The Family That Matters !!

It’s funny how things change, according to each choice you make. You want to live a comfortable life, but because you chose to be lazy while trying to get there, your life completely changes. We never get to realize, how these small things affect so many people around us, how it subtly changes lives of people around us too. I have heard that change is the only permanent thing in life. Making way for changes is one thing. Accepting them is another. Not many people have the strength to let the changes take place and accept change as it comes.

I realize this, when I see one of my friends suffer everyday because he chose to be lethargic when he was studying. I was too. But I had the family which backed me all the way and helped me get back on my feet. But this friend's family doesn’t really care. It is really hard to watch someone trying to set his life right with nobody there to support him. Though he is trying to get back on his feet, there is nobody there for him to pull him up and pat him on his back for doing the right thing. Friends like us can only help him to an extent. Every kid as it grows up, always wants that small word of praise from the parents. It yearns for it. It’s the family that means the most. Or so I think. I remember the days when I used to cry about having no friends, it was my brother who asked me to be myself and not regret and my friends would find me.My brother used to be my best friend. And I did find friends, who today would do anything for me. And I am sure I wouldn't have found them, had it not been for my brother. But to-date, my brother still remains my best friend. I thank god everyday for giving me the family I could be proud of everyday. For giving me the kind of family that everyone would want to be in.

I thank the lord for that everyday !!

My First Post !!

My first post...Well...I have always thought.. So I create a blog and then do what with it? Write what? Writing as in giving a topic to write and writing is different. But to write something, or rather to start something off on your own? Hmm now that IS something I really need to think about. This reminds of school times when we hate to study, but now that U really do have to study coz exams are on the way, you are forced to study. I guess u know how I feel huh? Coz you've felt it too. Haven't you?

This reminds me of that day in eighth standard, when I had to study for my Physics exam. You know normally I am usually thinking about every way I can escape from doing this. But this time I was confident. Becoz, usually it was my mom who asked me the questions. She was such a sweetheart you know !! Always asked me questions that were given at the end of the lesson. So by the time, she looked at the question at the end of the lesson and got back through the lesson to find the answer, I would have finished answering it. Or so I said. But this time, I thought I could get off more easily. U wana know why? Coz this time, it was my brother who was questioning me. He is working and studying for his MBA as well, so he probably wouldnt have time to ask me all the questions. Or so I THOUGHT !! But well he asked me to know by heart the whole LESSON?? (I was cursing him silently...). But I did do it( You think I had a choice??..) .And finally I learnt the lesson by heart and also which page contained which answer. So that when he looked at the page I would know what answer that page contained, and would start answering that. I did surprise my brother by answering the first two questions he asked at top speed leaving not a word out anywhere. But then, he caught me peeping into the book everytime he asked a question, and he understood I knew the answers according to the pages. So clever as I was, he is my brother remember?? So he looked at the Ruby Laser question in page 42 and went on to page 37 which contained the Xray tube question. Just as the question was out of his mouth, I started rattling off as usual at top speed the answer for the Xray tube question. Not two lines down it, my bro started shaking his head. Confused, I pointed at the page and asked him to look at the answer. Only then did he turn to page 42 and pointed that the answer was there and I was giving out the wrong answer.

Caught in the act huh? Then he told me, I wouldnt get the answers along with the page numbers tagged in my question paper, so might as well, learn it all by heart rather than according to the page numbers. I scored top marks in that subject, but now when I teach kids, thats how I ask them to study. The whole lesson by heart, not according to the page numbers.

Turned it on them..ha !