The one where girl inspires

I was back to work today.

Work was busy as always, but it feels like I'm in the eye of the hurricane. Yes, I'm doing many things at the same time and I'm working hard, but all the shit that's happening seems to avoid me like a water off goose's back. It's good - I mean, that's what I've been trying to do for a long time. I would like to think that whatever I'm doing right inspires people around me. People see how I am, how I react to things, how I look. And they come and ask me about yoga, they ask me about meditation and they want to learn. The best way really - if you push people and tell them what to do they are much less likely to do whatever it is that you're trying them to do, no matter how good it is for them.

Take my colleague Don for example - now there's a boy who likes his food. He sits next to me so I know the amount of food he eats, and when you're past 30 let's face it starts to show around his waist. So we talk about everything under the sun, from anime to raising kids, and healthy living does come to it once and a while. But sometime last week he started wanting to come out to lunch with me and Michelle, and today I asked why he wasn't going out to lunch with Devinder anymore - and the answer is that Don has been slowly changing his habits... first leaving out the twice a daily coke, and now he's stopped eating crap for lunch and wants to come out with us for a more healthy alternative. Next thing he's going to do is not to have those two bags of crisps on top of it.

I'd like to think I had something to do with it. Now I could be that I'm being overly optimistic and it has nothing to do with me. Quite possibly. Still, I'm very proud of him.

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