What defines you?

I suddenly wondered about this last night...what defines you?
What defines a person?
Is it the feelings? emotions? thinking? thoughts? character? sense of responsibility?
truthfulness? Genuineness?

hmm..may be genuineness?
Depends on the context of what I am looking for.
There isn't any proper way to define a person. It is subjective and depends on the context I guess.

We interact with many people on a daily basis. We have family, friends, near and dear.
How many of these people would be genuinely happy when something good really happens to you? Honestly, it is only the parents and siblings.
Friends too ..depends on how close you are with that person.
As long as there isn't any competition or ego clash?

How many of us are just our ownselves who react as how we are, genuinely?
Who are just being themselves..without a pretence, without any influence?
How many of us are compassionate?

Anyways..what have I started and what am I thinking?

Time

To be successful, one of the key factors is to plan properly..looking ahead !
We are gifted with special qualities that distinguish us as humans.
Ability to think and ability to make decisions.

If we can think well, reason out and make a judgement on what is to be done by us, we will be successful easily.

I used to have a habit of writing a to-do list for the day and finishing them.
I was efficient and atleast felt good about myself at the end of the day.
When I start out the next day , I used to included the pending stuff to the to-do list.What am I doing now.

We all know this already. But too lazy to adapt it.
I read a quote somewhere, something like, "Winning is my habit..failure can also become so". Over a period of time, there is a danger to get so immune to the failures as well.

I read somewhere recently but more or less the gist of what I wrote above about management of time ; which kind of all of us know; also a most important key - to prioritize the tasks within the list.
If we start with the most toughest one instead of postponing it and make it a habit, we will be successful very soon.
Finish the tasks first the then idle away the time! Time and tide wait for none. If only we could go back into past and gain that time again, we can have the luxury of idling away the time. But thats not the case.

Also, may be at the end of the day, I should spend a moment to think if I did anything useful at all, if not for others, atleast for myself.

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Some excerpts

Some of the excerpts from "The Alchemist" that I liked.

• Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

• World's greatest lie is that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. 

• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
  

• But I'm afraid that it would all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

• Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

• If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

• Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.
  

• World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. 

• Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

• It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. 

• If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
  

Catharsis

Looking at you lord,
Why do I get goosebumps
Why do I cry
Is it that my emotions convulse
or do I go through a catharis
or do you let me feel 

your presence at those times?

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