Of all the decisions that were made
Some gone my way and some away
But one thing is common to all
I had a choice to do it or not
Of all the choices that I made
Somewhere or the other I had to trade
Some brought happiness and some fun
And many times everything was left undone
Then I use to think a lot
Regret of all the things that were lost
How different would the things have got?
If only I had the other choice bought
This helped me to relate
Blaming others I need to dissuade
For everything that I paid
Was because of the choice that I made
And so today I sat I thought
What if
For all my actions
If I had never fought
How different would have
Been my life
If I never really had a choice!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Category
I really don’t understand one phenomenon that is something which is much known to us humans. It is one thing that we love to do. Always without fail. And that’s discrimination. Its something which comes to us as an instinct.
Don’t we love to do that? We have discriminated between humans on basis of anything and everything. Discrimination has been a part of human history. There has been discrimination on basis of caste, creed, religion, race, nationality, earning, boundary, etc, etc, etc. I actually cannot think of anything on which there has not been any discrimination.
What is this discrimination? What I believe is discrimination is a feeling or a state of mind. But discrimination is also very much like a parasite. It requires something over which it grows. We always need things over which we can discriminate. I am not trying to reason out discrimination here. It is very difficult to eliminate it. But we can always have control over it. For this control we need to find out certain aspects of discrimination.
What is important is to understand the thing over which discrimination is done. Discrimination can be done over things which can be of two types. And I feel of only two types. One is on basis of natural things or nature given things and another is on basis man made things. This thing also helps us classify discrimination. So discrimination can be classified in these two categories: Nature given discrimination and man made discrimination. To give a very very few examples:
Nature given:
1.Discrimination based on color of skin. You can be white, black, brown, etc.
2.Discrimination based on physical condition like certain diseases or defects.
3.Discrimination on basis of boundaries that is commonly known as patriotism.
Man made:
1.Discrimination based on religion, caste, creed, etc
2.Discrimination on money
3.Discrimination based on philosophy
People might question this categorization. But this categorization helps us in reasoning things. To give an example of this what I feel is that the nature given discrimination will always be there. It is something over which we have no control. But man made discrimination is something over which we have a little bit control. Take an example of religion. Religion is something thought to a person. It is part of his upbringing. So its useless to discriminate people over religion. If the same person was thought about different religion and in a different way then he would have followed different religion and that discrimination won’t hold true. So what I feel is that we waste our time and our energy discrimination over man made things. Discriminating over nature given things might seem a little logical in comparison. Like discriminating a person over color of skin is a little bit logical. It is something that u cannot take away from someone. If a person is black he is black. If another one is white he is white. But then what’s the use of discriminating over something which we have no control. So what we need to understand is this:
1.Nature given discrimination is useless as we have no control over it. So what’s the use to discriminate over it?
2.Man made discrimination is something which is not permanent. It is something which can be changed or untaught. So what’s the use discriminating over?
In short there is no use of this discrimination at all. But then it will be difficult to remove it completely. I feel that no matter how much ever we teach humanity and its principles it will never go away. Hence we need to control them. For controlling discrimination we need to reason with them. And for this reasoning we need to categorize them.
Don’t we love to do that? We have discriminated between humans on basis of anything and everything. Discrimination has been a part of human history. There has been discrimination on basis of caste, creed, religion, race, nationality, earning, boundary, etc, etc, etc. I actually cannot think of anything on which there has not been any discrimination.
What is this discrimination? What I believe is discrimination is a feeling or a state of mind. But discrimination is also very much like a parasite. It requires something over which it grows. We always need things over which we can discriminate. I am not trying to reason out discrimination here. It is very difficult to eliminate it. But we can always have control over it. For this control we need to find out certain aspects of discrimination.
What is important is to understand the thing over which discrimination is done. Discrimination can be done over things which can be of two types. And I feel of only two types. One is on basis of natural things or nature given things and another is on basis man made things. This thing also helps us classify discrimination. So discrimination can be classified in these two categories: Nature given discrimination and man made discrimination. To give a very very few examples:
Nature given:
1.Discrimination based on color of skin. You can be white, black, brown, etc.
2.Discrimination based on physical condition like certain diseases or defects.
3.Discrimination on basis of boundaries that is commonly known as patriotism.
