Ashima Kalra : Thoughts Board

I often hear this statement “Follow your Heart” from many people around. Often mentors, teachers and friends tell us to do this. We can read stories guiding people that they should do things according to what they feel is right. But do we really do that? Do we even spend a single day as per our own choice? We go to school, as we are expected to go to school. We take up a job, as we are expected to take one. We marry, as we are expected to marry till some defined age or so. What do we do with our choice? AND In case you dare to actually “Follow your Heart”… Be ready to become a laughter element for the society. This is why no one dares to “Follow their Heart”. But what if Albert Einstien also decided not to be different? We would have lost a wonderful knowledge guru and would have been refrained by his great theories and philosophies. And what if Sir Columbus had also decided to stop his craving for traveling? America would not have been discovered too. These ar...

I had always been dedicated to my work. And so, most of the time I was made responsible for any new task that came in our office. No doubts I handled everything perfectly well. Until a new person joined claimed that she can do the entire task that I do, in comparatively lesser time. This was not what I was expecting to happen. All this made me so irritated that I decided to challenge her and challenge myself. I decided to quicken my speed and do things better than she tried to do. Each day passing by, my speed improved. Yes, now even I could manage tasks in so much lesser time. I felt satisfied looking at my better and her average performance. This went on for more than a year and I kept on succeeding over her. After exactly 1 year, my company hired a new person similar to my profile. And now he claimed that he can perform better than me. This was again heights for me. I decided to give it back. And again start my race. But at the end of the day, when I reached bac...

Warren Buffet said, “There will never be a better you than you” since you don’t have any replicas. That’s a good enough reason to love yourself. Isn’t it? But more than 90% of the world has decided to stay away of this fact. We screw our lives: By not trusting ourselves and trusting others. By loving those who often don’t love us back. By spending on those who don’t value our efforts. By not realizing our own worth. Basically, we do everything for those who never appreciate us. And then we cry and feel bad about how we ruined our lives! On the contrary, if we realize our real worth and start believing on ourselves, there is nothing in the world that can spoil our happiness as the real happiness is within. We have to understand one thing that no matter what you do, you cannot make everyone around you happy so better stop trying to do that and stay happy on your own. Once you decide to love yourself, you can feel a positive aura a...

It’s good to have someone as inspiration but it’s bad if you are following them without using your brains. In order to get good results in any field, one has to think beyond.