellbinding how the mind grows in the light of knowledge. People spend their entire lives believing what they were taught by the society and also struggle their entire lives to fulfill the societal norms. This book shows how easy and satisfying life becomes once someone stops thinking about what others will think. Sometimes an angel appears in your life in the form of Shug Avery, but waiting for an angel is just wasting time. What if God has shortage of angels and just sent this book your way to do the job of an angel, or even if you haven't read the book, maybe this blog post is your angel. Angel come in different forms, and all the forms may not be human or even living beings. We need to look out for a sign and turn ourselves into the angel that can change our lives- As simple as that.
                               Coming back to the book, I loved the way how Shug Avery changed the way Celie looked at God and how she changed slowly the  very form of God from a white bearded man to trees and air. The book is painful and dark at the beginning but it definitely has the capacity to hold your attention all through the day or night until you get your hands on the book again. As you go halfway into the book, it gets promising and puts hopes in your mind. Going further, it turns more and more heartwarming. For me the most passionate and exhilarating moment was when Celie keeps on making pants after pants. It is just a natural outburst of her passion which can happen to anyone. The way of describing even the pants are very clear e.g, sunset coloured pants, orange with a little grey. It is so vividly described that I myself started dreaming of getting the same pants :)

Finally, I would say it is definitely a book worth reading as well recommending to all as a sense of duty towards fellow sisters who are yet to broaden their horizons.

Hi guys,

Have been really busy this year, but I finally jumped into the world of designing and creating. And I started out with this piece. Been scared yet had to take the leap... Please let me know your feedback on this.

        So, here is a maroon velvet lehenga with pearl embroidery work on it. A classy style oozing the fresh look of cascading  dew drops. Along with it is a golden net dupatta with maroon velvet border. It is on sale and anyone interested can contact me. I bet it would look really elegant, cool and stylish on any bride.

The pain of guilt...

I almost threw a chair towards my Papa yesterday for some reason.

Since yesterday, I had been feeling so guilty because I lost my temper and got angry for few minutes. I slapped myself few times and promised that I will try never to be angry any more. But, I was anxious to meet God and ask forgiveness from him.

So, when I met God today, the first thing I did was I said "Sorry God, for all the mistakes I did yesterday. I shamed you and lowered the value of being your child. Please don't be angry on me. I will try my best never to repeat it."

God smiled and held out his arms for a hug, and  then said: Can I be angry on you? You are my child. What kind of father am I if I can't forgive my child for a mistake which she has been regretting since one whole day. Your feeling of regret is the real forgiveness that you have already asked me at least 10 times since yesterday. This shows that you honestly understand that you should not have lost your cool and that's a wrong thing. You have already gone back to your pure self again.

Then while I hugged him happily and got absorbed in his calmness, he continued : Every time you feel guilty inside yourself, that you have done anything that's not pure or you have hurt anyone, that means you just understood that you were not a pure soul at that time and have just come back to yourself. Try to repair the wrong u did or at least promise not to repeat that again. Your heart will tell you every time you do anything wrong. Listen to your heart each and every time if you want to stay as a pure soul else the dirt from your actions will hide your pure soul and ultimately, make it impure. And whenever you listen to your heart and act accordingly after a mistake, that's the greatest forgiveness you can ask from me or anybody.

I understood everything and remembered the reason why I lost my cool yesterday. So, I had to ask again: But God, what should I practically do when someone tells dirty things to me or does hurting things in front of me?

God replied back: I know what you are asking. Look, if someone talks dirty with you, it means that that person has already become an impure soul. Since you are God's child and have been on earth to spread love and purity, try to smile at the person and remind him/her that he/she is forgetting that he/she is a pure soul too and whatever he/she is doing is impure. If you fail a few times, than the most practical solution is that however close you have to interact with that person, keep your pure soul a little apart from the impure soul. Otherwise, it may make your soul impure too, which happened with you yesterday. You became impure for a few minutes. If you let your soul come in contact with that soul, it may progressively keep making you impure.


I was so happy and satisfied with this discussion and told: O God! You are great. Thank you so much. Please give me enough energy to love everybody today.


Then, I got lost in him and felt him all around myself giving me energy from all directions.


One more thing I experienced today. Earlier, I used to see God according to my imagination. Nowadays when I get absorbed in him and feel peace, I don't see him as earlier. I don't even see him actually. I can just feel him around me. When he hugs me, I can feel his arms as some cloudy mass which have an ocean of peace and love in them into which I get lost, deeper and deeper. Wow, I think he is around us all the time even on earth, but we fail to feel him because we don't concentrate enough. That means we ignore him around us and search for him in all other places. What an irony !!!

A taste of peace...

Today I found peace, even though for a few seconds. But, I believe that it holds enough power to propel me through all that comes my way this day.

Today, when I met God, He decided to lengthen the time I spent with him today. So, just as I was coming back to get into my worldly schedule, He called me back. And there I flew, within a fraction of second.

Today, I asked him : How should I stay calm when someone tries to hurt me?

He said: Don't you believe that u are God's child? I said yes to which he continued : Then, just keep believing that.

I got confused and demanded an elaborate description of this.

He said: See, when you are God's child, it means that you have received enough power from God that no one can hurt you. Why are you taking the things inside that can possibly hurt you. When you take the pain-causing things inside you, that becomes your fault. At that very moment, u have definitely forgotten that you are God's child. Because a child of God would never take into account these minor things. You have other much important things to do. Remember that all who hurt you are just human beings who are simply telling the dialogues that are given to them. But, you are God's child and you receive immense power from him everyday through his love. Is this power not enough to stop the painful things outside you?

