Character and Self respect

I believe that endurance builds character and the reasoning that you develop in your mind for that endurance becomes your self-respect. And that self-respect is what brings clarity/humbleness in speech. Based on the circumstances that you are facing in your life, sometimes you may have to endure a lot of things. You have to develop a certain reasoning in your mind to develop that endurance. It’s not at all easy. 

Different people develop different kinds of reasoning based on their brought up, circumstances or compulsions they are living in, or the kind of knowledge they have or acquired over the period of their life. Sometimes, reading about history or knowing about what’s happening around us can certainly help in developing that reasoning in your mind. The drive for this reasoning is that you need it because without that you have no endurance and without endurance you cannot live. So the desire to live creates purpose (or even the other way, purpose creates the desire to live) that will help us build the reasoning that will lead to developing endurance towards what we are going through in life

For example “I am living a life based on dharma” can certainly be a reason to develop that endurance. It need not always be based on a philosophy. Lets take the case of a janitor, if they think that they are creating a healthy environment for people to live, that itself will create a purpose in their life, which in turn creates the reasoning for endurance

Bring your day back to life

We keep seeing people and asking them "how are you", "whats up" etc. and most of the times we are used to giving responses like, "fine", "going on" etc and some other mediocre answers. 

The life that we have every day is the microcosm of our entire life or Our entire life is the macrocosm of our every day life. If you observe your everyday life and see what you feel about it. Most probably thats exactly what you feel about your life

So the overall outlook of your life will change if you are really interested and excited about your daily life. This is the secret. So if you really want to improve your life, improve your everyday

We dont go out on Fridays

Me and my daughter (she is 12 yrs old) sometimes play this game. The game is to take a simple line and make something very interesting out of it. I keep telling her that extraordinary things can come out of ordinary if you think deeper. So the line we picked was "we dont go out on Fridays"

Her version

On fridays me and my family never go out. Its not because of exhaustion. Its definitely not because of laziness. Why do we need to go out every weekend scouring for something that gives us happiness when there is one thing we bond over at home. TV. Sitting on our comfy couch, eating our favorite food, legs up, cuddled in a warm and soft blanket, watching and bonding over our favorite TV shows. What better way to unwind than spending quality time with our loved ones. Questioning every character, making funny jokes, having our family share every moment of it with us, and most importantly being able to relate to each other. All of our differences come together to share this one wholesome moment

My version

Our body and mind try to compensate each other to bring balance at the end of each day. For example if your mind feels happy, your body will jump up and down creating exhaustion thus creating balance. One friday I thought, why create a balance. I want to be high all the time. So if your mind feels high, make your body still. Dont make much noice. You will feel more high and it continues. Since friday is the day our mind feels high, we dont go out on fridays