Human toys - A Ruthless reality

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Hope you are doing well.

Compassion to animals is connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

-Schopenhauer

We all are living in a world where we are not alone and now that question has gone still deeper with the research about aliens and the new question is are we alone in this universe?

Anyway coming back to earth, the focus today is to bring some awareness to the topic I am about to discuss and also the heights of how materialism can have an impact on humans.

Before I start this particular blog I would like it to say it is purely based on facts and my self-experience, and what my feeling about it, I request you to counter me in the comment box and make this a proactive discussion.

Here we go! Over the years domestication of animals has seen an increasing trend for various reasons for example if a farmer has a cow it has various uses and in urban areas people like to have pets at home like horses, dogs, cats, birds, fish even extreme cases of having a turtle at home and even more extreme cases of celebrities like Michael Jackson owning a private zoo in his ranch was a milestone, and people in the UAE like to have wild animals like lions and tigers as their pets!

My first question is, do we own all the rights to play with nature, however, we wish to because we think we have  got all the mind power in this world which these animals and birds do not have, I would agree with the second part of the question that we all do possess the mind power or what people called intellect, but I would never agree with the first part I do not have any right to cage a bird or chain a dog but still we all have done it!

Historically speaking,  the culture of keeping animals at a place started in Rome, where cats were considered as sacred followed by downing dogs was considered as a prestigious thing and it was used more productively used like looking after grazing sheep, which led to the terminology “the Shepheard” breeds and the dogs saving the lives of skaters in the alps popularly referred to as “retrievers” and the "bernads" and from then on the journey of humans was always not alone they were always more or less were in close association with animals may be just for love or to finish up the chores for which they were used for or purely business!

The Era

In the 1900s especially cats,  dogs, and horses were now in the recreation and entertainment industry, like dog shows, circus and even some movies in various languages.

Terms like show breed, show dogs were coined in these times, then horses were allowed to participate in bigger events like Equestrian in the summer Olympics which is still prevalent even today.

The mishap

I being an animal lover and an animal welfarist have been upset about few of the practices which are followed in the process of achieving the results discussed in the previous paragraph.

Now the major concerns are enthusiasts whose intentions are not what I am questioning  but their short-lived enthusiasm is what I want to question, according to me suppose if we bring home a dog please understand you have broken him up from its family and now all he has you and your home, which he has started loving more than himself, But unfortunately I am seeing dog owners just being very excited for some time after they bought their dogs and later the excitement dies and different ways are sought to move the dog out! I don't think that is fair, where is our commitment?

We have lost the meaning of lives and treating poor animals as commodities.

The problem of inbreeding has become prominent in cities, dogs with specific breeds like Labrador retrievers, German shepherds are common.

The result of inbreeding is that the even dogs are now victims of man-made genetic disorders, people cut the tails of parrots so that they can’t fly, a fish which is at the bottom of the food chain on which a major part of the ecosystem is dependent is asked to swim in a small glass tank so that you can just see it and enjoy?

Taking care of animals at home is not bad I am not against it, but do we know the correct methods to do this. The bigger question is can we care all the time or part with your pet when you feel it’s a burden to you.

Now think all animals are not just some things which we can just do whatever we want with it, they have a soul inside they too acknowledge your love and care and they start believing that you are its world.

Let us start taking responsibility and be considerate going forward, rather than buying pets from merciless breeders who have made this an industry and gone to the extent of getting their dogs undergo a cesarean just to meet deadlines! , try to adopt the strays and the abandoned ones!

For all the circus owners a small request stop using animals we have seen the cruel training behind an amusing trick have some mercy!

Nature has given us everything and we are part of it, so think what can we give back to nature suppose you feel you can’t give back anything try to change that answer from nothing to something and maybe one day make it most of the things. Do not treat innocent animals as toys they too have a life please understand this, they are not human toys!

Thanks a lot for your time.

Helios.

Help-A perspective

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How are you today?

Each day is a new realization like a caterpillar develops colors in the cocoon which it is not aware and finally when it comes out as a butterfly amazes itself and you with its colors!

-Michael Jackson

These are the days of realization for many of us because if you take the human life, the prime age of 20 till 40 shapes what we will end up as after these years. The point is how many of us are ready to realize this?

It's again an illusion which makes us feel there is still time for us to do what we want to but we forget, time just runs away in front of us like a bullet train and we miss it each time because of we just too slow to catch the speed of that train.

Can you lead a life without this word?  “help”.

If you ask me, I being a realistic and optimistic person I would say “no” it is impossible.

Look at the history book there are only a few people in this world who can beat their heart and say “I am totally independent” I would imagine in India it would be some monks on the top of the Himalayas who have explored the physical abilities of their body and brain beyond normal human beings.

It is a well-known fact that we are dependent on someone from the moment we are born until we end it.

