Make a Difference!

The problem of a civilized world is that the bigger we grow, the uncivilized we get. As kids we live, we learn, we love. As adults, we kill, we earn, we burn.

Why the hell should we grow-up then? Why do the teachers teach us to be good human beings when life teaches us survival of the fittest?

How are we better than other animals? Just because we live in a cemented colony?

Animals live and breed in colonies too, but unlike us they live in peace with who they are, where they are and what they want.

We humans destroy those same colonies we are born in. We pollute, we populate, we destruct and then we calculate.

The more we get the more we want. The more we want, more selfish we become. Individualistic thinking ruins the lives around as as we prosper. On the other hand, other animals are more sensible; they know how to live.

There couldn't be a better teacher for us than a simple wild animal.

Well then, how are we better than animals when we are worse than them in everything?

We are better because we have better thinking ability. We actually have an option to make our life, and this world a desirable place to live in.

And we have the strength to do something about the choices we make.

In this order, we think, we choose, we work.

So all we need is to have a little more faith in ourselves, our world, our choices and our fate.

This faith brings us hope and hope gives us the strength to look beyond our failures and defeat.

Believe in yourself and no one can stop you from making a difference.

You will because you can and you want!

Show Me The Finger!

So it was V-day in Delhi yesterday! total turn-out came to be 53% with East Delhi recording the highest number of voters and South, the least.

All over India, states with high turn-out have been West Bengal, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana while that with the lowest was Jammu and Kashmir.

Over the last few years, voter turnout has been steadily declining throughout the country.Though Delhi proudly stands as one of those few other states (or Union Territories) with an increased turn-out.

highly disappointing was the turnout result in Mumbai that stood to be only 43%. with all the awareness programmes, publicity and campaigns that drove the city in the wake of 26/11, everyone had expected bit more of it.

It is easy to bicker, easier still to raise a voice but very courageous to actually get-up and do something about it.

This lack of interest could be said to be a way of voters' boycott with the governance of the country. however they failed to take note of a few important things here.

First, if you don't vote you lose your voice. your vote is the way to tell what you want.

Second, if your reason to not vote was lack of a good leader in your opinion, you could go to the booths and cast a no-vote through the 49(O) option, the rule that allows a voter to vote for nobody by leaving a remark in the main register at the polling booth.

However, all said and done, i was one of the fortunate ones who got to excercise her/his right to vote for a 2nd time in a row.

Last year i voted in the State elections and each time it was the same feeling of belongingness to the nation.i felt like i matter, like i have a voice and iam proud to be able to raise it.

It could be that my choice of party comes to power or it could be vice versa. but what matters most is that i tried. i tried atleast to bring a change, even if in my own little way.

Valid reasons apart, if you didn't vote, you lost a golden opportunity that comes once every half a decade.

So next time i hear anyone telling me how screwed up the political jungle in the country is or how corrupt is the new leader, the one thing i am going to ask them is to show me The finger, show me your voice, show me your choice.

Of Bobs and Blunts!

Been a long time since i last got my hair cut. had a function coming up this week so decided now is the time.

The first thing that the stylist asked was what kind of cut i was looking for. i gave my requirements.

And while he was working on the look, i just wondered what kind of answers does he get each time? Short? long? dramatic? not hard to manage? sweet? different? what? I guess it all depends on the kind of personality of the person.

One simple cut can change the whole outlook of people.

You look at a person and you judge them by the way they dress-up, the way they wear their hair, the way they walk. Its all part of who you are.

Women magazines suggest to have a new haircut if in depression.

Just one cut and you're feeling way better than you did in days. you just can't stop smiling.

What is it about hair?

It is a part of your personality; it shapes your personality. It is very important thus, to choose your cut carefully. to decide well, what you are looking for.

One wrong cut and you end-up looking a totally different person.

Just one of those thoughts that crossed my mind and I decided to share it with those who care to read.

Women Power and Earth Hour

My first blog starts with a very spontaneous thought i got struck with.

I was sitting in my room, reading a book when suddenly my mother and aunt came barging into the room and turned off all the lights.

Together as a team, one announced it was Earth hour and the other went around the whole house turning all the lights off. and mind you, we have a really big house.

Any protests from family members, young or old, husband or kids were met with just one stern look; actually make that two. My father argued, so did my brothers. but they finally gave in when the women countered them with their arguments.

Our house now stands a firm and proud soldier in this fight against global warming and energy conservation.

My motto for Earth hour:- One hour for one world.

As i was biding my time standing in the gallery i just wondered if it all would have been possible had my mothers not intervened?

And i realised how women power, whenever and wherever united, can win the day. Women can be the soft-hearted souls but they can also be the fiercest of fighters. Therefore the saying, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

We all know how Mahatma Gandhi seeked active participation of women in all his freedom movements calling for another saying-behind every successful man there is a woman.

The calibre of a determined and focused woman is incomparable and impossible to beat to say the least.

the power of a woman can never be contained. its a one-(wo)man army.

A woman's life is a life of struggle. she fights for her rights, her life and basically everything that should be hers, naturally, in an ideal world. This lifelong fight moulds her character and gives shape to her personality, making her soul invincible. All the qualities of a born-leader indeed!

So just imagine what this born-leader could do once she put her heart and mind into it? Woman power should never be questioned. it should be nurtured with due respect.

United they stand, united they conquer.

Woman power, you have a taker!