Can you forget this, ever?

Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudane famine. the picture depicts a famine stricken child being stalked by a vulture. The child is moving towards a United nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer who left as soon as the photo was taken. He later confided in his friends that he wished he had intervened. Journalists at that time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease.

Three months later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the Pulitzer prize, Kevin Carter comitted suicide.

You can learn numerous lesons from this one article.. What? I leave that to you...

Is the first opinion always the right opinion?

A few months back I met a girl, almost 4 years younger than me, studying in an Intermediate college in my college campus. She was scared of crossing the road. I was anyway crossing the road and it wasn’t a problem helping her out. When we entered our campus, I spoke to her for a while and at the end of the small talk, she thanked me and complimented me.

Well, that put me to thinking. Was the first impression so important? I hardly knew the girl, and there I am saying ‘thank you’s to her compliments! Just by a small gesture, can you tag a person to be good or bad? There are n number of people out there, just waiting to please the whole world! I read a saying sometime back that goes as “I don’t know the sure way to success, but the surest way to failure is to try to make everyone happy!” Again, this is one of my pet quotes. Indeed, you can’t make everyone happy! A few will find you arrogant, another few may be jealous and a few more may be indifferent to you. It’s part of being human!

Many people might mistake a pretty face or a sweet talking conceited person to be good or misjudge a very good person to be haughty or arrogant just because he/she didn’t speak to them! But, thankfully, illusions don’t last forever. We do wake up some day and realize that we had erred! It is very commonplace that people form an imaginary description of a person or pass a judgment just in one meeting or even a look! That’s ridiculous! How can a person be judged by just looking at him/her or for that matter in the fist meeting! Look at online friendship portals. You get impressed by someone’s profile and look no further! In actuality, more often that not, you’re shocked by their true revelation! It is a pity… Do give this a thought the next time you frame an imaginary picture of a person’s character in your mind…

HIGH ON HIATUS

Its been ages since I visited this place! I thought I’d keep this place updated on a regular basis. But, life makes commitments a priori without even dropping us a hint! Well, that is what happened exactly. We don't even realise how busy we get at times. Our schedule is thrown off track, the things we planned to do just remain as undone reminders!

Days fly away with super-speed and when you look back and try to recollect what you've done, all you can see is a blur. Well, I sometimes find my days deeply unsatisfactory, where I haven't done anything worthwhile. The other day one of my friends asked me about how I spent my day. I couldn't recollect what I did the whole day! Not a single thing! Slowly a mish-mash of images formed in my mind and I realised with a sadness that I had let another day go by! Another 24 hours which could have been put to a better use.

Another thing that I can’t comprehend is that, how can I be tired of doing things that I like! Like, I am drained at the very thought of reading or writing at times! I find it very intrusive. Stability is definitely not my best attribute!

Anyways, now when I’m NOT on rocky grounds, I should be posting more frequently. Let’s see…