Teenage Suicide

Today, When I was having a cup tea on a fine evening, a breaking news on the television attracted my attention towards it. It said that a teenage committed suicide for some reason. This got me thinking that this “THING” is  getting way too popular among the young generation.

Suicides among young people continue to be a serious problem. Each year, thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-old, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-old.

Teenagers experience strong feelings of stress, confusion, self-doubt, pressure to succeed, financial uncertainty, and other fears while growing up.

Stress is a major reason of teenage suicides. The  youth, now-a-days think that they have got all the  problems in the universe. They think that they are the only ones with whom God is unfair. They take stress of every bad thing that happens to them. And this “stress” is the main reason of teenage suicides.

Another reason of teenage suicide which requires some discussion is that their mentality also goes through the changing state so they think that everyone in the world is their enemy, even their parents. They start becoming rebellions. And a rebel mind can do anything with anyone, especially with his own self. Suicide is often linked with drugs and alcohol use that kills them slowly inside and let them be close and dizzy to the world.

For some teenagers, divorce, the formation of a new family with step-parents and step-siblings, or moving to a new community can be very unsettling and can intensify self-doubts.

Step parents and step siblings are also one the main reasons of teenage suicides. Some teenagers are not granted with good step parents/siblings. In fact, they suffer a lot a lot due to their step family which results in committing suicide.

For some teens, suicide may appear to be a solution to their problems and stress. They think that killing themselves will give them relieve from all the other problems as they do not see any other way to go. So they choose the only solution that is left which is Suicide. But none of us don't think that its the better solution to all your problems. Hiding from the world is not what any human should do,but facing it does. Suicide the most preventable cause of death, but prevention requires all of us to speak up. Teenagers who go for the suicide are the ones who can't seek help for themselves. There friends and family members should be able to read their minds and check on them if they are making some death notes or showing inappropriate behavior. No child should be abused or discouraged by any of there parents. Its the main reason why teenager keen to end there life up. A strong family support makes you what a good society wants. They should concentrate on boosting their self-esteem. Teenagers should have a regular psychological check-up. Media should also not expose such kind of violence to avoid any inconvenience and avoid any kind of self abuse in teenagers so that we have healthy and confident minded youth and have well developed country.

Life (apart from religion)

We might find it complicated to get the exact meaning of of life. It might be a general question that we all seek to know at some stage of our life from ourselves. But when we are concerned with its significance and purposes such as “Why are we here?”, “What life is all about?”,“What is the purpose of its existence?”, Then it has been the subject of much philosophical , scientific and theological speculation throughout history. There have been a large number of proposed answers from every individual. Religions and science may get to these answers but thinking out of of the box and without depending on any other’s myth we all get to question ourselves personally once that what exactly our purpose is?

                  If we go deeper in our thoughts with life, apart from religion than this topic gets more fascinating, absorbing and it makes me wonder that like, (really!) what is its purpose? Why am I sitting here and writing about life from which I am going through, already. Well! That’s interestingly needed to find who we are and what our purpose is. Because, without knowing this we cannot explore our ambitions and make our imaginations vast and beyond the beauty and nature of this life to survive. 

                if I flash back to the past and try to figure out the word ‘life’ I will see that intense struggle has been made by humans. From the very beginning of human existence, we see that every individual has strived for survival and for his life to live as long as possible. Because death is that bitter truth from which we all naturally fears. We can see that we wait for a new born to come in his life, he lives his life, struggles and struggles everyday hard to make his life better and satisfactory. In every decades of his life he struggles for himself and his benefits. That struggle is going to make him comfortable and to prevent him from starvation to death and in the end he dies after giving up off his past work and struggles. Basically, the typical individual in an industrialized society follows this routine: birth, school, work, die. They may advance their field, but it doesn't really matter in the long run.

So, concerning with the nature of human beings, does only struggle matter to us? Does only advancement and comfort matter to us? These questions will be different for every individual because every individual thinks has different thoughts in the way or other. Life is about facing challenges, taking chances, fighting your fears, having control on your emotions in every aspect of life and let the life go on because we all know that life stops for none. While living this life we often think that everything that has ever breathed had to leave and have to leave once. Life is about aims and making those aims something more than success which is our dream. If talking about a materialistic person and questioning him about life, his answers will be no more than his aims, dreams and fulfilling them at the nearest stage of his life. He might say that life is nothing without these purposes and working hard to achieve them. But when we ask the same question from the person who believes in religion and oneness of God. He would know everything, why we are here and what our purpose is. Because a complete religion gives answer to you every question. God made you for a purpose and for worship. Religions give every detail of human life such as how we formed and how we are different in each aspect. Our thoughts,  fears, opinions, perceptions and even way of seeing is different from the other person with the same eyes. Questioning our life with religion no doubt is usual and is our foremost right but thinking beyond all this usual way of seeking knowledge might not take our imagination to that possibility where the real success and satisfaction is hidden.

