YOGAYUGA

I have just watched a TV programme called Unfit Kids. It was a UK programme about how kids lose weight as life objective. All the kids of programme are over 200 pounds. They all are around 12 to 14. Their parents can’t do anything anymore about their weight problems. The programme trainer set up various outdoor activities for their participation such as running, hockey, and any kind of games that they can join to be active. Their daily meals were set as well as activities were well planned. A month later, some kids did have significant weight lose, but there were two having weight gained by 5 pounds and 10 pounds. They were so pissed off. They blamed the trainer to speak up their weights in front of camera. They complained that they were lack of enouragement by the trainer, so they ended up giving up themselves. Although, the trainer did have difficulties to begin with, he ended up helping them to get back on the right track. The programme will continue next week, but it seems that those two kids will lose certain weights in the end.

There is another programme on Chinese channel also about life and objective. That programme did make me weep as it was so touching. They invited guest presenters to share their past difficult time in their life along with the places they introduced in the programme as a background. They introduced India, Cambodia, Israel, Thailand, Egypt, and many many places. It wasn’t a complete travel programme but mainly introduced the value of local life related to family, love, health, religion, and wealth. Each presenter did go through hard time in one of those themes. They all turned their negative experiences into positive thinking. They all found the goals and support that encouraged by others or themselves. They all are mature adults, but are still learning and improving. We all need encouragements and support; however, the most important goal of life is how we face the difficulties, and how we solve it. There must be a way out unless you give up on yourself. In Chinese saying, “there are no ugly women in the world, but there are only lazy women around” It does actually mean that any difficulties can be solved unless you give up on yourself. (I don’t understand why it applies to women on the surface wordings! Maybe, it’s true that there are women too lazy to dress up, so they ended up looking ugly :P) The most toughest part of life is how we face our true self. We do challenge ourselves from time to time and end up having hard time. Many things can be easily solved but sometimes we lock ourselves in the corner. The programme is all about these realities and discusses how to tackle them with various values and perceptions such as love, family power, and religion.
Be optimistic! Life is not easy but also not filled with failures. When we look back, we gained more than we lost. What we need is a little bit of courage! ^_^