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If we say, something is not there

Then there is nothing in there

But if we constantly

Hear there is something in there

Then someday

We come to believe

Something must be there

Words and thoughts

Always have some power

If we continue to hear and talk about them

Then the illusion,

Looks real!

It is fate

That, we humans are weak

To eliminate all in the first place

But, we learn the difference       

In the end !

—Meena.

Every time a word is uttered

It creates a specific meaning!

Life is a boat, it sways

Because of current- current due to wind.

Current moves along with the Wind's direction.

That is the nature of current.

We also move with the words of air

Like the boat.

Surviving everything

That is the way of life Sensible life!

—Meena.

    1)   My question “schools are making students only academically brilliant, not lovable humans”? No offence. my view on this question, every school is only worried about education, academic achievements. But they never try to teach how to mingle with humans, and how to tackle real life problems. They are making academic geniuses. Oh yes, they can make money, but they cannot keep a single relation intact.

  2)     Extra curricular activities taking a back seat in schools, b’coz they are worried who is going to be the top the city. I changed my kids school from one institution to other, reason the school doesn’t encourage extra curricular  activities, especially  sports. My  opinion. Sports are very important. It not only relaxes kids but it also gives them some confidence that winning and losing is a part of their life. Anyways, the physical wise  it is healthy also.

3)       About taking leave for important things is another comedy, schools are very adamant to give leaves for marriages, death and special occasions. They are giving the reason, that kids miss lessons, and they can’t pick up later, and they will score low marks. Ok, their reason are very reasonable. Do these schools ever wonder, socializing is also very important in kids’ growth to be a proper human being.

4)       Moral science, all schools have this subject but do they ever let the children feel what it is in real, without practical knowledge how can they come out morally good and well. Sometimes, only reading and teaching doesn’t work, it needs action.  Let them socialize with their own ppl.  Giving two day or three days is not going to cause them any loss.

5)       My cousin sis's personal experience, her son was not well, she knows the school rule so she went to see the HM of the school, actually he had some throat operation for the second time, the HM let her wait for half day, if they were busy then ok, but nobody went to HM’s room, so she was free. Ok leave this, it is normal in schools. Second thing she literally screwed up my cousin, b'coz for the second time they were asking for leave. Even my cousin showed her the medical reports and all. Finally she granted leave. What kind of education this school is going to give to its students, when the institution head behaves this way. God only knows. I think another concrete jungle academic genius. I hope.

6)       About home work, I have different kind of opinion about this, my personal opinion, it is waste of time. But others and schools have other opinion. They are giving home works, b’coz kids are distracted by many things, kids neglect study the daily lessons . May be they are right. distraction are due to TV, video games, etc etc . and they are thinking that this home work keeps them update, the funny thing is kids are doing home work  watching TV's and hearing music. Ya, they are updating everything nicely.  homework is ok, but totally we have 5 to 6 subjects, if four teachers give home work  per day, what will the kid do. How do they get time for all? They are spending time at school more than 6hours. When they return home, they need some rest and some play also. If they give so much home work . From where will they get time for other activities?

7)       My belief in life is all starts at home, if you wants to make a good human being then start it from home. NCC, NSS , etc… classes take up many social programs on this, but the schools restrict the children to go to their own family's function and all. If they are not getting comfortable with their own ppl, how will they cope with outsiders?

and my main musing is , education is only based on theory not practical explanations. ( i am still confused with this subject) and exams are like, u can vomit what you studied word by word  but not what you understood. CBSE is different in this concept but other state board schools, they don’t give marks if you write what you understood they want exactly the same words and same paragraph from books. what a stupid thing……

Ok, what ever I muse might be normal or abnormal. But it doesn't mean , that I am saying education is not important, without education we cant do certain thing. I am just saying there should be some balance. At least parents  should know to let kids enjoy and at the same time study balance. Schools can avoid, home works at weekends, and parents take that weekends to show the kids, the world, they can take the kids to relative's or friend's house or take them to any places they enjoy. But as far us I have seen some families here, they sleep and watch TV or CD's all the day on weekends. Just burn the weekends at bed. I might be wrong. And I am not talking about all parents, so, don't take it offensively.

