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Challenging religious ideals, finally.

This would really look weird to anyone trying to get a peak of these words. After all which sane teenager uses an iPad for Ms Doc instead of a Facebook or WhatsApp? Anyways, point is that I actually have some homework to complete but I just felt an urge to jot down some random thoughts of the day. More particularly about how a friend of mine is looking for answers, answers I'm convinced she would find no where else except from within herself. Well, if I happen to write this article till the end and eventually forward it to her I’m sure that I w ouldn't not come off as being creepy-­‐ they are used to my eccentric nature. I think that she’ll feel honored as always to have someone describing her. Why not? She has a character you would want to sit down and write about. And that ‘s exactly what I'll be doing, right? Well, this friend of mine comes from an extremely religious family, one that follows all the  ethics, customs and traditions and observe...

Parental Pressures on a Student

You remember the time parents used to us scare with the stories of the big bad wolf which would eat us up if we were bad kids? Today we are scared with: "What career will you pursue in the future if you study History?"  Nothing has changed.  And I don't think it very will. Sooner it will be: "How will you live with someone of some other faith?" Later it will be: "You should teach your own children how to do this! Else they'll become drug addicts!" It would seem like parents have always employed the fear mechanism to control us. Someone had truly written, parents are like God. We fear them, somehow. Or perhaps we fear their reaction, or we are afraid of not living up to their expectations. Parents pressuring kids to breaking point is a valid, contemporary subject. The following thoughts are taken up from a Bollywood Movie: Chal Chalein. Most of the students' time is spent in college, then in coaching classes, and ...

Understanding Fear

It's that stuff that holds your breath. It's that stuff that's holding you to the Earth and it is that stuff that liberates you. Love is what drives the engines of this universe. Love makes life live. Most people think the opposite of love is hate, but I suggest that the opposite of love is fear. While fear stops us, separates us from our true selves and from others, love opens up all possibility. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's fear. Hatred is a by-product of fear; fear of the unknown or the different. But once you realize that the unknown and the different do not threaten your essence or divinity, nor do they define you, then the hatred and fear are gone, and only love remains. Me The opposite of love is fear. Not hatred. Hatred has no opposite. If you do not love, you fear. ·          NIk That changes the whole meaning. ·       ...