Man O Man!

  Man O Man!
When without money,
eats vegetables at home;
When has money,
eats the same vegetables in a fine restaurant.
.
When without money, rides bicycle;
When has money rides the same ‘exercise machine’.
.
When without money walks to earn food
When has money, walks to burn fat;

Man O Man! Never fails to deceive thyself!
.
When without money,
wishes to get married;
When has money,
wishes to get divorced.
.
When without money,
wife becomes secretary;
When has money,
secretary becomes wife.
.
When without money, acts like a rich man;
When has money acts like a poor man.
Man O Man! Never can tell the simple truth!
.
Says share market is bad,
but keeps speculating;
Says money is evil,
but keeps accumulating.
.
Says high Positions are lonely,
but keeps wanting them.
.
Says gambling & drinking is bad,
but keeps indulging;

Man O Man! Never means what he says and never says what he means..
"I slept on benches and
everyday borrowed 20Rs
from friend to travel to
film city"
- Sharukh khan

"I failed in 8th standard"
-Sachin Tendulkar

"During my secondary
school, I was dropped
from school basketball
team"
-MichelI Jordan

"I was rejected for the
job in All India Radio
bcoz of my heavy voice"
- Amitabh Bacchan

"I used to work in petrol
Bunks"
- Dhirubhai Ambani

"I was rejected in the
interview of Pilot"
- Abdul Kalam

"I didn't even complete
my university education"
- Bill Gates

"I was a dyslexic kid"
- Tom Cruize

"I was raped at the
age of 9 "
- Oprah Winfrey

"I used to serve tea at
a shop to support my
football training"
- Lionel Messi

"I used to sleep on the
floor in friends rooms,
returning Coke bottles
for food, money, and
getting weekly free
meals at a local temple"
-Steve Jobs

"My teachers used to
call me a failure"
- Tony Blair

"I was in prison for 27
years"
-Nelson Mandela

and here comes the
"THALIVA"

"At the age of 30, I was
a bus conductor"
-Rajnikant

He worked for a textile factory for six months, without anyone suspecting that his parents were movie stars.
-  SURYA sivakumar

"Friends, there are
many such people who
struggled..

Life is not about what
you couldn't do so far,
it's about what you can
still do.
Wait n dont ever give up..
Miracles happen every
day....
                             
Rs.20 seems too much
to give a beggar but it
seems okay when its
given as tip at a fancy
restaurant.

After a whole day of
work, Hours at the gym
seem alright but helping
your Mother out at home
seems like a burden.

Wait a whole year for
Valentine's day but we
always forget Mother's
day.

Two poor starving kids
sitting on the pavement
weren't given even a slice
of Bread but a painting of
them sold for lakhs of
Rupees.

We don't think twice
About forwarding jokes
But we will rethink about
sending this message on.

Think about It..
Make a change. Coz u can ....
Six Easy ways to earn, even after death.

1) Give a smile or gift to someone.
Each time u gift or smile, it will make someone's day.....u gain.

2) Donate a wheelchair to a hospital. Each time sick person uses it, u gain.

3) Participate in building an orphanage, hospital, school or college.
Anybody uses it, u gain.

4) Place a water cooler in a public place. Anybody drinks water, u gain.

5) Plant a tree. Whenever a person, animal sits in its shade or eats from it, u gain.

6) And the easiest of all is to Share this message with people. Even if 1 applies any of the
above, u gain.

It's long....but I enjoyed reading it.

Who is poor

who is poor?

A wealthy woman goes to a saree store and tells the boy at the counter " show some cheap sarees. It is my son's marriage and I have to give to my maid."

After sometime, the maid comes to the saree shop and tells the boy at the counter "Bhaiya show some expensive sarees. I want to gift my Mistress on her son's marriage"

Poverty is in the mind or in the purse?

