Pressure at Work !!!

Here is a beautiful story, which I received through a forwarded email. I liked it so much because I could relate to it, and understand what I am missing. Each of us have something to pick from this.
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I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a flat tyre made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one-ton truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked towards the front door, he paused briefly at a tree, touching the tips of the tree. When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation.

His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave them a kiss. Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and then in the morning I pick them up again. "Funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."

Rise - The Road Ahead Lies Within

This is a poem I wrote (taking inspiration from some other poems) for an internal competition, and I got a consolation prize for this...
Need to apply this in my life now...

If you gaze around, there's nothing to keep you behind...

Don’ be anxious, un-limitation and way ahead lies in your mind...

Conventional thinking needs a punt in the face,

It's okay to fail now, yes, it's no disgrace...

Break all those shackles put by those around you,

Explore all the alternatives, because that's how you grow.

With the no-limit spirit, Unlimit yourself,

Unthink your past, and Unprogram yourself...

Pull out the stops now, go right ahead...

Put your heart and soul into what you're doing today,

Feel the energy in you, as limits fall away...

Be a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Roaring and soaring, bear in the tide,

Keep a positive thinking in gloom,

And the joyous road to success will bloom,

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear,

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear...

You can Rise! Rise! Rise!

It's great till it lasts... But what next??

A day before my 25th birthday, I am penning this post down. Probably it was time for a quarter-life realization.

Picking up cues from the feelings I had while writing a few earlier posts, a silly question coming to my mind... What happens when u lose faith?? It can be faith in a relationship, faith in friendship, faith in someone, or faith in self...

Howsoever stupid it might seem on reading, but sometimes it does happen. I will describe what happened to me when I lost faith in a relationship...

NOTHING. Yes, Nothing happened. I didn’t even make out that I have lost something. I never felt the pain. Slight exasperation for few weeks, but that was all. I never noticed anything else. Even now I don’t feel any pain or sadness. But off late (after over one and half long years) I realize what I have lost. I lost most of my emotions and feelings along with it. I don’t feel anything now days. Happiness, Sorrow, Anger, Fear… They’re all superficial... Something inside stopped working.

Today at this instant I feel that it may change in due course of time. I may come back to my real self. But when frustration creeps in, I feel that that I won’t mind even if I don’t come back to my real self.

As it is, most people do not notice this change. For them, I am still the same. Thankfully, they can't look through my eyes, or read my mind. And so to me, this seems like a far better state, like attaining “Nirvana” without much effort. It’s funny. Life really is.

If anyone would have guessed, that a hard core emotional and sentimental guy like me would change like this, I would have definitely laughed at him/her at that time. But now, let me see how long this will go… Maybe I can emulate a saint and share some pearls of wisdom when this period is over. Or maybe I am en-route the path of Enlightenment... Who knows ;-)

Jokes apart... I really want to get out of this phase, and be the person I was... This is the testing time, and I will strive to get out successful and victorious... :) Pray for me...