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...