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.