                      

                             

                I have read on more than one occasion an atheist making the argument that goes something like this: if humans are the most important creation, why this universe is so vast? The argument is that is this the waste of space? Another way I’ve seen this argument is as follows: the universe is full of galaxies that are even beyond our capacity to ever observe? Furthermore, why is so much of the universe hostile to human life? Humans can’t live in overwhelming majority of the universe. Why is it so hostile if it were created for us? Life means a continual battle. These question might mingle up ones mind. Things are complicated as far as you are seeing them complicated. Life is most of experiences and feelings. Beliefs make our concepts real. If we do not have a belief in religion, feelings, surroundings, purposes of life than we won’t be able to understand anything and that will be great rush to live this life. Life might not be the bed of roses but if we believe in our comforts then it can resemble that bed of comfort. The more you question life the more it will make you wonder or might make your thoughts blurry and loom. Life is about growing, changing and continually trying to find who one is in our lives. Life is mysterious, intriguing and at times totally meaningless. These contradictory qualities of life make it unsetting and ambiguous. Nevertheless, change and progress speed forward. Life goes on and it waits for none.

For us, very often, we think importance is equal to power. When someone has power, they are more important than someone without power. But such notions of power and hierarchy are extra biblical ideas which we have read onto the text.

            The life we experience as human beings is very different from the life experienced by other creatures. We are organized and run for advancement. Another privilege among all creatures we are the greatest. We need to understand one word-freedom-freedom from all bondages. We are free to think and always think beyond our own imaginations!

Resembles  life  what  once  was  held  of  light,

Too  ample  in  itself  for  human  sight,

An  absolute self, an  element  ungrounded,

All  that  we see, all colors of all shade,

By encroach  of  darkness made?

Is  very  life  by consciousness  unbounded?

And all the thoughts,  pains,  joys of moral  breath,

A war-embrace of  wrestling  life and  death.

Picasso Pablo Part one

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973). Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of the 20th century art who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was a Spanish  painter, sculptor,print maker, ceramicist, and stage designer  

Source: Wikipedia

It is said that he brought a huge revolution in great art work through his paintings , sculptures and drawings.Moreover , his innovation conquered all painters that no painter has such big audience like he does. 

     

               His success in his early work through Blue period (1901-1904) and Rose period (1904-1906) led him to establish another success that was Cubism (1907-1911). It was pioneered by George Barque and Pablo Picasso. By 1911 Picasso was recognized as the inventor of Cubism, while Braque’s importance and precedence was argued later,

Cubism:  In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. ( Wikipedia/ Cubism)

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement.

His aim was to develop a new way of seeing that lead to new idea and innovations. 

Picasso's Blue Period: He painted them in shades of blue and blue-green , only occasionally warmed by other colors. Its was some of his most popular work although he found difficulty in selling them at first. 

Picasso was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. 

 Although Picasso himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death",

Source : Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso's_Blue_Period

 

Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist (1903)

 

 Two sisters ( The Meeting)

            We believe that every color associates with the nature of emotions like red color associates with warm emotion. Likely to nature blue associates with melancholy , depression and depth of some emotion. In all of Picasso's Blue Periods paintings, he has showed grieve and depth of his emotions so beautifully. His paintings shows that every emotion can be shown in any kind of art work whether its a painting on canvas or a simple art work. The people he painted have an element of pathos and melodrama.

 Self Portrait (shows him wearing a dark black coat)

Rose Period: The Rose Period comes from the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colors in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. 

                                               Pablo Picasso was a creature of the 19th century. Although he spent most of his life in the 20th century, his work and thinking would remain a product of 19th century romanticism. Romanticism refers to a cultural movement that started at the end of the 18th century, a century that was dominated by the Enlightenment. Enlightenment resulted from scientific advances and favored a climate of reason and rationalization.

