tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914643069865555032024-03-14T03:04:17.319-07:00People, Process & Success!!Anne Helena Devasahayamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207358527331696857noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291464306986555503.post-45106476540731062832015-09-10T14:49:00.000-07:002016-11-01T13:43:50.830-07:00How To Make Money This Holiday Season<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anne Helena Devasahayamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207358527331696857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291464306986555503.post-83262884405287532032013-08-21T23:43:00.001-07:002013-08-21T23:43:59.713-07:00Review of the play Some Times by Akavarious Productions<h3><b>SPOOF GONE SOUR - Review of the play Some Times by Akavarious Productions</b></h3>This is my second theater review published in The Hindu. Grinning all over.<br />
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Anne Helena Devasahayamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10207358527331696857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291464306986555503.post-68038748974665687602011-07-03T02:52:00.000-07:002011-07-03T02:52:40.780-07:00SIN & SALVATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6HOTLtzU7Q/ThAzWREX9yI/AAAAAAAAADk/uNRH9tbXZ2o/s1600/rajkumar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W6HOTLtzU7Q/ThAzWREX9yI/AAAAAAAAADk/uNRH9tbXZ2o/s200/rajkumar.jpg" width="152" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I posted a note on Facebook about Rajkumar Ramachandran Iyer’s faith in Christianity and how it created in me a thirst to understand my religion at a deeper level, I faced a severe backlash from many people who misinterpreted it as an outcry against other religions. I hope the following Biblical point of view of life which was reinstated to me at the Haggai Institute during Meghala Ratnaiya’s sessions throws light on my claim to faith.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.logos-ministries.com/">http://www.logos-ministries.com/</a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Man was created to have fellowship with God. He was given the responsibility to take care of God’s world. Human beings were made in God’s image so they lived exercising their freewill.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2a3333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"></span><span style="color: #2a3333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Fall of Mankind and the Need for Redemption</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWegjpnlwTU/ThAzLPdLCmI/AAAAAAAAADI/Pcv0HG36Ivc/s1600/fall.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWegjpnlwTU/ThAzLPdLCmI/AAAAAAAAADI/Pcv0HG36Ivc/s320/fall.bmp" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Man used the freewill given by God to disobey God himself. Temptation was brought by Satan to cause man to disobey God. Satan first caused human beings to doubt God’s word. He had their imagination and he painted a false picture which was directly contrary to what God had warned. Man disobeyed and the result was what they became – not like God – but disobedient like the devil. They experienced fear and guilt, shifted blame and finally inherited punishment, pain and sorrow. Hence, the need for the redemption of mankind...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Sin is fancy in imagination but flat in reality.” – Dr. Ravi Zacharias</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We sin because we are born sinful (Romans 7:18-20) -> this has caused mankind to be separated from a holy God (Colossians 1:21) -> the condition of sinful mankind is spiritual deadness (Romans 3:23 & 5:21 Ephesians 2:1).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus an unredeemed man remains a slave to sin.</span><br />
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He was to be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14). He was to be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the fullness of time, an angel clarified this with Mary and told her how the baby to be born to her was to be created through the power of the Holy Spirit. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><shape alt="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kcw1l5NxMjk/TgVyxjhhTHI/AAAAAAAAAY8/LCjerU1L9bE/s1600/mary-baby-jesus1.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_37" o:spid="_x0000_i1031" style="height: 426.75pt; visibility: visible; width: 306.75pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="mary-baby-jesus1" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMIN%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image007.jpg"></imagedata></shape></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique sinless life</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zJichYELvBM/ThAzNvbGYmI/AAAAAAAAADQ/pjNDNbuyGXA/s1600/hostile+crowd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zJichYELvBM/ThAzNvbGYmI/AAAAAAAAADQ/pjNDNbuyGXA/s1600/hostile+crowd.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bible is unique in that it portrays people as they are. Their sins are also chronicled. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, the life of Jesus reads differently. He could stand in front of a hostile crowd and ask them if anyone could point out any sin in him. No one could (John 8:46; Hebrews 4:15)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><shape alt="http://www.websters-dictionary-online.com/images/wiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Quentin_Massys-Ecce_Homo-1520_ps_2CDoge_ps_27s_Palace_ps_2CVenice.jpg/0_ps_2CDoge_ps_27s_Palace_ps_2CVenice.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_40" o:spid="_x0000_i1030" style="height: 172.5pt; visibility: visible; width: 135pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="0_ps_2CDoge_ps_27s_Palace_ps_2CVenice" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMIN%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image009.jpg"></imagedata></shape></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique power and authority</span></b><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KiVPr9bn5jU/ThAzYgmJGcI/AAAAAAAAADo/Cwtf0P1JxDM/s1600/solar-power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KiVPr9bn5jU/ThAzYgmJGcI/AAAAAAAAADo/Cwtf0P1JxDM/s320/solar-power.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In passages like John 5:8, Luke 7:12, Mathew 5:27, 28, Mark 4:39, Luke 7:48 etc., we see various aspects of the power that belonged to Jesus. He could heal the sick, raise the dead, calm a storm, and walk on water. What caused the Jews extreme discomfort was that <b><u>Jesus forgave sins- a clear prerogative of God.