Try

It was always about trying
tying to do this
trying to do that
trying to be good
trying to quit bad habits
one day a wise guy came to me
He said some thing that didnt make sense to me
He said "When you are trying something, you are not doing it"
and then he said
"When you are doing something, you are definately not trying it"
i was confused
He gave me a example of people who always want to quit smoking
and say, I am trying to QUIT
They are just trying, they are not doing it
................i was little more confused now

all my life, i have been trying so many things
and here this guy comes in and tells me dont try, just do it
didnt make any sense to me

I beleive he read my mid
He said
Rizwan, do yourself a favour
What, i asked
He said, Try to breathe for one minute
What does that mean, i asked
He said, just do it for one minute, as i say
Dont breathe, just TRY TO BREATHE
STOP BREATHING RIGHT NOW
and i did
NOW JUST TRY TO BREATHE, REMEMBER YOU DONT HAVE TO BREATHE, JUST TRY TO DO IT
What, i said
how on earth do i try to breathe
i started breathing after around 40 seconds as i could not hold any more
NO NO NO NO
DONT BREATHE, YOU JUST HAVE TO TRY IT

and at that moment he made all the sense in the world
there is no such thing as trying
you just do it
plants dont try to grow, they just do it
earth doesnt try to spin and revolve around sun, it just does it
we dont try to breathe, see or touch
we just do it

so simple yet so powerful
its a metaphor to live with
Dont try, JUST DO IT!

coffee

a friend share this with me

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to
visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the
lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some
expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: 'If
you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones.

'While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that
is the source of your problems and stress'.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously
went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups.' 'Now, if Life is
coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are
just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't
change.'

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in
it.'

So don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee instead."