Pablo Picasso began to develop a highly romantic style of painting in 1899, which ended in 1901, after his close friendCarlos Casagemas had committed suicide. The ensuing Blue Period would be characterized by resignation and mourning and consists of downbeat portraits of the underprivileged of society, paintings in which the color blue dominates.Then, in 1904, Picasso's work regains its romantic quality in a series of paintings in warmer colors, many of them in the color pink.
Source:http://pablo-picasso.paintings.name/rose-period/


This painting called La Famille de 
This painting shows much cheering and happy colors than his early paintings from blue period. The colors used in it are warmer and the title of this painting itself shows that its a happy people in an aspect or other, 

Pablo Picasso Self Portrait 1907

This self portrait is totally different from the self portrait he painted in his Blue Period. The colors are much warmer in it gives a feeling of cheer and comfort. 

Ways of Seeing
John Berger

In his book Ways of Seeing, John Berger brings up several interesting points regarding the cognition of art. According to him, we no longer comprehend visual images as merely what we see in front of us. Rather, our view of the images is concealed by that which we already know – the image’s reputation and value, the artist’s other works, the context of the art, and the many reproductions created of the image. This, Berger argues, falsifies the concept of art; it is practically impossible for adults to restore the “innocence” with which a child looks at a visual image.

Berger’s theories can be applied to any type of visual images, including modern art. When visiting the Museum of Modern Art, one should keep in mind that a piece of art is meant to be looked at and explored with no conceptualized views. Even if a painting is extremely famous, seeing it “live” is equivalent to seeing it for the first time. The experience of being a museum-goer isn’t about the value of the art one is looking it nor is it about the meaning the painting is “supposed” to have. One should walk into any museum with an extremely open mind and a willingness to feel.

It is not only important to have an open mind, but also to be confident one’s own perception when experiencing art. This way, the experience and the discussions become more enjoyable, honest, and meaningful.

I'm deeply thankful to John Berger for pointing my attention to:

·         A different meaning that word and our own emotions bring to the art piece.

·         Status and power that content of classical European oil paintings ensured to the owner;

·         Gender issues and portrayal of the female body (I love how Berger draws a clear line between terms 'nude' and 'naked');

·         “An analysis of glamour as an invention of industrial society in modern times during which 'The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless” (p.148). And I'm pretty sure; no one ever forgot to show this book to people in advertising business.

In a world full of reproductions, the currency of art (as much as the currency of the human body) is so much a part of our culture that we barely notice it – except, perhaps, when a Damien Hurst is bought for millions of pounds during the beginnings of a credit crunch. Berger is a political reminder of what that exchange means. Put it on the school curriculum! Every adolescent should read it.

Good girl Vs. Bad girl

Bad girl:  A bad girl is the girl that is not afraid of anything. What is going on in their family or personal life, they never give a thought about it. They like to enjoy life to the fullest with every single trick that make them excited and most wanting. They mostly like to back bite with their girl friends about their other girl friends. They do not care about their image much with whom and where they are sitting, what kind of clothes they are wearing because being comfortable feels everything to them. Other's harsh point of views do not bother them but anyhow they want to get into a fight to present them as a huge drama queen. They like to brag about themselves and also do not care about other's girls feelings. They love to smoke.drink alcohol and party up all night with nasty and untrustworthy boys. Being in a failure matters nothing to them. I feel like they are like always in a rush and do not prefer to b calm and understanding. They are the biggest enemies of themselves because of their bad attitude no one likes to be around them so they put themselves in an alone path without any dear one's suggestion they always find it hard to make a single decision for them.

Good girl: A good girl is the girl who does not like to do those things that a bad girl does. A good girl care about her family and stay nice and welcoming to everyone.She is sincere to every kind of person around. She cares about her career and wants herself to feel confident and beautiful all the time.She is not out spoken and does not brag about any of her physical appearance. Good girls like to co-operate in order to stay away from worse conditions. Good has a good hold back on her nerves and desires 

Aspects of Experience

When we talk about experience it is all about learning, memories, confusions and just a flashback sometimes. Everyday is an experience it depends on us like how we take it. We can take it as a rough, tough day, some would like to make their every moment worth living and some will observe and find something new in every moment. And when it comes to learn from someone else's experience then yes we can learn from other's experience. It teaches us a lot and it is worth listening to someones good or tragic experience. It alarms and tells us that the mistakes like they do, we do not need to repeat them. For example: When we were in our childhood we all were used to listen to stories and fairy-tales. Even if any of them were not real, we all still got scared of those nightmares in that stories or we still applied those charming sights of fairy tales in our real. That was our childhood learning from experiencing different tales.  Apart from childhood if someone is at a big loss in his business or his in personal life and we are able to observe his life we definitely would not learn from his mistakes and experience that why and how is getting through a tough time and we would not like to be willing to repeat mistake like him and experience such a big loss like him. Other's experiences matter if we want to learn from them. It depends on us how we see and take things when we hear or see them.

