tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28890684794840006272024-02-19T20:29:47.158+05:30UnWinDeD!!!A space of my own...shared with the world..Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-66724477169323289332020-07-02T12:42:00.000+05:302020-07-02T12:42:01.640+05:30Is there a single reality?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is always a disconnect between perceived reality and 'reality'. But then does something called reality exist? Every fact, every event can be and more often than not is interpreted in numerous (may be infinite) ways by different people. These interpretations may be similar or contradicting but no two individuals process it in the same way. There is nothing right or wrong about any of the interpretations, they are merely different ways to look at the same situation. Thus my reality is different from your reality.. may be. My perceived reality stems from my experiences, identity and my state of mind.<br />
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When do these perceived realities start causing trouble? It is when we become intolerant to each others realities. Holding on to our ego and feeding it with suspicion, fear and hatred. Forgetting the humanity in others.<br />
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This leads to loss of peace - within and without.<br />
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What would be the best way to move forward when contradicting versions of realities come face to face?<br />
How do we move towards a more shared version of the reality? Is it possible - I would like to think so that there is at least a possibility of finding common ground - to prevent conflicts and hatred. It is easier to do this in nascent and developing conflicts for sure.<br />
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I think the beginning would be the oft used and misused term - Empathy.<br />
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But is it possible to be truly empathetic - Can you be aware of the feeling and perspective of another individual from their perspective without having actually experienced it? Can you 'learn' to be empathetic? What would help you in moving towards empathy from sympathy/ hatred/ or pity?<br />
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I think consciously seeking out opportunities for an open dialogue, shared (or similar) experiences, access to knowledge and information which contradict your beliefs and understanding could be a beginning.<br />
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Who said it was easy???<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-57846053860403028362018-03-21T22:25:00.004+05:302018-03-22T00:21:56.419+05:30Whom could she tell?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her husband had long stopped conversations with her. The communications between them were now related to information sharing,about children and the routine requirements. There was no love anyway. In the beginning there was lust, now there is nothing other than duties, obligations and norms, which defines their marriage. But that is how it is, she already knew it. That is how it has always been.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Life is about doing what you are supposed to do not what you want to do. She had tried to make her daughter also understand the same. But she was too naive and foolhardy to understand this basic thing. Dreams and desires took over reason. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her duty is towards her family, foremost towards her husband. She understood this. She had always been the faithful wife and the doting mother. Fasting and prayers were a part of her life. Gentle and sensitive, she never replied back or spoke in a loud voice. She could not hurt any living being, not even the cat which regularly stole milk from the kitchen.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that was not to be.</span>..</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her daughter, she betrayed them; her husband, her family. She brought shame. Love! How she hated this Love. Her daughter told her about love. That love was all that mattered to her. She could only stare at her girl, stare and stare. She was going to go. For Love!!!</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-47461175224035983982017-03-27T07:00:00.000+05:302017-04-03T16:27:23.099+05:30The Journey is the Purpose...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I thought I knew everything that is to life... the past few months have changed that perception of mine. It is true that I have gone through experiences that many in my age would not have till now. The fact that what I have gone through has contributed to my growth as a person and increased my understanding about life and myself is also true. But now I think I am still largely ignorant about life...and seeking to understand the purpose of my life..</div>
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Logic cannot define what happens in life. It is experiential and different for everyone. The difference is in the experience and the way each of us look at these experiences. I used to be of the view that our character defines how we face certain situations, overcome difficulties, handle people and basically live life. But where does this 'character' come from? What factors govern this 'character'? What does it comprise of? Is it totally dependent on me or you as an individual separate from family, religion, or society?? From the time we are born we are molded, corrected according to what is 'acceptable', 'appropriate', 'expected'. We are made to create this box of our own beyond which we cannot venture... all our thoughts are they ours? Or are we just repeating what we have been conditioned to think is right.<br />
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But that does not mean living a life without values or principles, but what are the values that are eternal and do not change - I seek those values! Values that connect humanity - or may be that drive creation.<br />
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I have also been wondering about this concept of the collective human un/conscious how does each individual action get reflected into this collective and what does that mean when I think regarding the consequences of my action beyond my lifetime.<br />
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This journey is a journey of solitude and silence, reflection and rigour... It is also endless - eternal - The journey of the human being...seeking purpose.</div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-6449638696515927022017-03-26T12:00:00.000+05:302017-03-26T12:00:14.891+05:30Untitled..Incomplete<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I seek has not changed,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not about you and I,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not just us but even more</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friendship, you say</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I say love is the core </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love isn't complicated, we are</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The manifestation of our needs, thoughts and deeds</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can choose, but </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To love or not, is not a choice</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-60029612170951778332017-03-25T05:30:00.000+05:302017-03-25T05:30:09.466+05:30Together...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not to comfort you</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be held and comforted</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selfishness drives me to you </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No doubt!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The questions unanswered </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The questions unasked </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linger between us</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hope;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bridge will soon be made</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And we will cross over</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To this place of serenity and solace</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together....</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-79357416007615573902017-03-24T00:30:00.000+05:302017-03-24T00:30:26.028+05:30From Pain to Possibilities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embrace the hurt,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the pain?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What matters?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The awareness of each experience,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The experience of each emotion</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The realisation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are always path of possibilities</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahead,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tread on, run ahead...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smile...</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-46712433045271241842017-03-22T18:00:00.000+05:302017-03-22T18:00:18.680+05:30A journey to the soul..