After 7 months of blogging, 156 articles, 9000 page views, 30 clients and close to 75 comments - I feel like Mullah Nasruddin! I am reminded of the story where Mullah Nasruddin and his son were going to the market to sell their ass – I mean donkey.
All the three were walking, while someone commented that how foolish these guys are, they can very well sit on the donkey and go. Mullah sat on the donkey as he was a bit old, and they started walking. Someone else commented, what kind of father he is. He makes his young son walk, and he himself is having a ball of a time. Mullah got down, and made his son sit on the donkey. Midway someone commented again, look at these fools one is walking while there is enough place for two on the donkey. Mullah, climbed over the donkey too, just to see someone commenting, these buggers are heartless. How can they be so mean and make the torture the donkey? Both of them got down now, and started carrying the donkey – and the whole market laughed at them. This is exactly what happens to individuals, if they live their lives according to others’ whims and fancies.
I was advised by one of my well-wishers that too much of sexual content on your blog will look unprofessional on your part as you are a professional astrologer now. Point taken. But then I really wonder, what’s wrong if astrologers think, write or indulge in sexual intimacies? Astrologers aren’t godmen. They are as human as other mortals are, just that they pray a lot to perfect their predictive skills. And interesting I came across a book written on Nakshtra (birthstar) Matching and Sexual Life. If ever I were asked to write a book on astrology, my first book would be on ‘Moon Sign and Your Sexual Preferences.’
Not all my blogs are good, and not all my blogs make sense. Sometimes I love to write nonsense and sometimes it happens to be nonsense without my conscious effort. As Swami Vivakananda says, education is the manifestation of perfection already present in a man, same way junks are needed for the good to surface.
Most people fail in the process of perfecting art, and no art can be perfected - that remains the truth. Sachin looks damn neat when he hits a six but the same shot looks ugly if the ball is caught at the long on. Moviemakers always face this situation, where in their movies flop even when they know that it had all the masala which people expect. Problems are bound to happen if you TRY to match others expectations, also when you try to make others happy. There is no need to make others happy, that also doesn’t mean you start living in solitude.
Trust in God, believe in yourself, follow your inner voice, and trust your conscience. Neither take appreciation seriously nor criticism - both are one and the same. They both are bound to affect your inner happiness.
Always remember - 'Wise men are those who cared a hair about what others thought about their presence, their attire and their attitude!'