                         And now the  question raises: Does learning through others experience defy the word "Experience" ? 

It might challenge experience in some aspects, depends upon what kind of experience we are having. Because experience is something practical. Like if someone is doing driving wrong and get injuries from his road accident experience and I was a spectator of his mistake then I obviously do not like to do such a thing like he did and what he made me learn and this does not defy the meaning of the word experience. But depending on someone else's experience much is not the easiest way to live a life because somethings can only be learnt when we give our all to it. And when it comes to relation between mind, body and heart experience, it does relate then because mind is the chamber of thoughts. It senses life events and tell us what is good and bad about them. When we know properties of something we tend to feel them and there comes the chamber of feelings that is our hearts. Our mind and soul learn from experience and they both let the heart to experience how does that feels.

Life Experiences

Learning through other's experiences

Experience is something we learn through a new practical, event or even someone else's life event or past. Experiencing anything in life is exposure to that thing first and then learn through it, if you people think it necassary. Experience is also learning through actions and speech. If you have learnt much from a specific experience which might be a hobby,you can be called as an expert then.
There are different types of experiences: 

• 1 Physical experience
• 2 Mental experience
• 3 Emotional experience
• 4 Spiritual experience
• 5 Religious experience
• 6 Social experience
• 7 Virtual experience and simulation gaming
• 8 Immediacy of experience
• 9 Subjective experience
• 
  

A human body basically have four sight in which it can experience something. The first is body. Like going out on a trip or riding a horse. Second is your mind. Like solving a puzzle or working on something with great concentration. Third is your heart. Like falling in or out of love. And last but not the least is our soul. Soul is intimited with meditation or spiritual learning through praying a God. 

I chose this topic because I was interested in experiences of a persons life wether he/she is popular or not.Because, learning through others experience is like doing a great favor to yourself. It teaches you half of your life lessons before it actually might happen with you in future.

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”― Otto von Bismarck

 It is like an original and early source of knowledge. Every second of life is important to learn something new from our social enviroment. For example: If someone is at its crisis and loosing value of his life,we can learn through his experience like what mistake brought to this awful day and what he has been doing through all of his life that he is not able to support himself today. It is totally worth it if we start working on our observations and make them strong enough to write a philosophy book in our mind for ourselves. Although his kind of experience is not as pure as the one you will experience yourself, it is quite useful where you might not be able to learn it through your own limited opportunities.

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. 

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.” 
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Owning a Hobby

 

Hobby is something we do in our spare time for pleasure and mental relaxation. It is a regular activity typically during leisure time. It like spending the time solely on doing something that we like. It does not matter what your hobby unless you are much interested in it.Good thing is its responsibility-free time in schedule. Almost everyone owns a hobby. A hobby can be anything an in door hobby or an out door hobby. Examples of hobby include painting,gardening,cooking,baking,cleaning household,playing video games,spending time with your family,fishing,collecting some stuff and displaying them or anything else that make our time less boring and more interesting. it depends on interests that we like. Every person should own a hobby. I think it is the most trustworthy best friend in to make our leisure time pleasurable. Hobby keeps the mentality refreshed and young. It does not let ever let my life dull,depressed or boring. But a hobby should sometimes carefully adapted because some people have worse hobbies that ruins them like smoking, drinking alcohol,car racing which after that becomes an addiction for life time so we should always choose a hobby that make your mind relaxed and contended.

 Owning a multiple hobby is quite interesting. I have too many hobbies. Actually, I make my work as interesting as a hobby it gets less boring. I spend most of my spare time completing my scrapbook and its really important for me,capturing memories and recalling them after some time gives me immense pleasure. ''Scrapbook is a work of heart.'' When a person gets older he sees his old stuff and feel the happiness in his hard work and recall the time that he spent polishing his hobby skills. We should always find some time to make our life more interesting because its the most friendly thing we would take t0 our old age. 

