learning and growing

Recently one of my cousins,elder to me,called me up to say that she was feeling bad on account of certain things that she had to face recently and she termed herself as 'weak',and complained of how guilty she feels when she thinks that despite being a grown up,she can't conceal her emotions.I felt bad for her.But then if you are reading this cousin sis,i would like to tell you that there lies no greatness,in concealing your true emotions and a weak person is actually one,who has got enough possibilities to become a strong person.Every weak person will have to start someday and somewhere,to become a steady and strong human.Further,claiming oneself as week is not truly justifiable,because weakness is very relative.You should never compare yourself in such a sphere.A person you think is strong,might not have survived,if s/he,were to face the similar situations,you find yourself surrounded by.And being a weak person never really overlooks,the good qualities you have inside you ...

One finds it so hard to define Religion.Varying and contrasting concepts on and about religion,rightly talked about in Raju Hirani's film PK.This was my second time watch and the movie does make you smile in many places.It is more a satiric picture of contemporary India,tracing the value of Gandhi in the rupee notes and not anywhere else-'Gandhi',a man who wanted to bring all the religions together and thus sowed the seeds of his death.This same religion which finds its existence in church,mosques,temples and gurudwaras.PK rightly says,that there are managers of God on earth and that,there are two theories of God that exist-the God that made us and the God that we made.The God that we made leads to crimes,because of the barrier that comes along with it bit the God that made us-well one can't file a case against that God.He rules and he listens to you in the long run.I am an atheist but i doubt if i will be able to keep that status for long.I am quite lost like PK,if you...

If suppressing is an art,i have seen that in you: Matched by paradoxes of a more significant truth. Baffled inside with a morbid solidarity, Is no accomplishment in this impudent journey. I wait,hope and wake up to the call of light- There seems no escape from the entwined ties... Forgetfulness accompanies me where i go, And what flashes is the unleashed picture of a defamed door.

So,recently i was told by a girl,who is about to give her plus two board exams,that how horribly nervous she is-not only because of her exams but of what will happen next Every student can almost relate to such impatience and to whatever the girl said.I could only console her saying that 'Don't worry,everything will be fine' but i so know that these words were utterly dumb and not inspiring.I remember distinctly of how i too felt the same way and cursed people who gave me such empty assurances.Sometimes i even tried to think exactly like a politically correct dog,saying myself of how people advising me were people having a lot of experience because they were elder to me and that is the same reason i don't trust such people and their words now.But because i did something just as stupid today,i will try to redo it by probably visiting her for five minutes and try to enlighten her.No matter what i or they say,the one concerned is bound to stay in a fix but too much of worr...

Three years passed away really quickly and in my lone hours i ask myself the question of what else did i do and learn,apart from studies in this three years?What are things that i will cherish and treasure?And,thankfully i am left with ample answers and this is a feeling one gets when one knows that one did not entirely waste ones time,thinking about just marks.I don't know,where to begin from.My first day in my hostel-sleepless it was,and to make it more dramatic,it rained heavily that night.I never knew that someday later i will cherish this extremely dramatic scene in my life.I remember spending 120 bucks on an ice-cream cup in SUGAR &SPICE,the first time, and i could almost be compared to a tragic hero because i thought it to be such a waste when one can get it for fifty bucks,outside.I don't mind and take pride in being too grounded.Sharma's tea will be dearly missed and if one stays in South Calcutta and has not yet got the taste of Sharma's,don't waste an...

If i am behaving odd,i have a reason behind that.So when people show me their cold behaviour,i wander if they have grown up hearing a 'no' ever in their life.Too snobby behaviour is one thing that i completely dislike about people.One should always expect getting the same behaviour one shows to others.Have seen,enough of narrow minded competition and the deceptive attitude people carry in themselves,so self obsessed or so desperate,that they want to clear their way out to reach where they want.I am not saying,it is wrong but there is a way-a good one.It just becomes so difficult for one to maintain the same gratitude towards another,in the same way it used to be.I am angry and i can make concrete clear sentences to convey,what i mean-but i won't,because some will not understand,and those who will,will be happier to see such trouble,and then some won't care.Time has always been the best teacher and it will always be.So i will think of just moving on and leave behind nons...

Was not at all prepared.So in the mid of the night,i come to know that our final year selection results are out and i have waited for this day right from the very first day of our college.I still remember,the first day of my graduation class in room 8.We were facing our professor,our present HOD,and she had her back to the wall and it was raining cats and dogs and nothing of what she said, entered my head,for i was preoccupied with how i am going to survive my hostel,my college-Kolkata,for that matter.I used to feel terribly homesick in those initial days but eventually i had to calm down and realize that this was my place,for the next three years.I never thought of anything good about this college.I did not keep expectations of making friends.I thought of concentrating on the purpose,i had come for.But the journey was not easy.I faced things,that i never dreamt of facing.Lonely and frustrating was my first year.Second year was again another bad phase,a time when i completely broke dow...