“I want to remember your face so that when I meet you in heaven, I will be able to recognise you and thank you once again.”
When Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola in a telephone interview, was asked by the radio presenter, “Sir what can you remember made you a happiest man in life?”
Femi said: “I have gone through four stages of happiness in life and finally I understood the meaning of true happiness.”
The first stage was to accumulate wealth and means. But at this stage I did not get the happiness I wanted.
Then came the second stage of collecting valuables and items. But I realised that the effect of this thing is also temporary and the lustre of valuable things does not last long.
Then came the third stage of getting big projects. That was when I was holding 95% of diesel supply in Nigeria and Africa. I was also the largest vessel owner in Africa and Asia. But even here I did not get the happiness I had imagined.
The fourth stage was the time a friend of mine asked me to buy wheelchair for some disabled children. Just about 200 kids.
At the friend’s request, I immediately bought the wheelchairs.
But the friend insisted that I go with him and hand over the wheelchairs to the children. I got ready and went with him.
There I gave these wheel chairs to these children with my own hands. I saw the strange glow of happiness on the faces of these children. I saw them all sitting on the wheelchairs, moving around and having fun.
It was as if they had arrived at a picnic spot where they are sharing a jackpot winning.
I felt REAL joy inside me. When I decided to leave one of the kids grabbed my legs. I tried to free my legs gently but the child stared at my face and held my legs tightly.
I bent down and asked the child: Do you need something else?
The answer this child gave me not only made me happy but also changed my attitude to life completely. This child said: “I want to remember your face so that when I meet you in heaven, I will be able to recognise you and thank you once again.”
What would you be remembered for after you leave that office or place?
Will anyone desire to see your face again where it all matters?
How about trying to touch lives and make a positive difference in our own individual ways?.
I noticed a child monk—he can’t have been more than ten years old—teaching a group of five-year-olds. He had a great aura about him, the poise and confidence of an adult.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“We just taught their first class ever,” he said, then asked me, “What did you learn in your first day of school?”
“I started to learn the alphabet and numbers. What did they learn?”
“The first thing we teach them is how to breathe.”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.”
This ten-year-old monk added, “When you get stressed—what changes? Your breath. When you get angry—what changes? Your breath. We experience every emotion with the change of the breath. When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”
Here is share that came my way, I believe it drives home the point, of the necessity of taking steps towards a Life time of Wellness.
1. The *STOMACH*
is injured when
you do not have
breakfast in the
morning.
2. The *KIDNEYS*
are injured when
you do not even
drink 10 glasses
of water in 24
hours.
3. *GALLBLADDR*
is injured when
you do not even
sleep until 11
o’clock and do not
wake up to the
sunrise.
4. The *SMALL*
*INTESTINE* is
injured when you
eat cold and stale
food.
5. The *LARGE*
*INTESTINES* are
injured when you
eat more fried
and spicy food.
6. The *LUNGS* are
injured when you
breathe in smoke
and stay in
polluted
environment of
cigarettes.
7. The *LIVER* is
injured when you
eat heavy fried
food, junk, and
fast food.
8. The *HEART* is
injured when you
eat your meal with
more salt and
cholesterol.
9. The *PANCREAS*
is injured when
you eat sweet
things because
they are tasty and
freely available.
10. The *Eyes* are
injured when you
work in the light
of mobile phone
and computer
screen in the
dark.
11. The *Brain* is
injured when you
start thinking
negative
thoughts.
12. The *SOUL* gets
injured when you
don’t have family
and friends to
care and share
with you in life
their love,
affection,
happiness,
sorrow and joy.
*All these body*
*parts are NOT*
*available in the*
*market*.
So take good
care and keep
your body parts
healthy.
In detattaching from notions and judgments
You may begin the journey to sense the now
But in the course of time gradually
There is a letting go of immediate conclusions and
In that dimensional awareness increases
Where our imagination is able to receive in acceptance than just
projecting…
In such a state of conscious consideration
Arrives profoundness beyond apparent realities
Association find new unique meanings
Therein beyond the boxes, imagination pirouttes
Beyond repetitions & recapitulations.
Creativity sparks in sensing the miracle of now.
Imagine space not as something that distances us But as a liquid connection That allows resonances That dances on its own frequencies Of connections that speaks for itself Expressing emotions Living life In the infinite abundance Of Interconnects in resonance To this quantum coherence.
Savvy Raj 