Man made:
1.Discrimination based on religion, caste, creed, etc
2.Discrimination on money
3.Discrimination based on philosophy
People might question this categorization. But this categorization helps us in reasoning things. To give an example of this what I feel is that the nature given discrimination will always be there. It is something over which we have no control. But man made discrimination is something over which we have a little bit control. Take an example of religion. Religion is something thought to a person. It is part of his upbringing. So its useless to discriminate people over religion. If the same person was thought about different religion and in a different way then he would have followed different religion and that discrimination won’t hold true. So what I feel is that we waste our time and our energy discrimination over man made things. Discriminating over nature given things might seem a little logical in comparison. Like discriminating a person over color of skin is a little bit logical. It is something that u cannot take away from someone. If a person is black he is black. If another one is white he is white. But then what’s the use of discriminating over something which we have no control. So what we need to understand is this:
1.Nature given discrimination is useless as we have no control over it. So what’s the use to discriminate over it?
2.Man made discrimination is something which is not permanent. It is something which can be changed or untaught. So what’s the use discriminating over?
In short there is no use of this discrimination at all. But then it will be difficult to remove it completely. I feel that no matter how much ever we teach humanity and its principles it will never go away. Hence we need to control them. For controlling discrimination we need to reason with them. And for this reasoning we need to categorize them.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
What Year is it?
Yesterday while reading the newspaper I came across an article about the Samajwadi Party’s manifesto for the general election this year. Well I know that most of the manifestos are bull shit and whatever is written hardly gets implemented. This has been followed religiously by our political system for ages. But after reading certain points of this manifesto I was completely stunned. Stunned is the word that describes my feeling precisely. To share a few points that are present in the manifesto:
1. Ban of English language as a medium for all government institution and activities.
2. Ban of English medium schools in the country.
3. Promotion of Hindi language as a common medium in all of India
4. Ban of usage of Computers in Government offices, companies etc.
5. I don’t remember the point exactly but it said building of X nos of temples, Y nos of mosque, etc
Well the SP party has provided many justifications for all these points. What they feel is that English language and computers are the two main reasons because of which we have a lot of unemployment in India. They feel that since many people cannot talk in English and don’t know to operate computers they don’t get jobs for which they might have qualification and capabilities. So they want to target this. They feel that the solution for this is to remove English language’s use. So they want to first remove its usage in communication in government offices and companies and later in private sector. And they feel that Hindi should be promoted more as a one language for India. Same is their theory with computers. They feel that computers first take away certain jobs for humans. If we remove computers then jobs will be done by humans so that will reduce unemployment. They have pointed out that the current state of the world and all the financial problems can be solved by these measure. And some that cannot be solved needs to be solved spiritually. So they want more temples and mosque in India to get India out of trouble today and in future.
After reading this I could believe what I was reading. How can people today take this crap from anyone. I cannot imagine what would be the psyche of the person who wrote this manifesto and people who support it. I seriously don’t understand how do these people get the balls to put up such a thing. And what is funny is this is not some small party. It is a party who are contesting for 400 odd seats and do have a probability of winning the elections and ruling India for the next 5 years. I seriously don’t find words to express my feelings.
In the end I just want to know one thing. The last time I slept the year was 2009. What year are we living in now?
1. Ban of English language as a medium for all government institution and activities.
2. Ban of English medium schools in the country.
3. Promotion of Hindi language as a common medium in all of India
4. Ban of usage of Computers in Government offices, companies etc.
5. I don’t remember the point exactly but it said building of X nos of temples, Y nos of mosque, etc
Well the SP party has provided many justifications for all these points. What they feel is that English language and computers are the two main reasons because of which we have a lot of unemployment in India. They feel that since many people cannot talk in English and don’t know to operate computers they don’t get jobs for which they might have qualification and capabilities. So they want to target this. They feel that the solution for this is to remove English language’s use. So they want to first remove its usage in communication in government offices and companies and later in private sector. And they feel that Hindi should be promoted more as a one language for India. Same is their theory with computers. They feel that computers first take away certain jobs for humans. If we remove computers then jobs will be done by humans so that will reduce unemployment. They have pointed out that the current state of the world and all the financial problems can be solved by these measure. And some that cannot be solved needs to be solved spiritually. So they want more temples and mosque in India to get India out of trouble today and in future.
After reading this I could believe what I was reading. How can people today take this crap from anyone. I cannot imagine what would be the psyche of the person who wrote this manifesto and people who support it. I seriously don’t understand how do these people get the balls to put up such a thing. And what is funny is this is not some small party. It is a party who are contesting for 400 odd seats and do have a probability of winning the elections and ruling India for the next 5 years. I seriously don’t find words to express my feelings.
In the end I just want to know one thing. The last time I slept the year was 2009. What year are we living in now?
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Looking for the one
why don’t you understand me?
is there anyone who can understand me at all?
