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dear Coelho,
it is indeed a welcome move to set aside some space for the readers in ur blog… as a research student in your fiction. t is of immese help to me…thanks a lot
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Excellent blog, I’ll be coming back to visit more often now. Keep up the great work.
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hihi.. may I add an excerpt from a post in my blog? http://socalledvita.blogspot.com/2008/10/philosophy-in-engineering.html
“One of the fundamental laws of nature is that no energy conversion is possible until there is some one to oppose the conversion. Without the presence of this opposition, there’d simply be no energy conversion.” [Theraja, ‘Electrical Technology’, S. Chand & Company Ltd., 1978.]
Relating this post to my favourite Coelho’s Fifth Mountain, I’d like to recall what happened in the end: it’s said What Elijah thought was a challenge to God was, in truth, his reencounter with Him.
Yes, because “There are moments when God demands obedience. But there are moments in which He wishes to test our will and challenges us to understand His love.”
So, finally, life’s always challenging, huh? because again, “without the presence of this opposition, there’d simply be no energy conversion.”, and without life which sometimes opposing us, how can we prove our full potential as grand human beings???
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Virginity
Different person have different views about virginity. Some girls feel if a guy has touched you below neck or has kissed your lips; virginity is lost. Many girls feel virginity is lost only when you’ve sex with a guy. These girls know there limits and allow only to access those parts of there beautiful body which don’t harm the character status of virginity. This thinking is not only with girls, but it’s almost same what guys or every person possess in mind.
What bout heart????
Losing virginity is not totally all about allowing the guy to get inside girl; it’s not even allowing other person to posses your whole body.
Virginity is a state of being pure. Losing virginity is losing pure thoughts from love organ i.e. heart. If body of girl is possessed by a guy and still guy is unable to possess the heart of a girl…. He’s having no power to take virginity of girl. In any circumstances, no matter how much he’s able to turn on the girl, how much he’s able to make girl comfortable with; he’s not granted with power to take virginity of girl from her heart. No doubt that Virginity is a word which is related with body too; but more it’s related with losing pure thoughts from heart after thinking continuously about someone who’s able to possess all the chambers of heart despite being far away physically. Losing virginity is not giving beautiful body to someone but giving most beautiful heart n even more pure thoughts to someone. N it’s not a sin.
I’ve seen lot of guys laughing, sharing there sex experiences of taking virginity of girl. I don’t think any guy I’ve ever seen had power to take virginity of girl from her heart.
Losing heart’s virginity is what matters most and affect the relationship. Physical virginity is something that is obvious to be gone after marriage, now days even before marriage. What matters most in long lasting n ever lasting relationship is heart’s virginity; without which it’s pretty hard to be merry n even more hard to spend all the age coming in future.
One shall only be giving the heart’s virginity to someone who’ll always be close and will always be caring about thoughts till eternity.
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Thank you for you comments Thelma and Paul :-)
I understand both your views of my problem, when I think logical I agree with you.
But the hard thing is when logic and feelings not agree.
It´s complicated and I know that my past decisions made me have this situation.
And your quote Thelma
“Whenever we have to take decisions affecting others too, our main ’scope’, target is to act .. from pure love, forgetting our .. Ego. After all what is a .. life, in ..Eternity??”
How will I know for sure that I act from pure love and not my Ego?
Is it to look after that all people around me are happy, or is it to look after myself first and become happy?
Because as Paulo said before I can´t spread happiness if I don´t being happy myself.
This situation is like choosing between pest or cholera.
I don´t want to make another person sad, but instead I´m sad.
But I just have to follow my heart, I can´t ignore it anymore, I can´t continue living my life according to others peoples feelings.
I have to take time for myself and figure out what my inner voice sais, but will I listen and follow it ?
I have to sooner or later …. or else …. I will be sick again I think and that I don´t want.
Love Jessica
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Thank you all.
Dear Paul from Austria, you are already an .. angel, for your beloveds and with this desire to … help others, for .. all of us. May the love you send to the Universe be returned a .. million times back to you.
Dear Jessica and Santosh Kalwar, I think that you have put yourselves in an ‘unnecessary’ torment! Our souls are free to … love. We become kinder and more sensitive persons. A Platonic love.
When this love becomes passion, we become .. blind and forget .. logic. If we are in that … state, we cannot love … more than one person. We are fully absorbed and ‘possessed’! If you start doubting it is a sign that you are not happy. This is the ‘crucial’ moment to stand, wait and ‘think’. Are you ready to sacrifice what you have built during the path, with patience and love, for a … gambling game? Because nobody and nothing can guarantee us that the ‘new’ will be better or more fulfilling. Our fantasy may colour our new dream with many tempting colours, but this new situation will also have to be experienced on … Earth and not on the ..Pink Clouds. The choice is yours and ours, in every step of our journey and by our decisions we, for sure, built our ..life, Karma, Path, destiny. Whenever we have to take decisions affecting others too, our main ’scope’, target is to act .. from pure love, forgetting our .. Ego. After all what is a .. life, in ..Eternity??
