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Thursday, March 29, 2012
My Intuition -1
Okay, okay, okay… finally I thought my mind will blast! I wanted to write badly, I don’t mean writing badly but… my desire to write is very badly hurting me. Anyway, I warn you before you proceed to read, what I write is not conventional, its all about my thoughts, just basic and plain thoughts, not ideas, I hate ideas, Idea is a concept derived from someone else’s thought or idea is a forgotten thought, I hate them.
Now.. After my foreword is done, I know you will still have no idea of what I am going to write, no more fortune cookies for you! Let me start right away.
Thanks to a friend, I started thinking fiercely, violently, and sometimes emotionally. My first thought after a huge unpleasant discussion is to run!, run madly into some woods, forest, onto hills, into darkness and I felt like I should not stop even for a moment, I thought I should run until my heart stops beating. Then for few days, I really tried to escape, because all of my beliefs, thoughts, whatever I have trusted as truth, whatever I felt as secured every thing collapsed over my head. Every thing was shattered, my heart was broken, I don’t know what to do, I was sitting in the shatters and just lost, lost like hell. Now please don’t ask me about the incident, as I know, most of you will be very excited to guess or know what that incident might be, and some of you might already have gone into imaginations , isn’t it sad that we are very excited to discuss about others misfortune or discomforts? And it will be more exciting to weave good interesting stories about them even if we don’t know anything about them or their thought process {don’t worry, few months back I was like that}. Then I started thinking, why am I so lost?
Are you mad?, you blasted fool all your beliefs have been shattered and now you are asking me why are you so lost? My beliefs are shattered and so I am lost, so I was relying on my beliefs for my course of action, for my purpose of life, for my way to find truth isn’t it?. Now again you psycho.. don’t you understand ? your beliefs are gone, you are lost, either build a new belief system or go run to your old beliefs and gather those peaces and put them in your purse, look at them and think it is not your mistake, cry a little at your misfortune and move on, with those peaces as nothing has happened. These were the two thoughts I have got at that time. After that going a little backwards, I started seeing facts as they are, I ripped my conditioned brain, and thought of understanding a fact as it is, now why did I have a belief? You bloody fool what is this question? Now .. tell me why do I have a belief? Hmm.. may be because I feel happy? So belief makes you happy?
Why do you feel happy with your belief? Because, belief is a kind of formula.. isn’t it?
Always you use a formula with different numbers and the end result can be predicted.
So, now always you have belief and your end result will be predicted, so predictability,makes you happy. That means your restlessness, your insecurities; your search comes to an end when you believe in something. I escape from my insecurities by believing in a belief. Then when my beliefs are shattered, I again search for beliefs, to live with security. Now why do I have insecurity? Because if I don’t believe in belief, I may not have a proper outcome, so I may not have a definite end or a predicted end and so I believe in belief. But, when belief itself is not a guarantee, then why to imagine a predicted output and collapse unexpectedly? Got my point? You can think, I am mad.. but that’s fine.
Now don’t believe in anything, try to understand the fact as it is, do not observe it from your own filters and spectacles and then you will definitely agree with me.
Now.. my second maniac thought is…everyone says world is with in you, you are the world. World is just a mirror and you are just seeing your image. Now.. I have heard this a hell lot of times, may be I thought, whatever I do to someone, will definitely return it to me, may be good, may be bad or anything. That was my understanding, but out of blue, I some how… felt that.. My relationship with you will reveal me what I am. Now you crazy freak.. what the hell is that suppose to mean? I hate a person, I move away from her or I will try to isolate from her/him and I do all the bloody circus to overcome that.
I run away, I abuse, I paint, I sketch, I shut all my doors and will sit inside watching TV,I cultivate good hobbies, I deviate my mind, I will make myself busy, I will ignore her, I won’t look at her, I don’t talk to her, but isn’t all this an escape from fact?. But, I came to know that certain things in her are irritating me and you chicken headed freak what should I do, should I change every thing and just blindly train my mind to love her?
No not absolutely [you can’t train your brain to love someone of course!], If she is not there I will never realize that those are the things I hate. Now… my hatred is not caused by her, its my feeling, can I question my feeling?, why do I hate her? because she is greater than me? because she is smarter than me? because she has so many friends than me? Because she has got something which I don’t have? Because she will run into my every affair and put her nose into it? Because she doesn’t listen to me? because she is not as smart as me? because she doesn’t behave like my ideal friend? Whatever may be the reason, Is my feeling of hatred helping me or destroying me? Certainly moving away is not a solution, if we do so, we have to be isolated from the entire world, so I must neither be Aggressively active about her every action nor move away from her, I should be alertly passive to every action of her and my reactions should not be a controlled one, because controlling will create pressure and that will burst sometime, which will create a havoc, so be alertly passive and then learn to surpass those things.. How? Now I am not a teacher to tell you every thing point by point, it’s for you to figure out.
