VERY SORRY
THAT MARCH ISSUE
IS DELAYED
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
SPONSOR
NARA’S NOTEPAD THANK
MJF
Ln. T. S. GOVINDARAJAN, State President,
Tamil
Nadu Senior Agro technologists’ Forum (TANSAF)
and
MRS.
PADMA GOVINDARAJAN, Coimbatore.
MEMO FROM NARA
Sports
and music unite millions of us across our great
nation – India. They brought us together. India is a vast country with many
language speaking States and people following a number of religions, variety of
cultures such as food, dresses, music, dance, caste, colour and what not! They
have added fragrance to Indian culture. Such diversity brought unity among us.
Every State has special festivals, large number of temples, churches, mosques
and many other religious places. For anyone who comes to India from any other
country, India looks as a paradise. Such variety in a single country (India),
cannot be seen anywhere else. But we Indians fail to look at our own beautiful
culture, people and places.
From Himalaya to Kanyakumari we find beautiful ancient
architectural monuments. Taj Mahal, Puri, Charminar, Mysuru Palace, Thanjavur
Big Temple, Guruvayur temple in Kerala, and many more places attract the
attention of Indians nowadays. Appreciating one’s own culture and learn about it
is necessary to understand the historic achievements of our ancestors.
Today everything is modern and technology has transformed
our way of life and life-style. The country has seen skyscrapers in the form of
apartments to provide shelter to millions of Indians. These were not there some
years ago. The apartment culture has crept into India of late. With all these
developments, pollution, life style diseases, isolated life and mental
disorders have affected the Indian population to a great extent.
A free country indeed! Freedom for everyone! So governance
becomes very difficult. There are lots of laws to control the unwanted
activities of people. But still we do find all sorts of illegal activities
happening all over India. We, the people of India tolerate and move on.
Tolerance has become the way of life today. In fact, there is no place for
intolerance.
RULES OF WRITING
1.
Write.
2.
Put one word after another. Find the right
word, put it down.
3.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have
to do to finish it, finish it.
4.
Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never
read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the
kind of thing that this is.
5.
Remember: when people tell you something is
wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell
you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always
wrong.
6.
Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later,
before it ever reaches perfections, you’ll have to let it go and move on and
start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep
moving.
7.
Laugh at your won jokes.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it
with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like
(that may be a rule for life as well as for writing.) So write your story as it
needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can.
TO BEAT LONELINESS
1. First,
don’t isolate yourself – When you’re feeling lonely it is hard to go out
and be with others who seem to be OK, and don’t really notice how lonely you
feel. But putting up a wall and withdrawing from your friends will only
intensify that sense of loneliness, and will further undermine your
self-esteem.
2. Second, keep yourself busy – Do things
that you normally enjoy with others. For example, listening to a band or maybe
going to watch a game … or you could always try something that’s new, but
interests you! That would allow you to connect in a non-threatening way … as it
takes the focus off talking, and off you.
3. Third, be kind to yourself - It’s
likely that you regularly beat yourself up, criticize yourself and are
unrealistic in the kinds of expectations that you have for yourself. So what,
if it goes wrong? You can always try again – just learn what you can from the
experience. And notice your successes and the times when it goes well. It’s
likely that this happens a lot more than you think!
4. Fourth, recognize that we ALL battle
loneliness at times - You’re not some kind of freak – it’s actually quite
normal. It is something we’ve all known and understand.
5. Fifth,
talk to someone you like and trust – It can really help to talk about your
feelings with a family member, a friend or counsellor. It relieves some of the
painful sense of isolation – and help to get your life back in perspective
again.
JUST TO LAUGH
Wife: In my dream, I saw you in a jewellery store and you bought me a
diamond ring.
Husband:
I had the same dream and I saw your dad paying the bill.
Teacher: Daniel, if you had a dollar in your hand and
you asked your dad for another dollar, how many dollars would you have in your
hand?
Daniel:
A dollar.
