Vocabulary

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You read a word once, you notice it.
You hear it once, you remember it.
You use it once, you will never forget it.

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Memoirs 8 - The Loser

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I am sitting on the roadside as the crowd flashes past, the traffic flows and stops with the signals. Some look at me with a feeling akin to sympathy and understanding - they throw a coin my way - I turn my face away. I once rode with dignity the streets they now wander. I know what they think; but they won't understand my plight, until they find themselves here, where I now wait.

The waiting is neverending, it would grind the backbone of an ordinary individual. But I am far from ordinary. I can endure this with more mettle because this is what I have been weathering all my life, the failures and the rejections and the just-misses. This is what each stepping stone called 'Loss' has been preparing me for, over the years.

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Irritants of the world

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Some people are born irritants. There is no escaping them. You try to avoid them but they manage to sneak up behind you and ruin your day the best way they can, with the best tools at hand. You are sometimes left wondering (almost admiring) how they manage to do it so well. And when you find that some of them hang out with each other, you wonder... do they irritate each other so much so that the friction sticks them together? Or is the togetherness a method of sharpening their tools against each other, in anticipation of their next victim?

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At my nastiest

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It's one of those days.

I woke up after seeing an 'explosive dream' - a dream with a lot of illogical explosions in it, with me in the thick of it - mingled with the appearances of some people from my past whom I haven't thought of for months, perhaps years. Where do these thoughts come from? And when I woke up, everything was out-of-sync. I could get absolutely nothing right.

Furious helplessness, and decisions forced into my mouth.

I badly want to get nasty with someone and ruin someone's happiness !

Ever had one of those days?

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Kung Fu Panda

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Now I know. Among animation movies, there are excellent ones, there are average ones and then there are below-average ones. Of the last I will not speak much except that there aren't many in this category, and the few that are, are scattered across the globe. They continue to entertain the children, however do not find much admirers in the adult audience.


Kung Fu Panda undoubtedly falls under the first category of the Excellent Animation Movies.



There was a time when superheroes ruled the world. Much of the human population was captivated by their absolutely unreproducible adventures. Ordinary mortals could not even dream of approaching them, let alone imitating them, and the Universe lived in contentment that such successes are for the extraordinary lives. But that is far from the case now. The world has been educated that ordinary people are capable of far greater achievements than the superheroes! For example, a big, fat, flabby Panda can defeat the most feared snow leopard Tai Lung, who was not stopped even by the Furious Five masters of Kung Fu (Monkey, Mantis, Viper, Crane and Tigress)! It took the greatest Kung Fu master of all China to point out to him that his weaknesses are his greatest strengths.

Excellent movie, featuring the voice talents of Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, David Cross, to name a few.

A must watch.

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The thread of events

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Whatever happens, happens for the best.

This is an old thought, perhaps as old as human communication itself. There are a great number of such quotes floating about the universe which we are aware of, yet have not spent enough time to decide whether we believe in it.

And then suddenly one day we come across it for the infinite-th time and are struck by how true it is, how our lives are the undying evidence of its truth.

Whether whatever happens is for the best or not, I leave you to contemplate. But the thread of what happens to us today, leads way back several years, to our birth or even beyond.

My immediate (mis)fortune does not owe its origin or reason to the events of yesterday. It leads back to choices I made years ago. If I really bother to go back and write down each instance that led to the next event in line, I may go back about fifteen years (at the very least). Some are decisions I made, some have been forced into me and some logical decisions just came my way and I followed their direction.

This line of thought has a negative effect. At some point, we may end up regretting the decision we made. Had I not chosen that path, maybe I would have ended up in a better place. Chances are you may have landed in a worse mess!

However, at least in one instance of my life I have found that, even if I had made a different choice than I did eight years ago, I would have ended up exactly here! Curious, strange perhaps, but true. The paths would have been different and many of the people I encountered would have been different, but I would have landed exactly (or very near) where I am now.


We Indians are by and large a spiritual lot. We may cover ourselves up in the most modern guise and use the international parlance, but somewhere inside we are still attached to the beliefs and traditions we were brought up with. We have often heard of "actions in this life affecting the next life" (which is an altogether different and lengthy topic!). Who knows, our actions and situations of this life may have their roots in our previous life.

This perhaps explains (partly) the train of thought that initiated this blog post.

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Memoirs 7 - Age

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Age means the length grown each year by the thread that binds you to the time and surroundings of your birth and the number of branches it has grown in the time.

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Situations and Reactions

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Two persons with different sets of experiences, mindsets and behaviour (but in the same age group and in the same environment) are given a problem where they need to express their reactions to help the questioner out of a difficult and emotionally challenging situation (which he feels is an insult on top of injury). Each one is unaware of the reaction of the other to the problem.

Here are their reactions.

Person-1
- Justifies that the situation is right and is as per "Policy".
- Tries to make light of it and says it isn't an issue at all.
- Says that You are being too emotional and should not do anything in fury.
- Says, I perfectly understand your feelings but I cannot ease it for you, there is no humiliation involved as you seem to think, the situation is perfectly justified.
- Says that I am on your side, but you need to endure it.Trying to avoid it is like showing your protest which is quite uncalled for.
- Says, You will ruin relationships if you try to dodge it. Finally you are the loser; if you go through this though you feel it isn't right, you will benefit out of it.

Person-2
- Says, I have already spoken to the concerned person to make things easier for you so that you don't have to go through this agony.

I rest my case.

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