Good day!
PS:I welcome any kind of comments on this. I count on people who give a negative feedback on this, because I rate myself high with every feedback against this :-)
P.P.S: I dedicate this post to my beleif in GOD
Now.. After my foreword is done, I know you will still have no idea of what I am going to write, no more fortune cookies for you! Let me start right away.
Thanks to a friend, I started thinking fiercely, violently, and sometimes emotionally. My first thought after a huge unpleasant discussion is to run!, run madly into some woods, forest, onto hills, into darkness and I felt like I should not stop even for a moment, I thought I should run until my heart stops beating. Then for few days, I really tried to escape, because all of my beliefs, thoughts, whatever I have trusted as truth, whatever I felt as secured every thing collapsed over my head. Every thing was shattered, my heart was broken, I don’t know what to do, I was sitting in the shatters and just lost, lost like hell. Now please don’t ask me about the incident, as I know, most of you will be very excited to guess or know what that incident might be, and some of you might already have gone into imaginations , isn’t it sad that we are very excited to discuss about others misfortune or discomforts? And it will be more exciting to weave good interesting stories about them even if we don’t know anything about them or their thought process {don’t worry, few months back I was like that}. Then I started thinking, why am I so lost?
Are you mad?, you blasted fool all your beliefs have been shattered and now you are asking me why are you so lost? My beliefs are shattered and so I am lost, so I was relying on my beliefs for my course of action, for my purpose of life, for my way to find truth isn’t it?. Now again you psycho.. don’t you understand ? your beliefs are gone, you are lost, either build a new belief system or go run to your old beliefs and gather those peaces and put them in your purse, look at them and think it is not your mistake, cry a little at your misfortune and move on, with those peaces as nothing has happened. These were the two thoughts I have got at that time. After that going a little backwards, I started seeing facts as they are, I ripped my conditioned brain, and thought of understanding a fact as it is, now why did I have a belief? You bloody fool what is this question? Now .. tell me why do I have a belief? Hmm.. may be because I feel happy? So belief makes you happy?
Why do you feel happy with your belief? Because, belief is a kind of formula.. isn’t it?
Always you use a formula with different numbers and the end result can be predicted.
So, now always you have belief and your end result will be predicted, so predictability,makes you happy. That means your restlessness, your insecurities; your search comes to an end when you believe in something. I escape from my insecurities by believing in a belief. Then when my beliefs are shattered, I again search for beliefs, to live with security. Now why do I have insecurity? Because if I don’t believe in belief, I may not have a proper outcome, so I may not have a definite end or a predicted end and so I believe in belief. But, when belief itself is not a guarantee, then why to imagine a predicted output and collapse unexpectedly? Got my point? You can think, I am mad.. but that’s fine.
Now don’t believe in anything, try to understand the fact as it is, do not observe it from your own filters and spectacles and then you will definitely agree with me.
Now.. my second maniac thought is…everyone says world is with in you, you are the world. World is just a mirror and you are just seeing your image. Now.. I have heard this a hell lot of times, may be I thought, whatever I do to someone, will definitely return it to me, may be good, may be bad or anything. That was my understanding, but out of blue, I some how… felt that.. My relationship with you will reveal me what I am. Now you crazy freak.. what the hell is that suppose to mean? I hate a person, I move away from her or I will try to isolate from her/him and I do all the bloody circus to overcome that.
I run away, I abuse, I paint, I sketch, I shut all my doors and will sit inside watching TV,I cultivate good hobbies, I deviate my mind, I will make myself busy, I will ignore her, I won’t look at her, I don’t talk to her, but isn’t all this an escape from fact?. But, I came to know that certain things in her are irritating me and you chicken headed freak what should I do, should I change every thing and just blindly train my mind to love her?