Teacher:
Daniel apparently you don’t know math...
Daniel:
Apparently you don’t know my dad.
A little boy went up to his father and asked, ‘Dad, where
did my intelligence come from?
The
father replied: ‘Well, son, you must have got it from your mother because I
still have mine.
TO QUOTE
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
Let us always meet each other with smile for the smile is the
beginning of love. – Mother Teresa
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. – Martin Luther
LINES I LIKED
Ø No one understands your problem better than you.
Ø No one wants to tell lies, however, most
confess they do, for small personal gains.
Ø No religion preaches violence as a panacea
for all ills afflicting society.
Ø No sportsman ever thinks that he has already
played his best game.
Ø No State, society or individual can claim to
be perfect
No matter where you go, there you are!
Meet you next month – April, 2016
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
(NARA’S DIGEST)
(NARA’S NOTEPAD)
Saturday, January 30, 2016
MEMO FROM NARA
Everyone knows that Birth is the beginning of Life and Death
is the end of it. In between the Birth and Death we live happy and healthy or
unhappy and unhealthy Life. Some are lucky to live full life of 100 years, and
others end their life at different intervals. So the end of Life is Death. No
one knows for sure when one dies – what year, month, week, day or hour? Death
occurs at anytime, anywhere, and in any form. If it happens, it happens. No one
can prevent or postpone it. Therefore it is better not to think too much of it.
However we all want to live as long as possible at any cost. Thus life appears
to be very important and precious for all of us. We like to live and we like to
see our family and our friends and friends’ family to live for a long time in
comfort. For that we greet them every birthday and New Year for a long
prosperous and healthy Life.
There are people who want to exploit this desire of living
long by suggesting some unreasonable and unscientific ideas. Since people want
to live – nothing but living – fall prey to those ideas and make fool of
themselves. The ideas may be religious, mystic, spiritual or simple advices.
People, who like to live long, develop a belief on these stupid ideas and try
to follow blindly. Even the educated intelligentsia are trying to follow such
ideas to live and not to die. In fact, we all know for sure, Death is the end
of Life. When we breathe, we live, once we stop breathing we die. That is the law
of nature. It is as simple as that!
Trying to avoid Death is human and animal instinct. All
living organisms want to live, not to die. So they try to protect themselves against
all adversaries. Safety and security to life are essential for all. Hence,
human beings individually and also collectively try to make arrangements for
living safely. In spite of all safety measures we do fall prey to Death and the
precious Life ends. It is an everyday happening.
In fact, civilians as well as the security forces are living
in risk every day. Accidents occur everywhere in spite of all our efforts to
satisfy Gods by prayer and other means. The question is whether one can avoid
such unavoidable accidents? I don’t think so. All of us know very well that
thousands die every day by accidents, by natural disasters, by due to hatred
and illness. Therefore live a Life with care and precautions as much as
possible by not thinking in advance what is going to happen the next hour.
Either things may go on smoothly or it may enter a hard court. So let us learn
to live in this world without fear of Death. Free from fear gives us a long
Life!
SPONSOR
NARA’S NOTEPAD THANK
MJF Ln. T. S. GOVINDARAJAN, State President,
Tamil Nadu Senior Agro technologists’ Forum (TANSAF)
and
MRS. PADMA GOVINDARAJAN, Coimbatore
CONFIDENCE BUILDERS
1.
Wash your
hands and face, and brush your teeth.
2.
Look at any
diploma or certificate of achievement.
3.
Remember your
last (or greatest) success and think about it for 60 sec.
4.
Give
yourself a good shave.
5.
Know you are
the person your kids or other loved ones think you are.
6.
Wash your
car, inside and out.
7.
Put on clean
socks and shoes you haven’t worn in a few days.
8.
Organize
your closet and get rid of anything that no longer fits.
9.
Cook a
lovely mean.
10.
Look around
you, remember that you started with nothing, and know that everything you see,
you created.
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