Darker side of life

When God made day , he made night too . Okay, even if God didn't make either of it ( for the atheists around ) when we have the day, the earth would rotate and night would come. It is inevitable. Apart from the scientific reasons, we all are aware of , of how night sets the body clocks right in place, it gives the human mind the rest is requires , it feeds the night time predators , seems like there is more. It has a spiritual importance as well , it kinda makes us see that the dark phases in life are as important as the bright ones, even though it is tough to reason that sometimes. I mean it creates a thankfulness for what you have and what you might not have always , and it makes us able to comprehend the light at the end of the tunnel. It makes you understand , everything in life is a phase that will pass good or bad ,and there is no reason to lose hope. Imagine a world where there was no night but only day , would we appreciate the sunlight as much as we do today, or would it be something that we take for granted. i would bet on the later, cause the human nature has almost never respected the abundance, it has moved after the scarce time after time. Be is gold or platinum, on the retrospective it is just another metal which might be worth a lot thats only cause it was /is scarce , and iron was more abundant, i don't think by the cosmetic standards , junk jewelery looks any worse, at least if worn the right way. Why go we run after the glitter all the time , and never once stand and respect things which are around like say sea shells or maybe even some rocks , they are simply fascinating. i particularly love the fishes and the different colors they come in , all shades of the rainbow and more , but it doesn't create the same kind of the frenzy . I feel like a hypocrite as I say this , cause being married in India less than a year ago , does make you respect gold to some extent, i mean the bride is judged by the amount of gold she is wearing, it is one stmt that defines her family and money they might or might not have but guess we are all a part of the big game plan here yet again . As humans we respect what everyone else does, without giving what matters to us any due consideration. Right from education to jobs , everything is a brand. So are we, what we do , how well we are educated comprises the brand power we have, something very evident when you are in the marriage market . Guess , when it is a arranged marriage people just feel more comfortable with the brand values and I dont say this is wrong but i do hate the instant perceptions we have of people cause of that . And I hate it more cause I am a part of it , when I was in India and came to know someone is from IIT , i instantly judged , there is a nice person here , well educated and smart , they are well educated and smart no doubts on that ,but it is carrying it a bit too far to decide even their characters based on that. The game hasnt changed much across the seven seas in the United states of America, only the brand IIT has been replaced by Harvard and the NYU's and Yale. Are all the smart people inevitably from these schools , or is there hope for people who were not lucky enuf to make it to them or rather didn't even try that hard . Is it a good idea to write off people without giving them a chance to even prove themselves , i would say NO and thats the politically correct answer but real life is not that politically correct all the time . Anyways, this is not something that I had started on today, guess it was just a stray thought that hit me , coming back to the darker things in life...Dont we need opposites in life to understand it other, do nt we need to know bitter to understand sweet , or maybe see cruelty to understand kindness , in my opinion we do. It is difficult to imagine one without the other and the best things in life come with a pinch of salt , or hurt or maybe some disappointments , but guess it is important to just go on . If you can persist long enough , you would get to the better part of the deal . The word 'persist " reminds me of a story, i know i am not that great that people would have a interest in my childhood stories as yet ;-) but still..Anyways , I must have been in the seventh or eighth standard or maybe even sixth ..and there was a daily ritual in the school where one kid was chosen to read one small piece on some virtue in the morning assembly. On one bad day , I was chosen and of all the virtues I chose " persistence " , now it was just 5-6 lines about how important persistence was , but the sad part was I didn't know how to pronounce persistence , the right way. No one taught me and i just could figure out my diction was wrong . Anyways , don't know how many of the students noticed the mistake , considering the fact that if i didn't know , there could be many who wouldn't know I was wrong , and definately my schoool principal with his distorted english wouldnt;-) . As I was done with my piece and the assembly finished , there was a English teacher, who did notice the mistake , and came straight charging for me. I wont ever forget or forgive the way she spoke to me , I mean it was a genuine mistake and she was there to teach not make fun of people. Imagine, realizing you have made a fool out of urself in front of the entire school and then being scolded for the topping. Anyways, I did learn the meaning and the diction of "persistence" from that day onwards and it has been with me for long. While I might have grown past that day , in some small corner of your mind , you never do completely and I guess it is teachers like these who are responsible for most of the kids not wanting to get back to school. I also believe more than the subject , the teacher should know how to handle the kids , and learning would go on its own. Enough thots for a day , will get back ...