Another new year

This is the time to say goodbye to the year 2009 and warmly welcome another precious new year 2010. I hope this year may give peace and joy to the world. Let’s prepare ourselves for a new life and to try new good things. Hope you all are agreeing with me. Anyway new things are really better than old things since they let an opportunity to think better, and to live better. Let’s believe we all are born newly. Let’s forget the wounds of past but will never forget the lessons we learnt. Coming year may be the best in life. We might face a lot of opportunities to prove ourselves. We may meet good friends. We may get chances to help others. We may realize truths. I really hope this year will bring more joy, peace, freedom and equality. Let’s believe only good things will happen. WISHING you A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Trueness in city life

Recently I went through some of Arundati Roy’s writings. She was born in a small village of Kerala.

“I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives in you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much, you may love building but I don't think you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth, it's a different kind of love” Arundhati mentioned.

It is very true. Buildings do not make such long term emotional relationships. I still love the tree which was there in our home yard in which I used to study under its shadow during my school exams. I really loved to study in such a natural environment. Even though I left my hometown, I am living with the reminiscences of its environment. When I visited there last time, It was blessed me to visit some villages. The environment was such Greeny. Thus it made an opportunity to see those beautiful birds which I had never seen before. Each corner of the village had camera trees. So that I am still able feel the smell of them. What I could observe there is that people and the natural environment have a strong relationship. There lifestyle is based on environment. And the people were happy than us (who live in cities). It is because they are not chasing behind something that they don’t have. They don’t believe in money is the only factor that decides their lives. Even after I left from there, I am missing the trueness of the village life and those people’s true love. I feel love in city life is also just for fun, money and something else. It is very hard to find the trueness here. City friends are even like that. When they do meet, they start shaking, chatting and etcs to prove their companionship. When they go to other places, they find some other fun companions and that’s it, the meaning of friendship ends just with fun. City lives go only with saying ‘hi’s and byes. No one really knows who their spirit mate is.

An ambitious run

I keep on running everyday, every minute, every second. Sometimes I am tired, irritated, reluctant, confused and asking myself whether I can finish my run successfully. I don’t know how I would feel if I stop this run in my half way. Each minute I meet new faces and am preparing myself to be not reluctant to face a new life. I am running with my joys, encouragements, discouragements and with the happiness of meeting new good persons and with the confusion of why I met some people who are so far from me and with only the soul of memories of those who I have lost on my way. I could hear some voices while this ambitious run, saying that I can achieve my target. Anyway only thing I can certainly say is that I am not so far from my target. No longer, it may be a few years, I will achieve it. When I started running, I thought it will be so easy to achieve it as I had no idea about how it would be. Thus I did see it only as a small dot. But later on, this dot started to grow. It didn’t take time for me to realize that I needed more energy. On my way, I met incidents which made me so tired, so sad and so discouraged but on the other hand, they all forced me to run solemnly towards my target. There were flowers on my way and also stones which tried to pull me out of my way. So I got wounds but no longer, I had realized these all are the prices that I am paying to gain something. Anyway, now this is the time to run fast as I am very near to my ambitious point. Now it seems like a globe and I could not see that dot which was there when I started running. All the pains are gone. I feel very certain in the trust of achieving this. I am becoming so energetic, so optimistic and so hard working and asking myself how I could change like this. Anyway the answer is I am so solemn in my ambitious run.

Americanization

Today’s business world’s most of the well known heads belong to America. American brands lead all markets. Coke remains a ‘must’ than water for guys who try to imitate Americans. I think, this is not the loyalty for coke and it has become a way of showing their loyalty to America for people who live in those nations which are economically, socially and culturally so far from USA especially for the people who live in third world countries of Asia. Coke reflects the American lifestyle and several etcs. It would be better if we can say ‘Americanizing the world’ rather than saying globalizing. There is no globalizing. It is only Americanizing. We want ipods, iphones, ibangles (the latest Apple’s product) and all other irange products of Apple. We feel proud to say that our role models are Obama, Abraham Lingan, Bill Gates and all other America’s big heads. We watch ‘American idle’ and try to be the first to say that we are the fans of someone who participate in the Programme. We want all what they are doing, we do dream America, we do trust America will bring peace to the world, we do believe Obama will change the world, we want to follow them even if they are doing some rubbish, and are simply Americanizing ourselves. I don’t know how this disease (dream of being an American, imitating Americans and acting as Americans and so on) started? There are some countries which really practice the concepts of socialism and Marxism. Why don’t we bother to make them role models? There are some countries which believe in humanity and the concept of human factor is the best. Why don’t we dream to go there? Why don’t we even consider to think of Japan’s ‘country first, family second and at last myself’ policy? We know only to act like Americans while dating, clubbing and drinking. And I am saying this is more dangerous than AH1M1 as this disease of 'being mad at America' continues to spread each and every minute.

Based on comments

As I got some interesting comments on my article ‘Tamil culture and my view on it’, it induced me to write something about the actual dowry system which was in practice in the traditional Tamil culture and how now it has been changed. There is a great discrepancy between what was introduced and what is being practiced. In the traditional culture, men had to give a huge amount of money and assets to the brides’ families. This kind of a dowry system is in practice in countries such as Kenya and some other. But at the current era, people had changed the actual system which was created and most of them are even not aware of it. Anyhow according to my view, both systems are not suitable to the current world. And a common complaint is there that women belong to bride grooms’ families seem to force grooms to ask dowry. This is somewhat a desecrated characteristic of most women in our society. Anyhow what I am saying is guys are guts less to say that they are never going to do it. If they are good enough at earning and self confident, who else can force them? Only others can influence but the decisions are in your hands.