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PLEASE . . . HEAR WHAT I’M NOT SAYING

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We all want to be listened to, but we hardly try to listen to others what they want to say. Listening is the most important thing in every relationship to be strengthened. And to listen to what other people are really saying, you also need to listen to what they’re not saying. No matter how hard people may appear on the surface, mostly everyone is tender inside and has a desperate need to be understood. The following poem (one of my all-time favorites) captures this need. PLEASE . . . HEAR WHAT I’M NOT SAYING by Charles C. Finn Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the mask I wear. For I wear a mask, I wear a thousand masks, masks that I’m afraid to take off, and none of them is me. Pretending is an art that is second nature with me, but don’t be fooled. . . . I give the impression that I’m secure, that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as without; that confidence is my name and coolness is my game; that the waters are calm and that I’m in command and I need no one....
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Setting And Achieving Goals

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 • GOALS IN ACTION When I was a sophomore in high school, I weighed 180 pounds. My brother David, a freshman, weighed a whopping 95 pounds. We were only one year apart, yet I was twice his size. But David had a mountain of a spirit and did incredible things to get to where he wanted to go. This is his story: I will never forget when I tried out for the freshman football team at Provo High. At five feet two inches and weighing only 90 pounds, I was even smaller than the stereotypical 98-pound weakling. I couldn’t find any football equipment to fit me; it was all too big. I was issued the smallest helmet they had but still had to tape three ear pads together on each side of it to make it fit my head. I looked like a mosquito with a balloon on its head. I used to dread football practice, especially when we had to crack heads with the sophomores. We used to line up facing each other about ten yards apart with the freshmen on one side and the sophomores on the opposite side. When coach ...
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What Determines How Far We Go In Our Life? Is it our conditioning, mindset of our family or our overall environment ?

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  What is Success? How much successful can a person become? How far a person can go in his life? Can a person ever cross his limits, be it mental or physical?  The answer is Success differs person to person, it can be Money, Health, Happiness, Peace of Mind or the good and nurtured relationships. People judge success in terms of money. One cannot deny the fact that money is essential part of life and everyone can dream to be rich as money solves 99% of the problems in life.  Exceptions like; family is already rich, family has positive approach for life & is open minded or a family allows to do what heart says, are always there, though in rare cases.   Hence in order to be rich or well to do, one has to go through a lot of hardships on his own in life. Moreover there are some factors which determine how far we go in life, be it being rich or leading a good life what one can dream of. Let's first talk about Our Conditioning as it plays an important role in s...
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Is Dowry good or bad?

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  Dowry is not just a word, it holds the history of our India and I think, it holds back the future as well. First of all, let me tell you what dowry is. It is given by a father to his daughter in her marriage, because either the father is forced by the Groom’s family or by his own joy and bliss. Dowry has been an ancient tradition in our India and it is good as long as it is given happily and blissfully. But if I see recent years, it is no longer a tradition only; it has become a core-crime or height of cruelty for the daughter’s family.   I hear so many cases about dowry and there are many aspects of it. It means different person to person. Let’s take an example of a rich father, who gets his daughter married to a wealthy and young boy. Now he may give an expensive car, a flat, a bungalow or many other prestigious things. Rich father may give everything happily whatever seems possible to make his daughter and her in-laws happy. Former scenario is happy a...
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Bollywood, Then And Now

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                     “In India, Bollywood is like brushing your teeth in the morning, you cannot escape it” Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood, a dream of many Indians to go into and be a part of it, has completed many years and has gone through massive changes, whether it is method acting or technology. Bollywood started with the humble beginning with the film called ‘Raja  Harishchand’ directed by Dada Sahab Falke, known as the father of Indian cinema. Then one of the most expensive films,’ Mugle Aazam was made and it changed the Bollywood and inspired many other filmmakers to contribute in it and it got attracted Indians towards Bollywood. Time changed and Bollywood became action and romance oriented with Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. Story or script used to be so strong so that it could connect the audience, only because of writers like Salim & and Javed. Songs used...
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How will you make your community better ? Can proper parenting help in this?

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You might think that I am going to write about littering and recycling the things. I totally agree that these things are crucial to make our community better but I want to talk about the root, which can make our community better. The root of our community is parenting in way, so that the child can become a better person for his family as well as for the his community and country. First of all, as individuals and as parents, we need to get better and we only can get better by giving the right methods and principles to the children, who are going to become the future of our country. When a child comes through his parents, then the child is not only a part of his  parents, he also  becomes a part of  the community and the child plays a very important role in future. It depends on the child's upbringing that the child will play a positive or  a negative role. Parents think that the education starts with schools but in reality, education starts at ho...
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