We are all ready to copy western styles in all things, stupid dress codes and some other stupid things, why cant we take their good habit like work five days and enjoy the weekends. Just a thought…

 This is one of the best digital photographs I got from a fwd mail,

 the minute I saw this pix, I wanted to write something about this and this poem is the result.

Hope

If a bird is caged

It cannot fly 

It cannot fly doesn't mean

It doesn't know how to fly

It has a destiny

To live in the present

Even If anyone tries to change that

It cannot fly, since

Even if its feathers are cut off

It needs to grow

For that it needs

A Caring heart to take care of it

Even after that

The Person must have the desire

To let the bird

Fly freely .

It's not the bird's desire

to be caged .

All caged birds

Are always waiting for a good spirit to show up

Just to let it fly

to its habitat ..

Still waiting

Waiting waiting .. Still caged!!!

—Meena.

P.S. This is an old tamil poem, very old poem of mine and i translated it to post. sorry i dint mention this before. it is abt women’s education, job and normal things. who ever read all my previous child post will understand this poem. this is a geniue concern about women. and i related this to parrot’s cage….

Advice .   it is very easy to give, but taking advice from anyone is very difficult. It is Not that we know the whole thing, but it is for the reason of EGO. On top of that, the way the advice is being given is very important. There are some people who give advice just like that, they never mean it seriously, and they just drop the matter and go away.

Some of them are very bossy about their advice,, they treat us like, that we don't know anything and they just want us to follow their advice blindly. Most of the times, even though their opinion is correct or meaningful but their attitude makes us, completely ignore their advice. There is a way to give advice, these persons treat us like small children and want us to behave like an adult children. No, no I am not exaggerating anything; I stumble upon few people who are very smart and intelligent except, they do not have the proper commands . especially, dealing with other humans beings.

Some of them don't have the right behavior, but they give the best advice in the world . But, the truth is we don't take them seriously, because of their irrelevant behavior. You don't have to take them personally serious; my opinions is just listen to them and think over their opinion and decide the final decision, simply by our own circumstances. Nothing is wrong in that some of our philosophers and famous people, who gave advice, were corrupted in some way. But, eventually they somehow, survived good and famous without any setbacks. Anyway, everyone cannot act like Gandhiji . But, even Gandhiji's auto biography says how, he also went through some personal mistakes in his earlier part of life. But, eventually he turned out to be one of the best world leader in the history. Only difference is he changed his attitude but, some of the other leaders never changed.

Other advisers, they talk to us like,  "tell as it is" they are brutally honest about their opinions and they never treat us like a kid, it is like a man to man talk, hey friends, no gender problem here, it is just  easy to use neutral form ok, coming to the  point these advisers never spare any excuse they hit the nail on our head. The good thing is, in fact it reaches our mind . If we are smart, we'll take their advice without a blink. They mean good. These advisers always keep an eye to eye contact. It is very important, It sets our mind in a right track. 



 I am genuinely surprised by this advice obsession and the people, nothing serious, giving opinion is very different from giving advice. I like to hear opinions, and I like to give my opinions .. if they are ready to hear, but advice is totally different   I hope you all agree friends

Silence Quotes

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
'Charles deGualle

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest
'Bayazid Al-Ristami

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
'Margaret Atwood

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
'Josh Billings

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear
'George Eliot

Silence may golden but sometimes it's just plain yellow.
'Unknown

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
'Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 


          

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Silence

Silence speaks for everything
Silence is good
Silence is terrible
Silence is peace.

Sometimes it is alarming,
Because of misinterpretation.
Sometimes frustrating,
Because of lack of understanding.

Sometimes calm
Because we interpret the way we want.
Sometimes pathetic
Because, it destroy us without answers.

Quiet is attitude
Stillness is lifeless
Peace is contentment
Mute is unvoiced
Calm is heaven

Silence is . ???
Interpret the way you want guys .

— Meena.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a tragedy, accept it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it.

—unknown.

To know something
Or
Not to know
we don't have
  to know everything.
It is better
To be left with
Knowing nothing
Than knowing
Lot of things.
Simple reason
To keep our mind
in peace.
Lot of garbages
If dumped into our mind
Makes our head spin
And nauseating .
Better .
be a litter bin
then a dumping yard.

—-Meena.

P.S. No offence. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. What do you say my dear close friends?