There are times in life when you have so much thoughts
flowing in your head that you would immediately want to put it in paper. Had
one such day today at a Book Review event in LITTLE LOVE LIBRARY, Anna Nagar,
Chennai. Once we are past our graduation and get in to a professional routine,
we hardly get to time to do the things we love to, like in college. You hardly
meet your friends despite them being in the same city. In all this rush and
madness of routine, if one can manage to find a small gathering of like minded
individuals who would want to have a sane discussion on topics that usually the
general public find vague, it’s your oasis in desert full of humans.
Little Love Library is one such small lending place for
books run by a woman who has had it her passion to make a career around books.
Heard of it through my wife and we’ve been regulars at the place for a couple
of months now. This week for the first time, they experimented with a book
review, the book being Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. I haven’t read the book but
have been hearing from a lot of friends about how transformational the book is
and it is a must read. On the insistence of my wife we made it sharp at the
venue and were surprised to see the little place overflow with people, around
twelve of them. I was the only odd man out there being a Banker in a crowd that
had entrepreneurs, writers, free lancers, psychiatrist , short film maker and
HR professionals.
‘The Secret’ is about the ‘power of thought’ as to how your
thoughts however odd or stupid they sound are bound to occur depending on your
level of conviction and belief. This
could be about an event, a thing one wants, relationships or even money. The
moment you think and believe of wanting them to happen, they do happen, for
that is the power of thought. You imagine a good day, it’s a good day. You feel
bad, it’s bad. Because the universe responds to human thoughts whatever be it.
Might sound crazy but I guess it does work, it is just the
discipline and conviction with which you practice this habit of inculcating
positive thoughts that will shape one’s life. While I am one of a kind when it
comes to handling thoughts, a weird one. Some would call it wired wrongly for I
feel sad when something happy is happening to me and happy when something sad
is happening. For in a happy moment, I would think that it is bound to end and
this too would pass while in a sad moment, I feel things cannot get worse from
here and that it should only get better. This is what makes for happy Saturdays and sad
Sundays for the next day being Monday. Infact this line of thought has fetched
me a lot of money in the share markets when I go bottom fishing looking for
stocks that are worst downside for a buy, cos they only get better that they
have had enough beating. In Rhonda Byrne’s line of thinking it is only a direct
reflection of the thought that I hold.
There’s my favorite Paulo Coelho book ‘The Alchemist’ which
expands on this with a fictionary tale of a shepherd boy in search of a
treasure that,” when you really want something, the whole world conspires in
helping you achieve it”. We got to constantly keep telling ourselves of the
things we want, to get them. To make this process of belief in thoughts easy,
our ancestors had created Gods of different forms and shapes who are set in
various religious places where devotees come seeking their wishes with all
faith. It is more the thought that is lending the prayers true.