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Peace of mind

Peace Of Mind

Once there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the farm. It was not an ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him.
After searching the hay for a long while, he gave up and call the help of a group of children playing outside the barn. He promised them that, the person who found it, would be rewarded.
Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not.? After all, this kid looks sincere enough.”
So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand. The farmer was happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed. The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground
and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”

MESSAGE : A Peaceful mind can think better than a Worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of Silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps u to set your life the way you expect it to be.

MORAL : The soul always knows what to do to heal itself...
The challenge is to silence the mind…

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Stay connected with good people

This is the story about why we need to be good people.

A bus full of passengers was traveling while. suddenly the weather changed and there was a huge downpour and lightening all around.

They could see that the lightening would appear to come towards the bus and then go elsewhere.

After 2 or 3 horrible instances of being saved from lightening, the driver stopped the bus about fifty feet away from a tree and said -

"We have somebody in the bus whose death is a certainty today."

Because of that person everybody else will also get killed today.

Now listen carefully what I am saying ..

I want each person to come out of bus one by one and touch the tree trunk and come back.

Whom so ever death is certain will get caught up by the lightening and will die & everybody else will be saved".

They had to force the 1st person to go and touch the tree and come back.

He reluctantly got down from the bus and went and touched the tree.

His heart leaped with joy when nothing happened and he was still alive.

This continued for rest of the passengers who were all relieved when they touched the tree and nothing happened.

When the last passenger's turn came, everybody looked at him with accusing eyes.

That passenger was very afraid and reluctant since he was the only one left.

Everybody forced him to get down and go and touch the tree.

With a 100% fear of death in mind, the last passenger walked to the tree and touched it.

There was a huge sound of thunder and the lightening came down and hit the bus - yes the lightening hit the bus, and killed each and every passenger inside the bus.

It was because of the presence of this last passenger that, earlier,the entire bus was safe and the lightening could not strike the bus.

LIFE LEARNING from this..

At times, we try to take credit for our present achievements, but this could also be because of a person right next to us.

Look around you - Probably someone is there around you, in the form of Your Parents, Your Spouse, Your Children, Your Siblings, Your friends, etc, who are saving you from harm..!

Think About it..

You will surely find that Person..!!
      That's the BEAUTY of
    Human Relations.

    We are nothing without
    each other
  
   Stay Connected!!

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Smart people can save their life

குட்டிக்கதை:

ஒரு ஊரில் அரசன் ஒருவன் இருந்தார். அதிகாலையில் எழுந்தவுடன் சூரிய உதயத்தைப் பார்ப்பது அவரது வழக்கம்.

வழக்கம் போல் அன்றும் சாளரத்தை த் திறந்த அரசருக்கு ஏமாற்றம்! சூரிய உதயத்துக்குப் பதில் அவர் கண்களி ல் ஒரு பிச்சைக்காரன் தான் தோன் றினான். போயும் போயும் இவன் முக த்தில் தான் விழிப்பதா என்று கடும் வெறுப்புடன் திரும்பினார் அரசர். திரும்பிய வேகத்தில் சுவற்றில் அவ ரது தலை அடிபட்டு இரத்தம் கொட்டி யது. வலியோ பொறுக்க முடியவில் லை.
அத்துடன் கோபம் வேறு பொங் கியது…
பிச்சைக்காரனை இழுத்து வருமாறு கட்டளையிட்டார். காவலர்கள் அவனை இழுத்துக் கொண்டு வந்து மன்னர் முன்னே நிறுத்தினர். அரச சபை கூடியது. தனது காயத்துக்கு காரணமாக இருந்த அந்த பிச் சைக்காரனை தூக்கிலிடுமாறு தண்டனையும் கொடுத்தார்.

பிச்சைக்காரன் கலங்கவில்லை; கலகலவெனச் சிரிக்கத் தொடங்கி னான். சபையில் இருந்தவர்கள் திகைப்புடன் விழித்தனர்.
அரசனுக்கோ, கோபம் கட்டுக்கடங்காமல் போய் விட்டது… பைத்திய க்காரனே! எதற்குச் சிரிக்கிறாய் என் று ஆத்திரத்துடன் கேட்டார்.
அரசே! என் முகத்தில் விழித்ததால் உங்கள் தலையில் சிறு காயம் மட்டு ம் தான் ஏற்பட்டது.

