LET’S MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN
Let's promote: Values that hold Truths to be told
Ideals that match Culture that catch
Let's create: Life to be lived Love to be loved
Joy to be shared Way to be walked
All for a better and brighter tomorrow of mine and yours
From past life experience, innovative ideas and vision
By sharing, expressing and caring
Let the world be better and brighter
For you have trod its way
Scatter seeds of love and kindness
Before the sun goes down today.
Let's discover: Life to live Joy to share Love to hold
Truth to be bold Friends to fare Dreams to dare Smile to cherish
Song to sing Cheer to spread Hope to instill Hands to help
Let's make a better use of our life because we’ll have no second chance on earth
Let's do something for our world because we owe so much to it!
A MORNING AT A VILLAGE …Lawrence
Amid chirping of birds far and close by,
Cries and laughter of children near by,
Calm and cool, fresh and serene air to breathe,
With crows of cock, I got up day each.
To find the gift of life from the lord almighty,
Awake from the slumber of dark and deep sleep.
To a bright morning, leading me to live,
Charge oneself with life, energy and warmth.
First encounter with surrounding seems refreshed,
A call to be one with its splendid feeling,
Oh! The clock towers-(cocks) calling aloud,
To leave the sleepy and lazy mood.
Oh! See the watch towers (dogs) sleeping by,
Recharging from heat of the earth.
The smoke from the thatched house,
Gives me the sense, people are ready to sip,
A cup of tea, giving them a warm and refresh treat.
WHAT IS MARRIAGE???
1. Marriage is not a word. It's a sentence (a life sentence).
2. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind.
3. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her master’s.
4. Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.
5. Married life is full of excitement and frustration: In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the NEIGHBOUR listens.
6. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that instead.
7. There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found himself married. A year later he muttered something in his sleep and found himself divorced.
8. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives and the wife takes.
9. Son: “How much does it cost to get married, Dad?”
Father: “I don't know son, I'm still paying for it.”
10. Son: “Is it true Dad? I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't
know his wife until he marries her.”
Father: “That happens everywhere, son, EVERYWHERE! “
11. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.
12. They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before
marriage, it is love; after marriage it is self-defense.
13. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.
14. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her. They got married, and now he is going through HELL.
16. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
17. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America, the rest cheat in Europe.
18. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they still stay together.
19. Marriage is man and a woman become one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
20. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After the marriage the "Y" becomes silent.
21. I married Miss Right; I just didn't know her first name was “Always”.
22. It's not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer.
23. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.
24. A man was complaining to a friend: I HAD IT ALL-MONEY, A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THEN POW! IT WAS ALL GONE! WHAT HAPPENED? asked his friend. He says, MY WIFE FOUND OUT.
25. WIFE: “Let's go out and have some fun tonight.” HUSBAND: “OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway lights on.”
26. At a cocktail party, one woman said to another: AREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR RING ON THE WRONG FINGER? The other replied, YES, I, AM. I MARRIED THE WRONG MAN.
27. Man is incomplete until he gets married, then he is finished.
28. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.
29. A man inserted an ad in the paper: WIFE WANTED. The next day he received a hundred of letters and they all said the same thing - YOU CAN HAVE MINE.
30. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing - either the car is new or the wife is.
All these are being spread by those who don't wanna marry ? BUT, Marriage is one of the best happenings in some-one's life !
To My Soul Mate………………………….
As I sit amidst the children who are flying kite
in the sky I am reminded of my own life, especially
of my friend. However, distanced we may be, there
are some holy time spent threads that unite us.
Certainly, among these threads there is a thread of friendship. If this thread is broken or cut off nobody can guess what would be our fate. Perhaps, a sort of imprisonment of the soul with its romantic and nostalgic feeling, or a melancholic depression or apathy or inertia or deep feeling of loneliness would be the plight of the one who has been rejected or has lost his close friends, and he becomes the victim of a bitter experience indeed. This could be what prompted David to sing in the Psalms: “even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread………”
The greatest gift in life one may receive is the gift of friendship. A friend is not merely a ‘Companion’. In Latin the word ‘companion’ it is made up of cum and pane which means the one who shares the bread together, of my dreams, of my inner thoughts, of my inner feelings, or one who sits with me at my table for a meal. It is not necessary that friends should live under one roof. Body is only a medium. But the heart relates to the heart slowly but deeply, and the friend comes to know even his soul mate’s inner self.
