Do you realize that when you were a child, your mom would have kissed you atleast a million times! Leave alone kissing, as some of you may argue that there are better ways of expressing love.
Can you recollect when did you last take out your parents for a movie or restaurant and spend time with them and for them alone? Or when was the last time you bought them some gifts ( I am certainly not talking about costly gifts like a diamond necklace or a double border kancheepuram silk saree or a bike for your dad)
Ok, leave alone gifts too, as few of you may argue that you do not want to trade the relationship values.Can you retrospect and think of the last time you were the sole reason for a smile on your parents face? Do we ever have time to patiently hear our their views, problems and opinions?
If the answer is YES to any or all of the above, you are certainly belong to the elite and limited club of parent caring children. If not, welcome to the world of NON-STICK relationships. You still have ample opportunities and instances to correct yourself before its too late. Not only MOTHER-CHILD, most other intimate relationships are become conditional, selfish and a mere formality these days.
People are becoming to behave more and more like programmed devices. Thanks to the whole new world of technological advancements which are slowly and surely eating our personal space and life.
We invariably end up spending most of our free time on TOUCH screen phones and forget to touch the lives of the relationships around us. Not only mobile phones, you know the names of other culprits too. The world is becoming more and more selfish and self-centred. Most of us only think about others when we have a need and when we need to address our wants. True love almost seems to have become extinct. The world is producing better actors by the day and we seek INSTANT resolution for everything. Patience is becoming a forgotten virtue.
Can you quote a single instance of a parent bringing up the child through a web camera, skype or net meeting? Parents always have their children as the first priority. Shouldn’t we reciprocate atleast a part of it?
P.S: I am certainly not against Technology but only against the over usage of it and its addiction.
Ulaga Nayagan tried to convey the message in the song from the movie PKS -
Still lakhs of people(herein referred to as SOS) don’t seem to have understood the meaning and continue to pollute the streets, wet the motherland and sprinkle holy water on co-travelers.
The worst of all they don’t even feel for their negligence or care to apologize for such scatterbrained and ill mannered act.
Patience is a (limited) virtue and the SOS don’t realize that its only a matter of time before they are at the receiving end and receive a taste(YUK) of their own medicine.
Its really sad that people take time to follow good deeds and only acquire such (civic)senseless acts in a jiffy.
This habit is spreading fast like wild fire and the number of people spitting on the road are increasing at an alarming rate, as high as the birth rate in our country!
I am sure there are better and healthy ways to help fight global warming. What is more paining is that “some” woman folks are also a victim of this habit L
The number of spitters on road every day would even defy geometric progression as I see them everywhere – people spit from autos, buses, trains, lorries, cycle, bikes and where not.
Even while walking on the road or standing in a tea shop, they don’t forget to do this act which would make the country proud. Its horrible in traffic signals as auto drivers tend to spit near your leg.
Railway(especially MRTS) stations and Public sector buildings are a feather in the cap for SOS, thanks to the betel leaf.
One can now imagine why the PSE buildings are always painted in brick red color and why our famous Chennai Central station was repainted and could not withstand its creamy yellow color even for a very short time.
Its high time we do something about it. May be the Government could pass a law to prevent this ( Its already prevalent in countries like . When there is helmet law, anti-smoking law, why not anti-spitting law?
No, the subject is not about FASTING. It’s a googly.
Its about advancing the time in your watch (mobile would be more relevant as I don’t see many people wearing a watch these days) and trying to get ahead in life ;)
Does this really work? Well, I have lost faith in the process as I still continue to be unpunctual. ( If you thought impunctual is the right word, then you are rightly wrong as me)
Well, actually it's a no-brainer. But after innumerous attempts, I have realized that our brain is superior than us and we end up fooling ourselves.Dont you think so?
A ten minute advancement in time will constantly remind us that we have 10 more minutes and we tend to over utilize the actual time and end up slightly later than the correct time.
Hats off to Murphy’s law. It is certainly a “Clock”tical Illusion.Also I strongly believe that punctuality has to be in the mind and not in the clock.
As there is a saying that “Whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, whether you believe or not, "Execution" time on most occasions is later than "Actual" time and we are misguided by the "Advanced" time ! ( If you wanted to reach office by 9am and set your clock faster by 10 minutes, 9 out of 10 times, you reach office after 9am and not before 8:50)
For those of you who still have faith in the concept, please try and create a folder named CON in your system.
Reality – Don’t worry about today, its already tomorrow in Australia.
Myth – Don’t worry about today, its already tomorrow here (as I have kept my watch 24 hours fast)
Next time when you hear someone saying “டைம் செரி இல்லப்பா ”, stand well away from them and just ask them to adjust their time to reset their misfortune.
Thanks to the monsoon, pollution, traffic(leading to sweat), chennai weather and my dear office colleagues that I too got the killer Cold!
As they say that well begun is half done, I never realized that the cold began well and then grew into fever. Luckily it dint gather enough courage and strength to transform into a viral fever, else I might have had to request the Doc to install Symantec Anti Virus in me ;)
Good times are never good for you. ( Read it again) You tend to become arrogant, over joyed and care least about others and even you during that period.
Its only during the bad phase of life that you really “start living” and realizing life and yearn for the pleasures of life(which you have had and missed enjoying) and end up becoming more philosophical.
Exceptions are always an exception, But I am not. I too realized that the previous week which I earlier thought was a ridiculous week with no interesting(you may skip this word) ;) work, was heaven. ( for the simple reason that I dint have cold then)
Alas, it was too late. I don’t have the time machine to rewind and enjoy the previous week.
When a simple cold could make so much difference to the thought process, I started understanding that “No bad news is indeed a good news”(subject ku vandhom la, enga vechurkaen paarunga linka) and life has to be lived every second.
As some QRST said (why always use ABC or XYZ) that your life span is the split second between your first breath and your next breath, Life has to be lived and enjoyed every second.
Now hold on, am getting sneeze….Huchhhhhhhhhh…. J Now my neighbour will start feeling that his last week was good. Old is COLD….
