“Are you in constant touch with your old friends?” “Yes they are all in my facebook friend list… I am a pretty much social person.” Are we? Really??

When I was kid, I read somewhere that Man is a social animal. As life progress, I heard the same line from multiple sources. Earlier I didn’t know the meaning of being a social animal. I belong to a small society of a small town where almost everyone knows each other personally by name and face. Then I saw the village life where…..

Learn to speak quicker than other known kids of same age group. This followed by ability to recognize letters and numbers. Admission to best school in city. Race to be in top 3 in class ranking. Good academic score with some great achievements in sports and other extracurricular activities. More than 90 percentile in board exams. National level competitive exams. Again a great academic score for a nice job. Appraisals, promotions, salary hike, company switch and many more. Much before you could even pronounce RACE….

Yesterday was Sunday and we get this day after such an exhausting and stressful week. So, I decided to complete all my personal work on this day itself because we remain busy on all other days doing so much of hard work with great efficiency, commitment and honesty. Yes I do get a free Saturday also but I spent that day in sleeping, and I guess I deserve this much of rest after such a difficult week…..

We often say and hear people saying that women are the best creation of God. We also have lot of movies, songs, stories, literatures and poems written in appreciation of them. But the big question is…Do we really mean it? Do we ever bother about the reality? All these admiration quotes seems false when we see the actual condition of women around us. Condition of women in small cities and villages are even worse…..

Her name was Vidya, Vidya Agarwal (name changed). I first met her in my chemistry tuitions. It was not like I was watching her for the first time in my life. Her house was very close to mine. So I saw her many times in our society. Ohh I forgot to give you a background. Ok so here I start building the base for this story.

Till 10th I used to spend all of my time at home itself. I guess I was known by no one in my society. Then eventually I started spending some time with other guys of society. I started playing cricket in ground of Govt. Girls high school which was right in front of my house. I can totally understand that sarcastic….

Here I will start with an unpleasant incident that happened some nine years back. It was a normal day till evening 4 o’clock. As a daily routine, I went to the field in front of my home to play cricket. It was just start of the game when we heard some noise from a house adjacent to the field. We run towards the house. And then what we saw was horrifying. Head of a child was kept on the stairs of that house. Yes it was just a head. Even today I can clearly recall that innocent face. That was not more than 2-3 weeks old kid. Boy or girl I was not able to figure out…..

Yesterday i was in a party organized by Satyam. It was only for healthcare and life sciences people. So it was not a very chaotic and fish market kind of party. People were invited with their family. But since i am still single, i went with my other single colleagues Prashant and Santosh. Just to let you know i am not a party person. I rarely attend parties and try to avoid them most of the time. This is because i just hate being in a crowd and feel really bored in such formal parties. And this party was not an exception…..

There are many such restrictions that are continuously transforming me from a human to machine. Many of us are in this same situation and feel the same. Some will disagree for sure. They might be lucky enough to be in first category or they are very much used to be like this only. People do adjust themselves according to the circumstances but somewhere in the mind they do realize that they have lost to life. Life is asking them to do something different. Something that we love to do, something we are passionate about but we are continuously doing something else in repetitive manner just like a machine.

As per Wikipedia, Patriotism is defined as love and devotion to one’s country. A very simple and straight forward definition, yet very true. Can we measure Patriotism??? Several surveys have tried to do this for various reasons. The Patriotism Score table below is from the World Values Survey and refers to the average answer from high income residents of a country (I don’t understand the reason behind conducting surveys only to this population) to the question: “Are you proud to be [nationality]?”….

100 reasons not to get married…. Benefits of being Single:

You get the whole couch to yourself.
There’s half as much housework, cooking, and cleaning to do.
You can watch whatever TV channel you like, without arguments.
You can get home from work at whatever time you like.
You get to eat the whole ‘meal for two’ by yourself.
There are fewer important birthdays……..