In today's world where material wealth and social status are becoming more dearer to people, relationships and their worth have taken a back seat.. Often human values are pushed under the carpet in the name of competitiveness..
People are so geared up to get to the top of the success ladder, often they trample upon others to get there..
The most important virtues of kindness and helpfulness are no longer evident in us..
We have become self centered in our ways... The race to success has blurred our vision of the life's most important human virtues...
If we don't make a conscious effort to reverse this mindset, then we are sowing the seeds for a gloomy future..
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Awe-Inspiring quotes
Here are a collection of quotes that caught my eye while roaming the world wide web..
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Should Sachin retire or not??
Indians are generally never short on views, particulary when it comes to cricket..
Cricket has such a huge fan following in this country.. so much so that it is considered a religion and the cricketers are
treated as demi gods, which they never claim to be... following the early exit by india from the World cup,
there was a huge outcry for a complete overhaul of the
structure back home.. some former players questioned whether senior player like Sachin, Sowrav should make way for younger talent..
this started a huge debate among the cricket fraternity as to when a player should retire? the war of words among former players started playing out through the media..
Ofcourse, in this case, sachin is the best person to decide when he should hang up his boots..
unfortunately for sachin, his body is also letting him down time and again after close to 17 years of international cricket..
Sachin has to decide for himself whether he is capable of contributing to the team effectively..
afterall as die hard fans of the little master, we dont want to see him limping through the last years of his glittering career..
we want him to retire on a high, relive those young years when he played without the burden of responsibility weighing on his shoulders..
. when sachin plays well and india win,, its a day of national celebration.. no other indian in his lifetime
could claim to have brought such unbridled joy to millions of his country men as sachin has done through his wonderful career.
everybody wants sachin to do well, infact we pray for him to do well..
when he fails, its a personal tragedy.. im sure no one will forget the innings he crafted against pakistan in the 2003 WC..
personally, i would like to see sachin recapture the throne of the best batsman in the world in the near future.... im sure a billion indians will agree with me..
spoken as a true indian and an avid fan of the little master.......
Cricket has such a huge fan following in this country.. so much so that it is considered a religion and the cricketers are
treated as demi gods, which they never claim to be... following the early exit by india from the World cup,
there was a huge outcry for a complete overhaul of the
structure back home.. some former players questioned whether senior player like Sachin, Sowrav should make way for younger talent..
this started a huge debate among the cricket fraternity as to when a player should retire? the war of words among former players started playing out through the media..
Ofcourse, in this case, sachin is the best person to decide when he should hang up his boots..
unfortunately for sachin, his body is also letting him down time and again after close to 17 years of international cricket..
Sachin has to decide for himself whether he is capable of contributing to the team effectively..
afterall as die hard fans of the little master, we dont want to see him limping through the last years of his glittering career..
we want him to retire on a high, relive those young years when he played without the burden of responsibility weighing on his shoulders..
. when sachin plays well and india win,, its a day of national celebration.. no other indian in his lifetime
could claim to have brought such unbridled joy to millions of his country men as sachin has done through his wonderful career.
everybody wants sachin to do well, infact we pray for him to do well..
when he fails, its a personal tragedy.. im sure no one will forget the innings he crafted against pakistan in the 2003 WC..
personally, i would like to see sachin recapture the throne of the best batsman in the world in the near future.... im sure a billion indians will agree with me..
spoken as a true indian and an avid fan of the little master.......
Friday, May 18, 2007
Towards god's own country
as i had never been to kerala before, i was filled with unmatched exuberance to say the least..
we started nice and early from our home and reached the ever busy chennai central station.. chennai central as always
was buzzing with tons of people.. The frequent announcements from the railway personal and the rumbling of trains arriving and departing..
We boarded the aleppey express.. To our utter bewilderment we had been alotted a cabin in the first class AC coach.. The cabin boasted of cozy beds and plush
interiors and a personal wash basin too.... the journey to ernakulam was an eventful one with me and my cousins chaffering along continously till we slept..
i woke up the next morning to my first view of this beautiful place on earth - kerala... the scenery outside the window was breathtaking with innumerous plantations and tall cocunut trees.
and the houses with their unmistakably keralish architecture... it was a sight to behold.. we touched down at ernakulam around 9 AM.... we had our breakfast and started to
Munnar by bus.. if our journey to ernakulam was comfortable, the journey to Munnar was anything but comfortable .a sense of deja vu.. the bus we took was small in size bcoz as the driver explained we were
about to take narrow winding roads on our way up the hills to munnar... the scenes we saw when we started climbing the hills simply blew me away... the spiraling road took us thru some of the most amazing surroundings we have ever witnessed..
atlast after innumerable twists and turns thru hilly roads, we reached munnar.. munnar is a small resort town... one of the major sources of living in munnar are the tea estates which engulf the mountains nearby..
We were too tired to do sight seeing at munnar that day, coz the journey had taken its toll... i will continue my experiences in kerala in my next blog....
we started nice and early from our home and reached the ever busy chennai central station.. chennai central as always
was buzzing with tons of people.. The frequent announcements from the railway personal and the rumbling of trains arriving and departing..
We boarded the aleppey express.. To our utter bewilderment we had been alotted a cabin in the first class AC coach.. The cabin boasted of cozy beds and plush
interiors and a personal wash basin too.... the journey to ernakulam was an eventful one with me and my cousins chaffering along continously till we slept..
i woke up the next morning to my first view of this beautiful place on earth - kerala... the scenery outside the window was breathtaking with innumerous plantations and tall cocunut trees.
and the houses with their unmistakably keralish architecture... it was a sight to behold.. we touched down at ernakulam around 9 AM.... we had our breakfast and started to
Munnar by bus.. if our journey to ernakulam was comfortable, the journey to Munnar was anything but comfortable .a sense of deja vu.. the bus we took was small in size bcoz as the driver explained we were
about to take narrow winding roads on our way up the hills to munnar... the scenes we saw when we started climbing the hills simply blew me away... the spiraling road took us thru some of the most amazing surroundings we have ever witnessed..
atlast after innumerable twists and turns thru hilly roads, we reached munnar.. munnar is a small resort town... one of the major sources of living in munnar are the tea estates which engulf the mountains nearby..
We were too tired to do sight seeing at munnar that day, coz the journey had taken its toll... i will continue my experiences in kerala in my next blog....
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