Cheers to Earth Day !!

Of the all the days that we celebrate, I think one of the most important is earth day. An attempt to save this planet for our future generations. So go ahead and do your part. However small it maybe, if everyone did something it might actually help our planet. Make a few resolutions today and try to keep them for the rest of your life.

http://www.huliq.com/9501/92877/earth-day-activities-2010-5-things-you-can-do-home
The article above will show some of the ways we can start contributing. Which are all very much doable, and do not need a bit of effort on our part. Just a little consciousness. Switching off lights when not using them and taking shorter showers are things that we can do. And honestly I think we should do.

But the first thing is to loose the "what difference does it make if I do it" attitude. As they say every single drop makes the ocean, every single effort does make a big difference. I think this earth day we should all start taking "I can make a difference" attitude towards our planet. Just that will make all the difference in the world. Just that will be a very big "Earth day activity" in itself.

So if you are thinking what you can do to make this world a better place for yourself and the generations to come, what you can do this earth day or what you can do to celebrate earth day; then start by changing your attitude.

Marriage: Is it just love or do you need more ?

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

Through the years and centuries of human existence, marriage and love are one of those few things which have not changed. Well not much. People have been marrying for centuries for various reasons, be it to carry forward their family to the next generation, or to satisfy their love interest, or to honor their elders or simply because they were meant to. Whatever may be the reason marriage and love has got us this far, has got humanity this far.

One of the big debates about marriage; is it just love or do you need more for a successful marriage. There are lots of definitions for marriage, some say its a lifetime commitment, while some say its a life long friendship, and some say its pure love. But how far can love take you. Can you keep loving a person without reason, without any expectations. When you get married to a person you expect something out of him/her. Yes, it is love, but it is not just love, it is much more.

Can you love a person who screams at you, who gets angry with you, who complains about you? Yes you can. You can love a person, if you understand the person and the reason for his/her actions. When you try to understand your better half, just as much as you understand yourself, you can love him/her no matter what. It all depends on how far do you want to go for that person.

I think love and a lot of understanding is what makes up a good marriage. Marriage is like a recipe; It needs a blend of a lot of ingredients, and the right ingredients will make up the most delicious dish. But to each his own.

Are We Not In the Warzone?

Dying people, killing soldiers, terrified residents and crying family members. War brings so much more than just death. The so called "Pandora's Box" does seem to open wide in the war-zone. Every city, state, country, continent has at some point seen the contents of this box, and for some it never seems to close.

Millions of "normal" people, people just like us, go to war, fight for a cause someone else believes in and thousands of them never come back. They die in the battle field, and what they get in return is a medal and a piece of cloth wrapped around their dead body, leaving grief and sorrow for their families and lots of time to dwell upon it.

At the end of all this, we are fighting for land, resources, religion but almost all the time for "Money" and "Power"-the key players, the key driving force for everything from war to peace. We all believe what we are fighting for is right. We believe strongly in our causes. And we believe that it is worth fighting for. We believe. But we don't pay for what we believe in, someone else does.

And yet when it comes to terrorism we don't have a choice. Somehow the phrase "we always have a choice" does not seem to work. We don't have a choice, but to defend ourselves. Fighting the war against terrorism is like fighting cancer. We almost destroy our body to get rid of the disease. That's what we do to our people when we go for war.

So the question remains, are we in the war zone?
Are we affected by people dying around us?
Are we affected by all those wars going on around us?
Are we really unaffected by all those killings?
Do we care?
Are we not in the war zone ?

Something to think about....ain't it ?