ஆனால், உங்கள் முகத்தில் நான் விழித்ததால், என் தலையே போகப் போகிறதே…அதை நினைத்தேன் சிரித்தேன் என்றான். மன்னன் தலை தானாகவே கவிழ்ந் து விட்டது. தவறை உணர்ந்தவன் தண்டனையை ரத்துசெய்து பிச்சைக் காரனை விடுவித்தான்.

தைரியம் என்பது தன்னம்பிக்கையின் மறுபெயர். அது இல்லையென் றால், சமயத்தில் உயிரைக் கூட காப்பாற்றிக் கொள்ள முடியாமல் போய் விடும்.

Law of life

There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grown good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”
So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...
-Call it power of collectivity...
-Call it a principle of success...
-Call it a law of life.
The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!!

Be humble and respect others

A lady worked at a meat distribution factory. One day, when she finished with her work schedule, she went into the meat cold room (Freezer) to inspect something, but in a moment of misfortune, the door closed and she was locked inside with no help in sight. Although she screamed and knocked with all her might, her cries went unheard as no one could hear her. Most of the workers had already gone, and outside the cold room it's impossible to hear what was going on inside. Five hours later, whilst she was at the verge of death, the security guard of thefactory eventually opened the door. She was miraculously saved from dying that day. When she later asked the security guard how he had come to open the door, which wasn'this usual work routine. His explanation: "I've been working in this factory for 35 years, hundreds of workers come in and out every day, but you're one of the few who greet me in the morning and say goodbye to me every night when leaving after work. Many treat me as if I'm invisible. Today, as you reported forwork, like all other days, you greeted me in your simple manner 'Hello'. But this evening after working hours, I curiously observed that I had not heard your "Bye, see you tomorrow". Hence, I decided to check around the factory. I look forward to your 'hi' and 'bye' every day because they remind me that I am someone. By not hearing your farewell today, I knew something had happened.That's why I was searching every where for you.

Be humble, love and respect those around you. Try to have an impact on people who cross your path every day, you never know what tomorrow will bring

What time should you sleep

What Time Should You Sleep

Is there a best time to sleep? There is a saying that sleeping early and waking up early is good for your health. How true is that? Is it alright to sleep late and wake up late?

You actually have an amazing biological clock ticking inside your body. It is very precise. It helps to regulate your various body functions including your sleeping time.

From 11pm to 3am, most of your blood circulation concentrates in your liver. Your liver gets larger when filled with more blood. This is an important time when your body undergoes detoxification process. Your liver neutralizes and breaks down body toxins accumulated throughout the day.

However if you don't sleep at this time, your liver cannot carry out this detoxification process smoothly.

·         If you sleep at 11pm, you have full 4 hours to detoxify your body.
·         If you sleep at 12am, you have 3 hours.
·         If you sleep at 1am, you have 2 hours.
·         And if you sleep at 2am, you only have 1 hour to detoxify.
What if you sleep after 3am? Unfortunately, you won't have any time to actually detoxify your body. If you continue with this sleeping pattern, these toxins will accumulate in your body over time. You know what happens next.

What if you sleep late and wake up late?

Have you tried going to bed very late at night? Did you realize you feel very tired the next day no matter how much you sleep?

Sleeping late and waking up late is indeed very bad for your health. Besides not having enough time to detoxify your body, you will miss out other important body functions too.

From 3am to 5am, most blood circulation concentrates in your lung. What should you do at this moment? Well, you should exercise and breathe in fresh air. Take in good energy into your body, preferably in a garden. At this time, the air is very fresh with lots of beneficial negative ions.

From 5am to 7am, most blood circulation concentrates in your large intestine. What should you do at this moment? You should poop! Pass out all unwanted poop from your large intestine. Prepare your body to absorb more nutrients throughout the day.