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I yearn for a journey</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To the souls </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore the depths of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our thoughts and desires</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The core of our being</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The light beckons</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You see only darkness</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see the path to my salvation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can see you laugh</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silently at my ramblings of passion </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But rest I will not</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Until the pursued joins the pursuit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For I know you will</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hidden in your contempt is the need to be</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More than now, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And what better than the love of love</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unbridled by rights and wrongs of the present</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But guided by creation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vibrant and alive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To show you the path you desire and fear...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is but the truth of your being..</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-66253965252965369092017-03-22T00:00:00.000+05:302017-03-22T00:00:05.859+05:30Democracy of the confounded<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What's right what wrong,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who will decide for whom</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hand , the sickle or the lotus bloom</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The common man...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is she?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The majority...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where are they?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The voters...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do they do?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The country...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it even true?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What choice do I have,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or do you?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be where you are..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To live where you do...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To do what you want...</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-79841152276428402302017-03-21T14:20:00.000+05:302017-03-22T18:43:33.663+05:30It's not easy...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I seek when I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "droid sans";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gaze into your eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing's simple</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing's straight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's not easy to feel what I do</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And be polite and nice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You said you want</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be held and never let go</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To kiss and be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "droid sans";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It took my soul all its strength</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To contain my fluttering heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And handle my bated breathe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For it’s not easy to feel what I do</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And be polite and nice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It may be passe for you</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a phase of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Curiosity or entertainment</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's confusing no doubt</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each moment spent in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversation and chatter</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-10030300382956475802017-03-21T00:00:00.000+05:302017-03-21T00:00:05.499+05:30Loss of nothing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That feeling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That grows on you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mould on the bread,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moss on the wall</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The havoc of a storm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It creeps in unnoticed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benign and needy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Until it strikes you in core</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "droid sans"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And puts you down</span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957917 72.232208900000032 19.556175699999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-71676355263756348392017-03-20T13:57:00.000+05:302017-03-20T13:57:58.384+05:30Unwilling...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She lay there staring at the darkness above</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A torn body, the mind in shreds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unwilling to get up,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She felt nothing within</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nothing but darkness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her rage was impotent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her fire was gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Burnt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the blaze of power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unwilling to fight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The battle that was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Without a choice or consent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her love was shattered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her warmth was gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She lay there staring at the ceiling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unwilling to get up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unwilling to fight.</span></div>
Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-52315695064094211302016-12-21T01:44:00.000+05:302016-12-21T01:44:44.149+05:30Knowledge, Love, Purpose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Reading this book ..this short story by O V Vijayan- the infinity of grace<br />
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Three things cameto me while reading a particular line<br />
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"..I never realised till now what a burden books are. A burden of purposeless knowledge."<br />
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There is a context here definitely which cannot be ignored but it set me thinking... Of the connections between Purpose, knowledge and love...<br />
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How important is purpose?<br />
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What do you think about purposeless love... What about purposeless knowledge?<br />
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The author calls purposeless knowledge a burden. Though confused by this statement.. somewhere inside...may be it's true... Knowledge without purpose is a burden.. but love without a purpose can never be a burden...<br />
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When I think of it... Love has so many dimensions..many still unknown to me... And the purpose is love itself...just love. Also sharing something written a few weeks ago;<br />
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I am here to be, to flourish in</div>
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The irradiant light of love</div>
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That I behold</div>
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My offering is only myself</div>
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To this everconsuming fire</div>
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Eternal in its end and origin</div>
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When I wonder</div>
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How to make sense of this puzzle</div>
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Which fascinates and draws me</div>
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I find the voice within whispers </div>
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what you seek is but within</div>
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But it's not just within me or you, but in all of us. To seek that unending spring of love, to understand is something I think I am trying. Failing at times but never giving up...</div>
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Just lost my sleep over these lines.. and thought it would be nice way to restart my inactive blog...<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-15983837249194026282014-08-27T16:44:00.003+05:302014-08-27T16:58:50.604+05:30Are you superstitious or religious?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Religion and superstition, how do we draw the distinction? If
start thinking about it then if you have ‘faith’ then would it not be hypocritical
to look at your faith as more ‘rational’
than someone else’s faith just because they do not appeal to your sensibilities.
