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An Inspiring letter from Stephen Fry about finding yourself

Stephen Fry, the extremely talented actor and writer, knows depression first-hand. He received a letter from a fan — a teenage girl who asked him how he got over his troubles and managed to find peace in his soul. He answered this letter, telling the girl how to find her inner light when it seems that the dark times will never end.

Dear Crystal,

I’m so sorry to hear that life is getting you down at the moment. Goodness knows, it can be so tough when nothing seems to fit and little seems to be fulfilling. I’m not sure there’s any specific advice that I can give to you that will help all too much. Although they mean well, it’s sometimes quite annoying to be reminded how much people love you when you don’t love yourself that much.

I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.

Here are some obvious things about the weather:

• It’s real.

• You can’t change it by wishing it away.

• If it’s dark and rainy it really is dark and rainy and you can’t alter it.

• It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.

• It will be sunny one day.

• It isn’t under one’s control as to when the sun comes out, but come out it will.

• One day.

BUT

It really is the same with one’s moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. They are real. Depression, anxiety, listlessness — these are as real as the weather — AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE’S CONTROL. Not one’s fault.

BUT

They will pass: they really will.

In the same way that one has to accept the weather, one has to accept how they feel about life sometimes. ’’Today’s a crap day,’’ is a perfectly realistic approach. It’s all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. ’’Hey-ho, it’s raining inside: it isn’t my fault and there’s nothing I can do about it but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.’’

I don’t know if any of that is of any use: it may not seem like it, and if so, I’m sorry. I just thought I’d drop you a line to wish you well in your search to find a little more pleasure and purpose in life.

Very best wishes,

Stephen Fry

Thought of the Day

Hyderabad Engineer's Amazing Tea Stall

Satyanarayan, ME and The Taste Buds

For an 18-year-old in Hyderabad, an attempt at serving tea in eco-friendly ways turned out to be a means to get a college education. And all thanks to thirty-seven-year-old mechanical engineer Satyanarayana of Hyderabadm who launched “Taste Buds”, a chain of tea stalls on December 11, 2015, across Hyderabad. Instead of using plastic or paper cups, he serves his customers in earthen cups shaped like glasses.

Sir Ganga Ram. Father of Modern Lahore

 

Sir Ganga Ram (1851-1927) was a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his times, who established the Renala Hydral Power Station in Renala Khurd in 1925.

Sir Ganga Ram, the great son of Punjab, was born in 1851 in Mangtanwala, a small town about 64 km from Lahore. From the beginning, he proved to be a brilliant student and in 1869, he joined the Government College in Lahore on a scholarship. In 1871, he obtained a scholarship to the Thompson Engineering College at Roorkee, India. He graduated in 1873 and was awarded with a gold medal.

How a man’s inspiring New Year message on Facebook became his last

Matthew DeRemer/ Facebook

What if the message you post on Facebook saying, “I really don’t know where I end up tonight but I do know where I windup is where I meant to be” turns out to be your last message? This is exactly what happened with Matthew DeRemer, a 31-year-old from Seminole, Florida.

Respect women

She is a Mother, She is a Daughter, She is a Sister, She is a Wife, She is Women...... Respect Women!!!

Respect Women
She is a Mother, She is a Daughter, She is a Sister, She is a Wife, She is Women...... Respect Women!!!
Posted by HRiBOM on Wednesday, December 16, 2015

He gave her the gift of life on New Year's eve

“I was going in, but the elevator started going down and he said ‘Happy New Year and pushed me out”, says Sanchez. Stephen Hewett-Brown, a 25-year-old was in the lift when it stopped midway.

He pushed her out of the lift, but when he tried to escape, he, unfortunately got pinned between the elevator car and the shaft. It came down quickly, and crushed him.

Syrian refugee father - From Pen Seller to Businessman

Meet Abdul Halim al-Attar, a Syrian refugee who was pictured selling pens in the streets of Beirut. After being displaced by the conflict, Abdul resorted to selling pens in order to provide food and shelter for his family. Recently, a stranger captured a photo of Abdul carrying his daughter, Reem. While carrying his daughter, he is also seen trying to convince others to buy pens so he could provide for another day. The photo has gone absolutely viral and touched the hearts of many all across the world.

How can I make my life simpler?

This Fishermen's story will have answer to this Question!!