No not absolutely [you can’t train your brain to love someone of course!], If she is not there I will never realize that those are the things I hate. Now… my hatred is not caused by her, its my feeling, can I question my feeling?, why do I hate her? because she is greater than me? because she is smarter than me? because she has so many friends than me? Because she has got something which I don’t have? Because she will run into my every affair and put her nose into it? Because she doesn’t listen to me? because she is not as smart as me? because she doesn’t behave like my ideal friend? Whatever may be the reason, Is my feeling of hatred helping me or destroying me? Certainly moving away is not a solution, if we do so, we have to be isolated from the entire world, so I must neither be Aggressively active about her every action nor move away from her, I should be alertly passive to every action of her and my reactions should not be a controlled one, because controlling will create pressure and that will burst sometime, which will create a havoc, so be alertly passive and then learn to surpass those things.. How? Now I am not a teacher to tell you every thing point by point, it’s for you to figure out.
Good day!
PS:I welcome any kind of comments on this. I count on people who give a negative feedback on this, because I rate myself high with every feedback against this :-)
P.P.S: I dedicate this post to my beleif in GOD
Fantasies and MYSELF
Fantasies are my favorite right from my childhood. I used to love them more than anything else as I can do anything imagining them. I can become anything, I can ride anything, I can do anything and I can make anything possible. This is where I lived most of my life….. “In Fantasy”. My dream world is Fantasy! My favorite holiday spot is Fantasy! And my favorite pass time is Fantasy!!!
Now with my foreword, you might be thinking that I would now passionately write about my childhood fantasies, but to make it clear for you this is not about my childhood fantasies.
So , after my foreword, I would like to confess a truth about “MYSELF”.I used to talk to someone who walks with me, listens to me, argues with me, whom I can see, whose presence I can feel but no one else can even Imagine of it. I am not sure who that person is, but I used to do this all the time. While I walk in my hostel corridor I wave my hands as if I am explaining something to a person walking next to me. One girl(Sri Sandhya Varigonda)asked me if I talk to myself, I usually take too much care that nobody notices me, while I am talking but.. she caught me somehow, then on.. I left that talking to no one next to me. I am not sure if this was a fantasy or anything else.
My fantasies lead me to draw sometimes, to write sometimes, to dance sometimes.. but with every fantasy I have grown as a person, with every imagination I have clearly defined myself. With everything I see, be it a movie, be it a play, be it a real life incident I get something into me and that built my belief system. With everything I hear, be it a song, be it a conversation, I got something that made me. Surely I had flaws, and will have faults but without my Fantasies I would have been just another Human form and not ME or MYSELF
I have been in fantasies, lived in fantasies, and have been learning in fantasies.
‘MYSELF” which I, now proudly state is an accumulation of so many fantasies, real world scenarios and movies,songs,persons and their thoughts,persons and their words.
All of my fantasies may not be mine, All of my thoughts may not be mine, I might have got them all from every possible source deeply rooted into my belief system and sometimes may come out as my own opinion. I may not be sure if I am aping someone. I may think I am aping someone, when that particular thought is my own and one of its kind. I always was proud of my thoughts, beliefs and thought that no one else will be like me that may be because of reading too many positive thinking quotes. I now realize that I am not self made all by myself, surely my choices would add to me being MYSELF but the circumstances and people who influenced me to choose the choice which I chose are the creators behind “MYSELF”. I Thank all of them and dedicate this post to each and every one of them .
Now with my foreword, you might be thinking that I would now passionately write about my childhood fantasies, but to make it clear for you this is not about my childhood fantasies.
So , after my foreword, I would like to confess a truth about “MYSELF”.I used to talk to someone who walks with me, listens to me, argues with me, whom I can see, whose presence I can feel but no one else can even Imagine of it. I am not sure who that person is, but I used to do this all the time. While I walk in my hostel corridor I wave my hands as if I am explaining something to a person walking next to me. One girl(Sri Sandhya Varigonda)asked me if I talk to myself, I usually take too much care that nobody notices me, while I am talking but.. she caught me somehow, then on.. I left that talking to no one next to me. I am not sure if this was a fantasy or anything else.
My fantasies lead me to draw sometimes, to write sometimes, to dance sometimes.. but with every fantasy I have grown as a person, with every imagination I have clearly defined myself. With everything I see, be it a movie, be it a play, be it a real life incident I get something into me and that built my belief system. With everything I hear, be it a song, be it a conversation, I got something that made me. Surely I had flaws, and will have faults but without my Fantasies I would have been just another Human form and not ME or MYSELF
I have been in fantasies, lived in fantasies, and have been learning in fantasies.
‘MYSELF” which I, now proudly state is an accumulation of so many fantasies, real world scenarios and movies,songs,persons and their thoughts,persons and their words.
