Thursday, September 29, 2016

Being Different

What if everyone in the world was exactly alike? What if everyone talked the same, acted the same, loved the same, listened to the same music and watched the same TV programs and viewed same things? The world would be extremely dull and monotonous!
What they focus to view would be different

Through this same lens, what individual focus at would be different. Some may adjust to look at different creatures on lush grass, brook that runs between the valleys etc. Few still might simply opt to shut their eye and look nothing.
I believe it's important to accept people for who they are.
I personally feel that God created each of us unique, the way he wanted us to be. We each have a set destiny laid before us. Our lives are a mystery but are precious and should be cherished. Each of us is masterpieces of God’s creation. Through this, we must honor God by taking care of what he gave us. Each of were individually handcrafted who we are, so we should embrace the good in us!
Differences are important and they should be respected. For example, many important people throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Peter Tchaikovsky and Abraham Lincoln. They did great things, but some people thought they were weird because they had strong feelings about something.
We can’t stand out when you look like everyone else. We can’t inspire and challenge others when we are just as fearful as them to stand out and be noticed, criticized, disbelieved. To make a difference, you first must be different…
It’s our obsessive compulsions that yield greatness, not our penchant for compromise. We can draw inspiration from Thomas Edison trying one more time after the 983rd failed attempt to build a working light bulb; from Harland Sanders trying the 1,009th time to convince a restaurant to buy his famous chicken recipe and Oprah Winfrey sharing hope for the sexually abused in spite of her own scars.
Thus, being your same self or like anyone you know is no longer acceptable. It’s about being different.


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Ooo ECS

Oftentimes, the moments that you're most proud of are the ones that go unnoticed and are short-lived. When we grow up every day and sees different realities of life, most of us lose memories from the past and eventually just forget about it. Me especially, my past is very shady. The little and major events in my life have vanished from my brain and I cannot remember them all. 
Today, while looking through the stacks of pictures I have saved in my gallery and catching the entire glimpse of past month and half, I feel delighted to reflects on all delightful moments and reminds me of how much we have progressed as classmates and worked together as a team. For a year, college has been part of almost everything I do and played pivotal role, and has shaped my future more than anything else. Not only did it taught me about my course on Environment and Climate Studies, but it also changed my outlook on life in ways I now realized aren’t immediately obvious, even to me. Unfolding through hundreds of photos gave me the flashback of immense joy  I felt being with vivacious ladies and ebullient guys in just within a very short span of time.
Both Girls & Boys Team In Basket Final Match
All photos appeared on my phone screen to give me glimpse of all cheerful and contended faces, and I could narrate the story on what all those beaming faces hold.   Moments associated with this beaming faces is our progress and success as a team that steered us to hold trophy of girls being champion of all women teams and boys that stood as well deserving runner-up during Departmental Basketball Contest. This has been clear testimony of our unity and strength as classmates in front of other hundreds college mates and faculties. The entire classmates’ sat together to cheer up the matches with uplifting and booming chorus “Ooo ECS” that tells lot to others on involvement of mutual  assistance in working towards common goal and the best way of  providing the intense moral support to the players.
Soccer Triumph







“Ooo ECS” echo didn’t diminished right in the Basketball Court. It continued to echo in soccer ground. Same echoes with heightened energy escalated the synergy of class. Yellow squad fared every match by triumphing over all otherwise strapping opponents. The combined chorus echoes until Yellow Squad successfully ventured to hold the trophy of Champion of Departmental Soccer Tournament, giving the sense of spirited exuberance. 
Another moment that dragged that the whole classes to take over and gloried their amalgamated efforts is by sitting together for Dinner from College Cafeteria for two times. A class gathering has given us the feelings of family hood and put us together to express together our solidarity and camaraderie
Dinner Fun

In fact, the photo is a snapshot of one instant, but the all stack of it has driven me to describe the progression and moments of our many days together.  Let’s all believe that cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition and beholds the mighty force of great mind working together in all forthcoming activities.  And we will promulgate our strength and voice “Ooo ECS”


Saturday, September 17, 2016

Be Real

“Nobody wants to be lonely. Everybody wants to belong to a group. The crowd is essential for the false self to exist. The moment it is lonely you start freaking out. To be an individual is the greatest courage. It does not matter that the whole world is against me. What matters is that my experience is valid. Don’t die before realizing your authentic self.” ~Osho.
The greatest challenge here is that we first have to be real and true with ourselves. It is act of becoming unmasked and accepting our strengths and foibles without shame and avoiding the mask of falseness and pretentious that dims your realities. To be real also means to act in accordance with how you are, speak what you believe and stop being sorry for being real.
Today, driven by self ego and the world of competition, many tend to hide reality by putting falseness in the photos they put up in popular social media sites and showing unrealistic kindness and politeness in front of the crowds that actually deserves to be called cruel bastard. This is because of the believe that when they do things to please their peers, such as drink when they shouldn't, wear things that aren’t comfortable and accept the things that that are not pleasing or behave and act in appropriate ways, they will be popular and liked. They go against their own common sense only to find themselves in trouble and not accomplishing what they set out to do.
If you know and love yourself you will find it effortless to be true to yourself. Just as you cannot love anyone else until you love yourself, you cannot be true to anyone else until you are true to yourself. Difficult it may seem at first to many who are used to being fake, to have the courage to accept yourself as you really are, not as someone else thinks you should be. Do not pretend to be someone else for the sake of gaining unrealistic acceptance. When you do things that are not genuine or a reflection of the real you, you will be happy at first but will surely end up confused later. Self-respect comes from being true to who you really are and from acting in accordance with your self-instinct.
When you respect yourself, others will respect you. They will sense that you are strong and capable of standing up for yourself and your thoughts. When you are true to yourself, you allow your individuality and differences to shine through. To be true to yourself takes courage as it requires you to be introspective, sincere, straightforward and fair. It does not mean that you are inconsiderate or disrespectful of others. It means that you will not let others define you or make choice for you that you should make for yourself. 
Only then can we begin to be real with others, because there will be nothing of us to hide. We will know when to say “no” and when to say “yes.” We will keep open our minds and take any precarious steps not because we overcome the all sense of fear, but because we know we can be scary and still do it anyways. If we can accept our full, awkward humanity, then we can learn how to extend ourselves openly into what aligns with us and feels right, our purpose .And we can meet conflict directly, without the misalignment that grow from avoidance, denial and gossip.

P.S (For those whom I said to be real and don't ever be fake)


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