Humane....????

How much HUMANE have we remained?
Do we i.e Humans, still display the trait called Humanity at all? Are we Humane enough to be still called Humans??
These questions are not to target the entirety of our race, but yes, the incidents that are happening lately around the world have forced these thoughts about "HUMANS" to cross my mind.

We, claim aloud that “We are the greatest of GOD's creation - having the highest degree of intelligence”.
The way we had been until a few decades ago (centuries might be more appropriate?) might support the idea of we being the intelligent beings that existed then.

But in the recent years, the attitudes, tendencies and temperaments of people have taken to a drastic change.
People have become impatient, intolerant and apathetic toward fellow beings and more self-centered calculating the benefit/ profit for oneself out of anything that one does.
All these changes to an extent of offending and hurting others (physically and/ mentally) for achieving one’s purposes.

Coming to think of the statement (“We are the greatest of GOD's creation - having the highest degree of intelligence”) now, it feels like we really have lost any ability to think clearly.
Consider the way mindless killings that are taking place around the world these days. The world is no safe a place for living; There is no safety for a nation nor for an individual of any nationality.

Animals prey on each other for the sake of satiating their hunger - the basic need/ law behind the very existence.
They do not kill without reason or rather they cannot reason, as they cannot think.
That differentiates us from animals.
But the killings that are happening around the world these days - they compare with or sustain no law of nature (or sustain the law “Survival of the Fittest” in a perverted sense?)
Is killing that easy and does killing relish people's royal senses?
If Humans are borne with the highest degree of intelligence and discretion, our actions should justify it.

If terrorism is one big thing that the nations of the world are concerned with today, think about the terrorism/ animosity that people (individuals) are breeding within themselves.
Think of people who kill/ assault / pour acid on the face of their love (loved ones) just for the mere reason that their love has not been accepted or requitted.
I wonder if that feeling of theirs can qualify to be called ‘LOVE’ at all.

People kill their own kith and kin in the name of property disputes.
We get to see and read about domestic violence and killings which have become very common now-a-days. School kids are being molested and killed at school “A Divine Place for Learning” eh? (And learning what?) The mindless mass-shootings at schools or otherwise are a horror.
All this is called “Progress towards Development”?
If change from yesterday to today be evolution, then are we still “Evolving”? (better, Devolving?)

If at an individual level such extreme tendencies/feelings cannot be contained (individual discretion failing to conquer extreme tendencies), then I doubt if extreme thoughts/ feelings arising due to religious/group/racial/ disparities can be contained. People have lost the ability to distinguish between good and bad.
If this continues and people are not willing to wake up to the call of their consciences, there is no doubt to the fact that such extreme thoughts shall continue to be fueled by forces which work towards achieving selfish and mean ends at the cost of anything and everything.

As today’s education has widened its horizons covering a vast range of subjects and areas of knowledge, we have narrowed down upon our "Humane" side?
We are failing to exhibit the trait of ‘Tolerance’ towards fellow beings or though we exhibit it, we are letting our anger conquer ‘Tolerance’.
What real value is all the present education giving us?
What have we been learning and sophisticating upon?

I debated with myself for a long time whether to make this a topic for my next post or not; I couldn't keep it within myself any more and thought it should find a place on my blog.

Who and what factors are to be blamed for all the transition/ evolution that we are getting to see in ourselves? Is it the stressful life that people are living in the world now that is to be blamed? Innocent kids chastised/ punished, in turn learn that violence is the way to get things done fast. If we give them such values... I don’t know.... my thoughts are wandering around many issues... I can't coherently line up and link them all. But, one thing is for certain...

The vicious circle of these unanswered questions will continue to haunt us all....

I'm sorry for the generalization but it was in a general view of the incidents that have been happening lately.

2021, 2022 & 2023

2021 - (November 30), Just two months after losing our beloved SPB sir (September 25), We lost a legendary Telugu Lyricist - SiriVennela SeetaRama Sastry garu. 

2022- we lost another great singer KK garu (from bollywood)

2023 - We lost Legendary Singer Vani JayaRam garu and Legendary Director Kala Tapaswi Vishwanath garu.

