Does God listen to us?

Every human being has his/her own unique life story and cycles of good+bad days. Such smooth roads and tough patches help us question our belief systems and molds us into either a stronger or a weaker person. I, being a God-believer, rests my support system on Him and constantly seeks ways to absorb the intensity of the  situation. Of late, I have been noticing a pattern emerging in all those incidences. At a macro level - my life is the reflection of my experiences & what I perceive is important in my life...meaning the current state is the result of my thoughts. If I believed in certain principles and wanted to abide by them strongly, then I was presented with situations, which tested those beliefs and I decided to stick to what I wanted to.

I often wonder how sometimes things happen the way I want and sometimes they dont. Why those hunches give me a satisfaction of taking the right decision. What are those hunches or instincts? Is God showing me the way or is it only a self-proclaimed voice coming from inside? Is it always correct or is that the opinion of my own belief system? I just lied down yesterday and tried to listen to all the voices around. I could hear that noise coming out of lifts of my apartment, someone's laugh, bird talks, loud brakes of cars/bikes etc. And then everything started settling down. I could hear my stomach making some noises and then it became all silent. There was peace and I started pondering over my problems. Yet after thinking about all that - there was a serenity around. I stopped thinking about my stuff and was silent. Core-silence .... It was amazing ... and then the door-bell rang and I woke up.I must be the laziest person on this planet not to indulge in this silence luxury on a daily basis. I have become a multi-tasking queen these days - not something I feel proud of though because it is making me busy with no time to "think". Got to discipline myself. High time to do that.

Questioning our own belief system might lead us to correct what is not and perhaps I could hear those instincts more clearly & loudly as I spend more time with them.

Life - the project!

Project planning is crucial - is what we learn daily. I wonder that life is one of the bigget projects in our lives yet we still do not plan it well. Or perhaps the planning does not help much. The scope of this project varies all the time. As a kid - my whole world used to revolve around my parents, siblings and home. Ability to write my full name in nursery used to be an achievement in itself ... ability to sketch a simple lotus flower (sketching means copying ;) ) used to draw compliments from every corner. An evening cricket match with my brother used to be the biggest game ever. I fail to recollect how these small days turned into weeks, months, years and decades. Gosh - its been quite a while!!! Accomplishment of one milestone lead to another and that never ending race is still in progress. However, life is too short to stop dreaming. Timelines are sensitive - I hope I am able to live with all these constraints and still be able to execute the project till a respectable end.