Thursday, September 24, 2009
Do we know where to STOP?
All of us know media crosses their limits to get the scoop but what we don’t want to accept is we do the same thing in our day to day life (I know there are exception as always but don’t dare to tell yourself you belong to exception category). And that’s precisely where my mind wants to go today. Wandering in dark is sometimes more fun especially when you are shit scared of darkness (I don’t know why I inserted this line here but whatever it is I don’t want to remove it and I am not removing it)
I came across a situation where a friend of mine (our friendship is neither very deep nor superficial. It falls under lower middle band) all of a sudden asked me when was I last kissed? I was shocked. Not with question but with its timing and most importantly with realization of who asked the question? Of course I refused to answer. I am liberal and open but I am conservative in areas which I tag it as “Personal” and I felt this question was too personal to share with anyone and especially with this fellow. My refusal was I guess not very well taken cause stuff like this was thrown at me “common its not personal question”/”ohh you are scared to tell”/”why you building walls around you”/”how else will anyone know u” and that was it. I couldn’t take it anymore (no I didn’t answer that question idiot ;)) and I lost my patience. I told him this is too personal for me and it may not be for you but I don’t care about what you feel about it. I admire you for certain things and I believe you do the same so let’s not knock each others door where sign reflects “Private”. Many people will disagree with me because today we live in the world of twitter where we feel it right (for younger generation Kool) to tell everyone what we do every other minute. I personally feel my life is not open book (for that matter no one’s life is). I have divided my life into proper sections of personal/private and public. Some things for me are too personal and the above question falls into that category. I don’t think you can know a person by asking him/her questions like “when was the last time you were kissed” or “how many times you got laid” or “are you still virgin” or “how many relationships you had”. If I think about it what you goanna know about the person if he/she answers such questions? We all should learn to see STOP sign at right time. Take some time and look around you everyone wants to get scoop out of your life and that’s why you will see lot of followers @ twitter. Take a break guys and think what you doing to your lives. Stop prying and live your life. Care about your life. Know about yourself. Why to criticize media when every one of us behaves exactly the same. What hypocrites we all are and the worst thing is we are proudly flaunting it!!!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Child Adoption
Today I am blogging my opinion on a cause or action which is close to my heart. I am putting down some discussions surrounding my "Hot Topic Of Today" (Please see the title of blog) which I had with people surrounding me (friends, colleagues, family)
I seriously don’t understand why people have issues with adoption. I can understand this coming from uneducated and poor person but it really maddens me if some highly educated and sophisticated person gives negative reaction about child adoption.
I tried too hard to understand their point of view but I failed to arrive at any logical end. Couple of weeks back I was talking to one of my colleague and somehow child adoption found its way in our discussion (since I know majority of my people surround me doesn’t have positive attitude about adoption I avoid talking about it with them)
I am going to follow same pattern of writing my discussion with my colleague as I did in my post "Unhealthy competition". Let’s call this colleague of mine as "Colleague". So here you go …..
Me: I would love to adopt a kid and sponsor 2-3 kids.
Colleague: You can have your OWN child
Me: Adopted child will be mine
Colleague: By your own I mean biologically yours
Me: How does it matter?
Colleague: It matters. Having your own child gives you sense of completeness
Me (I was extremely pissed): Child brings Mother into world. No woman or man is born with in-build parenthood. Child is responsible for making you realize of that feeling and responsibility. So I don’t understand what difference biological or adopted child will make.
Colleague (he put full stop to the discussion because I feel he was out of reason): Yeah we will talk when you are married.
Whole discussion brought lot of anger inside me. Why we refuse to raise ourselves beyond so called society norms? Why can’t we think logically and reason with ourselves every second? Why do we have to stick to rules? I feel in today's we need to be more active towards child adoption than anything else. They have every right to live life respectfully. When we are born we are like empty workbook waiting to be filled. Today's educated people can utilize their knowledge and bring joy to child's life. But no we are scared of taking responsibility. We can crib about issues but we can not help to resolve them. Child adoption needs love so in a way its good these people don’t opt for adoption. But I wish my people breakthrough their myths and rise above their mentality and think more rationally.
And yes I plea to my people that if you can not give a child his due love and respectful atmosphere then please don’t adopt. And also please don’t adopt a child just because you are not able to give birth to biological kid (as per me this is crime)
I just want to conclude this post with one statement of Oprah Winfrey “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
My Favourite Quotes (Courtesy Ayn Rand)
"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving"
"To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.""
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
"Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins."
"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind."
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."
"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another."
"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."
"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started."
"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."
"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob."
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."
"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Relationship
I don’t know about rest of the countries but I know in my country India – amazing place (this is marketing ;)) people get into relationship because of following bulleted points (this is my study)
1. Peer pressure (coz every single member of their group found partner)
2. Flaunt that you can get anyone if you want
3. You need someone from opposite sex to roam around with
4. You have to get married to someone so better do love marriage
5. Physical attraction
6. Social pressure
Maybe I am wrong….but note one point that I am talking about relationship which exist in middle band for millions. I personally believe that this happens because you are in relationship at the cost of your individuality. It’s sad but true that most of us don’t know what we are. If that’s the case then how can we understand what individuality is. I choose not to be in relationship just because I am progressing in my life in terms of age or because all my friends found someone or I am alone. I am single because I didn’t find anyone who can share the path to reach apex where happiness resides.
Verdict: I am single because I choose not to let middle band enter in my world . It is your choice how you wnat to live. Choose what makes you happy but not makes others happy.
