Saturday 14 October 2017

LIVING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE!!!

           Hate to admit it but, sometimes it's the worst times of your life that leads you to do something good. That's what happened here. Today, 14-10-2017, can be considered as not a very good day, I thought of writing this blog. Something I think which will be useful to the rest of you who is reading this. Might help you in the future.
           The problem actually started the previous day. It's the effects that I suffer right now. Let's get to the content shall we? Well, we all know this is a free world. Everyone is permitted to do whatever he or she likes. Suppose you want to sit somewhere. What will you do? You will sit right? Exactly. But if there is someone who is already sitting there will you be able to sit? No. You ask that person if he can move so that you can sit. Suppose it's not a chair, but a bench. And that person is lying down for no reason covering the whole area of the bench. This means he is taking away your freedom of using something which you too can rightfully use. And if he denies to give you space you will surely get angry won't you? Now let's look at another scenario. You just bought a new phone when you only had just enough money for the phone only. And you decide to take a video of someone to test its camera. You place the phone in such a way that the person thinks that you are taking his video. But you actually don't intend to take his video. You are just bluffing. When he asks if you have taken the video you say yes at first simply for fun. Then after two times you say the truth that you did not. But the person doesn't believe you. He threatens that he will break your new phone for a void reason. You protest. I mean, come on, someone is threatening that he will break your phone for no reason at all. You are even ready to show him your whole phone to prove that you didn't take his video. But still he keeps on threatening. You protest back again. Fortunately, after sometime the argument is over. You are back to your normal life. But then just as you thought everything is over, the person brings up the problem again. You again say that you didn't take the video. But he just won't give up. Surely you get angry again. But then just as things were coming to an end, someone, let's call him 'y', comes in the middle and starts to shout at you for no reason. He brings up things you haven't said during the previous argument and shouts at you. He just starts commanding you. He commands you on how to live your life. He makes you feel like you are his slave. The actual problem would have ended between you and 'x' (the person who you were actually arguing with in the first place). But then 'y' came in for no reason and just poured oil into blazing fire. The funny fact is, y has no appropriate relation with x. They both just live in the same room. So are you. But does that make him your master? I don't think so. So you only get more annoyed. I mean a normal person like me will get annoyed. Anyways, y just keeps commanding you. You end up in an oral fight. The day doesn't end well.
          The next day you feel all new again. Forgets about what happened the previous day. Doesn't talk to anyone about it. Just leaves the matter. But then again y brings up the problem. He just won't leave you. We'll this is what happened to me on the morning of the 14th of October 2017. When this person y brought up a problem that I forgot, I just blew up. More angry than the last day. He claimed that I called person x a word I don't wish to reveal and that I called him repeatedly. I thought to myself, what the hell is wrong with this world!!! I clearly know that I didn't say that word. But I was overpowered when the two of them kept on claiming that I said that word. Just think, the problem started with a video. Now it's come to something completely different. He said that he can't adjust with me and that I can leave the room. I said I won't. There the argument was over.
          Why would anyone try to command me. Who is he to command me!!! What right and authority does he have to decide how I should live!!! He is not related to me in anyway. It's OK if he is my parent. But no! He's not. Then why should I kneel down to some 'no one' who just happens to be in the room I stay?
          So, why am I saying all this to the open world? Well, one reason is that I have no one here who will understand me and my mindset. Second, well, we (me and my friends) started this blog so that we can MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE. So I thought of telling the world that YOU ARE FREE TO LIVE THE WAY YOU WANT TO LIVE!!! No one has the right to decide how you should live unless they are actually above you (eg: parents). That too is for a short period of time. Until you are old enough and that they feel that you are mature enough to lead your own life. So, let no one decide and command you on how to live your personal life. This is a free world. I repeat THIS IS A FREE WORLD!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE TO PLEASE ANYONE!!!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE!!!

