Scarecrow

Once I said to a scarecrow, "You must be tired of standing in this lonely field.”
And he said, "The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting on, and I never tire of it."
Said I, after a minute of thought, "It is true; for I too have known that joy."
Said he, "Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it."
Then I left him, not knowing whether he had complimented or belittled me.
A year passed, during which the scarecrow turned philosopher. And when I passed by him again I saw two crows building a nest under his hat!!!

(One of my most favorite stories told by Khalil Gibran)

Freedom

One of the un-relative and un-iversal values and ethics is Freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, prime influencer of the French Revolution as well as the Modern thought, once remarked "Man is born free but is chained everywhere".

Equally true is the profound interpretation as the one intended by Rousseau that man is chained by his own internal forces as much as external ones. Unavoidably aware of external/existential forces that snare him, Man has lost his freedom to his life's internal inertias like conditioning, prejudices, untempered emotions, one's mental schema, bounded rationality, failed-willpower, obsolete and fossilized assumptions, irrelevant outlooks, cognitive dissonance, unregulated instincts, inherents like laziness, habits, and lot more. After cycles of deep thought and sifting, I came to conclusion that the five strongest chains of Man's enslavement are:

Poverty (isn’t poverty a lack of freedom?!)
Illness / Ill Health
Guilt
Fear
Absence of Love

So you know what to do..Let us strive to remain unchained. Enjoy Freedom :))

My Calendar

My calendar, today, now, reads like this. Today & tomorrow are now singular. It is a very memorable day.