A man was once annoyed by the nuisances and difficulties in his life. He went to a wise old sage seeking for help. As he went, a question occurred in his mind and he decided to ask the sage on reaching him.
"Why do we have negativism in our lives? Why can't we just have a life full of good, pleasurable things with no such things like bad and evil?" the man asked the question that had occurred to him.
The sage replied, "Bring me two apples, one nice and ripe and the other nearly rotten."
The man did as he was told and came back a few minutes later with two such apples.
"Look at the two apples," verbalized the sage, "Which one would you prefer to eat?"
"It's obvious, anyone would pick the good, ripe one over the bad rotten one," the man replied.
"Just now, you compared the two apples and labelled them, one good, the other bad."
"Yes."
"But what if there was no rotten apple? You wouldn't have had anything to compare the good apple to, and if you couldn't have compared it, you wouldn't have labelled it to be 'good' either."
"So do you mean to say, if there is no bad, there won't be good either?"
"Exactly so," replied the sage.
"But still, it would have been better to have good nor bad than to have bad."
"When you were a little boy, you must have had a top." the sage said with assurance.
"Yes, I loved playing with them." The man smiled, remembering his childhood memories.
"I'm sure you must have had one you could spin using a thread and another you could spin with your hand."
"Yes"
"Which one did you like the most?" asked the sage.
"The top with the thread used to spin longer, and faster, than the hand-top, but spinning the hand-top was more fun and that's why I liked it more."
"You see, even though the thread-top had better qualities than the hand-top, you liked the hand top because it was more fun controlling it."
"Yeah, the thread top did get boring once in a while."
"That's exactly how the world works, we have negativism because otherwise everything would have been boring, like the thread-top. If there was no such thing as bad, nothing much interesting would have happened. You must be knowing the story of Ramayan."
"Oh yes. It is one of my favourite epics."
"Now if there was no bad, Ravan would never have abducted Sita, and the story wouldn't have ever taken place."
"Hmmmm....."
"Read today's newspaper, everything written in it can be written because this world is imperfect, having negativism. Of course, too much negativism can seldom be undesirable, but it is surely better than having a boredom."
"I see....." the man replied, thinking about what he had just understood.
The sage then gave the man a few hints on how to solve his problems, and the man left with a satisfying answer.

He who does his work with logic in mind, does it sincerely and for future benefit. He who does his work with fear in mind, does it only to replenish his fear.
*sometime late Ganpati holidays*

It doesn't always take false words to make a lie, the unsaid may appear as the same.
*Kalaya Tasmai Namaha*

When I am acquainted of my approaching eternal truth, when there is nothing I can or want to do to save myself, I shall be free as a dove, no fear lurking in me and I will be devoted solely only and only to thee.
*thoughts after watching Titanic*

I remember when I was small, people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I would reply, "I want to be God."

Hatred is the ultimate test of compassionate love, if thou failest to pass it, thou shalt be proven a barbarian.
*typing project in scratch to editing it with pranav*

सावधान रहो सज्जन लोगों,
बुरे लोंगों से बचके रहो।
अगर सफ़ेद रंगोली में मिलवाते राहोंगे बुक्का,
सफ़ेद का सफ़ेद नहीं रहेगा, हो जाएगा काला।
सावधान रहो सज्जन लोगों,
बुरे लोगों से मत मिलो।
*गौरीची पाऊले झाडताना रांगोळीत मिसळली घाण*

There are 3 things you can do for a guy behind a pile of paper work:
Try to share his pity

Help him out of the mess
or Give him a chance to take a break and enjoy.
I wonder which one would be the most helpful.

He who speaks negatively of himself, is preventing the fulfillment of his own goal.
*in the morning thinking of Saavani's negative comments*

That moment when you try to show your talent to someone but the person doesn't recognize it.
*Chincholkar Sir expressing his vastness of knowledge*

A Show of Laziness

Fifteen people were circling a rectangular playground, walking on the jogging track. They were told to complete 45 rounds before they would be able to go. They start off on the jogging track, walking right on top of it. After the first 10 rounds or so, their course began to change. They started cutting corners of the jogging track decreasing the distance they walked in each round. Eventually this went on happening until their course didn't even have a radius more than 20 feet. After completing these 'small' rounds they were allowed to go, as it was promised. Their leave after an hour of exercise left behind a clear demonstration of what laziness can do.
*circling the football ground, seeing the above observed*

कांदे पोहे

आयुष्य हे, चुलीवरच्या, कढईतले, कांदे पोहे.
पोहे नीट भिजवले, तरच काम पुढचे होई,
नाहीतर चावण्यास सोपे नाही असे लक्षात येई.
हळद घातली नाही तर येणार नाही रंग,
राहिले नाही नाव, जर कांदा नाही त्या संग.
मिरची शिवाय खायला येणार नाही मजा,
मीठ नाही, तर जिभेला सजा.
हे सर्व केले नाही तर बिघडतील पोहे
आयुष्यही असेच आहे लक्षात ठेवा सर्वे.
आयुष्य हे, चुलीवरच्या, कढईतले, कांदे पोह.

