He was 65 and lost all his business. At that age his brother kicked him out of business giving away a small amount of money saying this is all you have earned. All the legal paper work was in his brother’s favor. He always signed all the papers without reading. He trusted his brother blindly. He thought that his brother might do wrong to others but would never do wrong to him. He cried, quit and slept off. Then after few days, or may be one year, he decided he had two options. Either to die like this or do something again. He decided to do later. HE started a small shop from home and worked hard with all good faith and optimism. Universe was waiting to return his faith and it worked.
A lady who left work after she was blessed with children was worried after they were all on their own. Now no one needed her. They all infact started pointing out that what do you do all day. She wondered what to do. (Lot’s of women go through this). So she started promoting her cooking within the society she was living in. Gradually she started her own catering business. She discovered herself as a mother and then as a cook and then as a business person.
Different phases of life demand different sides of us and that is how we find a new self every time. There is no time to waste. When life demands, start asking yourself, what’s next for me. What more I can do. it is like you are on a long holiday. You have exhausted all your options of travelling, still you can’t sit idle in a hotel room. You will find options to explore in that new city. Similarly, in life when you feel you have exhausted all your options, find something and you will always find something. Keep discovering. Never give up on life. It’s fun to live it and discover it.
