Inscribed thoughts

The end

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he despised it the most. His anger building up, his mouth shut tight. He wanted
to continue but his mind said otherwise. His ego conquered him. No words
came out from him and the chance slipped passed and not even in a proper way he
hoped for. He didn’t get inside the train. He sits and stares the train left
him alone. His thoughts haunted him again. He realized that he gives himself
too many chances. He’s trying too hard to be optimistic in life.  He tried
too hard. Too many times he gave up before, too many times he given himself
chances. When he was small. When he was a teenager. Many more as where he is
now. He given up on his past and wish never to talk about it. He gave up on his
future as he lost his heart. His holding this last straw for his present and
it’s slowly slipping off his hand. As he waited for another one to come. He
stared the rails. The voice urged him to jump. He tried to resist it. His heart
didn’t say anything. The voice persuades him more. Jump, it’ll be quick. He stands
up and walked slowly to the yellow line. He stopped behind it. He looked to his
right. The bright light is coming. He takes two steps forward. He passed the
yellow line and he is one step away from the rails. The train is coming. The
voice said. Let’s do it. Let’s get away far away. Let’s end this misery life of
yours. He said. Thank you.</div>
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It happened once more. The thing that would irk him out and he despised it the most. His anger building up, his mouth shut tight. He wante...

The life

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"You know Shaarav, what papa says, if we keep this
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peacock feather inside notebook, it will turn into two if we are good."
said Naina with a sparkle in her eyes while she was placing the feather amidst
the pages of her notebook.<br />
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"Here, you too have one” Naina handed Shaarav the extra
feather that she was carrying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"We will see whose feather duplicates first, OK? Then
the other person will have to give a Melody chocolate, Deal?" asked Naina
to the innocent, introvert Shaarav. He nodded gently in agreement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every day after the class, Naina checked her and Shaarav's
notebook, to see whether the magic occurred or not. She was left disappointed
each time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Magic isn't real Shaarav, our feathers are not
duplicating." Naina yelled while sobbing one day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next day, after the class, Naina didn't check her or Shaarav's
notebook for the new feather. Shaarav slid the notebook towards her and
gestured that she should look into it. Miracle it was! The feathers had
duplicated and Naina had two feathers. She jumped all around the class and
screamed in joy, "Magic is real, I am a good girl, Magic is real, I am a
good girl."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shaarav enjoyed this scene and kept smiling all the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Let me see if you are a good boy." said Naina
mischievously and opened Shaarav's notebook to see that his feather was
missing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Oh God! Where is your feather?"<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I lost it." muttered Shaarav.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Oh! It means you are a bad boy." giggled Naina.
"Why do you keep on losing your stuff all the time?" <o:p></o:p></div>
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Naina then picked the extra magical feather and put it in Shaarav's
notebook. "Here, now don't lose this."<o:p></o:p></div>
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"You know, that was the day when I said to myself, 'She
is the one. She is my best friend.'" said Shaarav, holding Naina's hand,
while she was lying on her death bed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"I am really grateful to you that you understood me as
a person and stood there with me during the ups and downs." said Naina
holding his hand more firmly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Story of the orphan girl

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with his sleepy and tired eyes on Sunday afternoon as he heard someone knocking
the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">A girl of about ten years age stood alone
outside the door with a letter in her hand.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"What do you want?"
Shaarav asked as she tried to handover letter to him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">"No, No I can't give anything" he said
and tried to close the door but the girl resisted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Lot of beggars in Pune begs using a letter which
had some sorrow life story of them or family members and ask people for help. Shaarav
thought it is the same scam and tried not to fall for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">He subconsciously took the
letter from girl and started reading it-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">"The orphan girl
carrying the letter is deaf and dumb and is student of some school. She
needs 2500rs for school fees"</span><span style="background-color: white;">The letter had school
headmaster's signature and seal. It also had donors list and signature at its
bottom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">The little girl with letter in hand touched Shaarav's
emotional chord overcoming his logical thoughts which always pointed to scam as
he decided to help her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">He tried to make different hand signs which were
influenced by DD news for deaf, to ask the girl about the location of school
and where she stays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">She partially understood
and replied using hand signs that she stays in hostel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Shaarav looked at the
donor's list to gauge the approximate amount he can donate and made up his mind
to donate 100Rs.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">He went inside, took money
from his pocket and carried a new soap which he thought the girl could use,
came back and gave money to the girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">The girl asked him to
enter his name and amount in the donors list, which he did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Girl took the letter from
him and smiled to indicate a Thank you and ran to next door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Shaarav with satisfaction
and feeling proud of himself closed the door and suddenly realized that he
didn't give the soap. He opened the door in hurry and called the girl who was
already about fifty meters away without realizing that the girl was deaf.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To his astonishment, The
girl turned!!!</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Shaarav opened the door with his sleepy and tired eyes on Sunday afternoon as he heard someone knocking the door. A girl of about ten...

