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Being with a Person

Have you ever wondered what it is to be like just to be with a person? I am not talking about staying with a person or caring /supporting or talking with person just to “BE” with a person. Confused !!! When I heard this four years back I did not understood what it was. Now I am able to get the gist of it. It is very difficult to put down the experience with my limited language skills. One can try to understand this with an experiment. To avoid social embracement, try out with a two to three years old babies. Take a baby and leave him/her on a big hall with toys / any engaging material and just be with baby. Do not interfere, do not cuddle, do not help out (until unless there is harm) just be with baby. Check out what it would be like.It would be a definitely be a nice experience. If enough consciousness is put into, it would be a life altering experience. PS: If you do not get it, it’s ok.

Embracing "the Other"

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How many times we have talked about equality in one criterion and then in our actions shown discriminations basing on another criterion. I complain my grand mother is showing discrimination based on caste and then I completely neglect that I am showing discrimination based on habits of the people. Criteria have changed but the issue still remains. I wonder how come we started calling it evolution. Evolution happens when we understand and accept who we are and then work on who/what we wanted to be.   Talking of acceptance is completely distinct from doing it.   It appears across in humans to societies to organizations to countries. Change as charity should start at home but if the scale of change is very high then it should come from people of higher power or responsibility for quick turnaround. I have observed one such thing recently and I am glad that such things are started. Courts have declared and in some countries it has become law that “the o...