From 7am to 9am, most blood circulation concentrates in your stomach. What should you do at this moment? Have your breakfast! This is your most important meal in a day. Make sure you have all the required nutrients from your breakfast. Not having breakfast causes lots of health problems for you in the future.

That's the way to start your day

There you are... the most ideal way to start your day. After fully detoxifying your blood during your sleep, you wake up fresh to inhale beneficial energy. Then you pass out unwanted poop from your large intestine. After that, you take in balanced nutrients to prepare your body for a new day.

No wonder people living in villages or farms is healthier. They sleep early and wake up early. They follow their natural biological clock.

Living in city, we have more difficulty in following this sleeping schedule. We have good lightning, TV and internet to delay our precious sleeping time.

Following your natural timetable

Once I know the importance of our biological clock, I try my best to follow it. If I wake up early, I usually start my day on the computer. But when I see the clock shows 7am, I know it's the best time for breakfast. So I'll try to have my breakfast before 9am for best absorption.

What if you're offered a night shift job? I recommend you to reject it even the salary is higher. For long term, you may need to spend more money for your health problems.

What if you have assignment to do until late at night? Well, why not sleep early and wake up earlier to do it? Just shift your work time from late night to early morning. You get the same time. But your body will appreciate it.

With this, try to follow this timing as close as possible. Make it your daily routine. I'm sure you will feel fresher and more energetic all day long.

19 interesting information

Did You Know....?

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.

5. A person's height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

6. If a part of your body "falls asleep",
you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - Food, attractive people and danger

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odour.

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.

11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don't.

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia

16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

18. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

19. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

Invite love ... success and wealth will follow

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.
"No", she replied. "He's out..."
"Then we cannot come in", they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened....

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in.

"We do not go into a House together," they replied.
"Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth.. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed.. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!"

Tons of Love to  you, Dear Folks.
May Success and Wealth fill up your house along with Love. But remember, if Love leaves,  they leave too. In fact,  they may precede it.

You are the happiest person in the world

A Crow was absolutely satisfied in life.

But one day he saw a swan...
This swan is so white and I am so black...crow thought.

This swan must be the happiest bird in the world.

He expressed his thoughts to the swan.
"Actually," the swan replied,

"I was feeling that I was the happiest bird around until I saw a parrot, which has two colors.
I now think the parrot is the happiest bird in creation."

The crow then approached the parrot.
The parrot explained,
"I lived a very happy life—until I saw a peacock.
I have only two colors, but the peacock has multiple colors."

The crow then visited a peacock in the zoo and saw that hundreds of people had gathered to see him.

After the people had left,
The crow approached the Peacock..

Dear Peacock,
You are so beautiful.
Every day thousands of people come to see you.
When people see me,
they immediately shoo me away.
I think you are the happiest bird on the planet.

The peacock replied,
I always thought that I was the most beautiful and happy bird on the planet.
But because of my beauty,
I am entrapped in this zoo.

I have examined the zoo very carefully, and I have realized that the crow is the only bird not kept in a cage.

So for past few days I have been thinking that if I were a crow,
I could happily roam everywhere.

That's our problem too.

We make unnecessary comparison with others and become sad.

We don't value what God has given us.
This all leads to the vicious cycle of unhappiness.

Value the things God has given us.

Learn the secret of being happy and discard the comparison which leads only to unhappiness..

Sooooo beautiful..don't miss to share with your friends

Don't judge any one by his habits

Can u judge who is the better person out of these 3 ?

Mr A - He had frienship with bad politicians, consults astrologers, two wives, chain smoker, drinks eight to 10 times a day.

Mr B - He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps till noon, used opium in college & drinks whiskey every evening.

Mr C - He is a decorated war hero,a vegetarian, doesn't smoke , doesn't drink  and never cheated on his wife.

You would want Mr.C rite.
But..
Mr. A was Franklin Roosevelt!

Mr. B was Winston Churchill!!

Mr C Was ADOLF HITLER!!!

Strange but true..
Its risky to judge anyone by his habits !
Character is a complex phenomenon.

