Thomas Carlyle once said, “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.” Tools are what we use to accomplish our day’s work. When I step out of the house I do it with my bag which has all my tools. I love my them and have always been interested in knowing what tools others use. I feel what we carry in our bags can tell a lot about what kind of a person we are. In this post I examine the tools & bagis I use (to carry them).
Archives for January 2015
Imagine
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
Live & Let Live
Yesterday there was an attack in Paris killing 12 journalists of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Though the events are still developing & the perpetrators are still at large, it is widely believed that this act was committed due to the magazine’s repeated portrayal of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. This incident brought out two issues I’m bothered about, but never wrote about – freedom of expression & violence in the name of god.
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” – Salman Rushdie
Course Correction
I feel December has a charm, it marks the end of a (generally tiresome) year with anticipation of a (hopefully a good) year, ‘round the corner. Optimism is all around us, with Christmas adding to it. In these good spirits we very naively draft resolutions hoping these will be the steps for creating a better ‘us’ even though we know the last years’ resolutions did not work. Once Jan starts, we start off good, we work on our resolutions for the first two weeks, then we start slacking off. By the end of Jan we conveniently push the resolutions out of our mind and bury the guilt. The cycle repeats every December/Jan even though we know that life does not change suddenly just because the calendar changed.