We enjoy that time which is according to our taste and talent. Its a remedy for fatigue. Less or more we all should have a hobby. It will always have its significance at top.

Personal Grooming

 

First impression counts for almost like everything. We are visual animals. We are visually attracted to physical appearance first and then notice the other things. In physical grooming, its comes everything to make oneself look more attractive, suitable and decent. In physical grooming, cleanliness and tidiness is important like take caring of our face,body, regularly trimmed hair,clipping nails properly etc. 

Then choosing a right attire is really important. It must be noticed that the attire is matched to the occasion and make sure they are representable. It matters a lot that what we are wearing where are we wearing an appropriate attire according to the occasion. Because, it looks literally odd when we choose a dress that is not suiting the occasion and environment and it ruins the confidence. Having a confidence in yourself really matters your social life and its the basic thing to maintain a good image in your friends and family. Grooming is a process to make yourself look attractive and tidy. It matters a lot in our practical life because I think first impressions are the lasting. Most importantly it influence the way people think about us and no one wants that people think something inappropriate things about them and our image really matters that what we want to be. Because personality matters a lot in our society.

Actually, personal grooming have nothing to do with person's ability or profession but as we are visual animals we make judgment on physical appearance. 

But physical grooming alone does not support the confidence. We get controlled and influenced by our minds. Mental grooming actually reflects the physical appearance. If we are not mentally groomed it would make less comfortable to carry yourself in public and you would get exhausted sooner by a less sound personality. So, maintenance of healthy sound mind matters a lot on our confidence,

Being Social

Society means people who are living around us apart from our family because from there true socialism begins. Its synonyms fellowship,club community etc. Human minds are designed in this way that they want to live in societies and grouping. They want to build strong relations.

Definition:"Society is a group of people that may or may not be related to each other but share the same geographical or virtual territory with the same political authority. It may also be a group of people who come together in order to achieve a specific purpose. Also, Society is normally used to refer to the entire human population or to a contextually specific division of people."

Source : http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-society 

So, its one of our basic necessity to live in communities from ages. Generally, people say we can't live without making relationships. Its not necessarily that it must be personal or family relationships. Its can be cultural,same set of rules,business society, social media and etc.  

If we talk about its advantages then they are countless. With a good society you can be well known and gain respect.

http://espenalva.pt/10B_weBlog/?p=786 However, details of its advantages and disadvantages are here in this link.

Sufism

The word Sufi means 'pure' in Persian. Its an Arabic word meaning 'wool' because mostly sufis wear woolen clothes.  

Junayd said, "Sufism is that you should be with God--without any attachment."
Concerning Sufism, Abu Muhammad al-Jariri said, "Sufism consists of entering every exalted quality (khulq) and leaving behind every despicable quality."

             It is a self-less experience and exploring the truth by the means of love and devotion about something for an age or for your whole life. Sufi is lover of truth and he cuts off from the social being and moves towards the perfection of truth by himself for his God. He is also known as the mythic of religion. He basically seek divine truth and love through direct or indirect encounter with God.  He loves the pure truth. He focuses on self-control strictly. Its his intention to go for divine love
                                    Sufism covers a broad range of things. Criticism begins here, some people say that its haram in Islam and its not a part of our religion Sufi s are deviants. They are not Muslims
  because Islam does not allow us to cut ourselves off from our families or fellow beings and go somewhere far far away to worship God. Some say that something against Sunnah is out of Islam because our Prophet (PbuH) hadn't had done anything like that. And Prophet Mohammad was sufficient for us to follow. Sufis are also inspired by music and music is haram in Isalm. Sufis worships on graves which is strictly forbidden in Islam and considered as Shirk. They made it a really complicated topic for us to understand.
 Here is link to Zakir Naik's vidoe in which he condemn Sufism.
           www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDu6ftHmd5M‎

From this I agree with what he is saying about modern Sufism. Sufis are taking it wrong like how they are worshiping God. Like he said Sufism might have a mixture of some Hinduism too which are Islam does not allow like music,dancing and using Sufism as ur profession. But it should no me be Haram to much of extent as its all about worshiping our God that is what he wants to but he also wants us to complete our duties and  to fulfill others rights. Many Sufis had also worked and helped to fight the bad and make a strayed people help to know their moral values and duties. But in the matter of fact its not clear yet because its a really vast topic. And according to most of Muslims its not haram if we obeying Islam's rules.

                               Why to Travel..?