</u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Further all the prophets spoke saying, “thus says the Lord” referring to a power higher than themselves i.e. God as the source of their pronouncements. Jesus said, “but I say unto you…” <b><u>He referred to himself as the source of authority – again a prerogative of God.</u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He claimed preexistence</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> “before Abraham was I am…” (John 8:58).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No wonder the Jews stoned him because no human being could claim all that!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><shape alt="http://solar.envirohub.net/images/solar-power.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_43" o:spid="_x0000_i1029" style="height: 393.75pt; visibility: visible; width: 262.5pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="solar-power" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMIN%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image010.jpg"></imagedata></shape></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unique work on the Cross</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The most touching aspect of the uniqueness of Jesus has to do with his achievement on the cross. Given below are a few significant points.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> • The substitution on the cross</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just was substituted in the place of unjust. (1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:1; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; Ephesians 2:14-16.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ce1Wdu5kdfg/ThAzM1rQVRI/AAAAAAAAADM/CWam4MDiBxk/s1600/GettingReadyForTheCross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ce1Wdu5kdfg/ThAzM1rQVRI/AAAAAAAAADM/CWam4MDiBxk/s320/GettingReadyForTheCross.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> • The suffering Person on the cross</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The pathway for the Savior was ridden with pain on several fronts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> • Emotional suffering (Mathew 24:26-46)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> • Physical suffering (Mathew 26:67, 68; Mathew 27:26-30)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> • Spiritual suffering (Mathew 27:46)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He who knew no sin, who hated sin, who never sinned, upon Him was laid the penalty of sins of all humanity. His very being abhorred it yet He accepted it because He loved us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><shape alt="http://gbcdecatur.org/files/GettingReadyForTheCross.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_46" o:spid="_x0000_i1028" style="height: 540pt; visibility: visible; width: 10in;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="GettingReadyForTheCross" src="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMIN%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_image011.jpg"></imagedata></shape><script src="http://download.divx.com/hiQ/hiQSupported.json" type="text/javascript">
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The child had survived the surgery and was looking forward to a new beginning-her eyes full of dreams. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They met another young family who had a boy of the same age. Now, this family had a copy of Reader’s Digest in their hand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gwxe-VD2udI/Ta17CL0MvbI/AAAAAAAAACY/lLlHxT2lCW8/s1600/Slide2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gwxe-VD2udI/Ta17CL0MvbI/AAAAAAAAACY/lLlHxT2lCW8/s320/Slide2.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It carried the story of organ donation of a little boy who was declared brain dead in a road accident. His parents agreed to cut off his life support system and donate his organs so that he would continue to live.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This well meaning self-righteous family inspired by the story started to advise the girl’s family to kill her and donate her organs to the public!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Each one of you would have definitely interacted with 8 year olds. Theirs is a world of dolls, school, music, dance, friends, games and dreams. Now I request you to put yourself in their shoes and imagine the questions she would’ve asked herself… that innocent 8-year-old’s active brain raised a million questions. In fact, innocence was lost. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><ul type="disc"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T1V8JdozFl4/Ta17CxQkNxI/AAAAAAAAACc/X0HTABNVfqk/s1600/Slide3.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T1V8JdozFl4/Ta17CxQkNxI/AAAAAAAAACc/X0HTABNVfqk/s320/Slide3.JPG" width="320" /></a>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is life and death to an 8 year old?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why do people want to kill me?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Am I useless?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What did I do?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fear of the unknown grips the child-Will my parents agree to this suggestion?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Would I become a ghost and live through others?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I feel so jealous of their son who can laugh and run along the train. I hate him. Why should that boy have everything?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t I have the same emotions as their son? How could they suggest such a thing?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Didn’t God give me a better brain than that boy? Why should I die and he live?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How dare they speak like that and hurt me with their words?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who gave them the right to break my spirit?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why is nobody stopping them?</span></li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the biggest question of it all…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why did you create me like this God? Why me?</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, maybe you guessed it right…the young girl in the story is Me!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xi_mHBygSFg/Ta17D2VtGjI/AAAAAAAAACg/7ps8zb6MyZ8/s1600/Slide4.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xi_mHBygSFg/Ta17D2VtGjI/AAAAAAAAACg/7ps8zb6MyZ8/s320/Slide4.