All of my fantasies may not be mine, All of my thoughts may not be mine, I might have got them all from every possible source deeply rooted into my belief system and sometimes may come out as my own opinion. I may not be sure if I am aping someone. I may think I am aping someone, when that particular thought is my own and one of its kind. I always was proud of my thoughts, beliefs and thought that no one else will be like me that may be because of reading too many positive thinking quotes. I now realize that I am not self made all by myself, surely my choices would add to me being MYSELF but the circumstances and people who influenced me to choose the choice which I chose are the creators behind “MYSELF”. I Thank all of them and dedicate this post to each and every one of them .
Prince charming and Teenage girl!
Teenage is the most beautiful period of one’s life. You never worry about future. You have no regrets on past. You just live for the moment…
And yes… your guess is right, my topic is about… Teenage.
All through my teenage I was friends with girls who are best at their dressing, perfect in their looks, and relatively good at studies ( I am tempted to write their names here.. I will be bashed.. If I mention them)
Anyway, Coming to the point one of my best buddies.. I was walking with her, we were chatting something… and our classes in 9th class ( IIT foundation) used to start at 5:30 AM and we are supposed to attend those classes without fail, there came a guy… in the morning mist screaming… Hima(name changed) and.. Asked me “Saroja.. Can you please walk ahead I want to talk to her!” I was super excited and walked away. I am not sure of what happened to their story after that… but this was the first.. Fantastic.. Memory of teenage attraction I had..
Then after few months in our tenth class… one friend known as Sravani and I were walking home after school.. There came a Romeo all of a sudden from nowhere performed.. a few stunts.. on his bicycle I was amazed at that fellows’ skill. He then politely asked me… “Saroja, if you don’t mind.. can you please..” I got it.. I am excited too.. I walked merrily leaving them alone. After that I never know what happened to their story.
After a Year.. my intermediate days… My best friend kind of material… who I think now.. is a biggest diplomat on earth was walking with me… after college 7:30 PM , from the darkness, there came a voice “ I want to talk to you… “ and that.. Four eyed fellow.. turned to me.. Now I know.. what you mean… I get it.. I am going to move.. Please don’t say it aloud.. I am literally praying inside.. but but but.. he said it.. “ Saroja… can you please “ he said it!!… okay .. okay… now it’s just ..uff.. and he just asked me to walk a little ahead .. what is in that? So .. I started walking ahead.. Never heard of their story after that.
Two years later.. my Engineering college.. I was walking with REEMA ( Name changed again) and then there came a fellow running in the January fog at 8:30 AM ( I can tell you the fog is the only interesting part and rest of the surrounding is quite unhygienic) and he had.. two perk chocolates in his hand.. he wished us both “a happy morning “and gave a chocolate to each of us.. he enquired about college seniors and studies…. And then.. Oh my god… how many times should I face this.. Embarrassing and stupid situation.. He turned his head to me… Now you fool I know.. I got it, please please please don’t say it aloud .. just.. hold on and give me way I will walk ahead… I am thinking and then suddenly he said “Saroja, if you don’t mind…can you..” This is it! This is it ! he said.. it.. ! Oh Dear Lord How many times you are going to show me the same picture on and on..How many times should I walk ahead!.… (FYI none of the above stories succeeded.)
And that is the day I decided… If someone comes to me and asks my friends to walk ahead.. I am going to reject him then and there itself, no matter how good he is, no matter how much I like him, no matter what. But I never did get a chance like that.
Every girl I know had fairy tales, fantasies, dreams and dream stories of her kind.. Most of them are scared to tell them aloud and most of them are scared to think.. But deep down every girl, even the most shrewd girl waits for a fairy tale hero in her teenage. Some of them may extend to her tender twenties.
As she progresses into her mid twenties, she realizes a fairy tale hero or prince charming will just live in fairy tales and.. U need to embrace whom so ever u accept /marry as a prince charming. And her prince charming can break her heart for the sake of his ego/parents/lose of interest in her/money/compatibility/new partner. This is when she turns a Woman.
Bottom-line: A girl leaves her fantasies only when her heart breaks into several pieces. Until then she believes that she is a princess to her father and a Queen to her mate. She comes to reality only when she breaks her bones/heart/teeth on rocky stones :-)
P.S: My statements are purely my personal opinions, no offense intended.
And yes… your guess is right, my topic is about… Teenage.