LOVE,
Thelma
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Dear Jessica,
As Paulo has reminded us many times, it is not the WOL’s task to tell others how to live their lives… but we can perhaps help by offering examples of our own experiences, which may or may not assist them…
The minute I stop grieving over a missed opportunity and accepting that I have chosen this path as a part my personal destiny, the sooner my heart is free to live the moment & give of myself fully again…
I hope this, helps both you & perhaps Santosh, Love Paul
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Oh thanks a lot. this will also help me in having visitors read my blogs too… :)
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I FEEL AWFUL TODAY.
My grandfather died and I don’t know how to react.
I wanna cry to let it all out but my tears aren’t showing up. It sucks. It feels like I’m dying now. Like every single minute. :(
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Thoughts after a movie…..
After an incredible week, I stumbled to watch a movie , Ghosts of Goya, starring Zavier Bardem and Natalie Portman, It was almost like living in real times, especially after the Mumbai attacks.
The Mumbai attacks held me glued to the televisions which were bringing the updates. These weren’t just news, these were emotions, fear, the incomprehensibility of why and what reasons could probably drive individuals to such a state that the very respect and right of another person is completely forgotten. It wasn’t just lives that were taken away but the very morale of existence were put into question.
The news were bringing the numbers, and every time the numbers of those invaluable lives which were lost for no reason was mounting high, they weren’t just figures and numerical for another neuron to consolidate the information with in.
During all these, all I had in my mind was my Mother, I was pushed to recount the shrill and shiver in her voice over the phone, when I was traveling back home for my first vacation from Bulgaria, and the train from Chennai to Delhi met with an accident ( though I was traveling from Delhi to Chennai with the train having a same name)
I was pushed to recount her voice when , during the Afghan war, I was caught up unexpectedly in Moscow transit for two days with no way to connect home,
I was able to recount the China Sichuan earth quake ,when I was running out of my room and telling her over the phone that the earth is shaking and suddenly we ran out of signal,
My mind was exploding with just one thought, how many mothers would have faced this fear which was very rational unlike my mother’s. How many mothers would have had a strong shrapnel of emotion tearing them deep but leaving them alive.
God! Now I am pronouncing the very which may be the root of all this. Is God the concept or the genesis of such inconsiderate , incomprehensible acts of humans? Right from the Inquisitions, crusaders to now what is called as Islamic terror.
The movie brought the terror of Spanish Inquisitions reminding me that no region, no time , no continent was ever spared of what is called as Extremism.
Is extremism a way to please Our God? But, Do God, the Needless, to be pleased by us?
Or is what we call as extremism is result of perception of constant fear from the people having a contrary belief of ours. Is it that very primitive territorial fear being translated in modern times?
As I go on trying to nail the answer, I just realize that how do everyone of us deal with OPPOSITES. I feel that every single thought that are being conceptualized would give birth its opposite from the very beginning it self. It is almost an Universal phenomenon.
We would have seen it within ourselves , and with father, with mother , with every incident in life, that the opposites are inseparable Siamese twin of any and every ideology. I don’t think a profound knowledge of Philosophies ( Ying Yang) or psychoanalysis are needed to understand.
I do not know how to conclude but I just know that belief in any ideologies is to have the courage that its opposite is with in it and thus cannot be erased by any external factors , and by any means, not just violence ( the most cruel). And I do believe that God encompassing ALL ( which includes the opposites) would be definitely aware of this, but how does people who are imbibed and professing ideologies fail to understand this?
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Claw, Crawl, Climb
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For The ERO (Eternal Romantic Optimist), the choice is not difficult, its those everyday steps in the darkness that takes it toll. He knows what he wants, his destination never sways, he keeps the snippets of memory flashing across his vision, as he keeps looking for the next step. When all his friends shouts from the other side for him to step into the light, he smiles back. This is not the light he dreams of. His light is much brighter, yet calm. It doesn’t burn but nurtures your vision.
He remembers that smile and a faint hint of smile emerges at the corner of his lips, unnoticed by all; and he starts crawling ahead again. Just one prayer in mind, “God please keep her safe and happy till I reach!” He pauses only to gather few drops of life, stored deep inside his eternally optimistic heart.
