Equanimity~Samatvam

Life is like a ………………………. 

Reflections by participants at the Senior Citizen Center of Hindu Temple, Bowne Street, Queens – Facilitated by Rathi Raja   Feb 4, 2009

 

 

 

Meena Mani

 

Life is like a Pencil

Your parents and teachers try to sharpen your brains while you are young.

You have falls and hardships and you become blunt.

Sometimes you think you are sharp and hurt other people’s feelings.

Other times you are blunt and ruffle feathers anyway.

Each experience sharpens you constantly and hopefully matures you.

But in the process your life expectancy is shortening and

Finally when you leave this world

Nothing is left of you but the shavings or your contacts with people.

 

 

Damini Mehta

 

Life is like Gujarati Pickle

Sweet and hot at the same time.

Sukha and Dukha go hand in hand.

 

Hira M. Modi

 

Life is like a Coconut

Outside it is a hard shell.

Inside it is a sweet fruit

All you have to do is break the hard shell.

 

Mira Vaswani

 

Life is like a Banana

Outer side is green and hard

Inner portion is soft

So we are like that.

When we are angry we are hard like the outer skin

And after sometime we become soft like the banana’s inner portion.

So life is hard and soft.

We must always think positive, not negative.

If you want your life to be soft, make others’ life soft.

 

Linda Izzo

 

Life is like a Plant

If you over water it, it will die.

If you under water it, it will die.

Therefore do not overdo anything.

 

Life is like a Cake

If you prepare it with love

It will taste delicious and look beautiful.

 

Divya

 

Life is like a Rose.

It look so beautiful in the beginning.

But when it continues to bloom

It goes through the hard and harsh waves of nature.

Helpless after some time it dies.

Its crushed leaves have the greatest fragrance

For the entire world.

So lets all live like a rose and leave fragrance all around

After our journey on the earth.

 

Nirmala Ramasubramanian

 

Life is like a Rosebush

The rose flower is attractive to look at.

When you go near the bush, the thorns hurt you.

Approach it carefully, avoid the thorns, then a bee stings you.

You still manage to pluck the rose.

You enjoy the beauty and offer it to your Lord.

 

Life is like Rasam

Drink the top part and enjoy the flavor, very soothing.

Get it from the bottom, the dhal portion is filling

You need a good stomach to digest the spices.

Mix it before using, it is both soothing and filling.

So life is a mixture of good and bad.

 Mix it and enjoy it.

 

Radha Sankar

 

Life is like a Car

We drive it.

First we get comfortable within.

And the best part is we are in control to steer.

In which ever way we want to go.

It can be in a safe path or the wrong path.

Which may lead up to a crash.

So we are in control of our life.

 

Urmila Gathoria

 

Life is like a Fruit

Which tastes sweet and times sour.

Life is a challenge which has to be taken.

Life is mystery.

You will never know what.

All you have to come through your life

Is to prepare yourself to solve it.

 

Nikhil Trivedi

 

Life is like a Sunflower

It starts blooming in the presence of  the sunrise of love.

And dies in the sunset of hatred.

 

Life is like Coffee Beans

It is hard of course.

But

When we put it in the boiling water of living honestly

It not only becomes soft

But also

Delicious and aromatic.

 

Kanchana Boyapati

 

Life is a Journey

Enjoy the ride as you go along.

We are living through history.

Making it happen as we go.

 

Mohini Gulhati

 

Life is like a Classroom

Every day a learning experience.

It is how you look at it.

 

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