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The questions I asked don’t apply to me alone. Life throws challenges at each one of us. Each one of you would have experienced a situation or are probably experiencing a difficult situation that is beyond your control today. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fear. Anger. Denial. Hopelessness and a hundred other negative emotions grip us. We blame ourselves, people who matter to us and God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">People </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God has given me the opportunity to closely interact with people as a HR Professional. I’ve made some interesting observations over a period of time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like war, physical handicap seems to bring out the worst and best in people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SRh732JWi5w/Ta17ETDFVtI/AAAAAAAAACk/wVjXQKVicRI/s1600/Slide5.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SRh732JWi5w/Ta17ETDFVtI/AAAAAAAAACk/wVjXQKVicRI/s320/Slide5.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a specially-abled person (I’m a survivor of Atlanto Axial Instability), I’ve encountered three sets of attitude towards me: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">People who think I’m a great inspiration to them. They feel they can overcome anything after meeting me.</span></li>
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</div><ol start="2" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People who think I’m better off than them because the world is generally kind to me and life is seemingly easy. They feel my handicap is an advantage which they don’t have!</span></li>
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</div><ol start="3" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People assist me if I need help but they just cannot handle it if I outperform them and they try to demoralize me with their harsh words!</span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Process</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a trainer, I’ve used the following lessons of life I learnt that night in the train to make a change in the lives of the some of the people who belong to the second category:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spirituality</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Belief in God helps foremost. It helps you accept reality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a Christian, I believe in a very encouraging verse in the Bible. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7vyOtoA0cZw/Ta17Ffh0sUI/AAAAAAAAACo/PhiEb7YJ3Rw/s1600/Slide6.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7vyOtoA0cZw/Ta17Ffh0sUI/AAAAAAAAACo/PhiEb7YJ3Rw/s320/Slide6.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)”</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If not for the hurdles I’ve crossed, I would not be what I am today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--GdV3vrRLKo/Ta17A5tIrPI/AAAAAAAAACU/qBBZLEAK1g0/s1600/Slide1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inner circle-surround yourself with people who are not jealous of you-be nice to them. How many times are we polite to complete strangers but rude to our own family? Over a period of time I learnt to put my family in front of me as much as possible. Trust me, it requires practice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Passion </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Passion is a goal. A motive. A dream. A vision to live your life. That night in the train I vowed to myself that I would prove myself and make this story public to touch others and here I am.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Persistence</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Failure. Emotional lows are normal. No one is superman or superwoman but the trick is to keep picking yourself up. Never, never, never, ever give up till you realize your dream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Attitude</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only two ways to look at life – half full and half empty. My mother always taught me to look at the cup overflowing. I could have easily become a bitter person and blamed everyone for my physical handicap that night but I chose the other way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Humor </span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Learn to laugh at yourself. My dad would introduce my medical condition to others & I would think “What am I? Not a person…I guess I’m AtlantoAxial instability itself”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Success</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today, people call me a success, my classmates in MBA look up to me! I’m no longer useless. These tips can definitely help achieve success. Success means different things to different people but deep down everyone wants to be successful in life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Reminds me of the story of the two brothers:</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xr4xoyZ8y-s/Ta16_9uCE0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/JP-ZeULx4OY/s1600/Slide7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xr4xoyZ8y-s/Ta16_9uCE0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/JP-ZeULx4OY/s320/Slide7.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One boy was an optimist and the other was a pessimist. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The parents decided to put the pessimist in a room full of the latest toys and video games and he optimist in a room full of horse manure. This would make the one more optimistic and the other more pessimistic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After several hours had passed they went into the room full of toys and found the pessimistic boy in tears. When asked what the problem was the boy said <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“I don’t know what to play with first, and I’m afraid I’ll break something”.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They then went into the room full of manure. There the optimistic child singing and dancing with joy in the manure. When questioned by the therapist why he was so happy about being in horse manure, the boy said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“With all this manure, there must be a pony here somewhere.”</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 24pt;">SO If you find yourself in a roomful of shit, go chase your horse. Just remember, it IS close by!! </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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