"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself."
~Walter Anderson

 "Stop being a glass. Become a lake."

An aging Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice complaining and so, one morning, sent him for some salt.



When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.


"How does it taste?" the master asked.


"Bitter," spat the apprentice.


The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake.


The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."


As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the master asked, "How does it taste?"


"Fresh," remarked the apprentice.


"Do you taste the salt?" asked the master.


"No," said the young man.


At this the master sat beside this serious young man, who so reminded him of himself, and took his hands, offering:


"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake."
~ Author Unknown


P.S:
The way I live my life is my choice.
I could be constricted or expansive
in the way I choose to handle challenges.
I could stop being a lake.....and
choose to be a glass of water...
or I could always choose to remember........
to treasure the most precious gift of life
and be a lake.....no matter what :)
Namaste,
Bhagya