There are many similarities than we should actually be ready to accept </span><a href="http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Superstition-VS-Religion-20130513"><span style="line-height: 115%;">(</span>Religion vs. Superstition</a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span>)<span style="line-height: 115%;">. I was writing about this particular case study on
superstition that I came across during a visit to a village in Maharashtra. It
set me thinking on the ‘difference’ between religious beliefs and
superstitions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Walking around the fringe of a village, we chanced upon a boy
with really long and thick hair. I was fascinated by his hair and asked whether
he is from a particular religion. The lady with me explained to me that he has
been pledged to the Goddess Laxmi! I asked what does that mean. Then she said
lets go and talk to the grandmother of the boy who would explain better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">We went to the house of the boy where we the grandmother of
the boy who explained that the boy and her sister were born to the her son
outside the wedlock from a Muslim woman who ran away leaving her son and children.
The son was now with his first wife and had also abandoned his children. So the
grandmother had to take care of them along with her paralysed husband. The
family was surviving solely on the wage earned by the old lady as a farm
labourer. The father of the children rarely visited them and did not provide
for their education or anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The grandmother explained to us that before the boy was born,
Goddess Laxmi had come to her in her dreams and asked for the boy. The Goddess
told her that there were going to be complications in birth and a boy would be
born through her ‘blessings’ and thus the boy had to be pledged to her. And so
the unborn child’s destiny was decided for him before his birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now what are the exact terms of this arrangement we were not
able to completely understand. He could be educated and take up a job, but he is not
supposed to cut his hair. And in case he has to marry then a pregnant goat has
to be sacrificed! The ritual was also described to us. The pregnant goat has to
be sacrificed and the head of the semi formed kid would have to be severed and
decorated and used to light a <i>diya </i>for
ten days. This has to be followed by arranging a feast for few people. Only
after all of this can the boy be freed of the pledge that his grandmother made.
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The imagery of this ‘ritual’ itself grossed me out. The lady
with me started telling the old lady that all this is just superstition and she
should not spoil the life of this boy and ensure that he continued his
education. I later asked the lady whether she fasted on the designated days for
the good of her family and whether that would be superstition that starving
oneself would lead to blessing of the God and </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">fulfill</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> our desires. She could not
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Few days earlier I was reading an article on ‘witch-hunting’
in another district of Maharashtra. Women, usually the ones who are more vocal
or active in a village, can be branded by anyone and be killed by the villagers for bringing
bad luck, allegedly causing death of somebody or any other reason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In the guise of witch hunting, the proactive or ‘rebellious’ women
of the community can be conveniently disposed of, same as used to happen in
some western countries with the blessings of the Church. More so, even personal
vendetta could be settled in this manner. Religion, superstition all seem to be
murky ponds where there is immense scope to simply use the ‘power’ over the
other in the interest of oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">We tend to always look down upon the ‘other’. Their ‘otherness’
is mostly due to the fact that their reality does not appeal to our
sensibilities or may be we do not know anything about them. This breeds fear,
biases and disgust even. But what is our own, we do not question that. The so
called ‘rationality’ never seems to come into our homes, our beliefs but is the
lens used to question the ‘other’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Is belief in God the supreme form of superstition? I do not
have a comment for that. I myself am not clear about the existence of this God.
