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Yashendu went to Delhi today
to do some things and to pick up my friend Michael
who is coming from Germany especially for the week
of Holi, the colour festival. And of course for
visiting us here. I am looking forward to having him
here.
When we
were having breakfast in the morning Melly asked me:
"Can you pass me the butter please?" And
I said: "Yes, thank you." We were all
laughing about that because this happens sometimes
with me. It is because I am only learning to say
thank you. In India we do not really have this habit
with people who are close. I also was not used to
it. I like to keep it in my heart, feel it and let
people know this through feeling. I also feel like
when I say thank you it is like paying the bill.
Okay, I said it, it is done. You do not need to feel
thankful anymore because you said it already. I know
that people out of India mind it if I don't
say thanks and also sometimes I was told that it
seemed impolite so I learned to say this. However
sometimes it happens that I say it in a funny way
because I am still not really used to it. It will
come. I know, though, that my friends and supporters
out there on the planet know and feel how thankful I
am and how I love them.
I also
had some experience with people who thought I have
to be very thankful, who assumed that I owed them
big time and that actually, without them nothing
would work. It is a false kind of ego that they
have. It is not only in my life, I think in every
person'¢s life you will find people who think
that you could not survive without them, that the
world would stop turning if they were not there. But
history saw many kings come and go and the world
went on turning. The problem is that these people
act in a funny way and, when their ego is broken,
when something makes them realize that they are not
that important they are broken, ashamed and many
other unpleasant feelings come up. They harm
themselves. So better keep the ego down.
Tomorrow
we will do one exercise for keeping the ego away. We
will distribute food to 222 people. Someone is
celebrating and wants to share this with the poor
people. That is how the kitchen was very busy today,
already preparing for tomorrow. It will be a nice
event again.
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