It is a blessing
To love more, hate less
To be always the sunshine of someone’s life
To be the sunshine of your family and friends
Never the party pooper
Never the naysayer
Never the heart breaker
Its a blessing
To be able to laugh aloud and shrug off situations
To have a short term memory of unpleasant days
To be bestowed with the gift of the ability to erase and rewrite
To learn and unlearn smart
To be able to simply move on
To not be able to carry grudges
To not be able to carry the burden of prolonged anger and resentment
To not overtly hate
To not breed lovelessness
To not make others lives miserable
To not alienate from ties easily
To not dig for a reason to pick trouble
To not become the prime reason for frictions
To not initiate unpleasantness
To not propagate animosity, enmity
To not find a scapegoap for our misgivings
To not find excuses for lapses
To not want to spoil things
But to be the healer,
The harbinger of better times
The usherer of happy tides,
To be able to build relationships and cordiality
Not break nests, break chains,
To be able to forgive and forget
To not be vengeful and brooding…
To focus on what really matters
To restore and maintain the precious precarious balance,
To ignore and consign garbage to where it belongs…
It is a blessing
To be able to see the black as well as the white
To be able to see the grains between black and white
To be able to see the pluses as also the minuses
To weigh both the good and bad
To be able to look at our mirror image and find horror there
To have the ability to laugh at ourselves,
To spread infectious laughter,
To come to terms with reality
To live in reality
To owe only good times and happy memories to all
To never be associated with ugly arguments and spats
To be never connected to bad vibes
To not court controversies,
To not be feared,
To be approachable,
To instill confidence in others,
To ooze with spirited confidence,
To build lives,
To do something wonderful to someone that cannot be repaid in cash or kind,
To be able to trust readily
To lead with actions
To be cheerful and in charge of situations
To strive to make your world happy
To make your circle smile than fret
To be that solid pillar of strength,
To be the support system to the vulnerable and weak
To become the agony aunt with handy solutions
To be the problem solver not the mischief maker
To become the shock absorber
To not shift responsibility
To not lie
To be reliable and trustworthy
To be the giver always, not the taker
To not play the victim card at drop of hat
To be free of apathy
To not blow things out of proportions,
To minimize damages/damage control,
To save relationships,
To owe up to one’s responsibilities and slips,
To be willing to rectify, correct
To not be just politically correct, on paper,
To be imperfect,
To make mistakes
To go back and redo,
To apologize
To love more than hurt
To give more than seek
To grin and bear pain
To not transfer our pain and sufferings to others knowingly or unknowingly
To not bring down everyone with our gloom and mood swing
To have this uncanny sense of justice
To have strong intuitions,
To be impulsive,
Still to know the right from wrong,
To reason and dig for truth
To not tarnish images
To not character assassinate
To not want to punish and revenge
To not want to teach a lesson
To not seek remedy to every situation
To resist playing the moral highground
To be aware of sensitivities
To put ourselves in others’ shoes
To respect sensitivities
To respect minor dominions and opinions
To include than divide
To put forth your point without hurting a soul
To have no hidden agenda,
To have real relationships not fake
To live by principle of trust and honesty
To underplay tensions and overplay joyfulness
To infuse the world with loads of positivity
To rise over pettiness
To be broadminded and generous
To not be calculative about every penny, every action
To not prioritize our self interest
To not give in to vanity of the mind,
To resist displaying the ‘holier than thou’ attitude
To talk less, do more
To prove by actions not words,
To not seek for approval in others,
To owe up to our deeds and actions,
To owe up to failures,
To take rejections in our stride,
To accept and agree and accede,
To not slow poison relationships
To not make your environment toxic
To not plunge your world into despair
To not be the reason for anyone’s unhappiness,
To not dull the otherwise cheerful world,
To be grateful and sincere
To instill hope and cheer,
To not overthink and overplay things
To not agonize over with jealousy and envy
To not magnify petty things for fault finding
To not be accusatory
To live and let live,
To want to step back and allow others take lead
To reciprocate affection and love and respect in equal measure
To value and respect the dignity of every living soul.
It is a blessing
To stay impartial, unbiased
To keep an open mind,
To be willing to change,
To be reasonable, logical
To be compassionate, helpful
To give without anticipating anything in return
To be not in haste to jump to conclusions and harsh judgments
To factor in the odd and the negligible
To be tolerant and nourish lives
To become the haven or sanctuary for the trusted
To be warm and receptive
To hold the gift of a soft heart
To be moved easily to tears
To not self portray oneself as Mother Theresa
To harbour self-doubts
To acknowledge we are the very devil incarnations
To think the best of others and worst of ourselves
To believe that to err is human,
To reflect, self introspect,
To ask for forgivance
To repent
To feel remorseful, regretful
To feel the shame and be killed with shame
To be strong and unflinching in character
To have that strength of character
To have the virtue of noble deeds
To be bold and beautiful in heart and mind,
To wear your integrity on sleeve
Yet to be flexible and adaptable wthout a compromise of virtues
To not be weak and petty
To lack the strength to say a big ‘no’ in face
To be naive and gullible at the same time,
To have a childlike innocence
To be taken for a ride
To never take anyone for a ride
To never be the smartalec primed on one-man-up-ship
To be free of crooked thinking
Not to have a manipulative mind
To not want to win every argument
To not want to prove anything to anyone
To resist to prove and disprove
To resist to construct and deconstruct
To extricate oneself from peoples and situations
To liberate oneself from narrow constrictions
To feel the power of goodness in everything you rub
The feel the grace of everything beautiful and profound
To remain neutral and calm
To remain subjective over objective
To be empathetic over sympathetic
To be spiritual over religious….
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