Perspectives

Perspective: A way of thinking about something, especially one which is influenced by the type of person you are or by your experiences.
--The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online

It's interesting to think how our perspectives are clouded by our experiences and what these experiences have made us as individuals. While the reasons are no longer there, we continue to think, feel, react and act the same old way. Take care of what plays inside. It determines how you see the play outside.

Madras!

When I decided to move to Chennai, I heard various things about the city. There are only three seasons in the city: Hot, hotter and hottest. People are snobs and speak only Tamil even if they know other languages. It's so much polluted and on and on. I have been in Chennai for the last one week. Even though I have stayed only in a company-provided business class hotel, I can say I have got an idea of the city since I have been moving around to locate an appropriate house. There are all sorts of people in here: From Nagpur to Patna. And yes most local people speak only in Tamil and that is because they don't know any other north Indian language. If you know English and are willing to communicate, you can find your way around the city. Pollution levels are like any other cities and after all it's not as bad as it is portrayed to be. People, local people, also go out of their ways to help someone new to the city.

After all it's a country called India.

Hero in your soul

Good lines by Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American Author.

Oumm Ganeshaya Namah!