बैडमिन्टन में जीता,
व्हालीबाल में जीता,
टेनिस में जीता,
परिक्षे में प्रथम आया,
पर एक ही चीज़ में वह जीत ना पाया,
मौत के खिलाफ वह जरूर हरा।
*pensive mood after playing badminton*

A birthday is a day when you commemorate the most important day of your life ~ the day you were born.
*beside Pranav who was doing calligraphy for Saavani* 

Court Justice

Two people started arguing to find out who was right and who was wrong. But they failed to come to a conclusion. So they went to a third person to take his opinion and act accordingly. The two arguers couldn't convince the third to decide who was right and wrong. So then each of the two sought the help of two other people to convince the third who was right and wrong. ~ This is better known as court justice.
*watching a court justice play organized by my friends*

The bigger thou art, the more they want.
*seminar*

'Burnt'

If you tell a little 4 year-old not to play with fire, you'll probably tell him, "You'll get burnt if you keep playing with fire." The child might innocently ask what 'burnt' means. You might try to explain to him what it means by saying, "If you get burnt it will hurt and you might get a mark on your skin," or something of the such. In other words you try to teach him what 'burnt' means using words. The child might get the point that getting 'burnt' isn't good. But he still might not completely understand what it's really like. Unless and until he experiences what getting 'burnt' is, he'll never know what it is. Once he does, it won't be wrong to say that he's learned from his experience and not from your words.
*while writing A Weird School*

A little boy asked his teacher, "Is knowledge a countable noun?"
The teacher replied, "No, it is an uncountable noun."
"Then why do we count it in marks and grades?" he asked innocently.
The teacher went speechless.
*while writing A Weird School*

Where there came laziness, there came a need. Where there came a need, there came an invention. A good example wood be that of a gun. Man found it too hard and tiring, to kill someone with a bow and arrow, so he invented the gun. Now with the flick of a trigger, man can kill without a sweat.

A Weird School

"If you were to tell a small boy to not play with fire, how would you tell him?" A guru asked his students.
One of the students replied, "I'll tell him that he might get burnt if he does."
"That is one good way of telling him. But if I were to tell him to not play with fire because I'll punish him if he does, do you think he'll listen?"
The students nodded no.
"Right you are. He might listen to you, but one day or the other, he might play with fire, when ever you might turn your back. Now, I once asked a school-going boy why he shouldn't talk while the teacher is teaching. What do you think he replied?"
"He must've replied so that I don't miss out on what the teacher is teaching." replied a student.
"No, he didn't say that."
"Then did he say, so that I can be a role model for other students?" replied a student with curiosity.
"No.... he didn't say that either."
"What did he say then?" asked another student.
"He said, so that I don't get punished."
The students giggled a bit.
"What a weird student!" exclaimed a student, while giggling.
"Not only him, I asked many students, they all said the same thing, so I don't get punished." the guru said.
The students were a bit surprised. How could so many students be so weird, they thought.
"What makes all of them think in such a way? I mean, if you had asked us the same question, we would have replied, so that we don't miss what your teaching us." one of the students asked.
"Because of the teachers. Whenever they spot someone in the class talking, instead of saying, Don't talk or else you'll miss what I'm teaching. they say, If you talk one more time, I will send you out of the class."
The students laughed at the guru's imitation of a school teacher.
"Should a student ever be afraid of his teacher?" asked the guru.
The students replied in a chorus answer, "No."
"If a student is afraid of his teacher," one student began to say, "He'll never learn properly. If he has a doubt to ask, his fear of the teacher might prevent him from asking the teacher at all."
"Right indeed. There are even many school-teachers who say, If you get bad marks and grades in exams, I will punish you. It's because of this 'or else I will punish you' attitude of the teachers, students become afraid of the teachers, thinking she's someone who punishes frequently."
"You mean school-students are afraid of their teachers?" a student asked a bit surprisingly.
"Yes," replied the guru.
"What are marks and grades? Well, I do have a fair idea about what it means, but could you please tell me its word-to-word meaning?"
"Marks are basically numbers and grades are basically letters."
"What are they used to count?" the student curiously asked.
"You could say they count knowledge."
"So you mean to say marks and grades are used to count knowledge?" interrogated the student.
"Yes my dear." the guru answered.
"But I thought 'knowledge' was something you can't count."
"You're right, indeed it is something you can't count, but these people have got it all wrong." verbalized the guru.
"I'd never want to go to school!" asserted a student.
"You'd be surprised, that's exactly what many school-going children think. Many of them don't like learning either, they say they find it boring."
"Boring! Learning is so fun! Especially when we have such a great guru to teach us!"
The guru smiled and blessed the student, "Bless you my child."
"Why do students find learning boring?" another student asked.
"It's either the teachers who make it that way or the students who just hate it so much."
"School is such a weird place to learn," a student said, thinking about the weird ways of school.
"Yes my dear student, I'm afraid it is." the guru declared and concluded the conversation
*a few guests came home, grandmother*

One who creates something must also know how to destroy it and if not, it will result to the world we have today.