What I will however question is the various practices, rituals that different
religions perpetuate in the name of this God’s teachings. How do we know whether
these practices are superstitious or are they religious?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Why does such superstition persist? Which superstition is better
than the other? Mine, yours or theirs? Can we claim to be above superstitions?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><i style="background-color: white;">This post is the updated version of the one posted on <a href="http://missionsharingknowledge.com/are-you-superstitious-or-religious/" target="_blank">www.missionsharingknowledge.com</a> </i></span></div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-72520024803209933132014-05-09T19:00:00.000+05:302014-05-09T19:00:09.838+05:30The 'I am Me' Rant...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This may offend you, make you angry or sad... I don't know. But I do not believe that society will ever treat two human beings equally; something or the other will be found that will be used to discriminate, control and discourage. Gender, race, caste, money are just tools used for these. If these diffrentiations cease to exist, new ones will be found. I write this as a woman...albeit privileged and fortunate enough to be born in a particular kind of a family...<br />
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I am me<br />
The whole me<br />
Each part of me is mine<br />
Mine alone to dine, wine<br />
and bed<br />
No God, no devil<br />
I am just me<br />
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I am me<br />
The fat on my belly is me<br />
The scar on my nose is me<br />
That bald head of a year back is me<br />
The tears in my eye, the loud laugh is me<br />
I change as you do change,<br />
With time, But I will not be the bird in a cage<br />
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I don't care if they care for me<br />
But control you can't me<br />
I don't care if 'they' are 'bad'<br />
But I will do what is 'bad'<br />
Oh! the dress I wear is to low or short or tight<br />
But for that right, I will put up a fight<br />
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I am me<br />
Each part of me is mine<br />
Mine alone to dine, wine<br />
and bed<br />
No God, no devil<br />
I am just me<br />
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I don't care what 'they' say<br />
Come what the hell may<br />
I will be me<br />
I will be me<br />
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This post has also been published at <a href="http://missionsharingknowledge.com/the-rant/" target="_blank">Mission Sharing Knowledge</a><br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-80424398015990228542014-05-08T12:53:00.001+05:302014-05-08T12:53:11.545+05:30Travelling Alone...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
How open are you to a job that would involve travel?<br />
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If someone would have asked me this question about a year back I would jump and say "I would love a job that has a lot of travelling!!" Well if someone asks me that now, I would take a moment, lean back and ask, "Now what kind of travelling are we talking about?"How, how often and where?"</div>
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In a month, 15-20 days are spent travelling on an average in my current job. And mind you, this is not the flight hopping, AC taxis kind of travel. This is the very down to earth, state transport bus, shared overloaded taxi/auto kind of travel. The nearest railway station is more than 50 kms away from the village where I work, thus it is easier and more convenient to hope on to a bus directly to my destination. The whimsical, ever changing schedules of the Maharashtra State Transport buses are now routine to me. Sometimes an equal or even more amount of time is spent waiting for the the bus, than it takes to actually reach from point A to B. The travel kit is always ready; a bottle of water, Britannia Marie biscuits and toothbrush (in case I need to stay the night!). Thus you can say it has become a way of life, you may say.</div>
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While travelling in these areas, one of the main issues faced is the availability of toilets. Sure, every major bus stand a 'toilet' but beware of the condition that it might be in. And that is a really sad truth. Even in major cities like Pune, one can only lament at the condition of the public toilet in the bus stand. A safe,clean and functional public toilet in these areas is still a luxury that very few places offer. It is hardly a wonder where the officially the coverage of toilets is about 40-60% and we all know how authentic these figures are! Thus when the journey is about 4-5 hours long and you know there are no toilets, the only thing you can do is restrict intake of fluids or water. But this is also not possible during hot summer days...<br />
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Well that seems to be a question that does not have a solution that I can offer.. another issue is that of safety. Due to the whimsical timing of the State transport buses, it becomes important to plan my visits to the villages and the travel in such a way that I am back home or at the place am staying before its late night. When I had to travel after nine thirty due to lack of buses earlier, I found myself to be almost alone in a bus full of men. If am lucky, there would be a woman or two, but that would be rare exception. It is not that any untoward incident happened to me during these occasions but it goes without saying how vulnerable I felt during the whole journey, with lewd stares from some men, some questioning stares and more. A single woman traveling at that hour is not acceptable in these areas.<br />
