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Some man he!

So. I managed to read Robert Fischer's "Gandhi". For some reason, I did not want to read his autobiography(again). I wanted to read about him as a second person. And since this book was the inspiration for the movie " Gandhi ", I was able to relate to it better. The whole book went all "Mahatma" about him. There were words that touched the heart. "He did not want the British to have no strength to fight Indians; He wanted them to not have the heart to do so." It may seem immaterial, but what touched me most about the Mahatma was that he was not born like one. He was a normal atman with all the crap like we all have. In his younger years, he had told lies, got immensely furious on many things. But he rose over all of it. His vision made him do so. What touched me even more was that he contradicted himself on many occasions. He never settled with one thing. He was constantly learning to do what is best for a given situation at that particular t...
What comes free & easy? ADVICE! Just because you, me or anyone is experienced with something, we dive in & assume that we have the right to donate barrels of advice to anyone new at something. Wish we could just let them just be. Wish we could assume that they will eventually figure it out(it is their life, after all) Wish we could realize that we also learnt from our mistakes. Wish we could just shut up our mouths , & like the kids say, chatti pana kavuth.

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Every software Engineer I know(well, most of them) do not like what they are doing(including hubby!!!) Then why are people getting into it? Money???