As marriage is an indissoluble bond blessed by God, so too is friendship. Intimate friends are joined by God, so let nobody ever break it……
Even Jesus had longed for intimate friendship. The three, Peter, John and Jacob were with Him. He might have wished that they would stay with Him in times of his glories and agonies. Certainly, they were with Him to experience the glories at Tabor, they were drowsy even then they kept awake. They wanted to be there always .They were with Him in His Gethsemane of agony and grief too, but they were found sleeping when he came back after praying……… .
Dear soul mate be with me in my Tabors and in my Gethsemanes. Nobody should leave anybody midway through one’s life. Friendship a covenant which never ends not even in death……….
Winter days
Winter days of the year
Hinder us not to review
Hidden errors of our life
For a wonderful future.
Now the time for us to review
The unarranged menu of our life,
Little instances of negligence,
Are to be considered seriously.
Let not the cold breeze of the day
Make us slow in our daily life
May the new buds of the rose
Remind us the message of life.
Fragence of the little Lilly
Ring a bell of our God's love.
Let our little love and kindness
Kindle a lamb in the frozen hearts.
Melodies of the Carroll song
Wants us to examine life
Stars of the skies remind us
How to glitter in the future days.
Cake pieces on the table may bring,
A pleasing smile on our faces,
To receive our Lord in our hearts,
And be filled with his pining love.
Decoration on the walls
Is not an alternative
For the adoration of the Lord Almighty.
But………………
with a humble heart
Let us kneel down
before our loving God......
Dare to Dream
‘I have a Dream’ thundered Martin Luther King Jr. before a throng of people
on the Washington mall in August 28, 1963. Even after the Emancipation Act of
Abraham Lincoln in 1865 that ended slavery in America racial discrimination still
persisted in the land of the oldest democracy. The blacks who laid the stones for a
prosperous America were facing the enduring problem of racial injustice that was
manifested in the form of segregation, discrimination, poverty and domestic exile. At this time there arose a prophetic voice, the voice of a dreamer. The dreamer proclaimed, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out to the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truth to be self evident, that all men are created equal”. His dream became a beacon of hope for millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of wreathing injustice. The prophetic dreamer’s dream was regarding the distant future. The dream took forty five years to become a reality. In a nation that deprived the blacks the right to vote elected a black Barack Hussian Obama as their new president.
What does it do to me? Long ago a Negro dreamt in a far away country and today that dream has come true. I stand here and look at the horizon and imagine that dreamer and the dreamed, a nostalgic feeling creeps in me. Can I dream? Can I become a dreamer? A dream for my persecuted community. My heart sores when my brethren are persecuted because they are Christians. Even after sixty years of independence the Indian Christian is not free in his own country, India. Even after sixty years the life of the Christian still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination. Even after Sixty years of independence of India, the Christian lives on a lonely island of fear in the midst of vast of ocean of religious pluralism. Even after sixty years freedom of India, the Christian is still languishing in the corners of Indian society and finds himself an exile in his own land. Can I be a dreamer for this my shattered community or can you or can we all become dreamers? Whatever may be I have a dream!
I have dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its constitution that everyone has the freedom to follow his/her religion.
I have a dream that one day in the jungles of Kandhmal the children of the persecutors and the persecuted will be able to sit down together and celebrate brotherhood/sisterhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Orissa, a state sweltering with a heat of religious communalism will be transformed into an oasis of religious freedom and peace.
I have a dream that one day my community will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the religion but by the content of their character.
I have dream that one day I will not be deprived of my basic rights because I am a Christian. I have a dream today, I still have.
This is my hope. This is the faith that keeps me going. Are you ready to dream and strive to make your dream a reality?
Why is the media here IS so negative?
A Letter to Every Indian BY DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported.. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.
Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don! 't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM.. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty c! oconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Au stralia and New Zealand .
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan .
Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to d! o everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.
When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excu! se? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU.. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system.. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody think! s of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too….. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..
'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'
Lets do what India needs from us.