Sunday 6 March 2016

 THE DAY WE STARTED LOVING MATH

This is sort of a love story. But not the one with a girl. This is about how we started loving Mathematics, “The most dreadful subject in the world”. Two years back we also saw mathematics the same way. But now, it’s completely different. We love math. Math is very interesting. It’s easy, fun and a lot more. This story tells you how our view about Math changed.
            Back in tenth class, boring as usual. We slept in almost all of our classes. There was one exception. Math class. We could not sleep. The class was so interesting that we couldn’t sleep. Instead, we felt to suicide. We were sitting in that class like dead bodies, with the eyes open. The cool thing about this was that we got time. Time to think about many things other than Math. We were in wonderland. We had to do nothing. Just look at the blackboard and sit. Teacher happy, we happy. But the problem was that if the teacher notices the slightest closing of an eyelid, the whole day is going to be world war 3. Then it’s going to be advices. It’s your future. You have to face it and all that stuff. Then its humiliation. After that it’s blackmailing. She says that she will stop teaching us that instant if we don’t make a decision. She says she will get out of the class. Then we say,” NO! NO! Please don’t go!!!” while in our mind we say,” Ya sure. Go on. Please go. Let us be happy for some time”. Then she tells us not to repeat it again. Then she gives a smile like nothing ever happened here. We never understood what she meant by that smile. We thought she must be mad. After all, who cares? And the next day she comes and the same ritual happens again. We get used to this after sometime so much that each day we used to expect todays ritual by looking at our watches. And most of the time it happens just when we expect it. Thinking of it now, the Math hour was not so boring at all. It was the teaching that was boring. The teaching was a disaster. We understood nothing at all. And she also came in and taught Math in all the free hours we had. This is completely true. No wonder none of us (MIST()RY) got full marks for Math in the exams (all exams). Moreover, she was our class teacher. That was a completely different experience. She scolded us for nothing. I’ll tell you about an incident that occurred when she was class teacher.
            It was in July. The science community of our school was going to be inaugurated. We all were in the science community. So we planned a program for the inauguration. It was about enacting the most influential and brilliant scientists to have ever lived on the planet. Like always, our show was excellent. Everyone in the school loved it. The principal called us and told that it was nice. But one person was not satisfied. Our class teacher. The next day morning she started scolding us one by one. She even scolded a girl who was completely innocent. She was supposed to speak about the scientists in the background during the show. We felt no problem with the presentation given that she didn’t get the material on time. But still it felt great to everyone. But not for the class teacher. She didn’t like it. She scolded the poor girl so much that she cried. After tenth class she left the school only because of this teacher. What a situation.
            And on that very day we took an oath. Never to perform anything on the stage, ever again. I mean, what else can we do? What if this happens again? The funniest thing is that from that day on, she started scolding one of us (Jeffin) every day for no reason at all. The hatred he grew towards her was limitless. That hatred spread to us. We also started hating her. But there was nothing we could do. She was a teacher. So we patiently waited for the year to be over.The next year we were afraid whether she will be teaching us. But that was not the case. A new teacher came for us. She changed the way we saw Math.
            She came into the class. A young lady who just graduated from Post Graduate studies. She looked like she couldn’t even pick up the Mathematics text book, which actually weighed a ton. She introduced herself and asked the students their names and started teaching. One minute into the class we thought, what a miracle!! She can teach!! Moreover, we understand!!! That too Mathematics!!! How wonderful!!! We thought we were dreaming. But no. We were actually listening to the class. We were understanding it. More and more classes came and we were loving mathematics like any other subject. This love could be seen in the marks of our daily class tests. We got full marks for the first test. Then the second. Then the third and it kept growing. We started forming a good relationship with the teacher and vice versa. We had some doubts on some topics and she solved it like putting a bandage on a wound, just easy as that. She stood by our side when we had some problems (social) like the one we wrote about in “THE FIRST MISTAKE OF OUR LIVES”, remember? Anyways her classes were great. Now we sit in class the same way we did in the other teacher’s class, except we are actually listening and are interested in the class. And she had no problems like the other teacher. No issues or anything of such matter. Once again teacher happy, we happy. It’s like a parallel universe. The same thing happens in both the classes but with a difference. How interesting.
            What we learned from this experience is that nothing is impossible. We thought studying and scoring full for Math was impossible. Teachers said,” you have to love the subject” and we think,” What!!! How the hell can we love Math???!!!” But it turned out to be possible. You might think the problem is with the teacher. Well, that is true in some cases, most of the cases. But, think of it like this. Math is fun. You have all these problems in your life. Some of them, you are able to solve. Others, you need help. Same thing applies for Math. Some problems you can solve, others you can’t. So, what you have to do is ask your teacher. Talk to her or him about something. Start growing a ‘like’ towards that teacher. Then you automatically start liking his/her class. Eventually the subject. This worked for us. And we are sure it’ll work for you too. Unfortunately we have no pictures on quotes to post here. So we will just type what we have to say in block letters;


        Nothing is Impossible

            Thank you for reading. Like always we don’t reveal the name of the main characters involved. Please leave your comments below. The next blog will be on or before 20th March, 2016. So, stay tuned.