Haven’t you heard this many times? Be it from your own mouth or from people around you.
A child telling his parents
A woman asking her man
Or the colleague to his boss
But what is the answer to these questions? Can there be anyone who can understand any person completely? What I believe is that if you at look people then one thing which is quite evident is all are very very different. There are billions and billions of people in this world and it is ever growing but still we cannot find two people around us who are alike. Alike in their thought process. Alike in the way they reason things. Or alike in the way they feel. It is so fascinating that who ever created us, God or not, the Almighty Creator, if I put it like this, is a genius. How can you have so many people and still every one have their unique abilities. Every one is a different SELF. Nature is so magnificent in that sense.
But then with everyone being so different I come back to my original question that can there be anyone who can understand you? And we sure know there are so many people around us. If we even try to understand everyone then I think one lifetime will be very scarce. But then how do we get a feeling with someone that he/she really does understands me a bit. How come we get that closeness?
If we try to think about this closeness with someone then we would realize that the other person does understand us at times but not always. But what is a big difference with him/her is that for us it is very easy or I would say not that not difficult to make our self understandable. This big difference is the one thing that defines our relationship, our closeness. We find ourself close to our friends not because they understand us completely as that is not possible but because it is easy for us to explain our self, explain our point to them.
So in the end I would just like to say that we should not lookout for people who can understand us completely. Believe me this is just not possible. But what matters is we lookout for the one with whom we have that comfort level to explain ourself!
is there anyone who can understand me at all?
Haven’t you heard this many times? Be it from your own mouth or from people around you.
A child telling his parents
A woman asking her man
Or the colleague to his boss
But what is the answer to these questions? Can there be anyone who can understand any person completely? What I believe is that if you at look people then one thing which is quite evident is all are very very different. There are billions and billions of people in this world and it is ever growing but still we cannot find two people around us who are alike. Alike in their thought process. Alike in the way they reason things. Or alike in the way they feel. It is so fascinating that who ever created us, God or not, the Almighty Creator, if I put it like this, is a genius. How can you have so many people and still every one have their unique abilities. Every one is a different SELF. Nature is so magnificent in that sense.
But then with everyone being so different I come back to my original question that can there be anyone who can understand you? And we sure know there are so many people around us. If we even try to understand everyone then I think one lifetime will be very scarce. But then how do we get a feeling with someone that he/she really does understands me a bit. How come we get that closeness?
If we try to think about this closeness with someone then we would realize that the other person does understand us at times but not always. But what is a big difference with him/her is that for us it is very easy or I would say not that not difficult to make our self understandable. This big difference is the one thing that defines our relationship, our closeness. We find ourself close to our friends not because they understand us completely as that is not possible but because it is easy for us to explain our self, explain our point to them.
So in the end I would just like to say that we should not lookout for people who can understand us completely. Believe me this is just not possible. But what matters is we lookout for the one with whom we have that comfort level to explain ourself!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Things
What will I do with all the possessions?
I came to this world without any
I worked hard slogging each day
Forgetting many things I wanted sometimes
Disapproving all the pleasures
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the money?
I came to this world without any
I learned how to do things in proper way
What I do best I did my way
Spending at times and saving more
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the name?
I came to this world without any
I did the right things what everyone expected
Surprising not others but myself
And winning all the way
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the things?
I don’t know
I came to this world without any
I worked hard slogging each day
Forgetting many things I wanted sometimes
Disapproving all the pleasures
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the money?
I came to this world without any
I learned how to do things in proper way
What I do best I did my way
Spending at times and saving more
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the name?
I came to this world without any
I did the right things what everyone expected
Surprising not others but myself
And winning all the way
Now I have it all
But one day I will go
What will I do with all the things?
I don’t know
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
My story
There are so many different stories in the world
Some about heroics and some are dumb
Some about love and some are lonesome
Some you listen while some you dump
Some affect you and some make you numb
Some involve you and some are random
Some you enjoy while you loathe some
Of all these stories you want one
That you can call your very own
Will it be made I am not sure of
But there will be a one
Of which
I will be a part of
Some about heroics and some are dumb
Some about love and some are lonesome
Some you listen while some you dump
Some affect you and some make you numb
Some involve you and some are random
Some you enjoy while you loathe some
Of all these stories you want one
That you can call your very own
Will it be made I am not sure of
But there will be a one
Of which
I will be a part of
Monday, December 1, 2008
Where have all the Leaders gone?
