When I was at college I was very shy and timid and avoided boys as I was scared of sex and all things sexual. To make matters worse I was endowed with a face and figure which anoth... moreWhen I was at college I was very shy and timid and avoided boys as I was scared of sex and all things sexual. To make matters worse I was endowed with a face and figure which another girl might have exploited quite literally to the hilt; but here I was pathetically refusing boys' offers to take me out. I restricted myself to girls' company, particularly one or two close friends, which exasperated quite a few boys, especially one Anil (not his real name) two years my senior, who was temperamentaly boisterous and took particular delight in jeering at me and a girlfriend calling us lesbians, which became my nickname all through my college years, even aftet he had finished. I feared Anil and cowered every time I saw him even glancing at me, which he did often and deliberately, well knowing my fear of him.A little over 10 years after my postgraduation, when I was 34 or so, I ran into Anil quite accidentally on the street, and I froze. He came over to me smiling, addressed me by my name, not my nickname, and, reading ... less
When people look at their own pictures from earlier times, from their youth, they take a long breath and say: I wish I could be young again, I wish I could go back in time.Are you ... moreWhen people look at their own pictures from earlier times, from their youth, they take a long breath and say: I wish I could be young again, I wish I could go back in time.Are you among those? What are some reasons for this wish? I think when we made some mistakes, we would make similar or totally other ones in that second chapter.
'Tab for a Cause' (not that I believe too strongly in their commitment, yet trust it does no harm) is a simple project that allows one to donate 'hearts' to several charities. I wa... more'Tab for a Cause' (not that I believe too strongly in their commitment, yet trust it does no harm) is a simple project that allows one to donate 'hearts' to several charities. I was looking at the eight options given, each concerning one of these issues: famine, health, education, human rights, access to clean water, and conservation of nature. Speaking for myself, I view these matters as intimately connected, without exception existing--persisting--due to lack of respect and of equality (both of which I would again argue to come down to the same: lack of culture).I am convinced that such an outlook is more helpful: by delineating the issue it does so for the solution as well, it restricts to a bare minimum the chaos of trying to control many factors, and hopefully resists tracking symptom rather than cause. But it is about this that I wish to ask: why might one not agree? less
