Adjudicated Parallels

There is a lot of leaning for wisdom to reach the masses. One of them is the art of making a choice. The choice of deciding what one needs to prove and to whom. These may vary from person to person and the best choice with a huge number of following can do wonders. Less said than done, yielding to irrelevant choices and becoming a puppet of the naysayer can drive one to perdition. I was once a part of such an episode. The person known to me was egging me on to settle score with another who was comely and handsome with his choices. His grouse was that the one with whom he compared me was above par at everything and I was lagging. The apple and orange thing crops up here. But, we won't go deep into it or else, there won't be enough oranges in the market. This comparison went on until I proved that my milestones were different and I being a mystic, had a different timeline to stick to. The person backtracked and became embroiled in his own identity crisis. What remained was a scou...

There is a saying that goes thus, 'You are what you read.' Well, it is true to the extent that whenever one buys a book, he has a goal to achieve. This can be to increase knowledge in a certain area. Some buy to have a great collection of books and stick to their genre that enthuses them. Whatever the topic one wants to read, there forms a opinion because of the facts --that can change-- presented in the way the writer thinks. Imagine, one reader who wants to know about a certain subject. Maybe he finds the answer to his questions in the book, but the way they are presented and some other facts overlooked bring a picture in his mind. A person reading a book with a left-leaning ideology develops his thinking in the same way. Another, with a right-leaning ideology develops his thoughts in the way portrayed. The reader, later, becomes a product of this thinking and hence the above phrase. I read biographies most of the time and these lead to many revelations about my life o...