A Heart Once Open, is Open Forever

You declare war

Your party as well as the opposing party

Will remember that forever

Even if you win the war, loose the war,

Even if you never go to war in that case

Love is no different

You declare love once

I mean if you seriously do that,

Love will be the same

Will be remembered forever

That memory will keep your heart open forever

When there is no recipient

Love starts to overflow

It is difficult indeed,

To stop the overflow.

No one will know, some may

But what could they possibly do? Even if they knew!

Find a z-lon cap?

Those caps do not even exist!

Sometimes this overflow needs a channel

To find its way out, but how?

When there is no permanent recipient

Love tends to go in all directions.

When water overflows

It occupies any slope available.

But Love?

No it doesn’t.

It might look alike, but love wouldn’t take any slope

Yet there can be instances

Like when a mother needs to feed the baby

When the child is not around,

Milk overflows, in all directions

From its exit.

That’s natural!

Love might follow a similar behaviour

When the recipient is not around,

Not like the baby

But like in a departure,

A departure forever

The living fountain

That this love comes from

Will be screaming out loud

For a recipient

Not any, but some

You know why that isn’t wrong?

Because the living fountain

Decided to leave the recipient

To be the “living” fountain

All Living Fountains,

Be mindful!

You might not be able to find a cap

The cap might grow within you, or maybe not

It might take some time, or maybe not.

If you left the recipient to be

A “living” Fountain

Probably you did that after much thought.

That is alright.

That love

Overflowing from your heart

Is not a waste,

Don’t just share that with any recipient

But don’t hold back till you suffocate! Don’t!

Please do share if you have to.

But be mindful, let the love flow

To a better direction

For a better cause

You might find a recipient,

Or maybe not.

Love is natural,

It doesn’t have boundary lines, most of the time.

That’s natural!

A POSITIVE REFLECTION

 Positive mindset is applicable to anyone. Starting from school students to the cooperate sector. Think what you have done well! What went well with your life, not what went wrong! Think of subjects that you are good at, not at what you are weak. It’s high time that we get rid of our primary Sri Lankan mentality where we all try to follow the mainstream, eventually creating a bottleneck in the job market. Have you ever thought of becoming a photographer? What do you know about the artistic eye of a film director like James Cameron? Musical thoughts of a musician like Yanni? J.K Rowling’s wonder lands? Life is not always about what others do. Stop running someone else’s race! Make your own race and start running in your own track. Otherwise looking back at your life, someday you will be disappointed, for not being who you are, for not doing what you love.

People tend to whine about what they do not have. They always think of what they should have to do what they want to do and think having 'that' will make them whom they want to be. For example it can be having a professional camera to become a photographer. The concept, “Be, Do, Have” gives the best answer for the problem. According to the concept, first you have to be who you want to be. Then you do what you want to do. What you do will take you 'there' where you will have what you wanted. For example you think you could be a good photographer if you have a good camera. True, but 'be' a photographer first. Take some pictures with the camera you have or borrow your friend’s camera. Now you are a photographer. You always wanted to do what a photographer does. You have already done that. Keep taking nice shots here and there. Show them to a photographer or to someone who would recognize your talent. If they recognize your talent they will probably facilitate you. If not you can create your own webpage and upload your snaps, maybe you can sell them. Now you 'have' money. Remember you wanted a good camera? If you have made good money, of course you can buy your ‘good camera’. Now you “have” what you wanted. Some do not understand this simple reality because they are hasty. Maybe they don’t know. Nothing is easy. Just stick into your dream. Of course you need to check the feasibility but never give up. Live you dream!