 

One of the principal values of travelling is that, it breaks the monotony of life and work. Life, for most people, is a mad rush from one place to another, from one activity to another, trying to gather as much as possible. In his wonderful, seminal essay “Why We Travel,” Pico Iyer writes: “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and be taken in, and fall in love once more.” 
Pico wrote these words almost a decade ago. A month ago, another friend and fellow traveling writer, Tom Cole, put the same issue in a different perspective in the adventure travel newsletter “Ultima Thule”. Tom gave four reasons “why we travel, rain or shine”: 

“First,” he wrote, “we figure that if we’re going to spend money, we might as well enrich ourselves. And there’s hardly a better path to enrichment than on the road. Second, we believe strongly that travel offers a magnificent return on investment. Third, travel is a nearly matchless way to bond with family and friends old and new. And fourth: travel, rain or shine, is the highest form of re-creation. As soon as you lock the door and get in the car to drive to the airport, you are who you want to be.” 
Both these world-wanderers express exactly how I feel about travel: Even when the world is uncertain and unsettled, travel is too important to put on hold. The stakes, both personal and global, are too high. 
Personally, there is nothing like travel to renew us, grace us with knowledge and perspective, and forge ties that bind around the world. Globally, there are so many countries, cultures and economies that depend on travel -- not just economically but artistically, philosophically – that to stop traveling is to abandon them to almost inevitable disruption and degeneration.  
Travel is a fundamentally enriching and renewing activity. It is good for the mind and the soul and the heart. It is good for the people we meet, the societies we support, and the lessons we give and receive.  
As the economic down-spirals of the past few months have so indelibly illustrated, we are all interconnected. The flip side of this is the exclamatory revelation at the heart of the travel adventure: We are all interconnected!  
Travel renews our sense of the essential and the possible – two lessons in clarity we dearly need now. This is why I’m determined to keep traveling and why I’m urging others to keep travelling too: The world is at once too large and too small for us to stay mired in one place. As stewards of the planet, from the peoples of its urban jungles to its wildest unpeople expanses, we are at our best – and the Earth is at its best -- when we engage with the world.

                                            Strange Thing Encounter

A couple of days before I was studying near my window, I was trying to concentrate on my studies and unintentionally my eyes glanced out to the window. My observation told me that its going to have a thunderstorm in no minutes out there and it actually started drizzling and raining heavily along then. I stepped out to enjoy the blessed weather and I was quite enjoying it that suddenly my eyes stopped on a baby bird sprawling in the water and couldn't flap its wings to fly up properly and in mean time a cat was going to snatch it. So, I ran out,held it in my hands and dried it up with a clothe. It was a baby nightingale,really a cute one. I fed it some rice and make a cozy place in a small shoe box for it. I kept it for the whole night and played with it.
                                  Next early morning I was asleep yet. I heard a lot of birds chirping in a rush, Suddenly,baby bird's father flew into my room from the window and started to fly in circles in all over my room with panic.When his glance stopped at his baby,he flew over him near the box. They both started chirping together more loudly and intensely.
                                             Father bird then flew out again. I didn't have a clue at that time what is going to happen next. I picked the baby nightingale and put it out the window. Then both of his parents flew over it with some food in their little beaks and first fed their baby and then its mother covered it in her feathers and flew it away to their nest. By chance their nest was in my neighbors and I enjoyed the whole moment indeed.

                                     Its was really really interesting for me to see how most of the birds and animals care for their babies like real humans do. How they came with a bunch of other birds to protect themselves and how the baby father brought the food and fed its baby first. And how the mother nightingale wrapped it in her feathers and safely put her baby back in the nest. I never had experienced such a lively moment before. It was worth to keep baby nightingale for a
night.

                               Modernism and Postmodernism

(1884-1914)

Modernist art represents the innovative style and philosophy of art produced during the late 19th century to the mid to late 20th century. Modernism discarded past traditions and attachment to the spiritual and political in favor of experimentation with new materials and ideas. Modern artists were captivated by technology and were influenced by everything from photography, Japanese printmaking and the printing press, to children’s drawings and Native American sand painting. Postmodernism is indeed about relativity. Everything is relative, not absolute. That doesn't necessarily mean there aren't any truths according to Postmodernism, but at the very least it means that virtually no one is able comprehend the truth because his mind is clouded by personal tastes and interests. Modernism by contrast is about absolute truth, believes people are able to comprehend it and defines revealing the truth as its main goal - which Postmodernism believes to be futile.