So every person in ur life is important ,don't judge them ,accept them.
Three beautiful thoughts 

1. None can destroy iron, but its own rust can!
Likewise, none can destroy a person, but his own mindset can.

2. Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an E.C.G. means we are not alive.

3. The same Boiling Water that hardens the egg, Will Soften the Potato!
It depends upon Individual's reaction To stressful circumstances!

Beautiful saying ---
Mobile has taught us three things ....
Whatever makes you happy  -- save it.....
Whatever makes others happy -- forward it.....
Whatever will make no one happy -- Delete it....

Family is strength

Father is flying a kite.

His son is watching him carefully.

After some time son says "Dad. Because of the string the kite is not able to go any further higher."

Hearing this, the father smiles and breaks the string.

The kite goes higher after breaking of the thread and then shortly after that it comes and falls on the ground.

The child is very dejected and sad.

The father sits next to him and calmly expalains

"Son, in life we reach a certain level of prosperity and then we feel that there are certain things in our life that are not letting us grow any further like Home, Family, Culture Friendship etc.

We feel we want to be free from those strings which we believe are stopping us from going higher.

But, remember son. Going higher is easier than staying at the higher level.

And friends, family and culture etc are the things that will help us stay stable at the high heights that we have achieved.

If we try to break away from those strings our condition will be similar to the kite."

Moral : "Never go away from culture, family, friends and relationships as they help keep you stable while you are flying high."

Life is Beautiful.

Meaning of Happy life

Are we earning to pay builders and interior designers, caterers and decorators? 

Whom do we want to impress with our highly inflated house properties & fat weddings?

Do you remember for more than two days what you ate at someone's marriage?

Why are we working like dogs in our prime years of life?

How many generations do we want to feed?

Most of us have two kids. Many have a single kid.

How much is the "need" and how much do we actually "want"??
Think about it.

Would our next generation be incapable to earn, that we save so much for them!?!

Can not we spare one and a half days a week for friends, family and self??

Do you spend even 5% of your monthly income for your self enjoyment?
Usually...No.

Why can't we enjoy simultaneously while we earn?  

Spare time to enjoy before you have slipped discs and large prostates.

We don't own properties, we just have temporary name on documents.

GOD laughs sarcastically, when someone says,
"I am the owner of this land"!!   

Do not judge a person only by the length of his car.

Many of our science and maths teachers were great personalities riding on scooters!!   

It is not bad to be rich, but it is very unfair, to be only rich.

Let's get a LIFE, before life gets us, instead....
A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands.

Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile; my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?

The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a quick bite on one apple, and then quickly on the other.

The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment.

Then the little girl handed one of her bitten apples to her mum,and said: mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one.

No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, always delay judgement. 

Give others the privilege to explain themselves.   
                           
What you see may not be the reality. Never conclude for others.

Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.

Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded but because they value friendship above money.

Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility.

Those who apologizes first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.

Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you any thing but because they see you as a true friend.

Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing better to do but because you are in their heart.

Those who take out time to chat with you, does not mean they are jobless or less busy, but they know the importance of keeping in touch.

One day, all of us will get  separated  from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything & nothing; the dreams that we had.

Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare... One day our children will see our pictures and ask 'Who are these people?' And we will smile with invisible tears  because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say: 'IT WAS THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE WITH'.

Have a plan for your feature

ஒரு ஊரில் , ஒரு ராஜா !

ஒரு நகரத்திற்கு ஒரு சட்டமிருந்தது.

அதன்படி யார் வேண்டுமென்றாலும் அந்த நகரத்திற்கு ராஜாவாக வரமுடியும்.

ஆனால், அந்தப் பதவி ஐந்தாண்டுகள் மட்டுமே!

ஐந்தாண்டு முடிந்த அடுத்த நாளே மன்னனை ஆற்றின் கரைக்கு மறுபுறம் உள்ள காட்டில் விட்டுவிடுவார்கள்.

