Should I speak out with my heart or mind?

This is just a thought in my mind infact can say a question with no answer, which is been haunting me till date !

According to me there are two ways to speak to any one...... "speaking out my heart" and "speaking out my mind". Both of these could be same some times or both of them can be different sometimes.

I find myself not speaking out my heart at times rather find speaking out my mind. Is it always better to speak out my heart or speak out my mind. Either it be love , my career making , decision making or for that reason even petty things, I try hard to act upon the way I feel I have to do. But sometimes there is a fear factor which makes me take a step back, this fear is about loosing something or someone. At such situation I often act out which overwhelms me or the other person at that very moment, it would be only for one reason "I wouldn't like to hurt the person". But this action would be contra of what my heart says rather say I often speak out my mind, better way or easy way to tackle the situations.

How am I suppose to tackle such situations? , should I act out as my heart says or should i mask up myself as a good person and act out not hurting others, as my mind says !
In couple of occasions when I have tried speaking out my heart, I have literally hurt few "As people say truth is always bitter" !
In few other occasions when I have tried speaking out my mind, I would have put the person to a very comfortable feel and that would got a step closer to the person. But at the same time its in a way I am misleading a person, which is absolutely sounds overwhelming to the person, thats what I mean that the person is not hurt by your remarks or suggestions. Most of the times this happens when people are very egoist or are not ready to accept the truth or facts with them. Sometimes even I could be wrong !!!!!

Is it a right way to live ? why so something which you don't feel like doing but still do for the sake of others. Hope to find answer soon ..............!

Getting my tamed passion to reality

Its been a long wait to get my hands on to a camera ! It turned into reality on 10th November. I shelled out about 37k for my cam.........few of them called me and said, " u should be insane to invest so much on a cam" ! umh... there goes my way of looking at thing n my life ..... "One has to live a life as he or she needs it to be.....follow your passions.... follow ur instincts....dont give a damn when others comment u shouldnt have done that.... !

Photography was my passion, is my passion ....hahaha ! I am talking as if I am a professional photographer ! Though it was my passion, I never got an oppurtunity to own a camera. Never made a good snap till date. Hope to make few good frames with my new "black beauty"(its a olympus E300). It really makes me feel good to have one now ! Thats wht i call as "working towards ur passion". According to me almost all of us have lots of passion, desires and lust for lots of things n life but following them sometimes need guts, patience and willpower !

This is the first snap took in my digital SLR !


Here is the snap of my black beauty

Innocence

"Innocence" the word which can't be found in most of the adult's dictionary anymore ! One day this word would be extinct from our dictionary. Human beings are now trying to venture into new ways of harming other species on earth. For instance there are few people on earth who eat any living being which moves on earth, check out this article - warning : this photos are too gross, be prepare to digest them

http://www.ivc-vietnam.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=64
http://home.kimo.com.tw/honxian/infant.htm
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/fetus.htm

this links have been provided, just to make you people understand to what extent the human being is getting ruthless. There may be a day when u are not spared to live in this planet.. so isn't it high time to put an end to this cruelty. Something reminded me about a video, I had seen about 6 months back in ISKCON, where they showed the new ways adapted by people to kill animals. This video presentation along with PETA, showing how ruthless a human is becoming and it would be a serious threat to mankind someday, this video has been eye opening to lots of people (thanx for taking such a step). At the same time there are few of them trying to entrench animals on earth, this is what I expect. Organisation like PETA are working towards this direction.

Check out this innocent animal, what harm has this one done to any one on earth ? this lamb, which can't even show up its emotions, doesnt even know that its gonna be chopped to death in few hours !

Check out these chickens, mercilesslly being carried away to fullfill once hunger at the cost of its life ! poor once I pity them

People should realise whats happening around and stop eating such innocent animals or hunting down animals ! I know there are lots of critics which would come up..... I surely appreciate them ! its ur turn ! :) save these innocent creatures ! save the planet earth !

Disclaimer : This is just my perception of the way things are going on in this world, this is not meant to offend any one.

Once friends are strangers now !

Its a stolen phrase ! It really made sense to me when a friend of mine just spoke out his heart when we were having a casual talk. This paradox may sound weird but that's what I realized, I have been witnessing in my real life. There are usually lots of instances in once life where a person who was ur dearest buddy and with whom you used to share anything and every thing is a "stranger" now. How strange ? isn't it !
Most of the time this happens mostly because of ego clash, lack of trust and not being frank with the person in any relationship. The better way to avoid such things is by letting go your ego and not making hasty conclusions. The most important thing in any relationship is trust, never let it get weaken in your relationship.
One has to be careful before they speak out each and every word, it means a lot in a relationship. You can't take anyone for granted, one unintended word may break a relationship (trust me , its my experience). If he or she has botched up, please allow the person to explain (listen to the person). Most of them don't intend to do that, it would be your misinterpretation or misconception !
I am witnessing a similar situation, presently not even getting an opportunity to confess the unintentionally mistake which was committed by me. I feel its better to avoid these things, they cost you a lot at later stage. Umh now can you understand the paradox "Once friend is a stranger" to me. A small mistake sometimes can get complex........very complex..! wht you say ????

"THE WORLD AS I SEE IT"

Lemme start of with my first blog, putting up an very interesting essay

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I am quite aware that for any organization to reach its goals, one man must do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."

**IMPRESSIVE ISN'T IT**

Most of us tend to have few or lots of ethics in life, but we find it very hard to impliment them or consistently follow them. Got to appreciate Einstein, a person who had nerves to stick on to his ethics no matter what came on his way ? Even tough he sounds selfish in few of his own ways of living, he made it a point to succeed on what he wanted to be but still claims 'success' is not what he is looking for ! His perceptions were profound, somes times I get muddled up trying to analyse what exactly he means in his essays.