A Hurrah for the Members of VYF !

Every now and then, I see young minds express young thoughts on Vide View.

Every now and then, a butterfly sheds its cocoon. A child from the streets emerges into education and life.

Every now and then, a step taken almost three decades ago seems even more relevant.

Every moment that passes now defies a simple description in words or gestures.

Destiny is an oft misunderstood word, implying the future.

But the real destiny is what we have now in the palm of our hands and in our hearts.

Just as we live to fulfill destiny some time soon, destiny fulfills us here and now.

“Know that you are the creator of your own destiny” is a well known quote.

Know also that the feelings we express and the positive changes we see emerge around us...

Are already our destiny.

It crouches at our doorstep, asking “Do you know what’s next?”

Fearless, we stand tall and ask,” What have you got?”

And in this way has destiny already arrived, and so have you.

Dr. Subhasis Banerji is one of the founder members of VYF. He now resides in Singapore, where he pursues his dream of transforming the healthcare industry with a medical technology based on Swami Vivekananda’s explanation on the relationship between mind and body. He enjoys reading, music, adventure and martial arts.

A Winner; Are you?

Life is a long and exciting trip. It takes us to many different places. We watch successful people who were once strugglers as well as people who have the intelligence to succeed but never do. Like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated, 

 "Hard work never brings Fatigue, it only brings Satisfaction."

Certainly, luck has a role, but, we usually create our own bad luck by regularly getting trapped in self defeating attitudes and behaviour.

Here are some of the worst traps or rather the 6 habits of unsuccessful people:

1. Delusional thinking: Unsuccessful people constantly lie to themselves about their own life and why they are there in life instead of achieving their goals and making life better.

2. Punishing friends: Unsuccessful people often have a habit of being friendly and grateful to those who are unhelpful to them and ungrateful to those who are kind to them. The inability to make and keep friends is involved in every failure.

3. Bad manners: Losers are routinely rude. They fail to show up on time, to thank and to apologise when one must. Thus, bad manners guarantee our failure.

4. Bad attitudes: The losers often have a sour pessimistic outlook. They dislike their work. They have a lack of self confidence and a deep rooted belief that they cant do better than what they are doing. They don't understand that this way they are advertising themselves as losers.

5. Needless arguing: Some people like to argue for the sake of argument. People who quarrel like that think that by doing so they can impress others which is wrong thinking.
 

6. Putting first things last: Unsuccessful people CANT set priorities. They never seem to learn that its not a sacrifice to give up things of lesser importance for the things of greater importance. In fact, its a bargain.

Maybe, you and I have some of these habits, But remember, Winners know they can change and they do, always, with time. 

After all, the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

 

Darshini Prajapati is a Third Year Bachelor of Arts (TYBA) student in Mumbai's Mithibai College. She has selected Sociology as her major graduation subject. Darshini likes reading, trekking and enjoys going on hikes. Darshini is still searching her dreams for her future life ahead. 

Experience ~ A Teacher

He who tiptoes cannot stand 

He who strides cannot walk

He who sees only himself is not enlightened 

He who is self- righteous is not notable 

He who boasts about himself will have no merit 

He who praises himself will have no improvement
I truly believe that we just don't need knowledge, but also wisdom, and wisdom comes with experience. My experience of spending time at VYF NGO has taught me so much; it has made me realize the things I do and do not have. Sharing my knowledge and a little wisdom that I have makes me happy. 

People are usually selfish to share their things, but knowledge and wisdom are two of those things which we can share with others  and they won't reduce within us, we don't lose out on anything in fact gain the joy of sharing. 

Every child there has a different story, they have so little yet they don't complain whereas most of us with so much cry about little things. There is so much to learn from these children, each child has so many stories to share which makes us aware of the different shades life can show us.

The whole world can see the beautiful as the beautiful only because of the ugly.

The whole world can recognize the good as the good only because of the bad.
Something and nothing create each other.
The difficult and the easy complement each other.
The long and the short define each other.
The high and the low counterbalance each other.
Before and After follow each other.

 

Disha Kapadia is in TYBA studying in Mumbai's Mithibai college. She is currently teaching Mandarin a Chinese language. Her hobbies are dancing, music and creative art. She wishes to become an industrialist, and hopes to create  the first Indian industry which is the richest in the world. She wants all the people who think women can not reach that stage, realize they can. She strongly opposes the discrimination between men and women,and hopes that one day they will be treated equally.