Im not an island...!!

"No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne from Meditations.

The first time I heard of this poem was when I saw the film "About a Boy" when Hugh grant's charater Will contradicts this and says

"That was back in those times when men had no TV or CD or VCD or DVD or Home espreeso makers.... Now if you are equipped you can actually be an island paradise....."

My best dialogue though was when marcus says to Will that other people can make you happy and then Will says.."If other people can make you happy then they are also equally capable of making you unhappy.."

Well said Dude! If only I could have been like you.Now its not just that Im not an island but then recent developments in my life would suggest that Im a old dry leaf who would be blown in direction and in any speed by even the slightest of breeze.
Im this sentimental creature who still has the tiny piece of magnet which her 7yr old cousin gave her for safe keeping(im sure that even he would have forgotten about that) some one whose day gets ruined because some one who I knew didnt smile at ME and many other odd things.So when one of my friends who I was very much found of picked up a quarrel with me I was almost heart broken..

John Donne doesnt honestly give the most right approach to life.Now other people might appreciate you because you are sensitive to even the tiniest things that happen to them and you are considering your friends sorrow as your own or happiness as your own.But then this is rubbish because if you are affected by everyone then just as they might make you happy they can also make you unhappy.

Now I have tried and tried but then I have given up.. not in my 9th life can I be an island or someone who is self made and independent.But then I thought I would try to be hypocrite and tell people to be an island and then I put up an orkut profile which says "Dont even give a damn" and a foto of Bart Simpson which screams out a tough cool attitude.In reality it would have been in that period of my life when I got soo affected by everything that I had put up that caption.Well told ya! Im taking hyppocrisy to new levels...Tc! Salaam!

Now for my view....

HE! HE!..... So now that all the news papers and all the magazines have screamed out their views this one comes from me.We live in world which is so dominated by the media(the shining example being this very blog which im writing to you...)but unfortunately instead of using it for the insight of useful information we sometimes use it misappropriately to peek into the lives of the others.So we have mere personal issues taking up the headlines by the mere virtue of it being all too juicy and intriguing......which is one reason why we cant live any one alone.

Homosexuality ,the latest issue being that it still comes under the list of unnatural sexual practices and is punishable under Indian Law when countries outside India have made rules of same sex marriage possible.Now all this comes from a country which cant still cut down on its rates of female feoticide,dowry deaths and communal riots.... The one disadvantage of people today is that we have become so one sided incapable of appreciating other peoples diffrences.So we claim that ou political party ,our religion,our country is far more superior than others... and in this case heterosexuality over homosexuality... It is too difficult for us to acknowledge that it is possible for another person to be on the right path.

Now I like butterscotch flavour ice cream and my friend likes strawberry flavoured ice cream but that does not mean that one of us is right or wrong.Homosexuality is form of livelihood which a person chooses.Now you cant force some one to marry and ruin another persons life nor can you force a homosexual person into a life of saint hood.Its their preference,they were created by the Almighty this way and let them live they way they like it as long as they are on the right side of law.


There might be people who think this might be a very westernised thought.But then it is not .This is something which is very universal.And as for being western.. we accept many things which are totally against our tradition why not accept something which calls for concern and care for people.....