How can I be so sure that I am confident to say that we always expect help, let me prove my point in the following paragraphs?

The day we are born we were fortunate enough to be taken care by our parents and the nurse at the hospital then the doctor who helped you in the maternity and next your dad who felicitated the whole process financially and morally and from then on till today you were fortunate to have a family happy or sad, you are part of it and realize one day the importance of it.

The helpers

According to me all the service providers in your life are fit to be called helpers at the end of the day if you say they are just doing it for money or you paid them to render that service it does not matter, because it requires a bent of service-mindedness to help someone sacrificing his own time for you.

This whole blog I have kept time as a reference, how much time a person lost of his own to help the other person that is the greatness of people who wish to help, you may return him a favour for his help but time lost is gone! so we need to show latest minimum gratitude for the help we got.

The words like “thank you” and “you are very kind” simply did not just come up with the evolution of vocabulary; it would have been used by people who seek help when they were in distress.

I have experienced helping is a very nice feeling but definitely, conditions apply.

Why do I say conditions apply because if you help without expectation it very pure to your heart and you enjoy the bliss, otherwise you will have a sour or sometimes a bitter taste of expectation hitting you back of your heart and making you feel uneasy?

The obvious

Some obvious feeling felt when we help people is: First of all we feel good about that we helped them, initially the expectation of a return help will arise, which you would not get and you might go tell to a friend about what happened and feel sad about that you helped that person in this crisis, but did not get anything in return and 2 you might stop helping which means the selfishness in you kicked in!

The last sentence of the last para will break you, so if you want to help never expect returns that way you move one step ahead towards higher thinking.

The society

Oh! What a cruel and low minded society we live in, a true disaster and the most disgusting part is, they are all sadists who can’t stand people helping each other and start gossiping about that too! Grow up the great jobless people of all times.

To conclude my blog for those who think it was a confusing one, help is a universal instrument which was presented to us by cosmic forces to in short God,  just like water and air and it is required not only among humans but also within humans and animals and vice versa, be open-hearted and never stop helping for a good cause, and society what society?read what Mother Theresa said about the society she said I quote “helping arms are better than speaking lips” I think that says it all.

Think big do something that will change the perspective of you after you leave this earth for higher purposes and let people remember you forever and repent if they were unjust and unreasonable to you, help with the spirit of Karma yoga, and feel the satisfaction which is like no other.

Never give up.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Forgotten Etiquettes

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I hope you are doing well.

If a man keeps too many people happy and helps them,  he will be mostly a lonely person in life.

-Anonymous

According to you what is a relationship, the general perception and the imagination that we get in our minds is any love song from a Bollywood movie? Well, I feel these days this is the perception towards freindships and relationships, which is according to me is totally wrong, the fact of the matter is we actually do not understand the exact meaning of it.

The main purpose of writing this blog is that I have seen people around me and I have observed that in some places it is very ordeal the way people behave and look at a boy and a girl who are just talking to each other happily.

Why do people have an affinity to talk negative when they see two people of opposite sex just trying to speak?

I was a student of psychology some years back, I had read about human behavior during particular situations, some basic takeaways were:

Some people can’t tolerate happiness and they are popularly called sadists in English, it seems when they see people speaking in gleaming happiness, it will make them feel very insecure, and the resultant reaction is just bullying in that conversation, I have observed that who bullied finally walks away from their happily, so he made his environment unhappy and drained that happiness and filled his mind with it! 

The above is one category of people, there is another whom I consider a disease to this society, and yes I am sorry if the word disease is too harsh, but I ought to use it as the situation is very grim.

This is so pathetic that people backbite and gossip so much about a guy talking to a girl and just keep on blabbering filth about them, is it because you are jealous that you could not pull away a conversation with her.

Beautiful depiction of the boomerang effect by Norman Rochwell

Purely not being sexist here but this mindset is there equally in men and women and they strive to achieve their goals and go to whatever extent possible, ok! The goal here is just breaking open the friendship and again feeling happy about it.

The Basic Etiquette

Ok, I am not a travel savvy person and maybe not having so much acumen to speak on this but; I have worked with many foreigners from America to Brazil, to China, Sydney, and the Philippines, I feel more comfortable to work with them than Indians. Yes, you might question my judgment by asking me “of course in professional life people like to stay professional and are not interested in either passing personal comments or talking about other people, I would like to counter by saying, then why we Indians eat sleep and live gossips? please tell me if you disagree with this statement this question is for all the professionals who are working in MNCs' so are we professional? are we so immature to invade someone’s personal life and are so jobless to understand who is he speaking to and whom and be judgemental about it?

Why is a man speaking to women is considered as a stigma and a great sin even now in the neo-modern era? Why shouldn’t positive things like friendship co-operation, support come up instead of people calling that man a player or that women something worse?