Recent few days have been miserable for not only the citizens of Bombay
or India but for everyone. I believe, and also hope at the same time that my belief is true, that no person in this world would enjoy the site of people being killed mercilessly. As the days pass by there are many questions that are raising in everyone's mind. What has happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What can be done? What action to take? Whom to blame? etc etc. The questions are seriously countless. You cannot have a stopping to this.
Everyone wants to do something against it. I totally respect everyone’s feelings and also feel happy that people really want to change things. There are mainly two schools of thoughts: One that says we need to change things and are looking at ways to do that and another one feeling nothing can be changed its going to be the same. Both the set of people keep fighting against each other spending time in arguing over various issues sticking to their principal belief. I don't see negative in this situation. I don't want to blame the first ones by saying: How can we make changes or what actions can be taken? Neither do I want to question others why do you feel nothing is going to change? What makes me happy is that we forget that all the people do feel pain and are thinking a lot about the matter. Whether they are thinking about bringing about changes or whether they have evaluated entire situation and feel that its a such a mess that nothing can change. These thoughts in all the people show that we do have people who care and have energy to bring about something. What really surprises me and is the question way above in my mind is Where have all the leaders gone?
To put some perspective we need to walk back in history and remember certain events.
1893: One man was traveling in train and was thrown from first class compartment even though he had a ticket and was also beaten down. People there were fighting to stop one bill which took away power of voting from non whites. These people got leadership of this beaten down Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and could successfully over turn the bill.
1963: With the hope that they can stop the discrimination that the black people had faced in America for generations people marched to Washington under the leadership of one man Martin Luther King claiming I have a Dream.
1969: Vietnam war was going and people wanted to make a statement about their feeling. One newly married couple John and Yoko took the opportunity of the bed-in honeymoon by singing Give peace a chance. This statement very much reflected that feeling.
I can go on and on with many many such events. This list will never stop but what point I want to make is this isn't the first time that the conditions of our society has deteriorated. We have seen bad times and will see them in future too. But what I feel today is the lack of leaders. Do we have today people who can really lead and guide the public anguish and channel them into proper action. Every order of society has preciously participated in leading the people whether it is in politics, music, films, social service, sports etc. But today we really don't find those leaders in the required numbers. So again I come to my point is there are people who want to do something. People who are thinking about bringing the change. And what we need are the leaders who can help about bringing this change.
or India but for everyone. I believe, and also hope at the same time that my belief is true, that no person in this world would enjoy the site of people being killed mercilessly. As the days pass by there are many questions that are raising in everyone's mind. What has happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What can be done? What action to take? Whom to blame? etc etc. The questions are seriously countless. You cannot have a stopping to this.
Everyone wants to do something against it. I totally respect everyone’s feelings and also feel happy that people really want to change things. There are mainly two schools of thoughts: One that says we need to change things and are looking at ways to do that and another one feeling nothing can be changed its going to be the same. Both the set of people keep fighting against each other spending time in arguing over various issues sticking to their principal belief. I don't see negative in this situation. I don't want to blame the first ones by saying: How can we make changes or what actions can be taken? Neither do I want to question others why do you feel nothing is going to change? What makes me happy is that we forget that all the people do feel pain and are thinking a lot about the matter. Whether they are thinking about bringing about changes or whether they have evaluated entire situation and feel that its a such a mess that nothing can change. These thoughts in all the people show that we do have people who care and have energy to bring about something. What really surprises me and is the question way above in my mind is Where have all the leaders gone?
To put some perspective we need to walk back in history and remember certain events.
1893: One man was traveling in train and was thrown from first class compartment even though he had a ticket and was also beaten down. People there were fighting to stop one bill which took away power of voting from non whites. These people got leadership of this beaten down Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and could successfully over turn the bill.
1963: With the hope that they can stop the discrimination that the black people had faced in America for generations people marched to Washington under the leadership of one man Martin Luther King claiming I have a Dream.
1969: Vietnam war was going and people wanted to make a statement about their feeling. One newly married couple John and Yoko took the opportunity of the bed-in honeymoon by singing Give peace a chance. This statement very much reflected that feeling.
I can go on and on with many many such events. This list will never stop but what point I want to make is this isn't the first time that the conditions of our society has deteriorated. We have seen bad times and will see them in future too. But what I feel today is the lack of leaders. Do we have today people who can really lead and guide the public anguish and channel them into proper action. Every order of society has preciously participated in leading the people whether it is in politics, music, films, social service, sports etc. But today we really don't find those leaders in the required numbers. So again I come to my point is there are people who want to do something. People who are thinking about bringing the change. And what we need are the leaders who can help about bringing this change.
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