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