learning and growing

It does not really surprise me now when I think that some older folks just hate our generation. It is hard to accept that things have really degraded. Most people of my age like chaos and they happily create it. They find it easy and normal to drag a street child shamelessly. They don't care for the child getting hurt. They drag them because they say that they want to educate them on streets. Educate- huh? Where is your education when you use force? Where is your education when you show no manners? Where is your education and what is it that stops you from realizing or seeing that you hurt a child, while you drag him? I hate to be a part of a generation who thinks it to be cliché to show respect to elders. Who is asking you to be humble and polite always? But surely nothing can stop you from showing elders politely, how and where they are wrong.And one evening was enough for me to not regret a decision that I made some four years ago. I am happy that I did not choose you Scottish C...

One of my friends that I know, goes on nagging about how girls should not be married at an early age. According to her things have changed, and marrying at an early age does not work towards empowering women. A very vague concept for one who claims to be a feminist. I too believe personally that marriage of girls can be avoided at an early age, but I have reasons very different from my friend. To this friend I would say, that marrying at an early age does not always mean bondage. If someone wishes to and is pretty confident and adamant about getting married at 21 or 22, then why stop that woman? How can someone claim oneself to be a feminist and do exactly what Patriarchy does to the women population. Have I not discussed this before? By burdening someone with your opinions and what what you think is right make you what you don't want to be. A woman can be an excellent housewife and that does not always mean that she is less ambitious. Her decision to marry at an early age, does no...

So what's new in my life? One is, meeting the almost same morons with different faces. Morons who give me the opportunity to be criticized, who help me become more confident. Morons who are elder to me, yet never think twice before passing a comment or making a statement. Wait, I don't think they even know the difference between a comment and a statement. Morons they are with their silly jokes and irritating habits. Morons they shall always be and help me contribute more to my blog. Two is, the realization that all is temporary strikes me again and I end up placing myself neither in the past,nor in the present or the future. Three is, it amazes me to see that how people self interpret a given situation incorrectly, and then dumbly give reasons to justify that they are in a better place and unwelcomingly complicate matters. Some are stupid to the point of behaving like lovers I have betrayed, when they meant nothing more than friends. How boring and lonely it mus...

When a street child tells me that he has found happiness in the hardships, my mind retrospects. Back when I was in class ten( or twelve), I remember writing an essay entitled 'Cage' and there I wrote that, ' Let a child of nature, be and remain a child of nature. Let him know no bounds, let him be free and not caged...' Strangely I still remember the line, and strangely I feel happy today. Strangely the line reverberates in me. Strangely the world looks a better place to live in.

When literates and intellectuals say that they don't believe in humanity anymore, I consider it to be very 'normative',nothing surprising enough to shake the previously laid foreground of the intellectual premises. I am still on my way to make my mark and thus not highly literate, but a common woman who sees the world through the spectrum of emotions, most of the times. So,one little incident that happened yesterday, shocked me and I started believing in the notion of the intellectuals- Humanity has died and people are not only extremely mean and selfish, but have forgotten their basic civic sense. I went with my aunt to get hold of a mud made Saraswati,in a nearby market, and on our way back stopped to purchase our daily grocery stuff, and my aunt casually asked the shopkeeper, 'Dada apnar bou kemon ache?'(How is your wife?) and the man as if suddenly stoned, stammered and tried conveying that his wife had died. My aunt felt sorry, even I did. The man had tears in ...

A letter has come, With words of chilling surprise ' Splendiferous' thought the mind Not the news, but the words Letters could speak, thought the mind Of stories and dying... Death was the news, and tears had arrived ' Splendiferous' thought the mind The faded letter has finally arrived.

Once Bacon,drowned himself into a pool of thoughts concerning men and their nature. He perhaps enjoyed it. I,a lesser human,is FORCED to think about some.For example,when I write or say something, sometimes,some people spontaneously assume,it is for them.I fail to contemplate why? HOW do things become so obvious and WHY do things become obvious? Many a times I see people accuse me as having deliberately caused them some emotional damage,as if I have no other thing to think about.Some are overtly domineering, because they think I am and they can't stand that, and they confess that to others.Then there are some others who try to brainwash you, and since you know them too well,you give them the pleasure to believe that they have been successful in their endeavor.But o,come on how can wicked people and their thoughts substitute good people and their thinking. Then there are some,who can well identify and situate themselves, yet stop themselves from being and explicitly accepting what t...