दिप्ती.कथन (Dipti.Kathan)

She said that that is 6 but he denied and claimed that that is 9. Both of them they kept on fighting with each other till hours,over this. But they didn't realise that they were standing in front of each other and hence what was 6 for her was 9 for him and which was very natural and obvious. This is not a story from any other planet. This is our 'common' story. We are so stuck to perceive things from our perspectives and to believe them as true that sometimes (actually very often) we deny others' reality. We are so 'sure' about our perspectives, opinions, thoughts that we often overlook and sometimes disrespect others' point of views. We see 6 and others see 9. Who is at fault here? I think both the parties. Being stuck at own perspectives and opinions and thus disrespecting and denying that of others is one of the root causes (or rather the only one) of most of  fights on this planet. There is beautiful theory in Social Psychology, 'Contact hypothes...

I have seen one advertisement where a water tap is fixed in village and it gets opened one morning. That's a dessert area where one man was walking and he sees water flowing on the white marbles of isolated bathroom. He comes and quenches his thirst. Another woman see him drinking water and she also comes to drink water. And like this entire village arrives there, quenches its thirst, fills the vessels and still the water is not stopping. And then voice over comes conveying a message that - the entire village quenches its thirst in the same amount of water used by urban person to take a bath... And it was one more 'aha' moment for me. I had read in one philosophical book, we should never overdo. I have heard my parents and grandparents saying that we should never overdo. Now what do I mean by 'overdoing'? In the above mentioned example, it's clear what is 'overdoing'. Consuming more than what is required is overdoing. Demanding more than what you actua...