All through my teenage I was friends with girls who are best at their dressing, perfect in their looks, and relatively good at studies ( I am tempted to write their names here.. I will be bashed.. If I mention them)
Anyway, Coming to the point one of my best buddies.. I was walking with her, we were chatting something… and our classes in 9th class ( IIT foundation) used to start at 5:30 AM and we are supposed to attend those classes without fail, there came a guy… in the morning mist screaming… Hima(name changed) and.. Asked me “Saroja.. Can you please walk ahead I want to talk to her!” I was super excited and walked away. I am not sure of what happened to their story after that… but this was the first.. Fantastic.. Memory of teenage attraction I had..
Then after few months in our tenth class… one friend known as Sravani and I were walking home after school.. There came a Romeo all of a sudden from nowhere performed.. a few stunts.. on his bicycle I was amazed at that fellows’ skill. He then politely asked me… “Saroja, if you don’t mind.. can you please..” I got it.. I am excited too.. I walked merrily leaving them alone. After that I never know what happened to their story.
After a Year.. my intermediate days… My best friend kind of material… who I think now.. is a biggest diplomat on earth was walking with me… after college 7:30 PM , from the darkness, there came a voice “ I want to talk to you… “ and that.. Four eyed fellow.. turned to me.. Now I know.. what you mean… I get it.. I am going to move.. Please don’t say it aloud.. I am literally praying inside.. but but but.. he said it.. “ Saroja… can you please “ he said it!!… okay .. okay… now it’s just ..uff.. and he just asked me to walk a little ahead .. what is in that? So .. I started walking ahead.. Never heard of their story after that.
Two years later.. my Engineering college.. I was walking with REEMA ( Name changed again) and then there came a fellow running in the January fog at 8:30 AM ( I can tell you the fog is the only interesting part and rest of the surrounding is quite unhygienic) and he had.. two perk chocolates in his hand.. he wished us both “a happy morning “and gave a chocolate to each of us.. he enquired about college seniors and studies…. And then.. Oh my god… how many times should I face this.. Embarrassing and stupid situation.. He turned his head to me… Now you fool I know.. I got it, please please please don’t say it aloud .. just.. hold on and give me way I will walk ahead… I am thinking and then suddenly he said “Saroja, if you don’t mind…can you..” This is it! This is it ! he said.. it.. ! Oh Dear Lord How many times you are going to show me the same picture on and on..How many times should I walk ahead!.… (FYI none of the above stories succeeded.)
And that is the day I decided… If someone comes to me and asks my friends to walk ahead.. I am going to reject him then and there itself, no matter how good he is, no matter how much I like him, no matter what. But I never did get a chance like that.
Every girl I know had fairy tales, fantasies, dreams and dream stories of her kind.. Most of them are scared to tell them aloud and most of them are scared to think.. But deep down every girl, even the most shrewd girl waits for a fairy tale hero in her teenage. Some of them may extend to her tender twenties.
As she progresses into her mid twenties, she realizes a fairy tale hero or prince charming will just live in fairy tales and.. U need to embrace whom so ever u accept /marry as a prince charming. And her prince charming can break her heart for the sake of his ego/parents/lose of interest in her/money/compatibility/new partner. This is when she turns a Woman.
Bottom-line: A girl leaves her fantasies only when her heart breaks into several pieces. Until then she believes that she is a princess to her father and a Queen to her mate. She comes to reality only when she breaks her bones/heart/teeth on rocky stones :-)
P.S: My statements are purely my personal opinions, no offense intended.
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity
You might be wondering what this article may be about. I therefore want to let you know it’s just about our commonsense and our intelligence.
Our ancestors as nomads and dwellers might have been worried about their basic needs food, shelter and cloths all through their lives. We have evolved as a race, so did our brains, now we are busy in building communities, religions , establishing diplomatic relations with others and above all in trying to prove ourselves more worthier than our neighbors.
I know people who state “ My ego will be hurt if I say he is superior to me, I know it but I won’t state it aloud”. I know people who prejudice others even before asking questions about them. Being practical in estimating people is the best approach, but being practical in every sense may not work with humans all the times, at least in my opinion.
One of my friends is a passionate techie. I was fascinated to that person’s knowledge because of his ideological ways he tries to bring peace to his friends and to himself. Be a diplomat, but the pass the message was his motto, as far as I understood him. Technology on its best side will bring lot of luxuries to people. I accept this fact and respect it. The darker side of technology is, regardless of its greatness and luxury providing capacity it can never buy you peace. I may sound little old and orthodox with that statement, but fine I would like to stand by truth how harsh and indigestible it may be.
