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Is a need ...love? Or Is love a need? Does need justify love? Or does love justify need? Demand and supply. Which comes first? The supply ?? Or the demand for the supply?? Pick and choose Pick first then choose? Or choose first then pick?? Share and care Always share with care? Or care to share?? Guilt or ignore? Ignoring leads to guilt ?? Or is the guilt that leads to self- ignorance??!!!!

15 December 2010 14:59 Sometimes being at home ….. helps one evolve... How? Simple,….. The mind works in simple logic, ... At home one has to change their pattern of behaviour so as to suit the decorum set by the elders as house rules....their pattern ie. there are often one too many restrictions . Leading to difference of opinions. Generation gap as some call it. Since for the parents the children are always children.... they never seem to grow up !! or seem to have their LIVES or minds of their own.. .and.no one respects people with no mind ...DUH! So they obviously ignore the stand the child chooses to take. What would a brainless little child know about life anyways huh?? so the parents think, the kids constantly need to be told , and its such a hassle to "constantly " attend to someone else whine on and on….it sometimes skips the mind that conversations can be mere "sharing" and not always suggestion seeking, So...

An apple fell off a tree and a young man lay witness to its fall, due to the mysterious of “realisations”, gravity was discovered. One such realisation took place today in the shower. While i was scrubbing myself religiously with essential oil soaps handmade by khadi!! It occurred to me that a bathroom is more than a place to show up first thing in the morning to ease bowel movement and splash some water and brush brush brush... It has a dark evil twin . it resembles a dungeon. Think about it,!!!! Isnt it the privacy of the bathroom that we take our clothes/pretences off !! and take a deep look at ourselves??!!! Isnt it under that fading spotlight above the dirty sink and a tiny inconspicuous mirror do we actually look at our self! We hate our imperfections, we love our assets, we admire ourselves. We pose and preen. And the next second, scrutinise and dwell in loath . sometimes we over look flaws... Somewhere along the self assessment the action begins, the art of grooming...

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I have lost count of how many fights have I triggered out of plain boredom. I have also lost count of all the times iv had to chew my nails in suppressed reactive agitation, this happens when im on the receiving end of a line of questions , all of whose answers are readily available. The questions arise from a consciously unoccupied brain. Not to be mistaken with idle mind. There is no such thing as an idle mind! The mind isn't programmed to remain on idle mode. Its always on standby, waiting for the next line of fancy . But when the mind isnt assigned any specific job to do, it runs on auto pilot. And hits the plateau called boredom! How does the human mind respond to boredom? Is there a fixed norm as to how a person should respond to boredom? What is boredom in the first place? Boredom is a state of mind when, all that which needs to be done is left pending, and all that work in hand doesn’t seem alluring enough to engage. The limbo sta...

regular shmegular its easier to access the roots of a person with the help of any photo record of the first eight months of life. good housekeeping style :P new born to 8 months of age , baby pictures make great " get back to yourself in a jiffy!" easy card.

My thoughts are a bit scattered but jotted them down anyhow. I perceive" I think therefore I am" to be- I become what I think I wish to become. I.e. I evolve into a person that i think i am. The important part of this whole discussion is the "thinking"... Human mind is a powerful tool. We just don’t recognize it’s potential. Those who do. turn into lunatics/fanatics/philosophers etc. people with knowledge of their capacity are often arrogant. Once they turn to arrogance, their journey to learning stops. They are satisfied with the limited knowledge they hoard. Many choose not to share with others/many choose to make a living out of sharing. Choice is always a weapon. Used either to defend oneself or attack! It’s not easy to find people who know their potential, know its consequences, and yet maintain a balance between the soul searching and living up- the results of soul searching. A true learned person (according to me) is the one who has learnt lessons of l...

"But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something [or thought anything at all] then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." (AT VII 25; CSM II 16–17) my take on the above!!! the deception im talkin about is what id like to call as mindgames played on us. im questioning the aspects of my existence. am i here for a purpose? if so is it useful?what defines "being useful...

