Bless the People Around You
We are conditioned to think that
‘Blessing’ is a big word and that it is often connected to God or the elderly
people. But in fact blessing is a very common thing that we keep giving to
others in our daily life, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Don’t you agree that every genuine
act of love is a blessing? In this way, the love of your mother is a blessing,
the care of your spouse is a blessing, the smile of your children is a
blessing, the appreciation of your friend is a blessing, the motivation of your
peers is a blessing; and the list is endless. So are they all not blessing you
in some way? But the irony is we never
take time to appreciate it. We take it for granted.
Even if we should assume that
blessing is an act of God, then we need to realize that God cannot come and
bless each one of us individually. He blesses us through some human form. There is a belief that as it is difficult for
God to do favours to every human being individually, he sends an invisible
guardian angel along with every human being who is born on this earth. That
angel is always there with you, listening to your problems and trying to find
ways to help you. At the appropriate
moment, she will bring someone in your life to come and help you. The person
may be someone close to you or someone who you have never met in your life
before. If you ponder a while, you will be able to relate some event in your
own life, when you felt blessed by an unknown person.
When somebody needs help and you are
there for them at the time of their need, are you not blessing them? Let us say
your friend, is in a financial crisis and you go and lend him some money and
tell him “I know that you are in need of some money now. I have some savings,
which I don’t need at the moment. I am not in a hurry; you can pay it back when
you are comfortable”, will he not find it as a blessing. A blessing is a way of
answering someone’s prayer.
It need not be that only elders
deserve to bless the young ones. Anyone can bless anyone. The age is not
important, but it is the genuineness of the wish that is important. For
example: When you give alms to a beggar, he or she says, “May you live
happily”. Do you ever question, whether the beggar deserves to bless you. You
just take it as a positive statement. Is it not? When somebody helps us, we feel
so thankful to them that we say some nice words, which is a blessing to them.
So blessing is reciprocal. When you bless someone with your kind deeds, you are
blessed back with their kind words. So when we keep doing good things to people
around us they will keep blessing us, with good words and genuine smiles. The
more blessings we receive, the more our day will be happy and good, because of
the positive vibration that comes with it
What we need to understand is that,
every genuine wish is a blessing. Every noble help is a blessing. Donating
blood is a blessing. Helping someone in a road accident is a blessing. Caring for the elderly is a blessing. Saying
‘Good morning’ to someone is a blessing.
Wishing someone, ‘All the best’ is a blessing. When someone conveys good
news, and you congratulate them and wish them well, it is a blessing.
Start blessing the people around you
and see the positive change it brings in your life.
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