A missed call

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yet another long day at the office. He knew he was going to face another</span></div>
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argument with Aditi. This was the third time this week that they had planned
for a “night for two” and it wound up getting cancelled because of their hectic
work schedules. The fact that it was raining heavily and traffic was a mess
wasn’t helping matters either. His thoughts strayed to the time when it was
just the two of them…and love was enough. The long talks on the phone….the
coffee dates…the way her face would light up when he complimented
her….wait…there were lights ahead…a car….headed straight for his car. He honked
and tried to swerve….there was a flurry of headlights which blinded him…an
angry grating of metal as the cars hit each other and then…silence.<o:p></o:p><br />
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unconscious. When he spoke up, he was in a spacious white room – I must be in
the hospital…Aditi!!!... I have to call her!!! As he looked around for his
belongings, he saw a man come in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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how are you feeling now?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Siddharth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to call my wife. She must be worried sick.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Siddharth a conspirator smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and married for one of them. In fact we’ll be celebrating our wedding
anniversary next week.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Do you still love her just as much?
Or is it different now that you’re married?”</span></div>
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much…more even. She knows that too…just because we can’t spend as much time
together doesn’t mean I’ve stopped loving her!!! I work these long hours so
that I can provide my family…she knows that…she works just as hard too…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loves you the same way?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know!!! She’s my wife!!! Its true we’re going through a bit of a rough patch…but
that’s bound to happen…we still love each other and we’ll make it through…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could speak to your wife right now, what would you say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Well…I would tell her I’m fine. That
she shouldn’t worry….and…I guess I’ll tell her that I love her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The stranger handed Siddharth his
cellphone and said “Ok…call her then.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Siddharth dialed the familiar number
of Aditi’s cell and waited for her anxious voice to answer….ringing….”The
number you are trying to reach is currently busy. Please try again later.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Damn!!! Looks like she’s busy...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“She didn’t answer the phone?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“She might still be at work…or caught
in a meeting…she’ll SMS me though…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Does she always do that when she
can’t answer the phone during a meeting or anything?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Oh yes…always…it’s a small thing
between us…she even cribs via SMS about how boring those sessions are!!! </span></div>
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should me messaging me right now….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Ok.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Aditi looked at her watch yet again.
Damn!!! That conference call had gone on way too long….Siddharth was going to
be mad about having to cancel their plans yet again. She stared at her phone –
one missed call. He had called her but she couldn’t even answer the phone. She
had wanted to SMS him right then but her boss had swooped into her cabin and
started off about the project that wasn’t going anywhere. She had to spend over
half an hour to pacify him. Finally, having dealt with him, she picked up her
phone and was about to call Siddharth when her phone beeped. It was a
message…from Siddharth. “Please don’t worry about me. I’m fine. I love you.”
Puzzled, she started to call him back when the phone rang in her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Hello?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Hello, is this Mrs. Aditi
Bhatnagar?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Yes…it is….who’s this?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">“Mrs. Bhatnagar, this is the police.
I’m very sorry to inform you that your husband met with an accident about an
hour back. He died on the spot…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A missed call

