Friday, April 23, 2010

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A little gal was sitting in her balcony, looking out, observing the busy evening street. There was a group of college students who were going to almost all the houses in her street. The little gal was waiting in anticipation and ready to run to the door, as soon as she would see them coming up to her home.
The group skipped her house and went to her neighbor's. The gal started crying, her mother came out and after listening to her plight, she smiled and asked the group, why did they skip their house? A guy replied that they are campaigning for college's student union election and since nobody in their house attended the college, they skipped. In order to pacify the little gal, the guy joked that they would come to her house when the gal would start the college. The gal smiled. She knew that growing up is inevitable, and she was secretly waiting for that moment.

I don't understand that if there could be a loud announcement of premonition for King Kansa’s death, if the prophecy that Harry Potter will kill Lord Voldemort could me made known to Albus Dumbledore why did not somebody warn the little gal that she is wishing an evil, she is wishing an irreversible change? If the ministry of premonition, foreboding and prophecy under the governance of god had been upright and honest, there would have been a sudden thunderbolt. Every single light bulb would have flickered. There would have been an announcement though meant only for her but still would have been made in a loud volume rather than a noiseless whisper telling her things which she will learn hard way anyways like ….
“Oh! Little gal, A time will come when you will be categorized as adults and by that time, you will learn how to limit your dreams. By that time, the reality of life will overshadow your imagination. By that time, you will know how to curb your desires.
By that time, you will understand that utopia is just another word in the dictionary and Neverland  has Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet starring in it. By that time, you will start to realize that the beautiful world in which you now live, is not so beautiful.
At that time, there will be things which your heart will refuse to understand but sadly your mind will understand. At that time, a fight will be a fight. At that time, you cannot break up and make up the next day.
At that time, the freedom that you now hoping to get will not be there, on the other hand you will feel that you are shackled. At that time, you will be busy chasing something big, and you will miss the little pleasures of life.
And at that time, Oh! My little gal you will wish to become a kid once again.”

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Where The Mind is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee to ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
-Rabindranath Tagore