Notes of an Overthinker

The social networking has gained momentum in our country from around 5 years ago and is a great hit among the masses. Almost everyone is a part of it. But, I believe, it never remained true to its motto. It never lived upto its real expectations. At least, so is the case in India, as far as my knowledge is concerned. I strongly feel that we people are great at diplomacy. We use something as it best suits us and not as per its purpose of use. Mostly, we tend to use a strong tool from its destructive end. The case with the social media is no different. The ill-effects of misusing the social sites have already started to come up. I am not talking about cyber scams and scandals but a change in the general mindset of the people. We are observing a drastic decline in the quality of thoughts, language and general attitude of the society. The worst affected are the children in the early teens. The young, fresh, innocent and clean minds are hampered the most. The social media, in the way it...

Situations are the moulding forces of our lives. We live as per the situations; we grow with the situations. Sometimes, we change them, but mostly it is the time and situation that has the guts to change a person. We all are submissive towards the situations and there is nothing to be ashamed of in bowing down before them or adjusting with them. It is totally natural. Many times, we find people telling someone, "If I were you, then I would have..." kind of statements. These are nothing but complete lies. The truth is that if you were in someone else's shoes you would have done exactly the same as the other person had done. In that situation you would have not been yourself but that very person. You would be moulded by the situation and then made the same decisions as the other person. Moving along with the situations and adjusting to the them quietly is not coward but a wise decision to make, if you cannot change them. Moreover, doing so is completely human.

We have always heard that life is a cyclic process; that there are ups and downs, one after the other in life. The downs are usually referred to as the dark phase of one's life or what we sometimes call the hard times. Everyone faces them, and everyone comes out of them too. But the struggle we make to overcome those challenges; we keep them to ourselves. We do not speak them out loud for no particular reason. Hence, everyone feels that he or she has worked the hardest or struggled the maximum to enjoy this happiness today. This increases the self-respect of people and they live a life of dignity, but sometimes this self-respect increases enormously without a reason and makes them egoistic. These struggles are something to share with people whom you are close to. when you do this, you come to know that the person infront has worked equally or more harder that you to achieve his or her current position. The awareness toward this fact changes your high self-respect into a mutual...