Sunday, October 16, 2011

Happily Ever After…

Today is the eve of my birthday. And the resolution for coming year is to stay fabulously happy. The start is auspicious; I can’t stop smiling every time I look at the mirror and notice my new earrings I gifted to my pretty self.

So life happens and problems come gushing. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. We deal with some like an invincible super hero but some hit us hard on our vulnerability and we succumb. Then what follow is pain, dilemma and hurt till friends and family come to our rescue and with their support we overcome.

Why go through the painstaking process to breaking and recovering each time? Allow me to list the rules of happiness and life, to remind us when we need it incase our friends are not there to hold our hands.

• We cannot control all situations. We can do the best and leave the rest.
• Listen to all opinions, but make your own decision.
• We have no power on what people think about us or interpret our actions and words
• Who said mistakes and faults are unacceptable, we are called mortals for a reason
• Be yourself
• We can live to the fullest whatever life has to offer us.
• Express yourself.
• Rules and “normalcy” are overrated.
• Music heals
• Meet people and talk, you will realize pains and problems are not exclusive to you
• Forget more and analyze less
• God is always there right beside us, helping us through various means.

Hopefully this year life will treat all of us a little more kindly. And even if it doesn’t happiness is a cup of coffee, a chat with a friend, a well written article, a colleague you helped, a fear you conquered, a meal you had, a gift you bought, the extra pound you shed and yes those earrings :) All iz Well!!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Flawed Anna-lysis

Every country is shrouded with corruption. Why it hurts us more is because in our country its prevalent at all levels.

When you have grease palms at your offense of defying the traffic rules to when you are rightfully seeking your own birth certificate; getting your kid admitted in school to when you need special attention in a general hospital; need a job or need a peaceful retirement, it is visible to all.

Though a very curious fact is that corruption, a practice which cannot be justified in any scenario is socially acceptable. Many profiles and jobs are considered lucrative and respectful only because they promise more than the stipulated salary and benefits.

So an ever-pinching, most frequently discussed and universally hated yet socially accepted corruption, got a new spin when Anna campaigned for its eradication.

Anna and his team, took the hefty task of cleaning the corrupt corridors of power through a very intellectual and transparent campaign. The support provided by hero-starved media and common man was obviously unprecedented.

But maybe, this support is because Anna, never asked the common man to change. There was no request made to defy corruption by denouncing giving and taking of bribes. Definitely the political corruption is much larger and it induces more drama to ask the corrupt to make laws to vanquish their own abilities to exercise corruption. But when you are in a room with dirt everywhere, you can reach out to clean from where ever you can start, you do not have to go on fast under the most unclean attic.

In the biggest democracy of the world, the biggest flaw is that all political parties are only superficially segregated. All of them are morally drained and power-cash hungry. This is why anti-incumbency factor is the most widespread feature of our election results. So if individual morality plunge further, one political party will give way to another equally corrupt regime & even the sought-after, fought-after, chaste and all powerful regularity body to monitor them may also fall prey to the same fate.

Power is disorienting, we are already aware of the team Anna itself giving very absurd, ineffectual and inept comments under the arch lights. So may be Anna should turn back to the followers and start a less glamorous campaign of social purification rather than political immaculacy.