Leaving a mark....

I have been doing quite a lot of "mending up relationships" for others this week....And I am happy that we have been progressing a bit...slow as ever though!! My nephew and his girlfriend, two close friends who have no clue as to what they are looking for in marriage proposals, a wonderful friend who is struggling to get her marriage work...I sometimes wonder why we don't have any friendly elder teachers in whom we could confide and get some advice from...We Indian's dont have a lot of elder people who encourage us to think and do things out of the box and discover the true meaning of life...That is a rarity...All of us including our parents are stuck in a rut, in a re-disocvery of the wheel....Birth, growing up, studying and playing, school, college, professional studies, work, marriage, having children, pains of bringing them up, sacrifice, teaching the kids, managing finances, buying a house, worrying more than the kids in getting a good marks and finally a decent job, marrying the kids off, grandkids and last but not the least,(when all the kids move to greener pastures, and you are left with your wife or husband in a empty house) loneliness- an emptiness that leaves you wondering, what did i gain all along these years.....There is still something missing........

As Mitch Albom says:

"The culture dosen't encourage you to think about a lot of things until you are about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, famiy, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in millions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying . Is this all?? Is this all I wanted? Is something missing?

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically..

After I read this section I realised that this is something that I wanted to do all along...be a guiding light in someone else's life...Helping them discover what they really have within and what they could do in this world..."

A Teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"

What better way to leave a mark in this universe......