I was still not confident enough to implement it practically.

So, he continued: What do you do when a very little kid says something hurtful to you? You ignore it because you know that the child is ignorant of what he is speaking. You forgive the kid and forget it too at least by the next day. Because you know that whatever the kid is doing, it is unimportant to you. Believe that you are surrounded by these kids. All the human beings that hurt you are nothing more than these kids. I am sure now you know how to stay calm. :)

I had still more questions coming.

So, I asked : What about competition with other people?

He said: Where does this come from? If you are believing that you are God's child and everyone around you is a kid, do you still want to compete with a KID?


I was completely satisfied now.
Now, I walked towards peace.

I tried to feel weightlessness in my body......and soul. Tried to make my mind blank, which was easy as I had just found answers to all the questions that intrigued me since the last meet. Then, I felt light, positive energy and calmness filling my mind. Well, yes... all this is not that easy but I tried to FEEL it and it was not that difficult too. And yes, the cool breeze from my window definitely helped me achieve this state.
And then, there I was, floating amongst clouds without a single thought in my mind. That very moment, I felt peace...the real peace. I stayed there for few moments enjoying the weightlessness of my body that I experienced. And God sent me energy and power from all directions. When, I felt that I had received enough power to go through life's challenges for now, I bade goodbye to God and returned to life.

Do I like my role on earth?

Today, I asked God : How can I console myself when life is not going on as I would like it to be, when I am not satisfied with my life?

God replied : Look from my point of view. You are my child, a part of me. All the life that you are living is just a act or role that you are playing for a temporary period. The fact remains that in your original self, you are my child. So, why are you worried what happens in the play or drama or what is the plot of the drama? Its not necessary that you would  have to love each and every story that you appear in. It is  just a drama, when it ends, all are going to go back to their homes and you re going to come back to your home i.e. to me.

I understood, smiled and then again another worldly confusion struck my mind.
 And I asked : But, what should I do when I don't like my role in the play?

God looked from my point of view and understood what I was asking.
So, he explained me with great love : See Child, The role you are playing is not chosen by you. You are chosen for the role because your father(ME) thinks that you can play that particular role in its best form. The role may be small and not so prominent. And, sometimes, you won't like your role and would want a more important role in the play. At that time, remember that each day you live is a small part of the play. When you play your role of one day with great passion, God might notice your capability and might actually promote you with a more important role. It may not happen in one day because God needs to observe your capacity and passion for a period of time that would make him put his trust in you for a better role. In that case, just keep acting passionately and keep giving your best in the role that you are given. As soon as God gains his trust in you for a better or more important role, he will give that to you.

I smiled with admiration and thanked him for explaining me this difficult question with such clarity. And I promised, that I am definitely going to give my best today. But then I thought, what if I forget this deep concept in few days. So, I found a solution to it - Writing it down. Now, whenever I am not satisfied with my life, I am gonna read this with the same realization that I had today morning. And, I am going to be satisfied and happy. :)

What do U do when.....???

                              Today, lets take a new kind of example that I faced in my life. I don't know if u would have ever faced this situation, but I find myself almost friends with these kind of moments. 
                          
                             Please try to imagine this. Suppose, u are sad or angry on someone close and want that person to talk to u or ask u why u are sad, or at least understand u. U wait for a while and later, u find that the person doesn't even seem to know that u are sad on him/her. That person thinks that you are sitting with a gloomy face without any reason, which upsets him/her. So, that person's face also becomes pale and he/she sits or sleeps without trying to talk to u. What would you actually do in such a case? Will you become more angry or would you forget about yourself and take care of that person's smile. (Remember that the person is really close to u.). Anyone who happens to pass by this post, please pleaase try to imagine yourself and give a comment about what u would do. I really need your ideas. :)

                               What I always find myself doing is : Forget that I was even sad and force myself to smile and try hard to make the other person smile. Perhaps I have a problem that I can't see anyone sad in front of me and especially, if I am the cause. I just forget everything else. I don't know whether that's right or not. But, I believe that that's another form of LOVE. I love the person and so, I can't see that person being sad even for a while....so much that I even forget about myself. 


Lets talk about this and decide whether this is LOVE or something else. Come, lets fall in love.... Love is beautiful !!!

Fall in love with your hobby !!!

                                         So, what did u fall in love with?  If u are still waiting to be in love, another idea for u. How about loving something that we are doing? Anything… any work, any task we are given, any hobby that we have, any job we do, any passion that dwells in us..............Yes, passion is love already. Anything we love to do in leisure is called hobby…................So, just if we turn our entire life into a hobby….............How will it look like? Can we believe that our life is a hobby for us…............. We craft our lives…bit by bit, just as we work on some craft work…..............Lets craft our lives as we would like it to be.............The perfect life!!! Yes, while crafting some déecor items also, we tend to make mistakes, we can’t be perfect like a professional, but still we have the satisfaction that it is something that we have made ourselves…..............with our own hands. This satisfaction disappears all the imperfections. Similarly, if we try to craft our lives, however worse our life becomes, we will still love it perfectly, because that would be our creation..........with our own hands.

                                        Regarding our job, it is always said, when a little bit of skill and lot of love is involved, we can expect a masterpiece. So, why not let’s fall in love with our jobs, whatever we are doing at the present moments. Let’s fall in love with that.