My journey of “eradicating unruly eye brows forever” began years ago ,( my college first year to be exact) when a bunch of my seniors dragged me to a local beauty parlor to get me introduced to eye brow grooming. I was a “ brow-virgin ”!! Till then I was blissfully ignorant of how much difference a bunch of neatly arranged, painted and gelled –facial hairs- would make in ,my overall appearance .Little did I know that being on a hotseat with a so called eyebrow grooming professional , who was pulling off “stray hairs” (( eyebrow maintanence jargon!)) would eventually turn into a personal obsession and take over my life! The obsession that began almost a decade ago , slowly turned into a passion and eventually into a communal service. I’m a eye brow stylist ! Yea, that’s right. I style brows for strange people i meet, whose fur above peepers irk me so much that i cant help! but reach out for my tweezers. it jus ends up being a free service! . In other words , I reveal...

something got me wondering about which point of our life are we actually grown up? From what I have learnt so far, age has hardly anything to do with it. So what exactly are the milestones to growing up? Do we have to “Act” grown up inspite of feeling young and restless? The reason for this I suppose is that we get hooked to a certain point or phase, sometimes events of our life that are defining points. After which we grow up in alternate ways. Mostly physical. Our mind stops evolving because there are issues we haven’t dealt with. Only after we achieve closure do we encourage free flow of thoughts and hence actions. Does a 50 something year old person, who is issueless, been through bad string of relationships and is probably still living with himself, have to act the same way as a 50 something year old grandpa who dotes on his young grand children ??? Why do we expect people to behave “their age” when there is no appropriate age like behavior? Why do we get scandalized when...

Maya exists only to evoke feelings and emotions. One learns important lessons of life by going through such emotional turbulence. This does not mean that the more turbulent ones life the more they learn. Learning is what we make of it. We can learn something new all the time. All it takes is a little bit of observation and the right inference skills. Which is where maya comes in. maya is illusion. Its created to cause fluctuations in a persons mind. To convince or confuse. The maya is not the perception. Its jus the dramatics involved to get to a point.Ideally to achieve nirvana we are often told to lead a detached life. Remaining detached is the output , but a very misconstrued one. We think remaining detached means not to attach oneself to anything/one for the fear of creating a new inter dependency. detachment doesn’t occur overnight. One cant jus wake up! And decide to have detachment along with morning caffeine! It’s end result. One must go through the emotional rollercoaster th...

The soul is the cumulative record of the consequences of the action undertaken by the choice of the conscious mind. Its not the conscious mind. The conscious mind is the “ free will” depending solely on the nature of the person. The nature is defined by effects the past. The mental imprints We cant change the past but we can make a future. We can change consequences and make our lives better The trick is to think of a picture thats lucrative for us, and work a life around it. Slowly and steadily built a world around the people we value. Love is not to be confused with the valuation of a person. They are different. Love is term given to an emotion arisen from compassion.

The humble truth 14 August 2010 17:33 Failures can be very tricky to decipher. If taken positively it could serve to be a stepping stone for success but if god forbid, it takes the dark route , it leads to extreme levels of depression, with anger, self doubt, guilt, disappointments acting as milestones. Here my story as an example. One fated day, when my dad was in town and as usual stayed at his new "den" , I received a message from my agent, asking me if id like to audition for a strange yet international fashion week. The text read dress code to be hot shorts and tube tops! The seed of skepticism had been sown. I was apprehensive to even respond to the message . So I pushed it for later considering it was scheduled for 14th aug .a week after the text! But as luck would have it, she called me right after waiting for 10 mins and seeing no text on her phone she placed a call. And requested me to audition. I agreed. I woke up at 10.30.was wide awake at 7 b...

Ever had to lie to a boyfriend, hairstylist or a friend about the incessant scalp itching and as to why your nails are constantly digging into your scalp and your face looks like its going to explode??? Ever had to give silly excuses and admitting rather nonchalantly ,to having dandruff or sometimes writing off the itch as “effects of pollution” or “jus worked out so scalp sweat makes you itch” . Hey! Admitting to dandruff is embarrassing by itself but when it competes with the embarrassment of admitting to having hair lice, having tiny white flakes that stick on your shirt every time you move your head left to right, doesn’t seem so bad after all.. Well that’s pretty much how iv been dealing with this rather miserable and not to mention scalp burning catastrophe which struck me like thunderbolt (ok exaggerating a little here! ) . Here is how it happened!.. A couple of days ago my dads personal maid approached me with rather pink cheeks. ( ok ! so she is dark but the problem s...

The advantage of travelling esp with my dad , was that everything would be well taken care of. I mean really well taken care of. Planned by the minute! So we(4 of us in the family) are in this swanky hotel/service apartment in Hawaii.something called, aston waikiki beach tower, bang opposite the shores of pacific , and i clearly remember not being allowed to go to the Beach without the escort of my elder brother. I was all of 12. The age gap between my brother and me is 5years. He is the elder one and that by nature of seniority made him the bossy and highly un cooperative one!. Hey ! before anyone goes, So what? if he is elder? that doesnt make him the bossy or un cooperative one!! Let me make it clear. Being the younger one and also being physically frail (like being a girl wasnt enough!) I got kicked around quite a lot. So! all those who still stick to the above statement are probably covering up their acts in the past/present of sibling torture and in most probability are the e...