NARA'S NOTEPAD
VOLUME 15
FEBRUARY 2019
NUMBER 2
SUPPORTED BY READERS LIKE YOU
Thursday, January 31, 2019
HUMAN SOCIETY
Societies are formed by human beings when they started
organizing to lead an orderly life. Such societies were formed based on
religion, caste, creed, color and various other criteria such as professions
etc. People live in these societies with families and friends. In order to make
the societies strong, every family or individuals is made as member. Societies
built churches, temples, mosques, gurudwaras
and many other places of worship in order to meet their relatives and friends
often in those places.
Societies are
formed for survival and security. Group of individuals can fight for a cause.
They can also safeguard their fellow citizens. As a society, fighting for the
human rights and justice is easier. Governments or any organization will hear
the voice and take appropriate action for their demands. Individual voices are
weaker than the collective voice. Societies celebrate marriages, child birth,
religious festivals and even they take care of the demise of people. Societies
are service oriented and they are supposed to keep the members in good humour.
However, equality in societies is rare, because of economic inequality.
Broadly, every
society is divided into three major categories. The lower strata (class),
middle strata (class) and upper strata (class) people. In general, the lower
strata consist of poor and not well educated people who do manual and menial
works. Most of them are homeless, jobless, landless and underprivileged. They
do not and cannot follow certain kinds of rules laid out by the society. They
live their life carelessly and they are prepared to undertake any kind of
risks. We all know their life style which is far below that of the middle
strata people. In fact, the people from the middle strata grew up from the
lower strata by educating themselves. They worked hard to progress in life, got
better jobs and wished to lead a better, comfortable and happy life. This
stratum can be subdivided into lower middle class, min-middle class and upper
middle class people .the lower middle class people are not economically strong
as the middle and upper class people. However there will be a growth towards
the middle and upper class.
Numerically in a society the middle class people are
higher than the lower and upper class strata. In some society the lower strata
is higher in size than the middle strata. Most of the work done in any society
is by these important strata. They still have a scope to move up to reach the
upper strata. Everyone’s goal is to move somehow towards the upper strata so
that they can be more rich, comfortable and socially respected. Such ambitions
are very high with the upper middle class people.
The upper strata are above the middle strata having
very rich people who are wealthy and socially recognized. Politicians,
businessmen, cine artists, certain professionals, landlords and such category
of people come under the upper class. Sometimes certain castes are also
considered as the upper class. But nowadays anyone who is wealthy and powerful
can be in this category. They look upon the middle and lower strata people as inferior
to them although they grew up from those strata. There are people who inherit
huge properties and wealth from their parents and grandparents. Their behaviour
and attitudes are generally different and unique from the common people.
Our world is mostly
run by such upper class people even in a democracy. So the middle class and
lower class people have to obey them and follow their ideas and ideologies.
Even within a particular society we do find these three categories. So wherever
we go, we see the differences among human beings based on these categories.
This phenomenon is continuing from time immemorial and all human beings are
adapted to that. The aim is to reach the top of the pyramid with hard work and
effort. It continues and will continue forever. - NARA
COPE WITH FEELINGS OF LONELINESS
1. Understand that loneliness is a
feeling, and not necessarily a fact. Sometimes we feel lonely, unwanted or
rejected based on wrong beliefs about ourselves and others. Often people and
events acts as triggers for our feelings … and then we start to act as if they
represent the truth.
2. Fight the urge to withdraw or to
isolate yourself. You’ll actually feel better if you some spend time with
others (but spend time with people who love you, just for “you”.)
3. Check for making assumptions, or
jumping to conclusions, or skewed ways of thinking which make things seem much
worse. Then, look for exceptions to balance up the picture. Don’t waste your
time and energy on biased, untrue stuff.
4. Related to this, make sure you’re not
attacking or putting yourself down. Try and focus on your good points, and
things that you do right.
5. Work on being warm and friendly – as
often other people are hiding their own feelings of insecurity. Hence, they’ll
often be responsive when we are warm and friendly – and then reciprocate by
being interested in us.
6. Try and find other people who share
some of your interests – as that’s a natural way to form connections, or build
bridges.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE
1. Things never, ever go according to
your plan
2. You’ll always meet with unexpected
snags and obstacles
3. Not everyone will like you, or want
to be your friend
4. We all lose motivation and want to
ditch our dreams
5. Success is transitory – the
happiness will pass
6. We all get disappointed and let down
by our friends
7. But attitude is everything – we
choose how to react
8. There’s always something good, if we
will only look for it
9. There are those who “play it
forward”, and who’re helpful, warm and kind
10. And life is full of chances, new beginnings
and fresh starts.
ASK QUESTIONS
To better understand a
colleague’s point of view, ask questions.
The benefits are it’s a good
way to gather information; it’ll help you avoid launching into an accidental
monologue,
and it will make you more likable.
People prefer conversational partners
who ask questions.
JUST TO LAUGH...
A nun was
approached by a small boy who told her proudly,
“I know what the Bible means!”
The nun smiled and replied,
“What do you mean you ‘know’ what the Bible means?”
“Okay” said the nun, “what does the Bible mean?”
“That’s easy sister. “the
young boy replied excitedly;
“It stands for Basic Information Before Leaving
Earth.”
TO QUOTE
Every perception is to some degree an act of creation,
and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. –
Gerald Edelman
IMPORTANT DAYS IN FEBRUARY
4 February 2019
WORLD CANCER DAY
11 February 2019
DAY FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE
13 February 2019
WORLD RADIO DAY
20 February 2019
WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
21 February 2019
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
LINES I LIKED
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Beginning is simply
the first step towards winning.
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Believe in yourself
and know you are never alone because we are all connected.
Ø
Being the noble art
of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone.
Ø
Best lesson of life
is listening to everyone and learn from everyone, because nobody knows everything
and everyone knows something.
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