Re-entry into the blogging world

Hello! I'm back after about 2 years of hibernation. The reason for my inactivity is purely- laziness, laziness and laziness. A lot of things have happened in the meantime- the most important is I've begun to see the world- with all kinds of people. For one thing I cannot call myself "A school girl trying to improve my English vocabulary" any longer. In one way there is some connection between the post which follows and the previous sentence- the reason which made me come back to blogger.

Once into college, I see how different everything is. The travel in town bus (mostly fully packed), the attitude of the faculty and peer group have all made me open my eyes. I realize these many years I've been inside a golden cage where I was taken care of by my friends and family. Now as I step into the real world, I see how different it is from the world I've been shown.

Let me first describe my travel experiences. Gaining entry into a bus by negotiating my way from the first step to a comfortable place where I can stand was one of the first things I learned. Mostly, by the time I achieve this I would've reached my destination. Standing on the last step in a private bus with a bulging bag on the shoulder while the bus is turning an S-bend is not exactly my definition of comfort. And to think that kids right from the age of 8 do it everyday to go to and return from school is very saddening. It made me think why no school buses are provided for the government school children. If not separate school buses, at least student special buses can be provided. If those kids get tired just from travel, how can they be expected to learn with their full potential in their homes? Giving free lunch doesn't solve the problem of illiteracy entirely. The only comfortable feeling I have while being squashed in a crowded bus is "Thank God I do not have to worry about pick-pockets". I do not have a smart phone!

Coming to the academic part, among many issues, I find one very annoying- buying education. Sounds absurd, right? When people with great talents find it difficult to get admitted into top colleges, people with money are relaxed. This is one place where the proverb "No pains, no gains" does not hold. I do not see any reason to buy seats in a famous college when the student is not capable of coping with what is done in the college. I'm not implying that everybody who has got top marks in the Higher Secondary exams are highly capable of handling things very efficiently. But they at least know that they should work hard to gain something. Only a single drop of poison is necessary to make a potful of milk poisonous. Apart from possessing venomous qualities by itself, it also contaminates the entire contents of the pot. It does not allow the milk to retain its purity. It tortures and torments every single drop which tries to retain its originality. Unless that drop finds a way of leaving the pot it has no chance of survival. That is exactly the case in real world too. There maybe an argument that not all those who get top marks have the best character. Yes, I agree contamination is possible at all levels. But as long as contamination is there, why not allow people who have talent to be at a place rather than people who have money? There is more in this world than money can buy.

There is also the issue of understanding each and every concept being learnt. First and foremost, we should understand why we are learning a concept. For example, why should an electronics and communication engineer learn engineering graphics? Why should a fashion technologist learn C language? Once we know what we are learning and why we are learning it, half the learning process is over. The remaining part just lies in understanding the concepts and their relevance in our field.

Let me not convey the impression that I have got a pessimistic outlook of the world. No, I only say that there are all kinds of people everywhere. Learning to lead a peaceful life with different kinds of people is a skill; not a very easy skill too. It is a life skill which ought to be developed in each and every human being.


  

Story Of Success

Psychology of the individual- a specialty for which most of Jeeves' success must be attributed; and which has kept me preoccupied for the past two years. It is a really interesting subject of study once we get the essence of it. I first started by identifying myself- my character, which was indistinct even to me then.

I identified my strengths in the first place and then my weaknesses- all thanks to the best ever Moral Science classes given  my class teacher in my final year of schooling. And I understood that once we identify our weakness we've overcome it by 50%. The difficult part is the identification- the places where we are vulnerable. Well, as I kept working on my character, I identified how many people have the same thought pattern as me in my surroundings. I understood why like poles repel (in psychology sense) then. I really get a doubtful feeling when I meet any person who seems to have the same character as me in more and more aspects, because as long as we identify only the likeness between us we'll be able to freely share our thoughts. The moment one small difference arises, there'll probably be a feud, or if not an open confrontation, we'll probably carry the bitterness in our hearts and not confide in each other, which is even worse.

The best way to overcome a difference in opinion between any friends (or any humans for that matter) is to put ourselves in the other person's place and think what we'd do in that situation. This has worked out most of the time for me in the recent months and has helped me relax. But the difficult part is to calm ourselves and think of the situation from the other person's perspective. Most of the time taking deep breaths or counting 1 to 10 or telling some sloka doesn't help me. I feel that I can control myself only by controlling my thought pattern. If we feel that this is not the right time for making decisions, we ought not to make any decision at that time as it may prove to be disastrous in the long run. We should give time to relax ourselves and decide only when our mind clears, let it take weeks or months. When we think of something in a relaxed state, we'll find that our own mind is actually capable of giving the best possible advice. Following it WILL definetly lead us to success even when we do not know the way to success. And understanding people will help in relating with the others in all situations.

For instance I've seen how being honest takes us on the right path even when we ourselves are not aware of the direction to be taken for the right path. In fact, I visualize honesty as a police inspector who barricades every other path other than the correct one and doesn't let us climb over it without his knowledge too, as people usually do in Avinashi Road. Loyalty and Sincerity are probably SIs in the department. Seriously everybody should try this out to feel the truth in this. And many people don't realize that their happiness is attributed to this special department. Another one of the unrecognized steadfast set of people I would say.

Think of all the happy moments in your lives. At least one of these people will have had a role in it.