The language barrier

The issue of language has taken precedence over riots and economy for Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party Chief insisted on the use of Hindi as a language for communication in the Parliament, and not English.
The goal of this demand seems unclear.The rationale for making Hindi the language of the Parliament is nothing more than restricting English language to the privileged few, including his son of course.Talking of 'double standards' of ministers, Singh might have forgotten the real use of 'language'.If the ministers go out to give speeches to the public in English, the whole purpose of communication would get defeated.
In a multi-lingual nation of ours, English acts as a common thread.Restricting the language of some would be equivalent to restricting their freedom of expression. The fight for the language in West Bengal did not really reap benefits for them.
For a globalized world that we live in, language- English, Hindi or French, must be seen as modes of communication rather than imperialism.And for Mr Yadav, he surely has better and more important questions in hand at present. 

Its not worth the drama..

"I think.. She should have at least said a 'hi!'"

"They shouldn't have done that!"

"How can someone even do this to me??? I was so good to him all this while!"

"I did so much, and this is what i get in return?"

Questions of this kind often cross our mind. Well, not just cross, many a times they even make us cry, go without sleep and even fast unto death and eventually change. The change is not of the thought, but we change ourselves!

"She did not call back! Okay! I won't call her ever again!"

"I did so much... but now... I will think only about myself and won't give a damn about others"

Well in all this, we changed ourselves, our habits, our inherent ideas and eventually our existence. All of this only because we expected a person or a group to react in a particular way. But if you come to think about it, you would say "no.. I don't expect anything from anyone"... But truly, we all do. We expect people to behave in a certain way. If I smile at someone, I expect that person to smile back. And that's where we get hurt. In this fraction of second that we spent on expecting a suitable reply, if we would have given the freedom to the person to do just as s/he feels like, we would be free of all the anger and agony. We mustn't forget that we cannot expect a person to be just as we are. Each person is different and we must accept and appreciate it. A person can respond only as much as his capabilities and capacities. It would be unjust on our part to expect from them.

We all remember how pressurized we felt when our parents/teachers expected a lot of marks from us in school.

Let's not burden anyone else with our expectations. And in all this, we might just start accepting each person just as they are, and in turn free ourselves of all the pain we underwent because we wanted him/her to be someone s/he wasn't.