Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Home!!!

So here I am visiting home after nearly a couple of years. The place I yearned to go all these days and do all the things I used to do.

In fact I was so excited that I was beaming like a little kid when my flight crossed into Indian territorial waters and even cheered aloud when I landed in Bangalore.
I am having a great time no doubt but I cant help but notice that people have drifted apart. I called my friends whose numbers I knew by heart and half their numbers had changed and the other half was nowhere to be found. That was my first indication.

I visited my old haunts but somehow these places were just empty chairs and a few cherished memories. People and not places are what count in the end is what dawned on me. The beach, the old restaurant are just places. Their souls have gone missing.

But then that's what family is there for, the pleasing familiarity is what sets them apart and somehow they always seem to be there. As do a few close friends who are well almost family.

Friday, December 11, 2009

The power of 'The one'

An interesting aside came to me as I was reading about the holocaust. We often hear each other say what can we as an individual do? We are just one man against the might of society. How will we succeed where others have failed.

Thats a gross underestimation of the power of the individual spirit. In the holocaust's case all it took was one man's hatred to turn an entire country against a particular group of people. The cold efficacy with which one man's willing was carried out is a strong testament to the power of the one. I could have chosen the example of Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela but somehow the fact that the power of the one can cause so much destruction drives the point home just that bit harder.
Furthermore, imagine if someone had to stand up against such hatred the refrain again would have been what can one man do? But then you were up against the one man propagated through all these people he had manipulated.

Harness the power of the one within you to do some good. Its way stronger than you can ever imagine it to be.

PS: This is one video which somehow emphasized the point even more. Read about it: