Life's Realisation

  Can children or adults truly escape the snares of abusers or past trauma? Is there light at the end of the tunnel for such victims? When children are abused physically and/or mentally at a very young age they will end up with invisible scares that cannot be healed. It will haunt them for life. For example, it was nothing short of disturbing to watch the News1st video related to the above news article on Newswire (Police hunt for man caught on video assaulting toddler) , which was also widely shared on social media. It was like a clip from a horror movie. This so-called father calls his toddler to eat. He feeds the child some food and in the same go punches this little child in the face with a closed fist and the toddler falls to the ground. After a few minutes the father calls the child again to eat. This child obeys his father and goes to be fed with tears streaming down his face, only this time to be brutally assaulted even harder and to go flying to the ground like a paper ro...

Collateral Beauty  is an awesome movie that touches your very soul. It is centered on how to find yourself all over again after a terrible tragedy. However, most importantly it reveals the Love-Death-Time existential triangle that connects every human being. Love - We long for love Time - We wish we had more time. Death - We fear death. Collateral Beauty also draws examples to various peoples lives to make us question whether we are living right, using our time wisely,  and even dying right. Well, in reality with every passing moment we are spending time. Time once spent can never be bought back. Therefore, the question "why" should always linger in our minds. You should always question as to why you do things to get down to the actual motive, question whether it is worth it, and then question as to how you could do things better. Why did I do or say that?   Did I do or say that to keep up with society?  Did I do or say that to shine among my peers? D...

I think to myself “ It’s high time to do some spring cleaning around the house ” so I potter around the house and try to bag up the stuff which aren’t really useful to us anymore. I pick up something to give away and then the part of me that wants to cling on to things says, “ Who knows it may come in use to you in the future and besides if you go to buy it in the shop today it will cost and you an arm and a leg ” and then the other part of me counter attacks my previous thoughts by saying, “ What’s the use of keeping it? You don’t use it any way, so why don’t you give it to someone who can make some use of it before it simply disintegrates in front of your own two eyes and you have to chuck it out as garbage ”. The conflict of thoughts lasted only for a split second, because heart-of-hearts I knew what had to be done… and I continued to bag up the stuff to give away to the poor. My mission is still not complete as there is loads more to sort-out and bag up but I sure was amazed to see...

Whether it be in selecting a course of study or selecting a life long partner, it is commonplace to hear about numerous instances where parents have pressurised their children into doing things against their own freewill. This is simply because parents think that they can rule their children’s lives because they were instrumental in bringing them into the world. I think it is highly unfair, coz after all the children will have to live with the consequences of such decisions in the end. What’s utterly tragic is the fact that generally in certain cultures the parental “Iron fist ruling” tradition keeps reoccurring over and over again, due to it being inculcated in their society and community. All children long for love, affection and understanding from their parents irrespective of whether they are a toddler or an adult. Domineering parents fail to see their children for who they really are and most of the time end-up by paying the high price of loosing them as such children will undoubt...

Sometime back one of my friends mentioned that she had an encounter with an overprotective mum. Apparently when she had asked to carry the baby the mother out of reluctance had given her the baby to keep on her lap and had said to her “Hold him tight and don’t drop him ok….Otherwise I will kill you”. My firend had apparently not retaliated to what was said as she knew that the mother of the child didn’t mean it per say, as they were like sisters. Nevertheless, it had been a very awkward moment because she was shell shocked and hurt by the statement and had to put on a plastic smile to hide her real feelings. There was no doubt that these words that she blabbered unconsciously came from her overly protective motherly instincts and also probably because this was her first born; but I don’t think that, that simply justifies this situation. We live in a wicked world and we have to be very protective of our children as you can never tell what will happen. But at the same time I think that ...

Most young girls and guys when growing up strive to do anything to be noticed and to be part of the crowd. In their minds it’s labelled as the “IN THING” which is fun and cool. Rarely do they stop to ponder as to whether, what they are doing is right or wrong. They always love to try new things just for the sake of being able to boast to others saying that they did it. As a result before they know what starts off as fun soon becomes and addiction which eats away their lives slowly. All people who are slaves and addicts to worldly pleasures have their own reasoning behind their putrid actions. However, little do they know that all their lame excuses are nothing but denial. Many people are quick to point a finger towards a person’s upbringing and friends when they fall onto the wrong path. However this may not be true in all such situations. I believe that everyone has a conscience and the power of better judgement lies within each one of us. Therefore no one can be blamed for another pe...