People keeps laughing at him, looking at his improbable journey, they declare him a madman. They laugh at his decision. They laugh at the path he chose. They cant see the destination he keeps looking at. He knows he has made mistakes. He knows he has swayed away from his path. He knows coming back to his chosen path has become harder. Yet he knows that’s the only way forward.
“Double or Nothing !”
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We come into this world to discover and fulfill our predestination, following the call of the heart.
Three invisible substances nourish our soul by filling it with a strong wish to continue the chosen way: these are hope, faith and love. My poem is about hope.
HOPE
At the dawn of life hope came into being
Like a flower it bloomed in the immature souls
Inspiring people to follow their goals
Fed by emotions day after day, hour by hour
Hope has become the source of inner power,
Burning like eternal flame in the cave of the subconscious mind
Hope has turned into the stronghold for all mankind …
From time immemorial till the present day
Hope has been the sun lighting up the way
To all human intentions which have flown
Like birds to the future unknown
Hope has been the lighthouse directing all aspirations
Like ships through time and space to chosen destinations
Hope has been the bridge over the river of Fate for ages
Supporting people at all life stages
In this ever changing world hope is a treasure of the soul,
Reflecting indissoluble union of the mind and goal
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Why is finding out your purpose in this world so difficult? I fear that I may never be able to find the answer, and yet I know that I must not pursue the question too hard, or the real answer will escape me.
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” –Plato
“There’s a difference between 1) expecting failure and settling with it, and 2) preparing for failure and accepting it.” –me :) I was thinking about this yesterday, and I figured that I’ll never know my true potential if I don’t follow my heart, even if I’m afraid of failing. Only then will life know where to find me…
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La memoria y el tiempo
Me he dado cuenta (ahora más, desde que vivo en Suecia) de que evito recordar. No lo hago conscientemente, pero sé que evito repasar el pasado. La primera consecuencia es muy curiosa: el tiempo se desvanece, porque la vida se compone sólo de momentos vividos, de recuerdos. Si estos desaparecen, si los arrinconas, te parecerá que apenas si has disfrutado de algún momento de emoción, alegría o tristeza. Los años parecen minutos insulsos y sin sentido.
En su poema “Queda prohibido” Neruda prohibe tener miedo a los recuerdos. Yo, por desgracia, he prohibido ese poema a mi corazón durante ya demasiado tiempo.
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I read this article (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/german-children-6-and-7-elope-for-africa/2009/01/06/1231003974064.html) today. Kids nowadays are in a hurry to grow up.
25 years ago all I thought about was the next Barbie doll I’m gonna ask for.
Youth is really wasted on the young.
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Packing for the new year?
These are my ideas on what to pack:
Integrity and Good Music.
Imagination and Good Books
Open Mind and Soft Shoulder
Creativity and Spirituality
Courage and a New Bathing Suit
Crystals, a Good Pen and Chewing Gum
Door knobs (in case some doors appear closed with no apparent means of entry…always carry an extra door knob with you)
Good Wine and Good Friends
Verboten Objects ~ What to leave behind:
Maps, Whining, Bad Attitude, Brussel Sprouts, Judgemental People and unfair judgements on my part
Be On The Lookout For:
Opportunity to tell loved one:
“I Love YOU”
“You are Special”
“You are important to me”
Miracles, Angels, Sunrises, Sunsets,
Good Books, Good Music, “Good Waves, Man”
Hugs, Kisses and Macaroons,
Vintage Linens and Gin & Tonics on a hot afternoon
Crystals, Naps and Opportunities for Growth
What are you packing, what are you leaving behind and what are you going to be watching for?
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Para ser feliz.
Vuelvo a mi blog, parecen siglos desde que escribí por última vez. La explicación es bien fácil: durante todo este tiempo no he tenido acceso a internet, al menos no con asiduidad. En este periodo me han sucecido muchas cosas (a todo el mundo le sucede algo continuamente). Yo me caí y me levanté muchas veces, anduve tres pasos adelante y dos para atrás, siempre tratando de hallar el mejor camino, en esa esperanza sigo.
Ahora que sí tengo acceso a la red quiero volver a poner mis pensamientos en negro sobre blanco, no porque crea que alguien los vaya a leer (tengo estadísticas que me indican que pocos lo harán), es sólo por conversar con el hombre que siempre va conmigo. Es la mejor terapia para ser feliz y, ser feliz, es lo único que quiero
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I’m currently studying the sociology of knowledge. One of its sub-fields is a sociology of generations.
What event/cultural trauma/milestone/crisis define/s our generation?
War on terror?
Financial crisis?
Cultural upheavals of globalization?
Global warming?
Rise of the internet?
Or should I stop considering a global generation and just delimit its scope within particular localities (regional or national)?
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