Random thoughts

Its interesting how our views on a subject keep changing with time. For e.g. when I was young I detested curd and anything made with it. But now I don't seem to mind eating curd at all. Its the same story with my favorite dress, my watch, my pen and many such mundane things. Its not too different with people either. Very few people, I have observed, have not had my thoughts about them changed after I met them and talked to them. But the majority of the people I have come in contact with, I have altered the way I think about them. A " life-cycle inventory" of a thought process done will reveal that, the mass balance around the boundary chosen, doesn't seem to sit right. The outputs are more often than not, waste products and do much more harm than good. All of us live in a world where what others think of us seems unimportant. But imagining a hypothetical situation where, bad thoughts can create a global warming kind of effect, I wonder when we will start to think about correcting the situation.

But its interesting to note that once my views are altered from the initial , they rarely seem to change a second time and I am person very willing to give people second, third and how many ever chances they want...After all this mad rush for money, jobs, security ends, when do people realise that they have probably hurt someone more by not saying something than by a few badly spoken ones...

I once again go back to my father's advice.."People are not what they seem to be." I am reminded of this again and again as I see a growing change in many around me. I see a change in me. My situation has changed in the year I have been here and my viewpoint about the people I meet almost every day has changed. But its not the change that bothers me as much as the feeling that the change had to come. Even as I hear stories from friends who have gone back home, telling me their parents did not feel a change in them, I feel that each and every one has changed. Whether for good or bad...that only time will tell.

I was once told..."Its not possible to live upto everybody's expectations." Well, to this I say, "Then have an apology ready". As I said, doing something helps....