அந்தக் காட்டில் மனிதர்கள் கிடையாது. வெறும் கொடிய விலங்குகள் மட்டுமே!

மன்னன் காட்டிற்குள் நுழைந்தால் போதும்; வனவிலங்குகள் கொன்று தீர்த்துவிடும். இந்த சட்டத்தை யாராலும் மாற்ற இயலாது.

இந்த நிபந்தனைகளுக்கு ஒப்புக் கொண்டவன் மட்டுமே அரியணையில் அமரப் பொருத்தமானவன்.

ஆக, மன்னனாக முடிசூட்டிக் கொண்டவனின் தலையெழுத்து, ஐந்தாண்டுகளுக்குப் பின் கட்டாய மரணம்.

இந்தக் கடுமையான சட்டத்துக்கு பயந்தே யாரும் அந்தப் பதவிக்கு ஆசைபடாமலிருந்ததால் அந்த அரியணை பெரும்பாலும் காலியாகவே இருந்தது.

இருப்பினும் ஒரு சிலர்'எப்படியிருந்தாலும் சாகத்தானே போகிறோம்; மன்னனாகவே மடியலாமே!' என்று பதவி ஏற்பதுண்டு. அதிலும் பாதி மன்னர்கள் இடையிலேயே மாரடைப்பால் மரணமடைவதுமுண்டு.

இப்படி ஒரு மன்னனுக்கு ஐந்து ஆண்டு ஆட்சிக்காலம் முடிந்தது. அன்று ஆற்றின் கரையைக் கடந்து காட்டிற்குச் செல்ல வேண்டும். அவனை வழியனுப்ப நாடே திரண்டிருந்தது.

மன்னன் வந்தான், அவனுடைய சிறப்பான ஆடைகளையும் நகைகளையும் அணிந்து, முடிசூடி, தங்க வாளேந்தி வைரங்கள் மின்ன மக்கள் முன் நின்றான்.

மக்கள் வாயைப் பிளந்தனர் ''இன்னும் அரை மணிநேரத்தில் சாகப் போகிறான்; அதற்கு இவ்வளவு அலங்காரமா!''

தான் செல்லவிருந்த படகைப் பார்த்துவிட்டு சினத்துடன் கூறினான், ''மன்னன் செல்லும் படகா இது! பெரிய படகைக் கொண்டு வாருங்கள்! நான் நின்றுகொண்டா செல்வது! சிம்மாசனத்தைக் கொண்டு வாருங்கள்!''

கட்டளைகள் பறந்தன; காரியங்கள் நடந்தன! சற்று நேரத்தில் அலங்கரிக்கப்பட்ட அழகான படகு ஆற்று நீரைத் கிழித்துக் கொண்டு மறுகரை நோக்கிப் பயணித்தது.

மக்கள் திகைத்து நிற்க, மன்னன் கையசைக்க பயணம் தொடர்ந்தது.

மிகவும் அதிர்ச்சியடைந்தவன் படகோட்டியே! காரணம், இதுவரை அவன் மறுகரைக்கு அழைத்துச் சென்ற எந்த மன்னனும் மகிழ்ச்சியாக சென்றதில்லை.

அழுது புலம்பி,புரண்டு, வெம்பிச் செல்வார்கள். இவனோ, மகிழ்ச்சிக் களிப்பில் பொங்கி வழிகிறான்.

படகோட்டி பொறுத்துக்கொள்ள முடியாமல் கேட்டான் ''மன்னா! எங்கே செல்கிறீர்கள் தெரியுமா?''

''தெரியும் மறுகரைக்குச் செல்கிறேன்!''

''அங்கே சென்றவர்கள் திரும்ப இந்த நகரத்திற்கு வந்ததில்லை தெரியுமா?''

''தெரியும். நானும் திரும்ப இந்த நகரத்திற்கு வரப் போவதில்லை!''

''பின்னே எப்படி உங்களால் இவ்வளவு மகிழ்ச்சியாக இருக்க முடிகிறது?''

