Some quick thoughts

If you are a good person and have a good mind, you don't need to hate those who hate you. Instead, pity them and understand that the hate is because they don't realize your worth. They are travelling in the wrong path without realizing it. Forgive them, and pray that they will get back on the right track soon. Good morning. 

Our Society in Retrospect

Our society needs a lot of rethinking. We are full of prejudice and complicate life unnecessarily. We manage to find selfish motives and negativity even in true love. Good things are twisted and turned, displayed as bad. Love is returned with hate, and hate is returned with love. And besides, we are expected to fit in, not to stand out. Remember we had our days of innocence, just like a newborn baby, devoid of all the artificiality. Our state is no different from how innocence is lost during a person's transformation from a kid to an adult. As a society we have been injected with all the wrong values and ethics just like a person who has been taught the wrong things. Only that its over a period of centuries as opposed to years of a person's life. When a person commits wrongs, we don't accept it in the name of tradition and heritage. Then why should we, when it's the society that commits the wrongs?

What you have so less of, you value it that much more

We live in a wicked, cruel world. People change their colours the same way they change their clothes. Someone who cares a lot for you today, may barely give you any attention tomorrow. This is why people who accept you and appreciate you- not because of the circumstance you both are in, but for the kind of person you are- are so important in your life. Those who stop caring for you without a good reason don't realize your true value. Perhaps the only time they will realize your worth is when they NEED you. "What you have so less of, you value it that much more." So maybe they will realize their folly when they don't have a substitute for you. The question here is, do YOU need them?

The Social Irony

Welcome one and all,
To the esteemed society. 
When it's about us it's a reason,
But when it's about you it's an excuse. 
When we give it's a gift, 
But when you give it's a bribe.
If you won, it was a bold decision,
But if you lost, it was a needless risk.
It's stupid to love a person,
Whom you've known just a few days.
It's perfectly fine,
To marry a stranger ofcourse.
The right thing to do,
Is what everyone does right now.
Honesty is the best policy,
But if you confess you're guilty.

True Education - A Reminder

Happy Vijayadashami/Dussehra to all. This is a day which is celebrated to start off formal education and I want to share my thoughts on true education. Unfortunately, the education system we have is painfully flawed from the core. We are encouraged to study books like a robot and reproduce them during exams. True education has two main components- developing moral values and helping the person choose his/her career path. I'll go into the details on both these essential aspects.

Firstly, about moral values.

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education, said Martin Luther King. Study as much mathematics/language/science as one wants, that won't make him/her a good person. People who behave rudely in general, look to exploit others in whatever ways they can, hurt people who love them - are good examples of products of a bad educational system that we have. These people exist in very significant numbers out there in the society. Love, kindness and true moral values are forgotten by our educational system, which is a very sad yet true fact. Kindly teach kids these true values as a priority over technical skills.

Secondly, about career paths.

People are lead to believe from a young age that the only viable career options they have are engineering and medicine. When people choose their main stream after 10th standard they have often no clue what they really want to become in their lives, nor are aware of the possibility of viable paths other than engineering and medicine. A great deal of ideas should be instilled into the minds of kids from as young an age as possible. Identify the aptitude and interest kids have and then help them choose their best career option based on their talents. This is the only way you can help people become what they truly want.

Respect for Women

"If you truly love your mother, you cannot disrespect women. If you disrespect women, you don't appreciate motherhood well enough." I will elaborate a bit on this now:

When you make obscene comments about a woman or her body, you forget some things. You forget how you even came into existence in this world. You forget that as a baby you grew up, being fed by a woman. Your mother. Perhaps you don't literally forget it, but you totally forget to appreciate these facts. Every woman is a mother, now or in the future. She is divine and so is her body. It is each of ours duty to respect and safeguard her instead of looking for ways to exploit or abuse her, directly or indirectly, verbally or physically. I have walked among and am part of an age and gender group which perhaps needs this reminder the most. I've been witness to a lot of such verbal disrespect. Most may not behave that way directly to a woman, but a man's true colours are shown best by how he conducts himself behind others' backs. It speaks volumes about how he would act if no trouble would befall him in doing so. In other words, a potential abuser is dormant inside such a man. Don't be one among them.

Always respect women as a token of gratitude for motherhood.

How You Make Me Feel

When I open my eyes,

I see everything around me.

When I close my eyes,

I see nothing but you.

You have that smile,

Which lights up the nights,

Like fireflies in the dark.

You have those eyes,

Which make it hard,

To take one’s eyes off.

You are that person,

Who comes once in a lifetime.

You are that feeling,

Which can’t be put into words.

I close my eyes tightly,

For this lovely moment,

So I can feel nothing,

Beyond how you make me feel.