What sad times!

Hitting the 100th post? :)

Writing daily or at least frequently was something I should have continued doing.

That would have been helpful for me to cohesively glue my thoughts together to present in a neat manner.

No matter. Not too late for anything that is a good thing to start.

I will try and keep at it. That way at the least, the tone in my posts will change from a negative/ painful one to that of a neutral one. And who is to tell if it may someday change to a positive and joyful one.

So, folks! This is it. This is my 100th post (published one that is). The count of the posts has been already over a 100 long time ago. But not all posts can be published. So, yeah! There is that - Private posts secrecy :) 

The impacted/ sufferer

When there is any kind of pain/ trauma in a family, the older child(ren) become the most impacted ones and they suffer in silence.

If the older child(ren) happen to be girl(s), even more pronounced the effects on them at later stages in life.

Indian at Heart!

It will shortly be a decade since the time we left India. 

But at the core, we remain very much Indian.

Maybe it is because of our upbringing, our connection rooted in the learning of our culture, we live by those learnings and have survived difficult times in an alien land and are still standing.

Stepping out of our comfort zone adds a definite advantage in that, it widens our horizons of thought, awarding a wider view of the world.

But when faced with adversity(ies), it is a deep understanding and grounding in the spiritual culture that most definitely has been THE centering factor in our lives.

Identity!

Copied and stuck together?
Copied by observing friends and people in general.
Stuck together - all the pieces of personality/ traits/ characteristics that were successful in impressing me in others? and those that I wanted to have in me?

But, all the people in my immediate circle of family (at various stages/ points in my life), could see through the cracks/ gaps of those pieces that were stuck together, were only looking at the deficiencies/ deficits. It made the pieces crumble as the glue holding the pieces was not strong enough in the sense it was not true? I could never be whole how ever much I tried. It was all a lie, a facade I made up and put up.

Abandoned

Vulnerable people become the targets at whom anguish of people who they care for, is directed at.

Bad choices.

Surrounded by people whose holes you fill.

But who is filling your holes? Who is healing you? Internalize pain? Everyone - abandoned you. 

Are you bad or are you too good? Let them make that choice. You stay with yourself within yourself.

Great Thought! Growth Mindset - Spiritual Growth!

 

Thank you Ma'am

Living within means

 "Everyone lives within one's own means."

People who have their principles grounded in some kind of morals, that is.

The above statement does not talk about living within the financial means alone; people like me who think /truly have been (and still are) limited due to their life situation(s), and who cannot sit still and watch their lives waste away and who are more or less of above average intelligence, try and will do something/ anything to improve their life situation, whether it is for their own selves or for their dependents.

So, in line with the above claim, I want to say that I have started on a journey of learning almost a year ago.

Again, as has been the case with me, it is not a fully thought-through choice (financial limitations come into play). Do not really know how big of a financial risk/ burden we can take upon ourselves for our own betterment at this juncture of our lives - where our children are about to be teenagers. Though, without the financial commitments/ limitations like ours, the investing in bettering ourselves (in better choices) option would have been wise.

Not totally in line with the technology stack of my earlier work experience.

It is like, we are having to compete with 20 something gen-Z youth in our 40s. The battlefield isn't fair/ even. No-one wants a burnt-out, a returning woman with a decade-long career break, even if they do - all they want to pay is peanuts, they want you to be subservient (not giving off the scent that you know your stuff and will speak your mind?). For men it is like they do not want an expensive resource. Add to it, the immigration hassle. Recipe for disaster as is our case.

Yeah. So, enough with the digression from the original topic of conversation.

So, this course that I was talking about, is coming to completion. Along the way I have made a few friends?/acquaintances - most of them a younger lot. Mostly we help each other with our study. Do not really know if they will keep in touch after the course completion. 

That's why the - 'Friends?'

But for me, there is a loooooong way to go before I can put the course out there on my profile. A lot of study pending from my side. But I really do hope that this will change the direction of my life for good - in a better way.

I also hope that I will be able to get on a learning path I truly ever wished for - an MBA from a reputed institute.

I should keep repeating the affirmations - "I will".

God willing - it will happen.

Thank you