Decisions and Implications

A group of children is playing near two railway tracks lying side by side, one still in use while the other unused. Only one child is playing on the unused track, the rest on the operational one.A train is coming, and you are just near the track interchange switch.You can make the train change its course to the unused track and save most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the unused track would be sacrificed.

Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice a single person to save many others. You might think the same way.Initially it seems rational and sensible to save a group of children at the expense of only one kid.

But, carefully analysing the situation would give you a different perspective.The child who was playing on the unused track made the right decision. He sacrificed the company of his friends and was sensible enough to use the unused track.

Nevertheless, we think he has to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was. This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday. In the office, community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority is. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in this case he is sacrificed, and no one would feel they have morally wronged.

The great critic Leo Velski Julian who told the story said he would not change the course of the train because he believed that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that the track was still in use, and that they should have run away if they heard the train speeding towards them. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come his way! Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe and probably because it was under maintenance. If the train was diverted to the unused track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And in our attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, we might be sacrificing hundreds of people to save those few kids.

While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right.

Love and Lust

Love and lust are two most intertwinned subjects of great interest. The line of seperation between the two is so blurr it can barely be called a line. Or is it just a perspective? Is there a huge difference between the two, some would vouch for that to be true. Lust is a battlefield of hormones, and Love the medicine for everything in life.

Lust is neccessary for Love to happen. It is the "love at first sight" which is so similar to what we would define as lust. Lust is something that aesthetically pleases you instantly, but love takes everything into account, the mind, the empathy, the mannerism and the personality.

We use different parts of the brain to be in love and to feel lust. Researchers believe that early stage romantic love feelings are located mainly on the right side at the base of the brain, or the ventral midbrain, and in the middle of the brain, the caudate nucleus.Long-term attachment, on the other hand, appears to be centred in the front and base of the brain, or the ventral putamen and the pallidum.Feelings related to lust and sexual arousal occupy different areas, mostly located on the left-hand side of the brain.

But what is love without lust when you are young ? Isn't it right to lust for someone you love? But then the opposite would be a real problem, loving someone for your lust.Men can go crazy in lust . They don't want to know anything about the women, about what they like, where they are from and about how young or old they are.

Romantic lovers are a bit "crazy," since they can experience chemical imbalances within the brain.Mental health experts have linked somewhat similar imbalances to depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. And one thing is for sure, Lust and love can rob a man of his natural strength and defenses. He can become a mere puppet in the hands of a woman.

The Waiting

Another one of mine!

A moment not to be lost
A moment patiently waited for a thousand years
A cry that last centuries, a struggle forever
A hope of the heart, the patience of a mind for eons together
I have waited and have found you atlast
the most precious of all , worth the pain of an eternity
holding on to you with life so dear,
freezing time is not easy and that's the fear
for i don't want to let go, don't want to lose sight
Let us not go into tomorrow, let us not go to sleep tonight.

A Poem

A poem with unknown origins ( for me) , mailed to me by a friend........

But never either found another

To free the hollow heart from paining-

They stood aloof,the scars remaining;

Like cliffs which had been asunder;

A dreary sea now flows between them;

But neither heat,nor frost,nor thunder,

Shall wholly do away,I ween,

The marks of that which once hath been.