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axeion

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Posted: 15 years ago

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Aladin ji, I am online but just too tired to type anything...How r u?

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Posted: 15 years ago

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Originally posted by: axeion
Aladin ji, I am online but just too tired to type anything...How r u?

Ekta ji, I'm doing great. 🤗 How are you doing?

I'm a bit tired too, which means it's time for me to get a cup of tea to revive my senses. 😆😆

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axeion

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Posted: 15 years ago

#433

Originally posted by: -Aladin-

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<div>Ekta ji, I'm doing great. 🤗 How are you doing?

I'm a bit tired too, which means it's time for me to get a cup of tea to revive my senses. 😆😆

And for me, it means I shld grab something to munch 😆
Pyali of chai sounds good 😉

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Posted: 15 years ago

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Ekta ji, you have inspired us all. 😉😆

I read up the summary (courtesy: wikipedia) of Long Way Down. It's definitely not my cup of tea, LOL.

At least, I can present better arguments next time we have discussions on the book.

Few questions:

1. Do we exaggerate the truth sometimes when we are angry?

2. Do we start seeing fault in others (that may or may not exist) to justify some of our own actions?

Random questions, and of course, I'm not as good as Mohit ji, but I thought I should try. 😉😆😆

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Posted: 15 years ago

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Interesting find. Listen to this:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElOMKK2XdXs[/YOUTUBE]

These lyrics caught my attention:

Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own

Which brings me to my next question.

Can people live alone on their own? How important is the role of a companion in one's life.

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-Aladin-

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Posted: 15 years ago

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I've just realized I've asked questions so basic, a kindergarden kid would be able to answer them. 😆

I thought we should discuss about the book to make Mohit ji happy, but I have no clue how to start a good debate. 😳😆😆

One more thought that did occur to me, when I was reading HP. In Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore plans his own death with Snape. I just realized, that even that would fall under 'euthanasia'.

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Posted: 15 years ago

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pinkisluv91

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Posted: 15 years ago

#438

Originally posted by: -Aladin-
1. Do we exaggerate the truth sometimes when we are angry?

2. Do we start seeing fault in others (that may or may not exist) to justify some of our own actions?

Random questions, and of course, I'm not as good as Mohit ji, but I thought I should try. 😉😆😆

Nice questions Aladin:))
1. Some people do exaggerate the truth or they do so with their tone, I never exaggerate it, or I should say I never try to:))

2. Yes we definitely start seeing fault in others to justify our actions, it's just human😆. We shouldn't though.

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Posted: 15 years ago

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Just google Nick Horby quotes. I did not know he also wrote High Fidelity.

"What came first ' the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands ' literally thousands ' of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."

However, I won't talk about the quote. I found some interesting quotes from the book in point, we are supposed to be discussing.

"We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute."

"Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say."

"A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down."

"You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one."

"One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection."

"Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice."

"That's the thing with the young these days, isn't it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short."

"When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier."

"I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think."

"Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive."

"Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and tehn telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. "

"The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed."

"I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that."

Edited by -Aladin- - 15 years ago

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pinkisluv91

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Posted: 15 years ago

#440

Originally posted by: -Aladin-

Can people live alone on their own? How important is the role of a companion in one's life.

Nice find Aladin:)

I think people can live on their own(nothing's impossible), but if they did they would feel quite lonely. Everyone need's a family, at least I think so. I couldn't live without my family. Companions are very important for support, love and communication :)

Btw I love those colorful quotes 👏 it added so much prettiness to it:)

Edited by pinkisluv91 - 15 years ago

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