The Cup of Life

  The urge to sit and pen down the blistering thoughts emerging out of the vacuum created by “The Odyssey” (some may call it a movie; I feel it an epic in itself) is real and so prominent that it surpasses all the earthly lavishes for a moment. The following views are personnel and are solely my opinions. MY BLOG MIGHT LOOK LIKE A SPOILER ALERT, BUT THE STORY OF “THE ODYSSEY” IS A BITTERSWEET BEFORE WATCHING IT. There was a rise of civilization, a meaning to what is right and what is wrong, a shape to the gods along with the devils and a home to cherish. As time passed, the language of humans changed. The truth turned into lies, the honest turned into deception and the wittiness turned into cunningness. “The Odyssey” is a future born out of one deception, one lie and one cunning thought, famously “The Trojan Horse”. The movie takes you through a story of how to finally disclose the story of where. I take you though the values, ideologies, meanings that I decipher out of it. ...

  1. “Svadharme nidhanam śreyaḥ, paradharmo bhayāvahaḥ.” - “It is better to perform one’s own duty imperfectly than to perform another’s duty perfectly. The duty of another is fraught with danger.” Meaning: If each person sincerely fulfills their own responsibilities — however small — society remains balanced. Chaos begins when people neglect their own roles or interfere in others’. 2.  Confucius : “When everyone performs their duties according to their station, harmony will prevail.”

  Note: Picking up words from different sources and stitching them into an article is not the motto. We chalk out practical and implementable ideas and actions so that we could grow step-by-step… Have you ever thought that a normal human brain gets about 65,000 thoughts per day? Most of us wouldn’t have noticed it because we are so busy in the growing world. Yes, we all agree that 20 to 30 years of age is when most of Indian children are supposed to be settled as per their parent’s advice and peer pressures. An interesting survey by the UNICEF in 2021 showed that 1 out of 7 students aged between 15-24 years of age felt depressed and lacked interest to do things. I think the main reason for this particular age group is the vulnerability towards settling down in their lives. People born in at the verge of 1996-2000 are almost Millennials age grouped and are almost in the middle of an orthodox viewpoint of families to the carefree and open-minded families. What we go through is s...

  We all spend lots of time in knowing what our loved ones want, we spend time with our friends unknowingly or invariably imitating their interests and their desires, we look at the surroundings and feel that what the majority of people like, is what we like… Have we ever stopped for just a minute and gave the thought of what we really want and what we really aspire to have??? In this Terabyte world long gone from megabyte and gigabyte, we are now running aimlessly under the pressure of peers and the society. Why do we now hate to be the same child that once we were long back??? Why do we look at the surroundings to decide something that we need, why do we actually care so much so that we forget what we really are and what we really want…? Is it not true that we all cried, forced and never stopped until we got what we wanted when we were a child? Can’t we actually be the same after so many years of living in a society of compromise and compensations. Are we actually strong enou...

  Have you ever wondered what is the true meaning of “EDUCATED ILLITERATES”??? We often boast ourselves that we are educated and that we have the royal taglines of MSc, MTech, MPhil, PhD and so on. Most of us even mock ourselves that whatever we learn in these professional degrees or not but the taglines will surely come in handy during marriages. Is the education only limited to a match-making ceremony or just to create an image in the village that we are studying more than others??? Its so unfortunate that we grow to have the degrees in hand but still fail to understand the true meaning of education. So, what is the true meaning or purpose of the education??? The irony is - we know to read but don’t know what to read., we know to write but we don’t know what to write. We are blessed with learnings of ABCDE but are cursed with the lack of knowledge how to use them. Why am I saying all these??? Just a single day of oppression and inequality can change the way we think. Bu...

  Truth is always bitter and hard to accept. Some are so fiercely that people know about its illness but fail to talk about them . U may ask what happens with talking about some of those truths which are kept abandoned from the reach of sensible people in a insensible society? Illness should be cured as and when it is felt. People cannot neglect the wound in the society only because it never happened in a place where they can see. Sometimes unseen and unfelt wound needs better care to make the society more livable and justified. The Illness I am talking about is the “Taboo” that we people carry in this society only because no one talked about it. By accepting the truth, we are free to talk about it. And with the freedom comes the rationality. And with the rationality comes decision making. And with the decisions comes changes. And with the change will the society run towards an equilibrium, in the hopes of a better world. Once my friend said, “I think we people can never at...

  “Everyone’s perfect in their own imperfect ways…” It’s a busy day and you rush between the crowd towards your classroom only to find yourself slipping and falling down to the floor at the very next moment. Now if you had a power to recap what happened second by second, then you could find yourself amused because – at the very second when you realized you were falling down even before you touched the ground, you were in the deep trauma about what the people standing around would think and feel. So now once you have fallen down, its obvious that you mostly care about how well composed you look rather than where you have been hurt. If it was the end then there wouldn’t have been a necessity for this article to show up. There is a sequel to this simple story where you go to class and think about who all were present while you fell rather than listening to the lecture that your favorite teacher is presenting. You invest so much of energy in thinking that the brain starts heating u...