Emotionally me

Sometimes they say things happen because they have to happen and it cannot but happen! Im a believer and I must say I believe that everything that happens is only, and always only, for the good.


There is this book that I'm reading. Its on emotional intelligence, by the man who gave the world a better picture of the mind, Daniel Goleman. Im just a few chapters through his voluminous explanation of what thinking, seeing, feeling, loving, fighting, sharing, caring, enjoying, laughing, hurting, and all other gerunds you can think of... I'm stuck to it.

Im no psychologist. And the least I know of human nature is that one can think and act, be good or bad, be sane or insane and be kind or cruel. Well that neatly sums up what we generally do and don't do... But now Im happy Im reading this book. Im happier I have my friend Shiny who gave me this book.

Honestly, had I read this book four to five years back I would not have jumped into several complex situations that Im struggling to pull myself out from right now. But Im sure I slowly will. Its not the power of the book that I'm to believe, but the fact that it portrays that WE CAN when we know that there is nothing more sincere to us than OUR EMOTIONS. And these emotions are nothing but tiny triggers that make us what we are.

Understanding our emotions is the challenge. The sooner we do it, the better. That's what I feel. Lest we pass on unwanted elements to our children and blame it on everything else but us. I asked myself, if I can trigger a change in my life now, why not now? Why wait till I have no breath remaining in me? Well that could be any minute for that matter. Now... in 2012 or even in 2034!

Manha

Guess what colour we selected to paint our nails with? Manha! Yes a sparkling canary yellow. Seemed very funny while we saw it standing next to the different other similar colours. There was a nice apple green, a shocking electric blue and a rather strange colour neither purple nor violet. Im happy this store didn't have many of the glittering ones!

Our mission was to get a colour to paint our nails to break the boredom of clean fresh ones Ria had to stick to for lessons on cleanliness. Well she got bored stiff with my lectures and finally I had to get her a bottle of nail polish, because all her friends had remanants of some fancy colours on their nails.

I opted for green as it looked earthy. Ri preffered the yellow. Seems out of the world to me, a little Martian kind! But after three days with it, it seems pretty acceptable. Isn't that a cosmic law?

In any case it was not a bad buy at all. We painted first on Riz (please read that as reeeez) toe nails, which seemed quite OK and then her finger nails, which seemed "Hey, kinda coool!"

The best part of this buy was that Anna , my smaller one, learnt to say Manha, (Yellow, in Malayalam).(Pronounced : ma'nha - like the sound of 'ng' in orange) Energised with that revelation, we painted all her tiny nails and she went about saying manha, manha... Nice way to learn!!!

Show her a dry leaf now and she chweetly chirps Manha!