Happy Thanksgiving

Today we are celebrating Thanksgiving in US. It is a great time to remember all those who helped made us survive the past, who prepared us for future and who made our present so wonderful. I am thankful for my ever loving family, my caring friends and helpful colleagues. Collectively they all accept me the way I am (which is a wonder and height of their patience), still love and care for me, and that's why I am thankful here :) What else one could ask for? Thank you all!!!

My office is at the banks of Missouri river. Yesterday I was looking outside our window in the office. The weather was quite bleak and one could not see very far and it felt like the day to spend in bed reading a good book. Somehow all that weather got me thinking about connection between winter and summer. For some inexplicable reasons, I love winter. I like the time offered to us by nature to hibernate, to rejuvenate. Don't get me wrong, I love wearing beautiful sandals, skirts and flaunt as young woman but winter is the time when I usually prepare for coming spring and summer. I am futuristic so may be I look at winter as one good stop to continue for the journey to the wonderland of summer. This stop is so necessary to take because without this there will be no time to know ourselves. The summer offers us wonderful time to go out, jog, shop, party, do all worldly things. The winter offers us time to cool down, be content with oneself, find more about oneself and our connection with the god/nature/force. Have you observed that winter is the only time when you can see very far, beyond a lot of buildings as there is no greenery to obstruct your view? When just the leafless tree stand in front of you, you can see beyond it, you can try imagining horizons beyond. Why I love this time is because it offers me the vision to look beyond me and my current situations, place, friends. It offers me a view far far beyond. I like to take a lot of energy from future, imagining wonderful things and live the present much better. It also offers me time to prepare for the wonderful future to really turn into present. How can one pass an exam, without preparing for it? How can one have good food without somebody standing in the kitchen? How can a mother see the face of the baby without enduring nine months? Preparation is the key for the success in the future.

Winter has a connection with sorrows too. When we see a leafless tree, all one can think of sympathy for the tree. I like to think in a different way. When I see a leafless tree, I see its quite acceptance of situation, its firm stance on standing strong throughout the winter and its willingness to endure for future. Who really know whether a leafless tree will bloom into branches full of flowers soon, but why to care? The nature is the controller, why do a tree need to worry about anything? It's job is to blossom in spring and summer, turn yellow-orange-red in the autumn, get rid of essentials in winter and still hope for better future. What is true for a tree, is true for a human being. When sorrows surround you, all you can do is to think that this is just winter, survive it and look forward to another beginning. Whether you make it or not, you have done your job of surviving and being true to your nature of a fighter. Happy winter everybody!