Mistakes to make,
Questioned at random,
In my mind!
Clichés tried,
Lyrics quoted,
In my mind!
Thoughts swept,
Mundane space,
In my mind!
Feelings selected,
Ignored and still,
In my mind!
Totally and completely,
In my mind!
Friday, January 08, 2010
To let my kids be..kids!
I must allow my kids to be,
Kids, while they can still be,
If that means as an adult I need to accompany,
I have to ensure so. I have to let work be.
Off I am, homeward bound, suddenly feeling free.
Work piling on will still bring me peace,
A wise man once said, satisfied I can go to bed,
My to-do list for tomorrow is already all there!
--Roli
Kids, while they can still be,
If that means as an adult I need to accompany,
I have to ensure so. I have to let work be.
Off I am, homeward bound, suddenly feeling free.
Work piling on will still bring me peace,
A wise man once said, satisfied I can go to bed,
My to-do list for tomorrow is already all there!
--Roli
Thursday, January 07, 2010
My son learns and teaches tolerance
My fourteen-year old son and I read an article in the newspaper recently about the tolerance that Indians show towards others' religions and beliefs. According to a research conducted in Washignton, India ranks right after Iraq because of the conflicts and riots that occur on the account of religion. This is in extreme contradiction to India's claim of being a secular country with pluralist beliefs.
Honestly speaking, it took my son and me a little while to complete reading this article. Football and house cleaning required urgent attention. (Though I do wish that the house cleaning task would grow up instead of just growing larger everyday.) We all realize this problem but choose to ignore. Until it happens to us or one of our own, we do not want to spend any time on the problems mushrooming in our country, not realizing that because we never pause in our rat-races to nip the social problems, these increase to such humongous proportions that finally strikes, street-marches, even sessions in the parliament offer zero solutions. Because of our amazing tolerance with these issues, we are going nowhere as a nation. Social evils nullify technological progress. Religious conflicts block economic growth. So, thanks for the reminder about this problem.
But I am really thankful for the article because it offered me a peep into my son’s mind. After reading the article, my fourteen-year old son launched into a two-hour discussion, citing examples from his life of the way people show a total lack of tolerance for others’ beliefs. I was quite taken aback at the intensity with which my son exposulated his feelings on the matter.
He pored over the reasons why people insist that their God and religion is superior, and even proposed some solutions for these problems. He expressed his sadness that this intolerance is handed down the generations, and many of his friends exhibit these biases, using mockery and group-ism to prove their superiority. He says that we are not biased by religion alone. Prejudices exist for any thing – the state one hails from, class, color, income, sex, even food choices. Divisionary boundaries are so deeply etched that no amount of logic has any impact. His desire to rise above such categorization and be just a human pleases me as a mother. But I wish as an adult, I was contributing more.
Honestly speaking, it took my son and me a little while to complete reading this article. Football and house cleaning required urgent attention. (Though I do wish that the house cleaning task would grow up instead of just growing larger everyday.) We all realize this problem but choose to ignore. Until it happens to us or one of our own, we do not want to spend any time on the problems mushrooming in our country, not realizing that because we never pause in our rat-races to nip the social problems, these increase to such humongous proportions that finally strikes, street-marches, even sessions in the parliament offer zero solutions. Because of our amazing tolerance with these issues, we are going nowhere as a nation. Social evils nullify technological progress. Religious conflicts block economic growth. So, thanks for the reminder about this problem.
But I am really thankful for the article because it offered me a peep into my son’s mind. After reading the article, my fourteen-year old son launched into a two-hour discussion, citing examples from his life of the way people show a total lack of tolerance for others’ beliefs. I was quite taken aback at the intensity with which my son exposulated his feelings on the matter.
He pored over the reasons why people insist that their God and religion is superior, and even proposed some solutions for these problems. He expressed his sadness that this intolerance is handed down the generations, and many of his friends exhibit these biases, using mockery and group-ism to prove their superiority. He says that we are not biased by religion alone. Prejudices exist for any thing – the state one hails from, class, color, income, sex, even food choices. Divisionary boundaries are so deeply etched that no amount of logic has any impact. His desire to rise above such categorization and be just a human pleases me as a mother. But I wish as an adult, I was contributing more.
Friday, January 01, 2010
Incentive to end the undestined
DESTINY
It may be that two souls meet and it is not destined that they are to be together in this world. They touch each other and part. They have other work to do. Yet the meeting can never be forgotten; it is ingrained on the soul itself.
Reshad Field
It may be that two souls meet and it is not destined that they are to be together in this world. They touch each other and part. They have other work to do. Yet the meeting can never be forgotten; it is ingrained on the soul itself.
Reshad Field
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