First try to clean your own thinking lenses in the brain so that you can think without any fog of negativeness and short-sightedness, remember life is like a boomerang it will one day definitely hit back at you, so it is better you should plan whether you want a good one or a bad one to hit you.

What I feel we all should do when we get the craving to gossip about someone or talk rot about a relationship, try to rethink about it and first of all see if that adds any value to your life if you do that other than devilish pleasure.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.

Mistreatment of impeccability

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

-Denis Waitley

Good day! This blog is actually one among my life experiences, and what I have learned and understood by looking around.The time which we are living today has depleted when compared to the value systems which we had some 20 years ago, even though I am not denying the fact that even at that time there were some black spots, now those spots have changed into a cluster.

There is this famous saying “when money is lost something is lost, but when character lost everything is lost” now I hear sometimes on corporate meetings or you know in satire comedy shows, “If the character is lost nothing is lost, but if money is lost everything is lost!”.

Where are we heading? is there still anything called innocence left? Has everyone become smart in an evil way and aimed at only materialism?

You know this psychology which is going on in India, well not only India even the rest of the world there is a significant increase in materialism and character paralysis which is an epidemic.

What is character paralysis? it is according to me compromising too much of his own self for the sake of society or people or jobs or so on.

But there is a new culture which has come up I would like to call it the art of making people work for you the way it would work out and finally when all that was wanted is done just trashing them like a used tissue.

How many of you have experienced this? I would say yes! If you take a crowd of 100 people I am sure at least 50% of the people would have gone through this.

You would have met this colleague or your classmate who suddenly becomes very close to you and you would also like spending time with him or her and then the list of help and requests begins and finally one day you would realize that unfortunately you were taken advantage of and feel bad about it, when already that person would be already preying on his or her  next victim.

If any of you reading this blog have come across such situations, people and were victims to this cheap act,  do not feel bad  because the person who was responsible would one day again end up with someone more smarter than he or she might  also become victims some other day so do not feel bad, life is a wheel so its only matter of spinning.

Before I end what do we get in becoming parasites on somebody or manipulating someone for our own gains?  this will eventually lead to remorse when all the strength in your body has decreased and you need someone to help you. Live true to your heart take account of how you live, I am not here to ask you to set examples but expect you to maintain a minimum decorum.

Thanks for your time let me know your views in the comment box.

Helios

Care

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This is apparently the last blog for 2017. A new year brings new hope to us and lets us make the best out of it.

The word “care” is very important in our lives.

The origin of this word is actually from nature, you know we all would  not have existed without the care of nature it has helped us to survive and protected us and helped to evolve and here we are today the homosepians “tagged as the most intelligent species in the world”.

Life is a bucket of experiences if your bucket is empty it means you are still inexperienced and you need to fill your bucket so that you can wash the dirt and clean your car of mistakes and transform it into the sparkling automobile of hope and positivity.

When I compare other species with our own, we are too much dependent on our parents for a longer period, than animals who are pushed out of their families to lead an independent life and the newborns build their own families and this cycle continues.

With the idea of civilization, the possibilities for survival are infinite and that is the reason we have sustained our lives so well and marked footprints on the moon.But at the same time we marked some dark footprints on our own earth by becoming too selfish and going on just rampantly extinguishing lives and ecosystems in the name of agriculture, urbanisation, well I agree I am hypocritical here as even I am no cave man who is living in some lonely jungle doing minimum harm to environment, but at least I try not to over-exploit nature.

Why is care so much necessary in this modern society? Actually, it is one of the most important aspects that is needed today.

Have we realized there is a reason behind why criminals are existent why people end up in making a life of darkness and enjoy sadism?

The true responsibility of a parent is not to fulfill the wants of their children it is actually understanding their desires and helping them  to achieve their dreams  rather than following the prototype or the stereotypical way of living  in phases.

What care can do is actually amazing it builds a bond which can never be broken, if you love your child without expecting any results, that child will always grow to be the most mature individual according to me, because he feels so secure and does things at free well, which will help create wonders.

There are numerous stories where there lived great people , but their childhood was bad or sometimes ill-treated by parents.for them I would bow in respect because , they were s9 futuristic and they learn the meaning off their lives at a tender age.

But we forget that they would have had some guardian angels who always were there to help them and keep their hopes flying high.

The soldiers who protect this nation day in and day out without any break, that is care they take care of all our mothers, only because they consider their country as a mother,according to me they are the true sanyasis' of this time they are true karma yogis.

Let us try to take care of people around us and be their beam of hope.

Trust is like paper once it is crumbled, it can never be perfect.

-Anonymous

thanks for your time, have a great day and  a fabulous year ahead.

Helios.

A motivator, an advisor and problems.

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Hope you are fine today.

To succeed you need to forget the last loss.

P.Gopichand.

