“Most obstacles melt away if we make up our minds to boldly walk through them”

-Orison Swett Marden

I just needed a little inspiration to get me going this morning and someone told me this. It rings so true! I think I have mentally horded the courage to face the obstacles coming my way- I know that I will get to where I want despite the odds. Auspicium melioris aevi!

“ You can know a man by how he plays on the court.”

look at the news today and you’ll see how violence and killing is so prevalent in the world today. everyone is loving to hate. what i cannot fathom is that it is just as easy to love as it is to hate, but you get so much more with love than hatred so why do people do it then? is it hatred? is it jealousy? is it disillusion?

as a child, my parents always taught me that there is only one caste, the caste of humanity; there is only one religion, the religion of Love; there is only language, the language of the heart; and there is only one God. for example, it has always fascinated me how islam and christianity are so similar yet muslims and christians bear such an intense and deep-seated hatred for each other. my parents taught me to look beyond differences, because deep down, we are one and the same. i have met so many people who could not have come from a more different background but with whom i can share my heart with. all it takes is a simple change in perspective but what will it take before the world comes to realise this?

i think that each person comes into this world with a specific destiny- something to fulfil, some message to be delivered, some work to be done. i do not mean that our lives are written for us or that we are not faced with choices, i just think that the choices we make of our own free will propel us towards fulfilling our higher purpose. we are not here accidentally, there is a meaning to our lives. there is a purpose behind each and every one of us, we are all contributing to a higher end and the world wants to do something through us. we may not know what it is right now, we may even never know what it is, but our footprints will be left on the sands of time. i personally believe that i know what my destiny is, it has been infused in me as my calling; i know that not only my passion but also the forces of the universe will drive me there so that i may complete my humble duty in the grand scheme of things.