Are you the same on Diwali as you were last Diwali? Still your temper explodes like an atom bomb? Are you still spinning old grievances around in the same way you hold a thorn in your hand? Light a candle and make the sound that comes from your heart when something good happens to someone? One-by-one crackers from the loom, take out the fuses, light them, put your hands on your ears and run away, put your hands on the understanding, take out the fuses of old stories, do you still enjoy re-lighting after days? Has your habit of bursting firecrackers in someone's life caught a glimpse even this Diwali? Are you going to do the same this Diwali as you did last Diwali? Did the size of your dreams or clothes change from last Diwali to this Diwali? Your yard may have been small, but did your yard grow? Although the list of wishes has become longer than last Diwali, but its types have changed, right? Allowing your impersonality to express itself? Set a password of silence on your overexpressive habit? Your rangoli design may not have changed but are the colors the same or changed? This Diwali, did you shop for clothes, shoes-perfume-undergarments arbitrarily, but did you shop for new ideas, understanding, maturity or not? In short, this Diwali want to increase the number of 'You've seen Diwali'? A person older than us often tells us that I have seen more Diwali than you…! So what does this 'Bhadare Diwali' exit mean? If we do simple math, a fifty-year-old person may have seen fifty Diwalis, and a twenty-five-year-old person may have seen twenty-five Diwalis, but at the age of thirty-five, the glitter of fifty Diwalis can be seen as one? If man can change with age then man should change with Diwali too! Every Diwali you should be newer than the previous Diwali! Now the question is what to do to become 'new'? Becoming new doesn't mean losing who you were, but becoming a better version of who you were. We always see a message circulating in WhatsApp that 'if you upgrade your mobile, have you upgraded yourself or not?' But the truth is that you can't upgrade yourself as easily as you upgrade your mobile phone! The process of changing oneself is difficult. You can change after a pile of pillows! After running on the tracks of struggles you can't be the same! In this entire year, you have thrown into the pile of heads, remember that! And put your hand in the corner of the mind and check whether the bark has come off? At the same time remember that where and when did you struggle in the past days? Conflict with self and conflict with others! What was the result of this conflict? Added to your understanding or to your hatred? I feel that the way you clean the house before Diwali, you should also clean the past years stuck on the surface of the mind. Not all things, all memories and all persons are worth remembering! Such memories, such things and such persons must be banished from the mind forever! Those who have lived and don't like to be remembered and those who get bruised on the blood as soon as they are remembered, it is necessary to pick them up and throw them out. With the knowledge that what is past cannot be changed again! This is where your transformation begins! We are mostly trying to change the other person. We often forget that the reaction of the other person depends on our actions! This Diwali, start focusing on the intensity of action instead of focusing on the intensity of 'reaction'! Diwali lamps are generally meant to transform darkness into light, but some lamps even remove the darkness of darkness! This Diwali, make every effort to remove the darkness from your light!
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