I like motivators and advisors because they give me positive energy and hope, they lift up when I am in regret or depressed and those are the ones who actually care about you.

I was swapping channels on my dish tv and caught up with the government sports channel which is called as Doordarshan sports in India.

Of course half of the programmes in this channel have always been repetitive and recorded obviously because of the TV rights war in India for sports, but still, they were showing some old recorded 100 wheelchair dash and the banner shown below was para-athletics and the contestants did not have legs until their thighs.

As the race began I saw all the racers using their hands to pull their wheel chairs and finally the race ended with a Chinese outrunning everyone and finally winning the race.

I felt motivated seeing this special race for special people.

An advisor and a motivator.

We have always been helped by these two people in life, when we are on the wrong side of the road there is that one person who helps us to hit the right side he is the advisor.

When you feel depressed and low there are these people who switch on the light of hope in you and make you feel bright these are the motivators though,  they will help you out with your problem they do not advise you, and I call motivators for those who help us motivate not to our sins but for the mistake which happened which was not committed by intention, and also motivation should be given on the right things, a motivation to commit  a crime is not good it is a misdeed.

Even though I agree there are motivators and advisors all through your life finally what is that other factor helps you get the effect or help of these two people discussed above.

It is our own mind! Even if a person motivates us there is this mind which says to you (your soul) Yahoo! that is what makes you feel motivated! the person is the trigger but your mind in the jockey if,  your mind doesn't want to take that motivation it wouldn’t care.

We should never go that dormant stage where we do not respond to people or incidents which should actually have an impact on us! the impact I am referring here is to become motivated or change your way of thinking from the advise received.

So the basic thumb rule should be, always be open-minded be motivated and advised by people and also self-audit yourself and try to stay self motivated which is the best.

Wishing you all the best in this holiday season and let us welcome this new year with a new hope and aim to  save eniroment and be more courteous to other creatures around us.

Let us motivate and be motivated, and take responsibility when we advise, this would help you to solve most of the problems you face and also help to solve others problems.

Thanks for your time. Let the new year bring bliss to mother earth.

Helios.

The chosen ones

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Hope you all are doing well.

If a system is too materialistic and generating unnecessary waste the first step is to work on reducing the waste and the second is to correct this system.

-Anonymous 

I was just thinking how fortunate we all are? Yes, fortunate because seriously I am telling you we are fortunate!

I did not repeat that word 3 times just to make this blog interesting or surprising to you. But I just realized how well supported we are from the people around us who have been there in our ups and downs.

Of course, I agree this entire society would not be behind your back to help you, but I am talking about few people who help us when we are in need of help, but the question is how many have we helped in return?

Recently I had been to a marriage of one of my relatives; definitely, Indian traditional marriages are very complex in their rituals and their culture.

Even in these modern times too, that tradition is still seen, ok next when we come to the feast part of this occasion, I observed there is an industry which has been created to make this occasion a success.

The chefs, the catering arrangements flower decorators, photographers and so on.

But there is a hitch, even though we celebrate a man’s oath to take care of women and same with a woman who pledges to take care of a man as a big festival, are we lost too much into it and losing the meaning of it?

This is just my opinion we have lost to understand the meaning of culture and everything is running like an industry and we are behaving like just we are at our jobs robotic!

All the marriages are now being photographed with studio settings! Drone photography, and crane cameras and each marriage party is competitive with the technology used therein lighting, photography and recently a new jibe “candid photography” and uploading the same to youtube? come on where is the privacy?  I am not debating on the success of these marriages as it is a personal life of two people, of course, Indian marriages are the most successful in the world  and it has been documented in the WHO (world health organization) but my concern is can we think a little bit before we just spend loads on material and manpower .

I have taken comments from people saying a person marries only once so that is the reason for the celebratory nature of this function I understand that!

But you would be shocked to know that there are hundreds of tonnes of plastic and paper waste which are being generated due to marriages, where is the control on this by the government?

I tell you these are smallest of things which contribute to the natural hazards relating to pollution because there are so many marriages which take place and these small pockets of waste snowball into a mammoth godown of waste which we depend on the municipality to clear.

Food wastage

I have written about food wastage before, but with particular to marriages I see people are in such a sick mentality and think as if they have some sworn right to eat what they want and trash the rest, have you realized how much effort it takes to produce that one grain of rice or that one slice of the vegetable or fruit? you trashed.

Please think about society and the poorer classes who are still waiting to eat a morsel and the environment which we pollute since our birth thinking we superior in the evolution! 

So we are chosen ones! Who has been blessed with best we can have but still why do we crib? Think about it for wasting food or because we enjoy too much and chose to crib or pastime.

Let’s start helping the have-nots around us and experience  the joy of giving and compassion

Thanks for your time, please let me know your feedback in the comment box.

Helios