Opportunity

Today I will talk about opportunities we get in life. Are you thinking that a great job in a big company is some foreign land is an opportunity? Are you thinking that getting funding from a big funding agency to start your business is an opportunity? Of course these are opportunities, But there are many more opportunities in life, that God bestows on you constantly, which we fail to recognize and think that we don't get enough opportunities. God flood us with opportunities always, but it is we who fail to recognize them.

Your younger sister, asking you help for her Math's exam is an opportunity. She will be so happy when she gets your help and always thinks you are the smartest and brightest kid in the planet. There are so many children who do not have a sister and miss the happiness they get when the younger one, thinks so great about them and keeps them as a role model for her growth. The love you get from sister is incomparable. So always think everything you can do for your sister as an opportunity.

When your mother asks your help to dry the clothes, think that as an opportunity to serve her. It is a small thing you can do to her for the million things she constantly does for you. Never ever try to dodge any small opportunity you get to please your mother. There are millions who do not have a mother and waiting to feel what it is like to serve a mother so dear.

When your father asks you to write a grocery list, it is an opportunity. When your grandma asks you to help her open chrome browser in mobile phone, it is an opportunity. When your friend asks you to help her with homework, it is an opportunity. When a beggar asks you for some food, it is an opportunity. When somebody asks you for favor, it is an opportunity. Why should he/she ask you for favor when there are billions of people in this world.

So never attach opportunities to only materials, attach it to every act you can do to please any living thing in this world. It is difficult to get such opportunities, if we are born as an insect. 

We have the sense organs and can sing, dance, feel, taste and do so many things. Use the sense organs to effectively pray to the God and use this unique opportunity you got to be born as a human and try to sing his name, chant his name, dance to his bhajans, eat his prashadh, feel his presence and enjoy the life to the fullest. Start looking at this life full of opportunities.