To Compromise or To compromise.

In all other fronts one can fight, strive, demand and get what one wants. Not love. Let me qualify that. Not love the way one wants to be loved.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. There is a problem with that. "They" are "they".."they" are not you. They will only do what they perceive is a gesture of love. If you do not try to alter "them", your deed/love, when it comes back to you, may be camouflaged in an unrecognizable/unpalatable form. If you force them to change to your liking, then, you would be puppeteering a show of love towards yourself. Now that is pathetic, ridiculous, not to mention terribly lonely!

The alternative is to change yourself. To accept what you get as love. With a faith that what you give to others has to come back to you, even though you may not see it. It is a tough task to keep doing something without seeing any gratifying feedback. You are struggling to get something that you know you will not get because the giver does not know what you want. That one-sided single-minded giving of love is also lonely.

Either way, trying to snatch something you want out of a place where it does not exist is futile.

You may want to be the center of their world; their world may be donut-shaped!

Wish List for my birthday

1. Good health for my Anna ..
2. Peace of mind for Amma dearest..
3. Happiness with their beloved ones for Kanthi and Koochu ..
4. Enriched life full of opportunities for my son ..
5. A world that recognizes the truth and beauty of his soul.. for my husband ..
6. Unending Closeness to my family for me ..