Finest Posts - July 2016 Nominations

@periamma
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Dear Sai
Thank you for your nomination of TheCupid's There Should Be A Smile, Isn’t? Believe me, it did make me smile, a genuine smile! Are you asking me how do I know it is a genuine smile? Because this smile did not cause pain to my facial muscles! Once a friend's daughter who is an air-hostess in a leading international airline was talking to me. I told her that it must be good fun to be able to visit so many countries on a regular basis. She replied, 'Everything is fine uncle but for this need to smile even when we are insulted. Try smiling, uncle, when you don't feel like it and you will know what I mean!'
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Dear @jskls
Thank you for your nomination of @GoogleGlass 's "free-dom" At Hindsight – "independence Of Individuals" A relationship can thrive only when there is no domination from any of the parties to the relationship. Domination can take many forms and the worst is possessiveness. In the initial stages of relationship we may even love that domination thinking that it is a sign of excessive love but very soon find ourselves scrambling for breathing space! But people who try to dominate in a relationship are more to be pitied than censured. Their act of domination comes out of a complex, a fear that they may get thrown out of it at some point of time.
My favourite Khalil Gibran is a master of sentiments. Says he: "No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” I'll gladly say Amen to that!
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Dear @jayasala42
Thank you for your nomination of @priyabaghel 's When Parenting Drifts Us Apart A wonderful thread indeed that speaks volumes about the foresight of the younger generation in all matters. This trait is the gift of education and the modern thought process that gets refined on a continuous basis thanks to peer-level interactions made possible by social networks.

My paternal grandma had thirteen children and at times both mother and daughter were delivering children simultaneously! Parenting was a term unheard of in their times. When I had my two daughters, we had some idea of parenting but never really went after it. My wife being a housewife took a major part in parenting and it suited me. In those days, a mother's role was considered very essential in parenting. Children going astray were invariably attributed to the absence of a mother. When my daughters got married and had children, their husbands started taking more interest in bringing up the children than I ever did in all life.

Such changes down the generation have been necessitated by the need to expose the children to different perspectives as the life that they may face may be fraught with greater complexities. But at the same time, the parents must realise that their roles in parenting must be complementary and not one of confrontation!
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