Every human being is a miracle......

 I got this in mail today.... truly we are a miracle created by God!!

Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day. 

Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.

Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
    
Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
 
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
 
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

Our brain is more complex than the most powerful   computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
  
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
  
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
  
We have over 600 muscles.

We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile
 
We are about 70 percent water.

We make one liter of saliva a day.

Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: It warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.

We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
 

Learning to fly.......

I have always been scared, to do anything in my life..... Even as a child and an adolescent  I would be very hesitant to express how I feel to my parents..... I was lucky to have found good friends my solace in them...... anything from adolosent crushes to big time failures....... friends have always been there for me......
I have always wanted to do something with my life.... and just didn't know what..... I did number of varied courses, from multimedia to food processing to fashion designing to psychology, jumping from one feild to another.... then after marraige I shoved everything into a closet, with it the dream of achieving something..... this dream of achieving something has always been with me... and I never figured what?

Once married, my life started revolving around the domestic issues, mostly the kitchen politics with my mother in law and I became totally obssessed.... My life became miserable, I forgot what it was to live, cause my life became centered only around my mother in law. I was hopelessly running in all directions and all I ended up with, was a gigantic wall with no escape. A wall I had built around myself.... I had to break this wall.... I had forgotten to do things I enjoyed doing earlier, I forgot to appreciate things around me,  I forgot to thank God for the beautiful life He gave us, I wanted to die, I started wishing for death...... The only thought in my mind those days was to break free from everything..... I went through all this because I was scared, to face things in my life, scared to bring about the changes needed, scared to stand up for myself, scared of the outcome if I did....

Then, a day came after a series of events in my life, where I didn't want to take it anymore, when I didn't want to be scared anymore.... I had had enough of my fears.... I realized that the number one thing I had to break free from was my fear of everything..... I asked myself what is the worst thing that would happen to me if I reacted in a certain way, and to my surprice, the answer was very simple... no consequence was as worse as I had made it out to be in my head... The first thing I did was found a job for myself. I had never before worked in my life, I didn't know what a resume looked like, but I went ahead and made one.... I attended the interview and got the job, although, this is not what I want to do with my life. I had just broken that wall, where I had binded myself.... I had just given myself wings....... and am still Learning to fly.... there's more that I want to achieve, and I know now that I can.... Cause I am not scared any more..... Now things are a lot different..... I get so much support from my mom and my husband.... my friends have always stayed by my side.....though a cliched phrase, they are the wind beneath my wings.....

Mad Money.

What is it about people and money? I have always wondered about this..... There are stingy penny-pinchers and then there are people who have no control over their expences- Spendthrifts...... and then there are wise spenders, sensible ones, who spend where they have to and control when they should.....

The penny-pinchers are those who slog their whole lives to earn MONEY and don't enjoy it, neither do they let their children enjoy it, and one fine day, when they grow old......  a third person walks in and enjoys all of it...... and all they can do is sit and watch... perhaps grumbling about it a little....... but they don't change, they still don't spend on themselves..... they still remain their own stingy-self..... but they wonder if they have been unfair to their children......

Next in line are the spendthrifts, these people are what we call the "shopaholics" they just have to shop, shop and shop.... if they don't pay a visit to the super market or a mall atleast once a day, the world will collapse around them, every upset mood.....they shop, every happiness..... they shop.....  they just want to feel good about themselves they shop. Some of these kinds buy on impluse and follow it up with a guilt trip....

And the Wise- spenders....... I wonder how they do it........ It must take a lot to know how and when to spend and when not to.... or they are just plain smart....... sensible people.... well done wise-spenders keep it up.... we need to learn a lot from you.....

But my question was "What is it about people and money?", and I ask again....... To me it is just a peice of paper which is used to fulfill our necessities, but to a lot of people, that I've come across money is something extraordinary..... And these people give free advice to people like me..... The advice goes like this......" you should be more ambitious in life......... you should listen to any kind of non-sense people give you........ so what, in the end you are going to be rich, consider that......... Money is NOT a necessity, It is a Luxury blah blah blah" It just does not end....

I wonder how many would agree with this....... Certainly not me..... after listening to this free advice for sometime, I quitely plug in my Nokia express- music, to escape the torture........... :D

Red Day.

I work as a nursery school teacher, so we are having the colour day every monday....  And  today was the Red day.....  Each classroom decorated with the colour RED....... each teacher showcasing their unique talent. It was Raining Red every where.......
For my classroom I hung lots of red couloured objects like a car, an apple, a boat, a T -shirt, etc cut out from paper on to the ceiling..... It looked like a large mobile..... balloons stuck on the walls..... red cloth drapes hanging from the doors and windows.... Every child and every facilitator dressed in red....... We had the pictures taken, The kids coloured pictures in red....
Even though we see colours on a day to day basis, its somehow different to be surrounded by one particular colour, it changes your mood,..... It was lovely, somehow the colour red uplifts the spirit..... It creates an atmosphere of  festivity and it makes one feel special...... The appointment with Red was memorable..... hope to have different and equally fulfilling experince with other colours as well.....

An Ode to My Friend.

I am a fragment in your world. I dont know you anymore....
With other's its about them and me... with you its mostly about me rarely about you....
You have gone far ahead in your life..... faced many challenges... achieved many a success....
Somehow you have changed and different now from the person I have known you to be.....
I don't know you anymore......
Its a delight to see you soaring ahead.... connecting with different people.... making your mark in this world... but, I don't know you anymore....
I want to know you again..... like the way I used to know... the new you.... this different but amazing person you have turned out to be.....
I am a fragment in your world.... Let me know you again.......