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Storyteller

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2faJopyC19kRaiWR80cL9iFPmmClokIOsobyiLZeXco7vJI49VEfZNUiT4Mzjx149unLxH7X3gsxXT_QDHJgtWTJk08O3b-zBZDKDSvm8urZ9odLbp7lbJwab7JzHA4XFJjCpocrxgoM/s1600/storytelling.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2faJopyC19kRaiWR80cL9iFPmmClokIOsobyiLZeXco7vJI49VEfZNUiT4Mzjx149unLxH7X3gsxXT_QDHJgtWTJk08O3b-zBZDKDSvm8urZ9odLbp7lbJwab7JzHA4XFJjCpocrxgoM/s320/storytelling.gif" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each person's life is a story. Most of us are so lost in our ordinary lives that we are at ends of our wits and we don't know why are we here and what our stories are. We are incapable of Summing everyday things that we do into a narrative and we do lack an interesting perspective on our lives. The awesome thing is we are always fascinated by other peoples stories. Most of the time those people who's stories we do find interesting are the ones we admire. We always like a story that we crave for and we wish we had for our life. We look for meaning in the life lived by others but we lack either the resources or the courage to live such bold and interesting  lives ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If we look around us we would find that the people who inspire us or the ordinary people who's small and less know stories also entertain us,engage us do always reflect our ambitions, desires, the life we wish we had. If a story captivates you in any moment of it being told that means you would have rather lived it yourself and it means something to you. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Very few people are lucky enough to have lived a life that creates an interesting story to tell. A life that fulfills them. If you are one of many who never have anything interesting to tell to your friends and to yourself then it is probably because what you do everyday is something you should rather not be doing, you are living a life that you don't want and you definitely need to change something before your life passes by without you or others knowing about it. A life that cannot be narrated is a life unsuccessful, unfulfilled, not lived. It's a story never told.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The day you'll have a nice story about the days you spent and the things you did, that would be the day you would find yourself and create one more story that is worth telling to the world and worth listening to. Till then you keep trying to be that storyteller.</span></div>
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10 friends and Tax system

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100 and if they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">he fifth would pay $1. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.” So drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free… but what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’. They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so: The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings). Each of the six was better off than before<span class="GRcorrect" grcontextid="…:0" grmarkguid="037cd830-79f6-4dc0-9305-f5b0a9144691" gruiphraseguid="60267e51-3b05-4b5a-9cf6-08cfb456024a">…</span>and the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,”declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,” but he got $10!” “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man who was now paying nothing, along with the first four. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!” “That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!” “Wait a minute,” yelled the first five men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!” The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Do read this...</span></span><div>
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10 friends and Tax system

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Life is just the way we see it

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not written by me, however worth a read!!! Indeed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you." He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The business executive saw in his hand a cheque for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! "I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed cheque in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought. With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un cashed cheque. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the cheque and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller. " And she led the old man away by the arm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the above story we can make out that Confidence is nothing but vision held positively no matter what. It comes from one’s own commitment and dedication to one’s vision! Seeing ourselves having what we want and feeling it with us all the time increases our confidence enormously. Whether actually it is there or not doesn't matter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It all lies in what we see it as.</span><br />
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none other than our beloved Elephant God, remover of all obstacles. The ten
days of festivities were over and like every year, this time too his headache
had started. Mother Parvathi is by his side, applying Amrutanjan on his head
and massaging his head softly. This seemed to make him feel a lot better.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Are you feeling better now?” she asks. “Aaaahhh!” he grumbles. “I
don’t think I can every get rid of this pain. It’s unbearable”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Take it easy my son”, mom says. “The Amrutanjan and the massage
should make you feel better.” She continues with the massage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Shall I give you a Vicks Action 500 or something?” she asked. “The
ad shows that it really works well.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Mom, please!!!” Ganesha pleaded and continued to grunt, twist,
and turn on the bed uncomfortably.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“What is it, son? You look very disturbed and tired. What’s
wrong? Maybe I can help.” Parvati asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ganesha slowly opened his eyes and said “It’s the noise that has
made me crazy. The noise from the drums and trumpets is still blowing in my
ears. And then the people make such an unwanted noise when they carry me into
the pandals. And then the crackers really get on my nerves. Goodness, they are
all so loud. And if that was not enough, they kept huge speakers right next to
me, turned on the volume and played jarring songs. And to top it all, people
were also simultaneously celebrating the victory of the twenty-twenty world cup
cricket. There was noise everywhere. And I am paying the price now for all that
now.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parvati says “I know you must have gone through hell during
these days, but that’s how life is for us. We have to get used to all this.
People down there will do anything to please us. They do not realize that we really
do not need all that stuff. A silent and sincere prayer is all that we require,
but they think otherwise. They don’t realize that in the process of pleasing us
through all this clatter, they are only disturbing their neighbors”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ganesha was listening to her in silence. “Yes Mother. What you
are saying is right. Did you see after all this hullabaloo the way my idols
were dumped in the rivers and sea? I mean they blocked roads and streets just
to dump me - now isn’t that weird? And then they all shout ‘Ganapati Bappa
Morya’ umpteen numbers of times, as if I was hard of hearing. I felt like
saying it’s not ‘Morya’, but ‘Shor ya’ for all that uproar”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mother Parvati continued with the massage. “I am glad that is
all over for now. Your dad should be home any time now. Let me go now and get
ready to greet him. You sleep tight and get some sleep now. You will feel better.
You have to attend to your devotees later.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mother”, Ganesha told her and went back to sleep muttering “Oh!! What a God’s
life this is”.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Darkness