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But then work is work and I have to do it. Thus the travels continue....<br />
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This post has been published at <a href="http://missionsharingknowledge.com/traveling-alone-how-open-are-you/">http://missionsharingknowledge.com/traveling-alone-how-open-are-you/</a> also....</div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-87661270204966283202014-01-03T18:05:00.000+05:302014-01-03T18:05:02.401+05:30The Lost Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
They are not lost<br />
At most,<br />
Ignored and set aside<br />
To be explored<br />
They await, inside<br />
The depths of my minds<br />
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The most faithful of companions<br />
I have suppressed them<br />
For I thought, they are minions<br />
Causing chaos within<br />
But they are me<br />
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They are my voices<br />
Guiding me and my need<br />
Not to ignore and set aside<br />
To understand and heed<br />
To realize that inside, within<br />
Me is my God<br />
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These lost thoughts I collect<br />
Hold dear to me<br />
Sometime share with those I<br />
Hold dear to me<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-34214586128691924652013-08-08T23:10:00.000+05:302013-08-08T23:17:37.852+05:30I could only stare...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wanted to know<br />
To ask, to listen<br />
but<br />
Her eyes<br />
Captured my eyes<br />
Vacant<br />
Far away they stare<br />
<br />
She looks at me<br />
No<br />
Through me<br />
I can only stare<br />
Silently at her face<br />
Her rusty brown hair,<br />
The colour of her skin.<br />
Is there<br />
No hope that I see<br />
In her eyes<br />
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Her chest<br />
Bears the burden<br />
Of her matrimony<br />
Still growing<br />
Seven months protruding<br />
Her belly<br />
Third one, she says grimly<br />
I can only stare<br />
Silently at her face<br />
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But,<br />
Then she smiles<br />
Despite her misery<br />
Her pain of<br />
Searching, hoping<br />
(For a better life?)<br />
Her smile took away<br />
The sorrow of her stare<br />
Even then<br />
I could only stare<br />
Silently at her face<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-71717706199498143572013-04-02T11:57:00.001+05:302013-04-02T11:57:23.899+05:30The tree that you see....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The tree had been there,<br />
Before you were there<br />
Sprung from the cradle of life<br />
From the lap of the Mother<br />
It used to be a joy to the eye<br />
Oh My!<br />
The tender little green thing<br />
As it first opened its leaves to the world<br />
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The tree had been there<br />
Before you were there<br />
Green little limbs,<br />
Okay,<br />
Branches if u say<br />
Oh My!<br />
The excitement rose in its soul<br />
As it learned to grow in this world<br />
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The tree had been there<br />
Before you were there<br />
Then, there were the first flowers<br />
Birds making love, the first fruits,<br />
With love from the roots,<br />
Oh My!<br />
The tenderness filled it with a green glow<br />
As it felt fulfilled in this world<br />
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The tree had been there<br />
Before you were there<br />
Then it was not this dry<br />
Then it was full of hope and giver of life<br />
Seeing all the strife<br />
Oh My!<br />
It has almost given up hope, with the last<br />
Leaf on its branch shriveling and falling<br />
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The tree can die a death of<br />
Oblivion in the world full of fear and distress<br />
But<br />
If you give it the elixir of love and tenderness,<br />
Show it that it has been here, before you were here<br />
It has been a savior<br />
The tree had been there<br />
Before you were there<br />
And it will be there<br />
After you are gone...<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-89765000756569406512013-03-30T03:08:00.003+05:302013-03-30T22:41:49.524+05:30Restless.. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Restless I have been for sometime now,<br />
Restless I will be, until<br />
In Your arms, I know I will find peace<br />
You may ignore me,<br />
Slight me or hurt me,<br />
But I know You care,<br />
I know I may scare<br />
But it is just my Love<br />
I know not how to share<br />
I myself am scared<br />
You are rare, so gentle but indifferent<br />
And precious to me...<br />
And I know You care,<br />
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Restless I have been for sometime now,<br />
Restless I will be, until<br />