I used to think why we should have wars?, why should people fight among each other?, why cannot peace be the mantra of every nation and community? When discussed with some friends they told me even those questions haunted them. One of them stated a certain idea being a techie this person sounded preposterous to me sometimes, but fascinating sometimes.
The idea is to create an artificially intelligent robot for every two persons in this entire world, which will track the brain waves of those two persons and if any sort of war or kind of hatred is generated inside them, the robot will soon be there in preventing them from being destructive with each other. Another idea for eliminating hatred and establishing world peace is the raise of a common evil to fight which, all the nations and people will unite themselves. That evil should be strongest, sharpest, superlative and omnipresent. That person might be referring to GOD with a little technical touch.
Even I used to question myself, if there is GOD why do these massacres such as 1984 anti-Sikh riots will take place? If GOD is there why did the “Direct Action Day” take place? If GOD is really there why do people who worship him are not blessed with most of the wishes they ask for? Finally, after suffering much with these questions, I thought may be my answer lies with in me. My common sense. I may not outsmart people around me to plot or plan things such that situations turn into my favor. But I definitely know that inculcating trust, love and brotherhood into my neighbor’s heart is far better than me to plan an artificially intelligent machine to surpass my natural stupidity. It is better for me to take responsibility for my actions instead of justifying them than to pray for a stronger enemy to protect the world peace. We already are building higher walls between ourselves with our insurmountable egos, so let us not hope for a new machine to physically represent the barriers between us.
P.S: This is to reflect my thoughts against few topics, no offense intended.
Our ancestors as nomads and dwellers might have been worried about their basic needs food, shelter and cloths all through their lives. We have evolved as a race, so did our brains, now we are busy in building communities, religions , establishing diplomatic relations with others and above all in trying to prove ourselves more worthier than our neighbors.
I know people who state “ My ego will be hurt if I say he is superior to me, I know it but I won’t state it aloud”. I know people who prejudice others even before asking questions about them. Being practical in estimating people is the best approach, but being practical in every sense may not work with humans all the times, at least in my opinion.
One of my friends is a passionate techie. I was fascinated to that person’s knowledge because of his ideological ways he tries to bring peace to his friends and to himself. Be a diplomat, but the pass the message was his motto, as far as I understood him. Technology on its best side will bring lot of luxuries to people. I accept this fact and respect it. The darker side of technology is, regardless of its greatness and luxury providing capacity it can never buy you peace. I may sound little old and orthodox with that statement, but fine I would like to stand by truth how harsh and indigestible it may be.
I used to think why we should have wars?, why should people fight among each other?, why cannot peace be the mantra of every nation and community? When discussed with some friends they told me even those questions haunted them. One of them stated a certain idea being a techie this person sounded preposterous to me sometimes, but fascinating sometimes.
The idea is to create an artificially intelligent robot for every two persons in this entire world, which will track the brain waves of those two persons and if any sort of war or kind of hatred is generated inside them, the robot will soon be there in preventing them from being destructive with each other. Another idea for eliminating hatred and establishing world peace is the raise of a common evil to fight which, all the nations and people will unite themselves. That evil should be strongest, sharpest, superlative and omnipresent. That person might be referring to GOD with a little technical touch.
Even I used to question myself, if there is GOD why do these massacres such as 1984 anti-Sikh riots will take place? If GOD is there why did the “Direct Action Day” take place? If GOD is really there why do people who worship him are not blessed with most of the wishes they ask for? Finally, after suffering much with these questions, I thought may be my answer lies with in me. My common sense. I may not outsmart people around me to plot or plan things such that situations turn into my favor. But I definitely know that inculcating trust, love and brotherhood into my neighbor’s heart is far better than me to plan an artificially intelligent machine to surpass my natural stupidity. It is better for me to take responsibility for my actions instead of justifying them than to pray for a stronger enemy to protect the world peace. We already are building higher walls between ourselves with our insurmountable egos, so let us not hope for a new machine to physically represent the barriers between us.
P.S: This is to reflect my thoughts against few topics, no offense intended.
Are We Secular?
am an above average student right from my childhood. I used to love few subjects based on my teachers and how they used to narrate lessons as tales to us. One of such subjects is Social studies.
The first and foremost sentence that will make you proud of your country in civics is the preamble of our Indian Constitution “WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SECULLAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure all it’s citizen
JUSTICE, social, economic and political
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of individual and the unity and integrity of the nation”
At the age of 13-14, I may not know what this exactly means, but still I used to be proud of my country no matter what. I am sure most of the Indians are like me.
