Adjudicated Parallels

Relationships need to be nurtured with kind words and restraining oneself from speaking harsh ones if need be. Only then they take root and a prime value or longevity is established. There need not be negative feelings creeping into such a beautiful rendition of love. As a plant is grown and nurtured while it is still a sapling, the right mix of manure with warmth helps relationships like friendships grow a great deal. It blossoms into one fruitful tree with moments worth remembering and cherishable. Distance and physical absence doesn't matter. One can remain best of friends with everyone if value is offered. This is the same with every love and warmth seeking individual. One should strive to be remembered in blissful terms. Heavenly and spiritual goals are thus too. Pick any one.

 Learned people exact great respect and honour. But there are downsides of being learned and one has to continually being watchful of causing horrendous consequences from their finite minds. Though the quality of being learned is quite consequential, there is always the truth backing that nobody can be learned enough to know everything; there is always a lacking and more to be learned to be on the safer side. There is history that shows that people were killed for being misunderstood. One of them is Jesus Christ. Though there was ample proof that he was the Son of God, he was crucified by learned people. The reason for this act was that everyone thought he blasphemed against God by saying this. The result is disastrous. To balance this, learned people should avoid reasoning constantly and have an amount of faith to rely on: MK Gandhi was always believing that he has more to learn and his opinion about things is not final. He publicly said that he has to learn more as time passes an...

 The debate rages on in some circles about the objectivity and subjectivity of moral values and their viewpoint. Though this unbridled duel can go on and on, there are still some noteworthy points to ponder upon. Given the enormous volume of pages this debate can fill and all the inquisitive minds it can garner, there can be an effort to keep this optimum and brief. Firstly, in order that some moral values have come to be existent, there has to be some scale or reference or standard or measure to evaluate them. This standard measure or gold standard is called good and evil from time immemorial: there is divine power or God and the evil power. This reference plows down the debate that something very objective existed from eternity. It is the absolute truth or the Ancient of Days. His viewpoints don't falter or change. Subjectivity is not related to him and does not exist. He or God does not change. Everything exists for him. There is nothing dead and everything for him is living. Su...

People often ask me as to why I use highfalutin words from my vocabulary everywhere. The reason is the same as to why they wear clothes that reflect the style quotient or make a fashion statement. This way, people please their senses and feel on common ground with their peers or colleagues from their profession. Another reason is that I identify myself with a strata of people who share common opportunities. This makes the endeavour more relatable and work towards it to reach a goal that would otherwise not be possible without such beautiful people. More so, there is a benefit for readers from such a good vocabulary: they learn new words and try to use them in their conversations. Many follow my writing and banter for this. It brings them some joy and good. Spreading cheer is good too. As some highly placed person said, 'everything has a reason'.

There are a number of people in our society who can be termed as elitists. As and when some business or a trade flourishes, such a behaviour begins to take shape in their minds. The kind of boundaries around empathy, as to when to relate to people's emotions or give alms becomes almost redundant. As this cannot be categorized as an evil, the threat still looms large and can cause grave concerns to cohabitation. The primary cause of not giving alms to the needy or somewhat needy is a kind of elitism. This can be shown when people beg from you on the streets during traffic snarls. We kind of ask them, 'go find some work'. More so, we sneer at people when they are not belonging to our social status. There can be many such instances. But the world is made up of a number of units of society. One has to mingle with people according to these norms and become elitist themselves when the flock calls. Otherwise one risks of being the odd person out. The story being cut short: everyon...

 The best things in life are available for free of cost. Though this seems as an inane thing to say, but it is all the more true. We have been accustomed to the lifestyle of paying for the best of things and have lost the true finer things that one has to cherish the most in, as they say, translation. Getting out of the rut helps in these cases. A great thing to live by this gold standard of weighing the best things is to ask a person who is facing an imminent death to unravel. One of these is the life story of Anne Frank. She explained to people that we take life for granted as and when we get to enjoy everything at hand. But she experienced the imminent death in the form of an invasion of her country during the Second World War. This war and the situation she is, along with the life revolving around her family, changed her approach to living life completely. Had she been a survivor of this war, she would have lived her life differently. These finer things are all around us: famil...

Veracity of control is an illusion. Anything that you can control becomes monotonous and boring. Uncertainty brings about mixed feelings, but it is enjoyable. Knowing where life can take you brings a less worthy permutation. Consider preparing for an exam. If you would have known the outcome or result of it, the very purpose would have been defeated. Risking something not very important is a joy of life. Risking even greater things is gambling. But the former is less severe and scathing on life. It brings its own joys.