''அதுவா! நான் என்ன செய்தேன் தெரியுமா? ஆட்சிக்கு வந்த ஓராண்டு முடிவில் ஆயிரம் வேட்டைக்காரர்களைக் காட்டிற்கு அனுப்பினேன்; அவர்கள் கொடிய விலங்குகளை வேட்டையாடிக் கொன்று விட்டார்கள்!

இரண்டாமாண்டு முடிவில் ஆயிரம் விவசாயிகள் சென்றார்கள்; காட்டைத் திருத்தி உழுதார்கள்; இன்று ஏராளமான தானியங்கள் காய்கறிகள்.

மூன்றாமாண்டு முடிவில் ஆயிரம் கட்டடக்கலை வல்லுநர்கள், தொழிலாளர்கள் சென்றனர். இன்று வீடு, வாசல், அரண்மனை, அந்தப்புரம், சாலைகள் எல்லாம் தயார்!

நான்காம் ஆண்டு முடிவில் ஆயிரம் அரசு அதிகாரிகள் சென்றனர். நிர்வாகம் சீரடைந்தது. இந்த 4000 பேரும் தங்கள் மனைவி, குழந்தைகளுடன் சென்று அங்கே வாழ்கின்றனர்.

இப்போது நான் காட்டிற்குப் போகவில்லை; என்னுடைய நாட்டிற்குப் போகின்றேன்! சாகப் போகவில்லையப்பா, வாழப் போகின்றேன்! அதுவும் மன்னனாக ஆளப்போகிறேன்! உனக்கு ஒருவேளை அரண்மனைப் படகோட்டி வேலை வேண்டுமென்றால், இந்தப் படகோடு இப்படியே வேலைக்கு சேர்ந்து விடு!'' என்றான் மன்னன்.

ஒரே ஒரு கேள்வியை மட்டும் எடுத்துக் கொள்ளலாம்.

மன்னனின் வெற்றிக்குக் காரணங்கள் யாவை?

பல காரணங்கள் இருந்தாலும் குறிப்பாக இரண்டினைக் கூறலாம்.

ஒன்று : ஐந்து ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின் உயிர் வாழவேண்டும்; அதுவும் மன்னனாகவே வாழவேண்டும் என்று முடிவு எடுத்தது.

இரண்டு : அந்த முடிவினை அடைவதற்காக திட்டமிட்டு உழைத்தது!

அந்த மன்னனுடைய வெற்றிக்கு மட்டுமல்ல; நாம் அனைவருமே வெற்றி பெறவேண்டுமென்றால் நமக்குத்தேவை ஒரு இலக்கை நிர்ணயித்தலும் அதற்காக திட்டமிடுதலும்,திட்டமிட்ட பின் வெற்றி பெறும்வரை கடுமையாகவும் புத்திசாலித்தனமாக உழைப்பதுமே!

Live your moment

A man died...

When he realized it, he saw God coming closer with a suitcase in his hand.

Dialog between God and Dead Man:

God: Alright son, it’s time to go

Man: So soon? I had a lot of plans...

God: I am sorry but, it’s time to go

Man: What do you have in that suitcase?

God: Your belongings

Man: My belongings? You mean my things... Clothes... money...

God: Those things were never yours, they belong to the Earth

Man: Is it my memories?

God: No. They belong to Time

Man: Is it my talent?

God: No. They belong to Circumstance

Man: Is it my friends and family?

God: No son. They belong to the Path you travelled

Man: Is it my wife and children?

God: No. they belong to your Heart

Man: Then it must be my body

God: No No... It belongs to Dust

Man: Then surely it must be my Soul!

God: You are sadly mistaken son. Your Soul belongs to me.

Man with tears in his eyes and full of fear took the suitcase from the God's hand and opened it...

Empty...

With heartbroken and tears down his cheek he asks God...

Man: I never owned anything?

God: That’s Right. You never owned anything.

Man: Then? What was mine?

God: your MOMENTS.
Every moment you lived was yours.

Life is just a Moment.

Live it...
Love it...
Enjoy it..