Retail Therapy….

Stressed? Depressed? Feeling lethargic?  One of the best solutions to your problem is retail therapy. I am sure you would connect with this, especially if you are a woman.  Retail therapy helps in bringing you back to your natural mood.

Personally, I believe going out to the market and looking at the colourful variety of objects/people releases me from the stress I could be facing.  Wearing new clothes and getting ready for my own self too helps me to regain my true self.

Going out to the market and buying what you have been longing for or an impromptu purchase gives you an inexplicable feeling.  Of course, sometimes it does burn a hole in your pocket but you will feel that your anxiety/depression has vanished.

If I move a little away from ‘Retail Therapy’ and talk about the things that give you pleasure or happiness in life, I would only say that it is all within you.  You needn’t go out searching for the solution to a problem that you may facing in life.  

To some extent, medication aids in reducing pain/depression/ailment but one can help oneself get rid of these.

We should live in the moment.  What is being referred to ‘is’, at the moment and not worry about future or think about past.  Do what gives you happiness.  Become childlike, go play in the park, shout in open, laugh whole heartedly, move out in slippers for a change, quit your formal/sports shoes.  Eat candy, talk without thinking what your neighbour would think s about you.  Leave everything behind and just concentrate on what gives you pleasure. 

Retail Therapy makes your mind go in a different direction.  It lets you do what you want.  It relaxes your nerves as you would go shop to shop, choosing, looking at different patterns, colours and varieties of objects.   

Look at the positive side of it.  You are exercising, are you not? Walking is the best exercise.  You will never estimate how many kilometers you walked just to buy a small thing.  You burn your calories and you snap out of your stress. 

I know I might sound a little weird but in my humble opinion retail therapy is the best solution to break free from stress.

Thank You Teachers/Mentors

Not every day we thank our mentors/teachers for the knowledge that they bestow upon us.  The wisdom that they share with us, enlighten us all through.  It is an experience that is inexpressible.  We attend so many classes in schools, colleges; tuition, coaching etc and get in touch with so many teachers.  We move ahead get new teachers and so does the teachers.  They meet their new bunch of students but keep bestowing the wisdom all through to each and everyone.  

There are teachers that befriend you, guide you and no matter where you go they remain with you.  Every time they impart their piece of knowledge with their students, it remains.  Teachers teach us beyond books.  Most of them become our hero and inspire us in many ways.

If we sit down and contemplate on our teachings and learning’s, I (personally) believe that every person is a teacher of some or the other.  Each and every person teaches someone or the other in some or the other manner.  

It is believed that a mother is the first teacher of a child.  She makes the child learn how to speak, sit, walk, eat and so on and so forth.  Similarly, a father educates the child about the world, its existence etc.  They both together inculcate family values in the child.  A friend extends a helping hand, thereby infusing in the mind “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”  On the contrary, we learn so much from our foes too.  In fact, they are the ones who actually make us strong.  We stumble, fall and then stand up on our feet savoring the journey of life.

Teachers undoubtedly play a significant role in making a child become a good human being.  It is rightly said that ‘Teaching profession creates all other professions.’

As long as we live, we keep learning about things from all the sources.  Learning never ceases. I may not say it often but an opportunity once missed will never come back.  Therefore, I’d like to sincerely thank all the teachers/mentors who touched my life, educated me and inspired me to do the things I wanted to do and reminded me of few other things that I forgot to do in due course of time.  I’d like to thank all those people in my life who has enlighten me in some way or the other.