Look around you!

Just open that closet and really look at each shelf one after the other. Take all the things out and put them back.

You will be surprised at the various things you may find which you may need at that very same time or had looked for it just a few days ago.

When you had those friends come over the previous weekend and you were trying to play that song, you were very sure you had recorded it in the Moserbaer CD, but that has got stashed along with some bank envelopes without your knowledge.

You are trying your best to find that dentist’s number which you wrote on a piece of paper and kept it in the diary. The diary is right there but the paper is not, because it slipped out of the diary and safely found a place in-between in the newspapers which you were clearing the other day and stacked it amongst the rest of the pile.

Beginning from here, all that we are searching for is with us in some form already.

Here, I’m reminded of a scene from one of the old NS Krishnan movies, a legendary actor of the yester years in Tamil cinema who is well known for his simple life quirks teaching us important life lessons.

In one of the movie a person approaches NSK and starts talking ill gossip about someone, Kalaivanar stops him and asks, “I have a question for you, can you tell me what you have in your pocket?”

The guy says “what will be there in my pocket, some change and some pieces of paper, that’s all!”

NSK asks “Can you tell me how much change you have”
The guy puts his hand in his pocket...NSK stops him
and says" without seeing tell me how much you have"
The guy says "hows that possible? I can only see and tell how much I have"
NSK quirks "you cant say how much change you have in your own pocket without looking but you are very sure about the gossip that you have about another person! A person who doesn’t know this about himself should not talk to me about somebody else’s life”

While this has a very civic sense to it, something that I got present to was do we know what we have with us, what is around us, have we given enough attention to what we have?

You are trying your best to find a new way of making that simple process plan which your boss gave and there amongst Granpa’s old books in the attic you may find even a better plan written by his favorite business authors.

You are trying to break your head on that great recipe which you read online, but Granma’s old recipe notes maybe right there sandwiched amongst her old saree box in the attic with a better flavor idea written there.

Consider even things that you might have done yourself, with full josh you may have brought those dumbbells couple of years ago which is safely wrapped in an old towel in the utility area in the back of the house. While you are looking at that brand new gym ad in the newspaper for a 15000 worth 6-pack regime with the 15% discount on a protein shake.

Ok this might not be true with you the meticulous business leader or you the health conscious mother or you the OCD daughter. But the situations complement each other for all of you and I’m sure you may have one of the situations true to your way of life. Isn’t it?

So look around you and let me know what you discovered today that you have already always had! :-)