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We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses.

John Lennon had said, 'Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.' That sure as hell was true.

Sometimes in every police officer's career a really terrible thing happens. When it does, that is the moment we wonder why the hell we are doing this job. But if we are able to be mentally strong enough, it's also the moment when we realize that's why we chose to do this job. Because all our training kicks in. Not many people phone the police because they are happy. We're not here to serve happy people. We're here to make a difference. Occasionally, however tragic it might be, we give up our lives to do that. Human lifespans are not predictable. Don't ever make the mistake of measuring someone by the length of their life. Measure them by the difference they made to this world.

For all of us, life is a series of journeys, and at the end of each journey, we arrive back at the place we started from, and know it for the first time.

In the early morning, the snow on the mountain peaks was caught by the sun, turning pink before the light penetrated to the valley floor. Then there was the silence. I do not think I have ever before or since heard such peace and deep silence. There were other kinds of silence later, but they were tense and sick with anxiety and violence.
Kashmir filled my mind. Later, it went some way to keeping me whole. If I had had no idea of perfection, I don't know if I would have come through.

It is impossible for others to help you come to terms with the past, if for you the past is a pile of wounded memories and angry humiliations, and the future is just a nursery of revenge.
[...] My hurt response was never deliberate; it was a way of disappearing into myself, of adopting the impassive hurt features of the victim; I shut down as a way of protecting myself.

We retain more innocence than people imagine, even when death is yards away.

It is a strange feeling, being sentenced to death in your early twenties. It made me feel relaxed, in a strange way, to know that I was living on borrowed time.

I am the ocean, I said.
I am.
I know
And so I dived into the ocean:
I crossed the threshold of fear
To the Unknown Beyond.
An eternity beyond time.
A space beyond dimensions.
Beauty and perfection.
Joy.
Another Universe......
Another Reality.....
- Romola Butalia

Deep unfolds a new horizon
I add to my being a new dimension.
- Gyanendra Srivastava.

To dive
leaving behind the noise and bustle
To submit
to the danger of depth
To test
your mind and your skill against the
merciless sea
To know
the silence and life
that waits
is to know peace.
- Coen Van Wyke.

My dream of a wonderful world
Came alive, when I walked into the sea
With lots of Fishes, Corals and Plants
Living in harmony
Was it a hallucination, I couldn't realize
And still more to explore
Yet I realized one thing
The harmony that takes you to peace
Which we miss the most today
Oh! Man realize and be good to Nature.
- Ashik Shamsudheen

On one side the wondorous wall of corals
The elemental sculptures in elemental colours,
On the other, the deep
It's unending sweep
Awesome, forbidding
Mystical, tempting
All around, silver bubbles profusion
And picean's pervasive procession
In the primeval womb, I float
The body renews, the spirit soars.
- Gyanendra Srivastava.

Great things will come
Soon to pass,
But the wonders of the sea
Never fade
- Rohan Cama

Within the ocean
You live in the absolute moment
And get a glimpse of eternity.
- Bindoo Purnaiya.

What flows must ebb
What lives must die
But the sea will
go on forever
- Dilkhush Dalal.

Unending expanse of undulating water
I afloat
In the primeval womb
- Gyanendra Srivastava.

Beautiful creatures
With age old eyes
Turtles are spirits
- In disguise

• Sonya Sippy.