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see is darkness and he is used to the congested place whise he resides.
Whenever he tried to move around, he needs to listen to the yelling for doing
so. All he gets to experience is to listen. He is so weak that he cannot scold
the person responsible for keeping him in that state. Several times, he
trembled due to the loud conversations of people and sometimes woken up by the
songs played aloud to be thrilled. But unfortunately he could not see anything
to enjoy. This has been going on for few months. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One day when he was in a playful mood and trying a somersault,
suddenly he could feel someone pushing him. He could hear someone screaming and
lot of people talking aloud in panic. His heart started throbbing when he heard
someone saying, ‘bring the knife, fast’. He started turning pale in shock. He
didn't have any clue as to what was happening. All he could sense was something
serious is happening around him. He wished he could see what was going on. But
couldn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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someone sawing the roof. After some time he could feel someone touching and
pulling him. He was pulled into a very bright lit area. He tried to see but could
not withstand the light as his eyes had got used to the darkness. Few minutes
later, this was a thrust in his chest that he could not bear. He cried out. He
felt as if he has gained strength and he could now see, hear loudly and most
important of all, feel human. He slowly opened his eyes to find a beautiful
smiling face. A face that made him feel secured; a face that he really loved to
see again, his mother’s face. Then he heard the voice of a nurse telling his
mom, “Congratulations! It’s a baby boy!” which made his realize that he is just
born.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Fakebook

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think a lot, do a little, and say very little and I put my hand on the Bhagwat gita and swear that when I use Facebook ; Twitter, whatever I write is not true, not completely true.  It is not that I like to lie (that often) but my social networking life has become a reality TV show watched by thousands and they need me to be interesting and entertaining to be my friends.  Ordinary facebook profile would be suicidal for my social networking life. People won’t post on my wall and like my status posts and they won’t even comment on my pictures and that’s just too much to take.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why don’t we all look back and see who I am talking about. It’s all of us, each one of us is a total mess and living separate life online. We all are going through an identity crisis and we don’t accept that and we won’t say the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Facebook’s timeline feature introduced recently promised to put together pieces of our lives in a chronological way but now all we see is the comical version of our self or a fake autobiography organized up neatly for the whole world to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When we are not using social network we are thinking about it and anticipating the pokes, likes, comments, new followers, messages, friend requests and when we are on it we are trying to be cool, friendly, talkative, showing off and sometimes demeaning, abusive and all for the sake of maintaining a staying popular and to get an increase in fans and likes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I still don’t understand what an employer can find about a person by looking at his facebook profile and twitter or by following his online activity. In reality it sounds like spying, perverted and its social voyeurism at its best.  Moreover, will the information, that he finds would help him? Will it be true?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So much for our dreams of a hopelessly connected world!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The lies that we say and tell and the stories that we weave around them are going to become a source of our own demise tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I understand a person’s obsession for social networking is not founded on ill terms but is being lived on it, every day. If done all things under peer and social pressure then we would lose something valuable. We will forget who we truly are. It would be self defeating in the long run.  It’s a battle for finding ourselves in the crowd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let me ask gain!!! Would you really hire the right candidate by scrutinizing his social networking activities?  Well good luck to you and your company if that’s your criteria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s just the way it is, Social Networking is just like a TV reality show, I can’t say the truth and neither can you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unbelievable but true, websites like Facebook and Twitter have become such a fad that everyone is betting on them to unravel the mysteries of advertising and finding new insights into consumer behavior and human psychology. They think that they could tweak our brains to their advantage to make us buy more of what we don’t need.  Trouble is we are not ourselves online and the person that they are selling to is not really that person that everyone thought he was. Duh!!!  It’s such a big waste of time and money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So the question worth asking here is when everyone whom I and you know is lying then would the insights that you would get based on those lies would really be true?  There’s no happily ever after for our social networking hypothetical and hypocrite self. Your whole life is being guttered down the social hysteria. </span><br />
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<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This blog is also not about setting clocks in your home. But think about following things.</span></span></div>
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I have a good friend of mine. He had concern about his children and his wife about their time management. If they plan to go for a party a...

