I have been feeling a little down lately.
Changes … when they don’t happen we’re bored and when they do , we are scared.
This move back to India is a huge change and I find myself falling into the grip of worries and anxieties.
So far, google has been taking the place of a spiritual guru in most crises.
This time however I turned to Amazon looking for an answer.
And for a moment, I thought I did too.
There it was “Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words”.
I have always been a true believer of the power of words.
718 reviews and still 5 stars!
I had to have that book.
Who doesn’t want to discover their purpose in life?
If I can find it for about $8.00 in Kindle version, why wouldn’t I give it a try?
At the end of it all, maybe I would discover that I am someone great just hiding in a housewife’s costume.
Even better, maybe I’ll find a place in the Social Studies text book someday.
(That has been one of my childhood dreams.)
I have finished the first chapter. It describes a secret word “Genshai”.
He says it is an old Hindi word which means that you should never treat another person in a way that makes them feel small.
There is a story that describes how he learned about it.
Genshai doesn’t sound like a Hindi word to me. But Hindi is not my mother tongue.
I turned to google guru , but didn’t get a satisfying answer.
Almost all the chatter about ‘Genshai’ is related to this book by Kevin Hall.
It IS a profound truth, I agree.
But somehow the word and the accompanying story didn’t quite hit the mark.
It feels more like a chapter from a fiction.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Or maybe greatness and purpose don’t come in $8.00 bottles.
