chriskihara: Making a Life

chriskihara: Making a Life

Making a Life

We've multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values
We talk too much,love too seldom,and hate too often
We have learned how to make a living,but not a life
We've added years to life,but not life to years
We've been all the way to the moon,but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour.
We've conquered outer space,but not inner space
We've cleaned up the air,but polluted the soul
We've conquered the atom but not our prejudice
We write more,but learn less,we plan more but accomplish less
We've learned to rush,but not to wait.Becoming a successful human being is in the little things that are really the big things- in how we treat others,in how we meaningfully spend our limited time and in the enduring legacy that we eventually leave behind.Entails leaving a trail- It entails making a life and not a living.

The Paradox Of Our Times

The paradox of our times in history is that we have taller buildings,but shorter tempers,wilder freeways,but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less,.We have bigger and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense,more knowledge but less judgement, more experts yet more problems,more medicine but less wellness...... Called the paradox of our times

The art of existence

It is wrong to claim that we are not busy. We do not have to be pre-occupied performing some task that necessarily involves strenuous physical exercise to claim we are working,or to be mentally exhausted to claim have worked.The whole business of living is working.The simple act of getting through each passing day is to have worked, called THE ART OF EXISTENCE.THE ART OF LIVING. So simple yet so hard.

I Gave Reality A Human Face

In the misty and hazy situations
that life brings along
I watch as happiness passes me by
happiness stares me in the face
yet I fail to see it in its true self
I look for fulfillment in all the wrong places
I hope an' think I will be satisfied with worldly things
I think money-lots of it
means happiness like no other
I nourish all my physical needs
yet I still feel empty inside
For a while I wonder why,
then I realise all this is useless,
useless if I don't learn to satisfy my inner self
my soul,my spirit
useless if I don't learn to share it;
to share it unconditionally
to share it abundantly
to share it expecting no grattitude

I didn't know how to live a fulfilling life
A worthwhile life
to realise that my absense for just a minute
wouldn't bring the world to an abrupt stanstill
I didn't know how to live
till the day I gave reality a human face

by chris kihara

What you sow

We reap what we sow and that somehow fate almost always makes us pay for our malefactions . In the long run,every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one,indignant with no one,revile no one,blame no one, offend no one,hate no one- (Epictetus 1BC) If you sow to the wind you reap a whirlwind (emphasis mine)

A Good Friend

A good friend is like a computer....he enters in your life,saves himself in your heart... formats all your troubles and never deletes you from his heart.