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Human beings often devalue things which are received easily and effortlessly. There are so many things that we get in our lives by the grace of God, parents, friends, relatives or anyone else. These are the things that we have procured with zero effort. Therefore, these things are often the victims of neglect. We feel some of the things are our right, some we got because we deserved it, some are the results of some relationships and most of the time we don't even realize the value or worth of these things. For example - LIFE, we all take it for granted, abuse it, neglect it and ignore it multiple times. The most heinous crime in the world - Suicide is a result of this neglect towards the most wonderful gift from God - LIFE. I call suicide as the worst of crimes because in this you hurt the ones who were once closest to you. You leave behind a never-filling sea of agony, pain and distress where the ones left behind by their beloved, who chose to commit suicide, keep thinking for the...

This is a place that has always enticed me and I am sure the fairer sex of the society has felt the same. A place that gives pleasure to eyes and joy to heart. A place that is so colourful, so beautiful, so invigorating that it will never fail to seduce me or anyone who shares the privilege of being a female. This is a place that temporarily drifts you away from the black and white shades of life that keeps you so busy all the while that you are distracted from your own self. You usually forget how important your joy and wellbeing is for yourself while you are busy keeping others joyful. So this is a place. It is a temple of joy, though slightly exaggerated, at least for people like me. Though the introduction is such that it guides the brilliant minds to all the beautiful places in this world, the reference here is to the self-effacing bangle shop. Though it is called humbly the bangle shop or the 'kangan store' meaning the same, the latter its synonym in Hindi language, it do...

A lot has been said about failures and has been said in a positive and motivational way. There is no doubt that failures are not hurdles but is a guiding star towards the path of success. It is impossible to find a single person in this entire world who has not tasted failures. Yes, it might happen that there might be few in the waiting line yet to taste the fruit of success, but failures have given their share to each one. The multiple falls we have as a child before learning to walk, the sweet stammer a child has before beginning to speak, the crooked lines we have made before learning to write are all small trailers of failures we have witnessed. They are just glimpses of the failures one might have to keep witnessing as long as life is there. Sometimes I feel failures are more loyal than success because you would find them everywhere and everytime much much before success. Success is rare but failures are common. So why worry about something that is so common? I wonder why do w...

I - this seemingly small, single-lettered word is not as it seems to be. It is a huge word and can engulf everything around it when it assumes its true form. I - the word is like a black hole that can consume everything around it. The difference between human beings and animals is that human beings are supposed to have emotions, intelligence, empathy, sympathy, kindness, etc. That's what God must have thought for when he designed his most wonderful creation. However, just like everything else when emotions were poured into human beings, it can't just be the positive ones - as always, the opposite had to follow. I am not sure though I feel amongst all the undesired emotions - EGO is the one that we should be most careful about. You cannot correct another's ego but yes, your own can be kept in check. It is almost impossible to make one realize about his/her ego. The one who is encapsulated in the dark clouds of ego will never be able to see the reality. The only possibility...