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One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship...I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. "God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me... "Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?" "Yes", I replied. "When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said. "In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo see. I would not quit." He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle." He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots" "I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you." "Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful." "Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high" "How high should I rise" I asked. "How high will the bamboo rise" He asked in return. "As high as it can" I questioned. "Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can." I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.

Never Give up...

Cast: George Clooney
Vera Farmiga
Anna Kendrick

This was quite a unique concept movie. In this George Clooney travels alot beacuse of his work. His work is to fire employees of the company where  the bosses are not able to do so. The movie is good having many comic scenes as well.

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.

The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats.

They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish.

The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.

So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry, what would you recommend? How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired & dull, so we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving? Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges to keep us active and taste better...

The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a challenge.

If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering those challenges, you are Conqueror. You think of your challenges and get energized. You are excited to try new solutions.

Wake up.. Wake up... Do you know what are you doing? Do you know where are you going? Voice asked by myself to me. This was the voice of my inner self. It's very common that we ask these question to ourselves and also very common that we ignore this question. Do we actually care what we hear or what our voice asks us? I guess we do.... but.. after a minute we get ourselves diverted for our actions without thinking where will be moving and also think that we have time for what we want to do. Actually do we have time, let's take a look -

An average person's life will be 60 years or 21900 days or 1,31,4000 hours.

If an average person sleeps for 8 hours a day then in 60 year sleeping hours will be 175200 hours which will come to 7300 days or 20 years so remaining will be 40 years. Do we have time? Let's see...

During our school days till graduation which comes to 22 years we don't have an idea what we are doing and for what we are doing in some cases like for graduation we would be having a clarity of questions but for most it's still an either unanswered question or worst unasked question.

So we will remove 22 years from remaining 40 years and we will be left with 18 years or 6570 days.

If we have completed our graduation then it will be our moral responsibility to opt for job and work for 8 hours which will be on paper but off the paper we can't stay but still we would consider 8 hours as standard so we will be at office doing work either we like it or don't then fighting with office politics, lobbies, bossism, egoism and everything therefore it forces us to reduce 38160 hours which means 1590 days which is 4 years.

So we will remove 4 years from 18 which leave us with 14 years.

We work a lot, fight a lot so we ought to take off on weekends on calculation there are 100 weekends in a year so for 14 year we will be having 1400 days of weekends and that is 4 years.

So we will remove 4 years from 14 years and will be left with 10 years.

I guess lot of calculation has been done so we will take sometime off for family, friends, relatives, recreational activities like movies, drama, games, picnics, family outing so time for that can be considered as 4 hours on an average which will would 1060 hours in an year and 10600 hours in 10 years which will be 442 days or 1 years

So we will remove 1 year from 10 years and will be left with 9 years.

With all calculations and many more manipulations our end days will be exhausted and say before 2 years we will be all exhausted.

So we will remove 2 year and will be left with 7 years,

Now, let get back to our previous question do we have time for what we want to do? We also know that it’s never too late for begin what we want to do. So next time you hear something don’t ignore it’s your voice. Wake up! Wake up!

Cast: Edward Asner
Christopher Plummer
Jordan Nagai
Bob Peterson

The movie is quite interesting. An old man gets an evacuation notice, but he promised his wife to take care of the house. So he takes the house in a balloon and flies. He is joined by a boy who is adventurous. The film is a good one and fun to watch. Up won two academy awards Best Animated Feature and Academy Award for Best Original Score.