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In Your arms, I know I will find peace right now<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-78565711589377507562013-03-26T10:50:00.000+05:302013-03-26T10:50:05.329+05:30Courage in a woman is often mistaken as insanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Someone recently told me that I am too independent(which is a bad thing.) ... I do not understand that.. too independent in relation to what and who? I believe that I need emotional dependence... and i crave and search for that... fearless.. even that is a misnomer... all of us have fears .. some of then which we are unaware of... i treasure that fact that I am a woman... and my expressions reflect that. Ii is tough being 'seen' as a misfit as a black sheep... and sometimes you start 'feeling' that you are.. Courage is about facing your fears, challenging your inhibitions and I believe that is what is required... </span><span class="emoticon emoticon_smile" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yY/r/heoEL9AYivx.png); background-position: -34px -678px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 16px; line-height: 17px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px;"></span></div>
Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-19794989614970380922013-03-14T21:48:00.000+05:302013-03-14T21:48:41.552+05:30Sorrow of being...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I should be happy but I am sad<br />
Mad., mad at the world around<br />
Mad at me<br />
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I want to fly<br />
High, touch the sky<br />
Pulled down by<br />
Myself I cry<br />
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Cry, cry for what?<br />
The lose of love?<br />
Love the way I want it<br />
Not the way you think<br />
The way I want it<br />
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Cry, cry for what,<br />
The lose of time<br />
Time of fun and joy<br />
Not as you think it<br />
The way I want it<br />
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May be yes,<br />
I am petty, I am crazy<br />
I know am not nice<br />
But I am me<br />
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I should be me<br />
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I should be happy but I am sad<br />
Mad., mad at the world around<br />
Mad at me<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-61505745556914134472013-03-11T21:57:00.002+05:302013-03-11T21:57:13.707+05:30..Untitled...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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No...</div>
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This feeling of loneliness and boredom I dread</div>
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Not just dread but hate</div>
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Suffocation</div>
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It is a bait,</div>
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A bait, a temptation</div>
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To be reckless</div>
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Pulled back, restricted...</div>
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I feel</div>
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Waiting to fly away</div>
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I betray</div>
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My duties, my determination</div>
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Desperate,</div>
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I look around for words,</div>
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words, Words!</div>
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Soothing words</div>
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Of love, support and inspiration</div>
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Nought! Nothing!</div>
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Where are you?</div>
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I look around again and again</div>
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Bring me some motivation</div>
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To go on undaunted</div>
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To be, to stay </div>
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So that I don't betray</div>
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My duties, my determination</div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-22957597110608113472012-12-27T03:35:00.001+05:302012-12-27T03:35:54.470+05:30Desires of a life long lost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is the same feeling of the past,<br />
I think<br />
Aghast,<br />
At this shiver which arose<br />
As if a blooming rose<br />
In the cold winter wind<br />
That which I thought was a childish kink<br />
Seems to be a crucial link<br />
To understand what I want, my desires<br />
I smile to myself, my cries<br />
Of warning myself I ignore, feeling<br />
That melting moment<br />
When my lips touched yours quivering and surrendering<br />
To the passion within...<br />
Within that moment<br />
Are the desires of a life long lost......<br />
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-29847693518241418802012-12-06T02:29:00.000+05:302012-12-07T12:26:00.725+05:30The Bald Decision!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its been about two weeks since it happened.... Just got up one day and decided yes it was the right to do this... Its now or never!! I have been told that I am indecisive, confused etc etc time and again at different points of my life but there is one thing which I know and people who really understand me know. That once I decide something then I would do it, go through the full circle... Not always to my advantage but anyway..</div>
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So then I got it done... Shaved off all my hair!! Yup, finally gathered enough courage to do it. It was funny to see the reaction of the hair stylist when I said I want to completely get rid of the hair on my head.... 'but WHY!!?' and I could not stop laughing at his reaction. My classmate who accompanied me was also excited...</div>