Sunday 21 February 2016

MIST()RY: The First Mistake Of Our Lives

MIST()RY: The First Mistake Of Our Lives:  The First Mistake of Our Lives We’ve all made mistakes in our lives. If you haven’t, you will, eventually. We also made some mistakes...

The First Mistake Of Our Lives

 The First Mistake of Our Lives


We’ve all made mistakes in our lives. If you haven’t, you will, eventually. We also made some mistakes along the way. But none of them actually seemed to be a mistake. Moreover, it was all just carelessness. Some problems here, other problems there, and so on. In this post, we will be telling you about what’s probably, the biggest mistake we’ve ever made.

We already told you that we’re a group of four boys. Our friendship is like ‘bones’. The more you break it, the harder it gets. But our group is different in another way. We are like some groups you see in Facebook, ‘Open Groups’. Yes, that’s right. We are ready to accept other people as our best friends, given a condition that he/she is completely trustworthy. For years, we thought that feature of our group was a strength. But it was later that we understood that it was a weakness. We had a friend. A girl. At first we thought it was great to have her as a friend. But later it changed. We’ll tell you what happened.

It was in tenth class that the classes 10-A and 10-B were mixed. Three of us ended up in the same class. I (Tonny) somehow ended up in the other one. Our friendship was rock solid at that time (now it’s even harder). So I felt that I didn’t belong there. So I had to do the thing that most of us does. I begged to the Principal to change my class. In an ‘act of random kindness’, I suppose, He granted me my wish. And once again we were united. Perhaps we should have named our group as ‘MIST()RY UNITED’, as in ‘Manchester United’. But let’s go with that story some other time. So as our classes were mixed, some people from the other class came into our class and vice versa. This ‘Girl’ we told you about, somehow unfortunately, landed with us. We thought, “Hey! Let’s be friends with her!!” So, all of a sudden, the four of us landed in front of her (which almost shocked her). And the conversation began. We have this habit and skill of studying people through the conversations we make with them. So, we studied her and came to this conclusion: “She’s good. She’s trustworthy. Let’s make her our friend, shall we?” And there it happened. We made her our friend. As weeks passed by, our friendship got stronger and stronger. But that moment came which worried us all. After tenth class, usually people go to some other school. So, we thought we’d lose each other. But fortunately, we didn’t. Even she was with us for the senior secondary class. And again the same story about friendship getting stronger repeated. But as the new students came, thousands of new problems began to sprout out. It was war between us, the science batch, and the commerce batch- in which our newly found ‘Girl’ friend was studying. Some students have this disease of making others fight. They always made these rumors and gossips about us. Other students were in a competition mode. They want to fight. So, they plan in various ways to put us down. All this planning goes by the ears of our beloved ‘Girl’ friend. So, it eventually goes by our ears. And then it’s a race to solve all these problems. Some problems can’t be solved. They have to be fought. And so we fight. But all this time, ‘She’ acted normally as our sister (Oops!! I forgot to tell you. As we had a very close friendship, we opted to change her status from ‘best friend’ to ‘Sister’). She never showed any sign of betrayal. Meanwhile the war was coming to its climax. But, due to some unknown reasons, we solved the problems without violence. But we never thought this was the turning point. As the problems between us and commerce we over, our ‘Sister’ started showing signs of a small ‘diversion’. She stopped talking to us about all the rumors. Moreover, we had to ask her for knowing anything at all. There was a small reason for her diversion but that is not relevant at this point and also, it’s a completely different topic. So, we’ll leave that for now. This so-called diversion was towards another boy. He was the mastermind behind all the problems the commerce batch had with us. Even the students of his own class hate him. That was a problem with his character. But another problem was, his style of talking in front of girls used to attract the attention of the girls. But that reduced in the case of the girls in the commerce class, except out beloved Sister’s. She was so into him. He used to say these stupid jokes. But no one EXCEPT our sister laughed. She laughed at all the foolishness he said. Soon it was like an SN2 Chemical reaction. As the attacking reagent came towards the alkyl group, the halogen bond started breaking slowly. As the boy’s relation with her increased, the strength of our friendship decreased. Now she was in a so-called ‘transition state’. Whatever came out from our mouths, she conveyed that into the other boy’s ears. This turned out to be a big problem. She said about one of our friend’s (that is one of MIST()RY) relationship (not love) and plans (with another lady) to her newly found best friend. Now this best friend is like the ‘All India Radio’ of the school. Whatever secret he hears, spreads out like wild fire. Now this hurt the reputation of that other lady. She was angry at our friend. He tried to convince her that it was not a problem. But even then we didn’t believe that our Sister was the culprit. So we started to investigate. But finally, she herself confessed to the lady that she was the cause of this big problem. This when we realize that we had made a mistake. “THE FIRST MISTAKE OF OUR LIVES”. And this was not made when all this happened. This mistake was made years ago, when we made that most unfortunate friend that we call our ‘Sister’. We were not shocked. Our feeling was beyond just feeling shocked. It was as if the whole of India sunk into the Indian Ocean after being bombed by all the nations in the world.

