Normally, my posts are pretty well focussed on a single thing. I have a point and I make it in one of many ways. Today, I am going to ramble a bit. First, Climate Change and Water are following me. Just because I have to do something at work does NOT mean that I want to hear about it at traffic stops, at the movies, in plays, in books, on the news, on television shows, from random people on the road, from students who seem to be inspired by vague facts in their textbooks, from Blogger.com that has decided its next Blog Action Day should be about.... wait for it... Climate Change!! Leave me alone!!
Second, I've been thinking of something recently. With regard to a specific relationship in my life. I didn't realize until recently, that I have made one humongous mistake after another in this relationship. All of those mistakes, have been due to one single assumption, one single pretence that both this other person and I have perpetuated now for a few years. The blame falls on me for this though, for I assumed far more than the other did. When you have held onto a belief for a really long time, like a decade or so, then it isn't all that easy to let it go. It's like asking people to refute gravity. Something that has been there for more than half your life is more a fabric of your being that it is a mere conviction. But, people say, the first step to recovery is the admission of your problem. So that is what I am saying here, I have a problem. And I find, that I am closer to letting go than I ever thought was possible.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Small Change
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Clicking on the above link will take you to a PIL floated by Vishal Dadlani against a new proposed statue of Chattrapati Shivaji in Bombay costing about 350 crores. Even if you aren't from around here, you should go sign it to prevent the excesses of politicians all over this country. You are allowed to write a short note to put in your two cents. Here is mine.
"Dear Politicians,
Every time you think to yourselves, I think another big fat statue of a dead person will do this country some good, think of the hundreds of million of our country men and women who still live below the poverty line, of the tens of millions of students who are unable to attend school or college and the nearly half a billion women in this country who still receive second class citizen treatment, regardless of what station of society they belong to. And then think to yourself, how big of a JACKASS do I have to be do what I am thinking of doing."
Clicking on the above link will take you to a PIL floated by Vishal Dadlani against a new proposed statue of Chattrapati Shivaji in Bombay costing about 350 crores. Even if you aren't from around here, you should go sign it to prevent the excesses of politicians all over this country. You are allowed to write a short note to put in your two cents. Here is mine.
"Dear Politicians,
Every time you think to yourselves, I think another big fat statue of a dead person will do this country some good, think of the hundreds of million of our country men and women who still live below the poverty line, of the tens of millions of students who are unable to attend school or college and the nearly half a billion women in this country who still receive second class citizen treatment, regardless of what station of society they belong to. And then think to yourself, how big of a JACKASS do I have to be do what I am thinking of doing."
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