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMF-X9ZT0JLkjsOEhZFjcajVJ9g60Qvsdb7i56gjERct4snW-XVzdGDuqBcy0t4JAkdIqyIUZ3feJmO1QwEzFSz9de_y9kSLD1NCZiXt87NgxWMrLT76RKJchqWJbEBxJliQSTJQYqoo/s1600/Two-drop-of-water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgMF-X9ZT0JLkjsOEhZFjcajVJ9g60Qvsdb7i56gjERct4snW-XVzdGDuqBcy0t4JAkdIqyIUZ3feJmO1QwEzFSz9de_y9kSLD1NCZiXt87NgxWMrLT76RKJchqWJbEBxJliQSTJQYqoo/s320/Two-drop-of-water.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="fullpost">Two water droplets left the cloud they belonged to.. Fighting against roaring wind and small pieces of white clouds, they kept moving towards earth..<br /><br />Both of them were silent for a while but one couldn’t bear the hush & said “Say something buddy, now we are together till we reach the ground”<br /><br />The other one said, “Am contemplating”<br /><br />“Now with only few miles left, last few miles of our lives, we can’t control our speed, direction; what would you achieve by being introvert? Lets enjoy the last moments of this life ”<br /><br />“How would it help? Still, we can’t change the inevitable”<br /><br />“Ohh so you are worried about the finale?”<br /><br />“Yes, aren’t you also worried?”<br /><br />“Nope! When we are born in a cloud, our end is decided. One day cloud would not bear our load and release us, gravity will pull us down with enormous force and speed that we can’t control”<br /><br />“We are termed as life on earth yet we can't control our own destiny, isn't this a very cruel law of nature?"<br /><br />“Hey, hitting ground doesn’t kill us, we just lose our existence as a droplet, we don’t die, we just change our form”<br /><br />“I am a simple water drop and I would lose my existence, that’s what I know”<br /><br />“You are water and you still will be. Two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen! Be it in a pond or an ocean, you still will be the same”<br /><br />“Well, that’s an interesting philosophy, never really thought this way! Okay, so what was it you wanted to talk about?”<br /><br />“There are hundreds of things to talk, but tell me why we have to fall?”<br /><br />“What do you mean?”<br /><br />“Is it because thirsty chaatak (monsoon bird) gazes sky with its furious thirst? Or because somewhere a farmer prays for rainfall?”<br /><br />“Are you crazy? We just fall because we have to follow the law of nature. Don’t try to glorify our worthless lives!!”<br /><br />“Lets imagine we fall because the monsoon bird would not drink from any other source and we have the responsibility to make it live, or for some farmer whose family prays for us”<br /><br />“Well that makes me feel good”<br /><br />“Now you are getting the point my friend.. Tell me given the choice, where would you want to fall??<br /><br />“Hmm indeed you are a day-dreamer”<br /><br />“Ohh come on, we have so many options, a young couple might be wandering on a seashore making impression of their feet on wet sand, you can submerge on those impressions. Or a young boy would have stretched his arms from window and you can land on his small palms. Or you can gently sit on a butterfly and dissolve in its colors”<br /><br />“Wow I never thought it could be so romantic... "<br /><br />An elderly figure was hurriedly walking towards home with an umbrella in his hand. One droplet landed on his umbrella and rolled slowly on the ground, the other one dropped on small leaf which could hardly bear its load, it bent and let the drop fall on ground where the first one gently hugged and said “Am waiting to go back to cloud again! I know how lucky I am to be born as a water droplet and have this experience!!”

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Two droplets

Two water droplets left the cloud they belonged to.. Fighting against roaring wind and small pieces of white clouds, they kept moving towa...

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