"Never" again

Four decades of sedimentation of ideas, impressions, desires, lusts, hurts, hurts and more hurts and more than one attempt to clean up the mess and many resignations later you are back to square one. I mean ! Something has to be done. It is important to think.

Resolutions don't last if the here and now connection is not kept. There is nothing like I shall do it afterwards . It is NOW. Or never...

That it took me more than 40 years to admit this is quite suggestive of the tardiness of  my progress. I almost said 'no progress at all', but I am wary of these clean-sweep terms like always and never. unless you mean to sound profound do not use them. Their function is ornamental. Realistically, they are unfortunate terms, redundant and extra-functional because they overstate. Terms like these lie on your behalf, not at your behest, and embarrass you later when your guard is down. Avoid using terms like never. Or, like Bond 'never say never again'.

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Days are just days. They become good or bad depending on our inner attitude. I had a 'bad day' yesterday. Today is 'good', one hopes, because I reflected on the mistakes of yesterday which rendered it 'bad' for me. That precise moment helped me to resolve not to repeat what turned my yesterday bad. 

PS: That resolve lasted till yesterday. The mistake got repeated, although in moderation, yet it was the same mistake nevertheless.

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If you realise that the crux of all conflict among men is our inability to reconcile the opposites what do you do?

Any reaction, however positive in intent will only perpetuate the conflict. It may not reflect on your immediate field of interaction, but add to the overall human condition. The ideal of Human Unity gets blurred before our eyes and forward march of human race gets stalled. All these suspended moments in the collective aspirations of the race get accumulated and we have wars. Wars are desperate measures of the planet to usher in peace. We need peace as the basic condition to fulfill whatever it is that we seek to fulfill as species.

One easy solution seems to take everything lying down. Offer no resistance. But that is not a solution at all; it is a shortcut to slavery and dependence.

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