In the early days of email, when we were all experimenting with it, there was this trend of sharing trivia and stuff forward to almost everyone on our mailing lists. I too have been guilty of this. Over the years, one tended to accumulate a lot of such mails. As a result, mailboxes used to overflow and had to be cleaned out regularly, since the mailbox capacity was quite limited then. Today, such forwarded mails are frowned upon. And thanks to the anti-spam technologies, most such mails will not make it into your mailbox, unless you have specifically added the sender to your “whitelist”.

Several years ago, I started a cleanup drive in my mailbox and cleaned out everything that  I considered to be irrelevant. Sometimes, however, one comes across an article or shared wisdom which somehow stays with you for a long time. While I cleaned out most of my “junk”, I did retain some in a separate folder – something that I could return to in my leisure time and read again. This folder contains several such gems, which are now helping me to prepare related stuff for this blog, in terns of motivational videos.

One such gem in the mailbox was this article called “Maybe”, which I would now like to share with you, in words, as well as in video format. I do not claim any credit for the article. In fact, I would have gladly credited the original author, had I been aware of who he / she was. When I did a search online, I found the same article shared across dozens of websites. Some verbatim, some with a few variations. And different authors were credited with the same article on different sites. So let me just refer to the author as unknown. Here is the article –

Maybe – Author Unknown

Maybe… we were supposed to meet the wrong person before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Maybe… it is true that we don’t know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives.

Maybe… the brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; after all, you can’t go on successfully in life until you let go of your past mistakes, failures and heartaches.

Maybe… you should hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy.

Maybe… the happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Maybe… the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.

Maybe… happiness waits for all those who cry, all those who hurt, all those who have searched, and all those who have tried–for only they can appreciate the importance of all the people who have touched their lives.

Maybe… you should do something nice for someone every single day, even if it is simply to leave them alone.

Maybe… there are moments in life when you miss someone – a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a friend, a child, a cousin — so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real, so that once they are around you appreciate them more.

Maybe… giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their heart; but if it doesn’t, be content that it grew in yours.

Maybe… when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but, oftentimes, we look so long at the closed door, that we don’t even see the new one which has been opened for us.

Maybe… you should dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you dream of and want to do.

And here is the presentation inspired by this article, in video format.

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