gandhiji's birthday

irthdayits wonderful to have a day off in the middle of the week… its gandhiji’s birthday… and while the Akanksha students have so much planned from blood donation drives, to giving tours of Mani Bhavan, to street plays…. I was not sure whether I wanted to be a part of this…
I think its great for the kids to be learning about service and change at their age… and its wonderful to watch them feel empowered…
For me, I don’t think I want to do anything all that public and sporadic… I feel service has to be something I decide to do with myself and myself alone… it has to be the little things everyday with as many people as possible… its things I would never write about… things I would not bring up in a forum for affect… no… that defeats it… I’ve seen people do ‘service’ with the real intention of being able to narrate the story and that puts me off…
Service has to be the way you treat the people in your life and those in the ‘fringes’ or margin of it… it has to be sustainable… it has to be about more than a few hours in one day… its has to be about making the decision to change yourself for yourself…

I did nothing worthy of being called ‘service’… I don’t do service… I just do what I feel in my heart is right… spent the day with 2 people that I love a lot and have been neglecting terribly… spent the day just watching them look happy and basking in that… spent the day telling myself I was the luckiest girl in the world…
I really have all that I could ever want… and I thank god for thinking I deserve that…