Shah Bano Case : A sixty two year old Muslim woman, divorced by her husband in 1978, and was denied alimony , filed a case in order to get her alimony. This case reached Supreme Court after seven years. It ruled that shah bano be given maintenance money similar to alimony. Supreme Court pronounced its verdict underSection 125 of Code of Criminal Procedure, which applies to everyone regardless of caste, creed or religion.
Some Muslims under the spokesmen Obaidullah Khan Azmi and Syed Shahabuddin felt threatened by what they perceived as an encroachment of Muslim Personal Law. An organization named ALL INDIA MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW BOARD has been formed in 1973 to uphold what they saw as Muslim Personal Law.
Because of the rift produced by this case in the country the then Govt. passed an act The Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 that nullified Supreme Court’s Verdict in Shah Bano Case.
You can find more details of this case in google. All I wanted to let you know here is my opinion about this case and that is the reason for the brief introduction.
Shah Bano case is marked as a pivotal point in Indian history because no Muslim woman before her has approached court for justice in case of divorce. As an act to protect the personal law of religion our govt. has passed a bill overnight in order of avoiding the wrath of a particular community or let us say a particular vote bank.
Personal Law differs from community to community. I think Hindus has a personal law of taking dowry in present days and taking knya sulkam in previous days. They also had this Sathi Sahagamana previously , but as times changed all those personal laws were ruled out and were brought under a proper Civil Law( these personal Laws Dowry And Sahagamana are considered as offenses under the Civil Law). Every religion respects their own personal law the most. But as a secular country do we actually have a Common Civil Law to be enforced on everyone apart from their cast, religion or sect who comes to courts for justice? We can exert pressure on Govt. in such way to influence it to make acts, if we have significant vote banks to back us. We state we are Secular, I just want to question myself, are we really Secular? Does the meaning of secular very clear at the very least to our leaders ( I am leaving common people here)
Personally I feel people should respect and act upon their own personal laws, but once the case or issue comes into judiciary or civil law boundaries, no community should exert pressure on the Govt. so as to make sure that our preamble is not just statement that we read but a promise that we make to overseleve and it is not meant to be broken by ourselves( Indians).
The first and foremost sentence that will make you proud of your country in civics is the preamble of our Indian Constitution “WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SECULLAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure all it’s citizen
JUSTICE, social, economic and political
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of individual and the unity and integrity of the nation”
At the age of 13-14, I may not know what this exactly means, but still I used to be proud of my country no matter what. I am sure most of the Indians are like me.
Shah Bano Case : A sixty two year old Muslim woman, divorced by her husband in 1978, and was denied alimony , filed a case in order to get her alimony. This case reached Supreme Court after seven years. It ruled that shah bano be given maintenance money similar to alimony. Supreme Court pronounced its verdict underSection 125 of Code of Criminal Procedure, which applies to everyone regardless of caste, creed or religion.
Some Muslims under the spokesmen Obaidullah Khan Azmi and Syed Shahabuddin felt threatened by what they perceived as an encroachment of Muslim Personal Law. An organization named ALL INDIA MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW BOARD has been formed in 1973 to uphold what they saw as Muslim Personal Law.
Because of the rift produced by this case in the country the then Govt. passed an act The Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 that nullified Supreme Court’s Verdict in Shah Bano Case.
You can find more details of this case in google. All I wanted to let you know here is my opinion about this case and that is the reason for the brief introduction.
Shah Bano case is marked as a pivotal point in Indian history because no Muslim woman before her has approached court for justice in case of divorce. As an act to protect the personal law of religion our govt. has passed a bill overnight in order of avoiding the wrath of a particular community or let us say a particular vote bank.
Personal Law differs from community to community. I think Hindus has a personal law of taking dowry in present days and taking knya sulkam in previous days. They also had this Sathi Sahagamana previously , but as times changed all those personal laws were ruled out and were brought under a proper Civil Law( these personal Laws Dowry And Sahagamana are considered as offenses under the Civil Law). Every religion respects their own personal law the most. But as a secular country do we actually have a Common Civil Law to be enforced on everyone apart from their cast, religion or sect who comes to courts for justice? We can exert pressure on Govt. in such way to influence it to make acts, if we have significant vote banks to back us. We state we are Secular, I just want to question myself, are we really Secular? Does the meaning of secular very clear at the very least to our leaders ( I am leaving common people here)
Personally I feel people should respect and act upon their own personal laws, but once the case or issue comes into judiciary or civil law boundaries, no community should exert pressure on the Govt. so as to make sure that our preamble is not just statement that we read but a promise that we make to overseleve and it is not meant to be broken by ourselves( Indians).