In the arts, Postmodernism can manifest as juxtaposition of anything Modernist with the Classical and what-not. But it can pose as extremely modernist (i.e. reductio ad absurdum) to make caricature modernism, hence the confusion between Postmodernism and Modernism. It is really hard to describe Postmodernism really: Most just only know what Postmodernism is when they see it. Modernism on the other hand always strives for progress, which according to Modernism can be measured and objectively defined, and this message is a recurring motive in anything Modernist (art, music, architecture).


 It is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation. Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new, progressive and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end. In essence, the modernist movement argued that the new realities of the industrial and mechanized age were permanent and imminent, and that people should adapt their world view to accept that the new equaled the good, the true and the beautiful.

Basically, it was a series of events that changed the way people saw things, acted upon things, etc. based on technology, scientific advancements and practical experimentation.
This was said to be for the better. There are few writers that did not follow that trend.

     Its all about believing yourself first !!
                                       
                                      

After leaving our mother's lap and father's support we have to do something new on our own. First thing comes up in our mind is either to take a help from the professional one or I won't do it in the best way. I can not make it up or I will fail to make one. So many negative p0ints build in our mind when we choose a profession or make a decision for our-self or for something else. Then we feel that there suppose to be a lots of confidence,firm aims and stronger goals that if I have come up to this age by passing all my ages then I can hold on to future to!
                               Belief in yourself is the beginning of self motivation and a support to aim something higher. Belief makes us strong enough to achieve any of our dreams. If we are at disbelief,we are at failure. We should not be afraid of failure or declines because no one can do it better the way we can. Belief in yourself makes you secure,protected,much sound and calm.
                                                                                          If I am going to live thousand years and I dont trust myself then its not worth living this life with fear and blurred thoughts in my mind about myself. Because the only thing is going to matter in the end is my own opinion not anyone else's. So never be afraid of trying something new and standing on your own,because humans are born free so do you.

• “The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being.”

Tully C. Knoles 

 

• “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Radmacher

Introduction to Modernism (1860-1970) 

                           (Held between World war 1 and early 1970's)
What is Modernism?
 Definition: Modern character of quality,thought,expression technique.
                             A style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional form.
I found out another definition from a website: A self conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression.

 So modernism is basically a difficult topic to discuss for everyone because everyone has their own point of view about art and its fundamentals (music,sculpture,dance,technological innovations and much more). But here I am talking about what it is and how it started.  

the word ‘modern’ was used to refer generically to the contemporaneous; all art is modern at the time it is made. In his Il Libro dell'Arte (translated as ‘The Craftsman’s Handbook’) written in the early 15th century, the Italian writer and painter Cennino Cennini explains that Giotto made painting ‘modern’ [see BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Giorgio Vasari writing in the 16th century, refers to the art of his own period as ‘modern.’

                         http://arthistoryresources.net/modernism/roots.html

So there is not much space to disagree with the poitn that all art is modern at the time it is made. Its quite interesting thats why we they termed it as modernism.
 I found these info's ineteresting:
One of the earliest Modernist painters was Edouard Manet. Arriving on the art scene in between Realism and Impressionism, Manet painted what was before him; a perfect example is his "Olympia" (1863) in which he painted a French courtesan. This inflamed audiences, not only because of the subject matter but also because Manet painted her as she was -- bold, brash and unashamed. Predecessors would never have chosen this subject, but if they had, it would have been a lovely, classical nude. This is the first of many examples where artists broke from traditionally accepted standards.
Impressionism came next, where artists were criticized for not painting actual subjects, but just impressions -- in reality, they were distinguishing between what we see visually versus how our brains process that stimuli, showing the impact scientific knowledge had on the arts [source: The Art Story]. With this, the floodgate of avant-garde movements broke loose and the "isms" poured forth. Post-Impressionism flattened space; Fauvism played fast and loose with color; and Cubism shattered traditional ideas of perspective. Artists took every opportunity to break free from accepted teachings and techniques. Dada is a great example of modernism. Affected by almost every avant-garde movement to come before it, Dada was so multifaceted that even Dadaists couldn't agree with themselves. According to artist and author Steven Farthing, Dada was about freedom of expression and anti-leadership so it was an almost anything-goes philosophy on art.   http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/what-is-modernism

Books I am interested in for finding more clear about modernism.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/58283-the-10-best-modernist-books.html