magic happens!

one month and over a week with nothing on my blog. perhaps the most eventful one month it's been since i started blogging. yet, sometimes it happens that there's so much you want to say but you get around to saying nothing. now i understand why people sometimes say that silence is the best conversation you can have.

these long silences and times like these more often than not leave me with a lot of new thoughts in my head or sometimes, the old thoughts are woken up from their slumber. i was always told to dream big. i was always told everything that happened, happened for a reason and everything that happened, happened for the best. i was always told to believe in the bigger picture. to have faith in Him and His panoramic view. i was told to give something all that i had and the results would follow. most of the time though, i'd stop mid-way. i'd either lose strength or the faith or the confidence or hope. this time around, things were a little different.

perhaps, it was my first BIG dream. maybe that little voice got just a wee bit stronger. because this time, i didn't stop mid-way. i somehow never lost the strength, the faith or the hope. when things weren't as easy as i thought they would be and situations and circumstances made me feel like the universe was conspiring against me, i sang to myself the line from i have a dream...."and my destination makes it worth the while. pushing through the darkness, still another mile." it's now i realize the power of a dream. the tremendous power of the human mind. how we can choose to let it confine us to limitations or use it to help us go beyond the boundaries.

i don't want to sound like a martyr or someone who's had the worst and emerged victorious. all i want to do is try and tell you that when people tell you to dream big, they mean it. unless you push yourself beyond what you think you are capable of doing, you are never going to grow. unless you stretch, unless you discover new horizons, life is going to be one boring journey.

when people tell you everything that happens, happens for a reason, believe you me, it's true. there is nothing such as a coincidence in the world. every single person who walks into your life, does so for a reason. every one has something to teach you. everyone has a gift for you. recognizing that gift and benefiting from it lies in your hands only.

every single thing that happens to you in life, happens for the very best. what may seem like the biggest heart-break to you now may just turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you. i remember how crestfallen i was when i got into what i call today with pride, my university. when i look back now, i can see a little bit of that big picture and it only reaffirms my faith in Him.

last evening, i read a book. richard bach's latest. called hypnotizing maria. and when things like these happen, that's when i know that there just HAS to be some force, some power that's operating. magic happens. all it needs is a little faith. what this one month taught me is to hold on to the faith, as tight as you can when you feel things are slipping away and then, you can see magic happen. :)