​An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.  Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna.  The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos.  I have a full and busy life.”

We've been studying all wrong - This might help

  

Scientists say this simple strategy can help you learn anything

In his book Fluent Forever, opera singer Gabriel Wyner suggests that one of the best ways to learn a new language is to practice remembering it. In other words, instead of reading and re-reading a list of vocabulary words, you should read it once and then test yourself repeatedly.

The same strategy works for pretty much anything you're hoping to commit to memory, and there's a growing body of research behind it. Psychologists call this phenomenon the 'testing effect'.

How to keep your New Year's resolutions

Learn Spanish? Finally quit smoking? Become a better cook? Whatever you've decided to achieve next year, you know all too well that you're probably going to fail, and that list of beautiful, aspirational goals is staying unfulfilled. Sorry.

For this very reason some people forgo making any resolutions altogether, so we're here to help - this year you might actually have a chance, with help from a few tricks of the mind.

British psychologist Richard Wiseman has done several surveys on willpower - in 2007 he tracked the success of 3,000 people's New Year's resolutions, only to find that a mere 12 percent of them managed to achieve what they had set out to do. He looked into what the successful people were doing differently, and, based on their experience, devised a list of tips for others who want to stop failing miserably.

Before we get into the list, it turns out the number one thing to stop relying on is your own willpower - that's basically the worst approach to keeping a resolution, and is the reason why so many of us never start exercising more, continue eating all that fried chicken, and still can't speak a word of French.

What should you be doing instead? As Wiseman explained on his blog back in 2013, your goals should be small and manageable, you should document your success, tell others about your intentions, and, importantly, not beat yourself up for failing. 

Here’s the complete list of Wiseman’s advice:

1) If possible, make only one resolution - changing a lot of things at once is more difficult.

2) Think about your resolutions in advance, and spend some time to reflect on them.

3) Don’t re-visit past failures, but focus on new resolutions instead.

4) Focus on what you really want - don’t just go with what’s trendy.

5) Break your goal into manageable, concrete steps with specific deadlines.

6) Go public - tell your friends, family, social networks about your goals, which will increase your fear of failure and also garner support.

7) Create a checklist focusing on how much better your life will be once you’ve achieved your goals.

8) Whenever you make progress on the steps towards your goal, give yourself a small reward.

9) Document your journey - charts, spreadsheets, journals and other means of tracking your progress will keep it concrete.

10) Don’t beat yourself up and quit if you sometimes revert to old habits - treat it as a temporary setback. 

Learn the five most important tips below, and good luck in 2016!

Source: ScienceAlert

Ajay Bhatt- The man behind the idea of USB

Used in more than 10 billion devices throughout the world, the USB turned 20 years old last week. However, the man who discovered the technology has not made a single penny off it and he is fine with it.

Ajay Bhatt, Intel’s Chief Systems Technologist, who’s largely responsible for inventing the USB technology, told Business Insider, “I don’t do these things for money. I did this to bring about change, and it’s not very often that somebody gets a chance to bring about this big a change.”

What happens if one eats "1 kg salt" at a time?

It would almost certainly kill you. If you got medical help REALLY quickly, they might be able to save you.

At least in rats, the median lethal dose is 3g per kg of body mass. Me, I weigh 100 kg. So 300g of salt would give me a 50-50 chance of kicking the bucket, assuming my body works roughly like a rat's. 1kg is more than 3x that.

This is a very famous Chinese torture/suicide technique, where a person was made to eat a lot of salt.

An Extraordinary Visit to India- To Find a Girl with a Pink Bracelet

Chris Bray and his wife Jess recently visited India — but this was no ordinary December visit. They were here with one very specific mission in mind: to locate a girl and her family. Dick Smith showed Chris a photo he had taken from a train.

The photo was of a homeless family living under a bridge, and included a little girl who wasn't wearing anything but a pink bracelet.

Dick wanted Chris and Jess to go to Vadodara (where the photo was taken) and find the family, who he wanted to help with accommodation, education for the girl, and a bank account into which he could regularly transfer money for the family. Talk about the spirit of Christmas giving! This is the story of Jess and Chris’s whirlwind India visit:

Life and Lesson

Life's a lesson

You know what. You can learn a lot by various experience you come upon in your lifetime. You don't need white hair on your head to show the experience you might have.

That's why I always say whatever happen, happens for a reason.