(Note:- This entry is my attempt to answer those who keep asking me why I am not married)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Chapter From Life
Then I thought let me do some surfing but do you think internet will be free at LAX!!!! So finally I thought of putting down something on my blog. Now my next worry is wht the hell I am going to put down ……thinking (should I put any funny event of my life)…….thinking (or should I put something related to my philosophy) ……and still thinking (or something on politics….NAHHHHHHHHHHH)……………….okay decided…before you guys start thinking that I am serious person I will change direction of your thought process……so here I am putting funny incidence of my life actually of early life J
This is the story of my childhood. So I am sharing something personal for the first time (post on politics in professional life is something which I don’t consider as personalJ)
Let’s start rolling J I finished my kindergarten and entered in 1st class (Great achievement). Back then I was very chubby and cute baby. A kind who can attract any stranger (Boy I can still do that ;)). The most annoying thing back then for me was when my bro’s friends use to come to pull my cheeks (yeah I was in same school as my elder sis and bro). But my story doesn’t revolve around my being chubby. In our school during assembly we use to have different activities by students like poem recitation (I loved this), Thought for the day, Song, Speech……..these events were performed by all age group students. So my teacher asked me whether I will be interested in reciting poem. I was like yes (but I had stage fear and I was this very reserved kid). My sis and bro prepared me for the day. I was pretty good (at least that’s what my siblings told me). With all the preparation my test day came. My siblings are way elder than me and they use to stand in different line during assembly. My name was announced and I walked in front and occupied center of stage. All eyes were on me (approx 60 students from class 1 till class 12th) and there I was standing still …shivering with fear….so I started with low voice by saying “Good Morning Everyone today I am going to recite a poem………………………………………………………………………………………….yeahhhh that’s all I could say for 10 mins at least (god knows how many times I have repeated the same sentence…hehehhe)….and during these 10 mins I might have looked at my sis and bro for n number of times. After 10 mins my teacher came in front and said its okay try again….you are good….but nope I was blank and shivering with fear…then after 5 mins she said its okay we will try again. So now I embarrassed myself a lot and on top of it I embarrassed my sis n bro. They keep teasing me with this event till today (boy grow up guysJ)
I guess more than funny this was embarrassing stuff…but this is beautiful memory I have from my childhood. I always cherish it. Maybe this moment taught me a lot. I end up winning prizes for poem recitation later part of my life. So it all ended up well.
Even if things at the beginning don’t look good but later it will turn out to be absolute darling. May be all you need to do is learn to make fun of all the bad moments.
Verdict: - If any turn in your life seems to be worst at the start chances are it will end up being the best turn.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
PROBLEMS
Well that was just opening passage. Read on till end if you have not lost interest and if you are patient enough to take any kind of crap.
I believe problem was just pissed off with me since I defeated him with 0-6 last time. He was waiting to throw his frustration and army around me. Bingo he thought here is the opportunity. He knocked my door the day my manager told me that I am suppose to travel outside country on long term assignment. Trust me that day and today I have been fighting with this enemy of mine like a aaaaaaaaaaa…(well forget it I can’t compare my power with anything). Incidences which never happened with me all of a sudden started knocking at my door. First it started with bag snatching event (well yeah some young useless youth of my country snatched my purse) wow!! I thought I was in a mess and I was right. My credit cards, drivers license, voters card (dammm), ipod, book, CASHHHHHHHHH, usb’s (holy shit) everything was gone…….and I had to travel that weekend which as expected got delayed. But keeping aside what I lost what was more painful was going through all the process of FIR then process of getting duplicates ……things got sorted I thought now life is peaceful but hey wait a minute got a call from Dr (always calls at the wrong time) and he told me I can’t fly coz my so called hemoglobin level is below acceptable range. Great!!!! Well with all formalities and everything I end up inside flight. And trust me I must have prayed hundred times that please god pilot is not drunk and he doesn’t crash plane somewhere (Why I did that?? You kidding me I was going through bad times ;)) wow my plane landed safely at Heathrow airport. Great what a relief..oops now what!!!! My sandal broke :) BA crew was really helpful they gave me adhesive tape which was so good that with that I reached the gate from where I was suppose to take flight for LA. Thank god that I kept one pair of shoes in my cabin luggage. Peace. I landed LA safely reached hotel and slept more than 24 hrs :) maybe I thought new city new life no :) but do you think it is possible with me???? Nahhhh….Since I am here on long term I am suppose to search an apartment Great!! But then after 2 weeks of hard work I found an apartment. I was about to see a bright sunlight that problem came and stuck me. This time it is my leg. Surprised!!! Me too. But with the entire apartment search I completely ignored boil which got developed my leg just above ankle after a week. It never happened with me. I thought it will go. But nope it pains like hell :( I can’t stand for too long :( and my leg got swelling :( I thought of showing it to Dr (here he comes again) and then I realized boy I don’t have insurance card. I followed up with my company and now it will take 2 days to get temporary card which means I will be able to go to visit Dr only next week. My biggest worry is I love short clothes and this is summer time in LA this boil should not leave any ugly mark on my leg (yeah I know I do have marks on my leg can’t help it guys my skin is sensitive but hey they are not visible) :((((((((( I wish and hope that this never happens with anyone. I wish that this is the last problem.
Now you guys tell me is this the bad phase or I am looking at things differently?????? (My full sympathy is with you who have read this article till the end. You guys surely need to visit Dr’s but make sure your insurance is at place :))