It took over a month to get over the shock.  All of our relation with the girl was over. We never talk. We never even look at each other now. We think of that day, when we made her our friend, every day and think how it happened. How we were so blind enough not to see who she really was. To see inside of her. No math problem could solve this riddle. No type of philosophy answered our question. An endless confusion.

Well, we understood many things from this experience. Life is not always what you think it will be. It is like a river flowing with unsolvable riddles, endlessly into the unknown.  You can never expect what will happen. You will only know it either too early or too late. There is a saying, “One cannot make the same mistake twice”. Mistakes are a part of life. You will have to get over them. But once you get over them you will never make it again. You will think twice before taking any decision. This will get you away from failures. We failed to make the right choice once. Never again. Now, we see everyone as friends, not too close and not too far. If we can apply the same principle in all the problems in our lives, there will be guaranteed success.



That’s the end of this blog. Sorry about being late to post it. Some parts of this story has been altered due to privacy issues. We don’t think it’s generous to say the names of the characters involved in this story. Our next blog will be posted on or before the 6th of March, 2016. Please put comments. Your support is necessary for our success. Have a good day.

Friday 12 February 2016

Introduction on MIST()RY

                                        MIST()RY

      Since it's our first blog, let's give you a small introduction about us. MIST()RY, that's us, is a group, you can call it a gang, of four high school students whose lives are filled with some very adventurous stories that we feel to speak out to the world. There is no team leader and stuff. All of us see ourselves equally. The one who administers this blog and does all the typing (which are going to come soon) is Tonny, yes there are two 'n's in my name and that's not wired. I always wanted to write blogs but never got the perfect topic and support and motivation to do so. My friends call me an idiot, but I see myself as a very simple boy. After all, that's what friends do. They will call you an idiot, but in their hearts, they know they need you. The motivation I said before came from the most influential person I've probably ever met, my best of best friends, Leeon. He is as crazy as his name sounds. He is the one who gives all the crazy ideas (well, most of the crazy ideas) you are soon going to read in our upcoming posts. He is sometimes stupid, but being stupid sometimes do make sense some other time in the future. The other friend is Jeffin. He is the shortest of us four. He acts really stupid. But he is very brilliant in the inside. Something is always wrong with his hair. That's what makes him funny. Any ways the last one is Amal. He is actually the computer 'geek' of our group. He knows all the things there is to know about computers. You name it, he's got it, in his head. Most of the time he just acts like he is some kind of an idiot, which he actually is. Well, what can we do. We need him. Without him, MIST()RY is incomplete. What do you understand from this? We're a bunch of stupid children, coming from medium income families, from a very small place, trying to make the world a better place. Yup, that's what we are.
       That's the 'mystery' of MIST()RY.  A bunch of kids can't do much. But there are a few things we can do, that the whole world together cannot. A bunch of kids can make u remember...your past....Memories...love...life....A bunch of kids can give some inspiration...motivation...to show you that, nothing is over....that giving up is not the last answer...there is a whole life awaiting you...filled with adventures..opportunities...chances...can show you what you've got inside you...Beliefs that put man on the moon...Think of this as a domino game. We give just the slightest touch at one end which follows a chain reaction of events that eventually lead to a new life. Then, each one reading this blog can inspire...achieve...and live..keeping your heads high...Motivating you to take the risks. This is what can make this world better. All you have to do is believe in yourself.                                                                                         
      We will be showing you videos through which we too can express our views on various events. But the future is always in your hands. You have to take a decision that has the potential to change your future and the world...
      The videos will take some time to film. It was in a hurry that we decided to start this blog. But the blogs will be posted in a regular basis. May be in two week intervals. The next blog will be posted on 21st of January, or sometime before that. Hope that you will support us. Please do comment. Your comments are an inspiration for us. We would be happy to make changes to our writing style. Thank you.
                                                                                                                                           MIST()RY