Some random thoughts....


1) Only invest yourself, your time and resources in something that will help you grow, as a person. Not in anything that will drain all your energy out of you, and leave you feeling empty and give you nothing positive in return, emotionally.

2) Dont let anyone, anyone undermine you, your experiences, your abilities, anything.

3) Share yourself only with someone with enough sense and sensitivity to respect what you are, and what you have been through.

4) Of course, expectations are only natural from someone you are close to, nothing wrong with that. But unless they are also accompanied by reality, and a fair take on the situation, they are pretty much bound to crash.

5) Objectivity, objectivity, and objectivity. View all scenarios and situations with objectivity. From all points of view. Be fair.

6) Don't fight dirty. Using something they confided in you to hit them back with it when you are angry, that is the dirtiest way to fight and hurt someone. And no, no one should be putting up with that.

7) Fight for what you think is right. DOn't let anyone,anyone take you for granted.

8) Respect yourself. Respect others. Don't give anyone the time of the day if they don't respect you.

9) Treat others as you wish to be treated. Better still, treat them as they wish to be treated. But if it only becomes a one sided thing, of course they are taking you for granted. Then, treat them as they are treating you.

10) Ego is a good thing, in little doses. The minute you let ego control your life, you end up destroying everything that is good.

11) Respect people's spaces. Sometimes, that is all they have at the moment that matters to them. And invading anything that is private to them, like even reading personal diaries are intrusions of the worst kind, definitely leading to breach of trust.

12) Be kind. It is really that simple. Why it is so hard to be kind to people who matter the most?

Trivia

* Rented house, signed contract for one year
* bought furniture
* assembled furniture. IKEA rules. We need that in India
* signed contract for internet and telephone
* fixed the connections - and all text was in German
* fixed that lamp that has been troubling me for a while. figured out how to fix it. elementary, my dear watson and all that.


mode: accomplished. most definitely.

For a 7.4 rating, I found the movie to be not quite upto the mark. I guess that is because I liked the book so much..

About A Boy, the book was easy reading, and really well written. The part about having more people in your life, and no just one you centre your life around, that was well written. You need a dynamic pyramid, and most of that should be composed of people in your life, and occasionally, if you do end up losing one or two, it can still be stable.

"If other people can make you happy, they can also make you unhappy."

Even though it is a feel good movie, and pretty well made, I was a little bit disappointed that the ending did not quite match the book. Although I did appreciate that they didnt make it a cheesy romantic flick-type ending. It was also a little sad that Marcus learns how to be a child after all.. he does lose that uniqueness a bit.