Day #85: (100 day gratitude challenge)

Day #85:
(100 day gratitude challenge)

“Adjust maadi....” This is a term we hear often when someone offers you a shoddy service or product and expects you to accept it without raising a stink.  Or when you are in a crowded bus or waiting room and the person next to you want to accommodate one more person on the seat. So the term is pretty obnoxious to those who expect quality in their life – whether you are a business owner or a consumer. In this context it is a very negative word that can get your goat and raise your hackles.


But when it comes to a relationship it is considered a virtue by most people when we “adjust maadi” (maadi = do). When a newly married girl comes to her parents and complains about her obnoxious husband or his relatives, she is asked to adjust and put up with it. The stock answer is everything will work out fine given some time. When a child is put into a new school or college and complains about the new environment, he or she is asked to adjust a bit and things will improve over time. Fortunately or unfortunately it does improve over time, rather your ability to put up with the nonsense or inconvenience is improved and you stop complaining about it.

There are valid argument points for both ends of the spectrum – adjust or not to adjust. But given time, one realises that if your compass or reference points are strong and valid, the environment or people bend to your value system or you attract the right environment or people to you. It is good to have strong North Stars that guide you in life. So even if you adjust temporarily you will find that you are co-creating the circumstances that work in your favour and design a life that is suited to you and your ideals.

However, if they are not strong or valid, the stronger value system will prevail and you will be subsumed in it. Choose your value systems right and stand up for them in a healthy constructive manner. Sooner or later you will prevail.

I’m grateful for my ability to “adjust maadi” and prevail so the right environment and conditions show up eventually. Faith and patience are powerful friends to make the madness in your life go away and reason, love and happiness show up.


Go prevail upon the forces to manifest what you yearn for in your life. It has to manifest eventually when you continue to command upon it to do so. 

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