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So why did I do it? I have tried to honestly mention all the reasons here :)</div>
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1. Few years back, on a visit to a temple in Karnataka, I had seen a rather young and much in love India couple who both had shaved heads. It fascinated me. The lady was looking rather radiant and beautiful in her bald avatar.I decided I would also get it done at least once in my life.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVdiXxdWv7au6cqu4xJZwOubiP3C8EinBvHasJM821si6PQw_AIYPfcrU40S6aT_DPss6NSaXK1K0I2pU_bzU9vB17ng1Ex-C3PxfHUY8Xsq0orzeryqQeZx8Z8FqWshRTtZZZqNC8UE/s1600/me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVdiXxdWv7au6cqu4xJZwOubiP3C8EinBvHasJM821si6PQw_AIYPfcrU40S6aT_DPss6NSaXK1K0I2pU_bzU9vB17ng1Ex-C3PxfHUY8Xsq0orzeryqQeZx8Z8FqWshRTtZZZqNC8UE/s1600/me.JPG" /></a>2. Reading about what shaving of the hair signified, I realised that beauty and vanity of a woman is also associated with her hair. All the poems and songs about the thick, dark, luscious hair of a beautiful ladylove that I am sure all of us (at least Indians) have heard more than just once. How obsessed are with our hair? It defines our personality, makes us worried and concerned (hair fall!!!!), makes us spend time and money on taking care of its looks ( Oiling, styling). What it would be not to have to worry about that for a few months? How would I feel?</div>
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3. I do not consider myself religious but rather spiritual. I believe that your sense of self and also ego is to a great extent related to your outward appearance of which hair also is a major part. Thus shaving of the hair for me also signifies a type cleansing,a kind of letting go of that attachment to myself and my outward appearance. </div>
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And how did I feel when my hair was being shaved off?</div>
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A strange sense of non attachment. I did not feel any sadness or wistfulness at the fact that my hair was all going. I myself was surprised by that sense of calm within me. The person who shaved my hair was sadder and stated it with these words " You know how much time it would take for your hair to grow to this length now?" (not that my hair was that long and luscious!!)</div>
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What did I feel after ?</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TTiS4S0sxnws1zV0LgfTynxbZJD60L0jSGu1gHuzVrsWFG5hkZCfOisKVoOq2eXnRGXTHRebF-jS3R2YkdJLtETc9ncQLWexGwe8vUrFNQjVc81XrZ27YS_F4j-S24MrI1uo4vXZ5Z0/s1600/me2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6TTiS4S0sxnws1zV0LgfTynxbZJD60L0jSGu1gHuzVrsWFG5hkZCfOisKVoOq2eXnRGXTHRebF-jS3R2YkdJLtETc9ncQLWexGwe8vUrFNQjVc81XrZ27YS_F4j-S24MrI1uo4vXZ5Z0/s200/me2.JPG" width="145" /></a>Lighter, happier and HIGH on my baldness!!! Also a slow change in how I perceive myself, I cannot describe exactly what.... but looking at life from a different lens, with a sense of non attachment, objectivity and greater levels of kindness and love. I did not know that such a small act of mine could make that kind of a change in me.</div>
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What were the reactions?</div>
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The most important people in my life are my parents and brother and as always they were uber cool with this move of mine. Everyone wanted reasons!! Some people were damn shocked and totally in disagreement and stated so... Most women were actually complementing on my boldness/bravery/ courage/confidence... an angle which I did not think about at all in all the years I have been contemplating shaving off my head. Some people say that I look even better in this style, especially some real good looking men and women ;)</div>
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So these were some of the questions that I have been asked by friends, well wishers and complete strangers have wished to get answers to. Thought I would share to get your comments.</div>
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Malathy Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373672200406084478noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889068479484000627.post-89003614295342327372012-11-27T00:48:00.001+05:302012-11-27T00:48:45.221+05:30Story of stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The story so far,<br />
Made of so many stories<br />
Make me, Me<br />
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At the start, of Every story<br />
The confidence of the knowledge<br />
'This is what I want!' or<br />
'I know what I want!'<br />
How funny is that,<br />
Think I now,<br />
At the end of it now<br />
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The doubts start<br />
Churning and brewing<br />
Like bouts of acidity<br />
After a heavy Indian meal!<br />
Midway through this happens<br />
Then,<br />
The thoughts turn positive,<br />
Like a sudden 'Eno On' effect,<br />
Quells the discomfort for the time.<br />
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Finally stifled and strained<br />
The bonds break<br />
A permanent Cure, I wish to find<br />
Shackles to be broken,<br />
Pulled down again and again<br />
Breaking down walls, bridges and dams<br />
I run<br />
Swearing, Never again, never again!<br />
Alas, if I only knew!<br />
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This is the story of all stories,<br />
The formula which is common throughout,<br />
Yet it happens again and again....<br />
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