Sand Dunes In A Glass
On a Rainy day, sitting by the side of a glass window that is closed, I could see rain drops falling from the leaf one by one, drop by drop down into the ground. I just sat there for so long looking at the plants I lost track of time. I realized when the daylight outside the window faded a little to let everyone know that it is in fact time for dusk.
I often wonder about this particular concept of spending time, How do I utilize my time? For example say productively? I am actually too much confused about how to utilize it properly. Doing the work you enjoy most is the best way to spend time I suppose (my mom and most of the elderly people say so). But some of us like sleeping very much, some of us like eating very much, some of us like drawing, some of us like writing, some of us like surfing, browsing, gossiping, watching movies, chatting, gazing endlessly into void. But how on earth some of them are best ways to spend time and others are branded as laziness? Doing the thing you like most depends on our personal individual choice right? I like writing, at the same time someone else out there likes sleeping very much. I enjoy killing my time with writing, the other person likes killing his time by sleeping. He experiences the same joy when he is sleeping as I do when I am writing. Mysteriously we say the other person is lazy and I am passionate about writing.
May be the concept of time itself is mysterious I think. It is a measure to record events that occurred respective to a particular event. May be time has been discovered to record and recall the events that has already happened (to record the past or changes that has transformed a particular object/animal/ place into the current state).As we evolved we have been not happy at the present state of our being, we wanted more and more secured future, so we started working on future’s past to make future the best, but we often forget to enjoy past’s future THE PRESENT.
So the concept of laziness and productive ness gains a clarification here. Any work, you do , whether you enjoy it or not, if you have any chances of gaining a better future to you or to your subjects of the work, then it is called productive( if you love that work and enjoy doing it, it is considered as divine)
Human race was always capable of doing some very amazing things always, if they really wanted to do something, if they really desire something. I solemnly bow to the idea of a person who was able to capture a part of the earth into a glass for defining time. The upper and lower chambers as I think resembles our past and future the narrow line connecting those two chambers is our Present.
To conclude, I think doing the things you love is the best way to spend time perfectly. But (yes, I hate buts too!! but the fact is every statement in this world is implied with more than one meaning, so to make the statement explicit, we have to add but) choosing the thing you love responsibly is the key.
I often wonder about this particular concept of spending time, How do I utilize my time? For example say productively? I am actually too much confused about how to utilize it properly. Doing the work you enjoy most is the best way to spend time I suppose (my mom and most of the elderly people say so). But some of us like sleeping very much, some of us like eating very much, some of us like drawing, some of us like writing, some of us like surfing, browsing, gossiping, watching movies, chatting, gazing endlessly into void. But how on earth some of them are best ways to spend time and others are branded as laziness? Doing the thing you like most depends on our personal individual choice right? I like writing, at the same time someone else out there likes sleeping very much. I enjoy killing my time with writing, the other person likes killing his time by sleeping. He experiences the same joy when he is sleeping as I do when I am writing. Mysteriously we say the other person is lazy and I am passionate about writing.
May be the concept of time itself is mysterious I think. It is a measure to record events that occurred respective to a particular event. May be time has been discovered to record and recall the events that has already happened (to record the past or changes that has transformed a particular object/animal/ place into the current state).As we evolved we have been not happy at the present state of our being, we wanted more and more secured future, so we started working on future’s past to make future the best, but we often forget to enjoy past’s future THE PRESENT.
So the concept of laziness and productive ness gains a clarification here. Any work, you do , whether you enjoy it or not, if you have any chances of gaining a better future to you or to your subjects of the work, then it is called productive( if you love that work and enjoy doing it, it is considered as divine)
Human race was always capable of doing some very amazing things always, if they really wanted to do something, if they really desire something. I solemnly bow to the idea of a person who was able to capture a part of the earth into a glass for defining time. The upper and lower chambers as I think resembles our past and future the narrow line connecting those two chambers is our Present.
To conclude, I think doing the things you love is the best way to spend time perfectly. But (yes, I hate buts too!! but the fact is every statement in this world is implied with more than one meaning, so to make the statement explicit, we have to add but) choosing the thing you love responsibly is the key.
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