logophile

  Joyful or miserable? An old, astute master was on his deathbed about to die reminiscing with his disciples.  One of the disciple asks,”what is the secret to your joy?”  The master replied, “I always asked myself every morning of the day,’Today you are going to be joyful or miserable?’  And I kept on choosing joy everyday.” When you are joyful you are Pleasant to the world, sensible in your head, liveliest in your everyday moment    and do no stupid things to yourself.  Everyone of us here have been happy. Just that many of us didn’t know how to maintain that happiness.  Suppose you are on deathbed. You are going to    die and you lived a good long 100 years. And you just    look back and see if this was worthwhile. Live your each day with so much of jubilance, realness and vibrant that your life seems worth living even if you die tomorrow.  Well I don’t know if I’m going to be the richest successful woman, or climb Mount...

  ATHEIST OR THEISM? IT WAS ANOTHER USUAL EVENING WHEN PETER LOOKED AT HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR AND THOUGHT TO VISIT BARBER FOR A CLEAN SHAVE AND A PRESENTABLE TRIMMED HAIRCUT. SINCE LAST 4 YEARS HIS    TRUSTED BARBER HAS BEEN THE SAME. SO HE VISITS TO HIS USUAL BARBER SHOP “EDDY’S CLIPPINGS AND CUTZ” “HEY EDDY! BEEN MONTHS SINCE I HAD A GOOD HAIRCUT. ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE CLEAN SHAVE” “SURE! GOOD TO SEE YOU PETER SIR, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?”  BOTH EDDY AND PETER GET ALONG WITH SMALL TALKS AND THEN TO VARIOUS REGULAR DISCUSSION AS USUAL.  AND AFTER SOMETIME THEY BOTH TOUCH TO THE TOPIC OF “GOD EXISTENCE” “OH,SIR I DONT BELIEVE IN GOD AS MUCH AS YOU DO”,SAYS EDDY. “WHY DONT YOU BELIEVE?”, QUESTIONS PETER. “I DONT REALLY NEED TO GIVE YOU MUCH EXPLANATION. JUST GO OUT ON STREETS AND LOOK OVER THE POVERTY. THERE ARE PEOPLE SUFFERING, LACKING RESOURCES,CRYING OUT FOR HELP. YOU DONT HAVE TO LOOK OVER OUTSIDERS, LOOK AT ME. I WORK FOR 12 HOURS AND STILL I DONT GET ENOUGH ...

Why reading matters?   What if I came and told you that there is one thing you could all do which would make you more imaginative, make your memory better, probably improve your personal people relationships and turn you into a nicer person.   You would be skeptical and even more if I say it costs nothing and even everybody can do this.  What is it? Reading!! And I’m not talking about the sort of reading you do it in your academic education or your organisational administration.  I’m talking rather about fiction, non fiction, narratives, classics, self helps  The sort of reading where you are reading things from inside another person’s head where it takes you right inside a character’s feelings and emotions so you start seeing it through their perspective.  That sort of reading which at best is considered as pleasurable and at worst its often considered as a waste of time. Long time ago, I remember my father telling me how crazy and fond he was of books. Bu...