Finest Post Nominations - August 2017

What a marvelous reply, that! Viswa, I am guilty of not following the thread regularly. I am so glad to see that there are two others who feel the same way as me. I did kill myself early on in life trying to compete with my classmates and pushing myself to do things that did not interest me. After a point when life grounded me and made me do things or rather discover what I liked doing, I really started enjoying myself. It is really wonderful not to succumb to peer pressure. Like Iravati says, people my age have earned a lot, have brought up families, have recently stepped into the role of grandparents, have huge homes and what not! Do I envy them? No. I just earn enough to salvage my own conscience. I couldn't afford to rent a home on my own. I have a roof over my head, I have a rath and a maharathi provided by the BH. In fact I probably spend more getting to and from work than I earn!!! I have enough to eat - more than I strictly need to. But I enjoy what I am doing. I have no desire to earn more and more and more. Life certainly is a lot more than trying to constantly keep up with the Joneses.

 

Thanks Rihana. Just read it. Enjoyed the humour and seriously wished we had had finishing colleges for young men like the finishing colleges in Switzerland to 'make' ladies out of young women. Those would have to have branches world wide and it would have to be a compulsory part of the curriculum before they were handed a professional degree.

 

Thanks Teenu. I agree with you. As usual, Blackbeauty has presented a fact of life so simply and without any unnecessary drama. Bare minimum and story has been told. We don't value what we have. The other side of the fence always looks greener.

 

I totally agree with you venlax. We must know about our traditions and roots before we decide what we want to follow and what we want to leave behind. However, these topics are best discussed in the Religion and Spirituality forum; there is only so much we can discuss about the topic on this forum. I would be delighted if you could bring nominations from there so more people could read the threads and benefit from the information given there.