tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763166002768860342024-03-08T09:10:37.056-08:00R BlogsThinking, reading, writing, wonderingRatna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-34956431820313567542022-03-02T05:22:00.007-08:002022-03-02T05:22:58.158-08:00What Screams Rich but Poor<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.25200000405311584px; text-align: left;">How to spot if someone is pretending to be rich?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="dq iy iz" height="426" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1204/1*o0qYPNGacoOz7u4W0d2SkQ.jpeg" width="640" /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;">Pretending wealth comes from inner insecurities. Such people always feels good about their public display and will genuinely stress out if they’re prevented from doing so.</span> </p><p><span style="color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.009em;">Some people delight in deliberately displaying their wealth to others with the sole intention of casting impressions. They like to tell/show what they have thereby cleverly hiding what they actually don’t have.</span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The chief message pretenders want to send is always: I am superior. I have money/ prestige/ status/ power. I am better than you. I am the best.</span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">What they usually do not know is that their ‘showing off’ may actually be crying ‘rich-but-poor.’</span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Here are some signals to spot false status show-offs:</span></p><figure class="is it iu iv iw ix fg fh paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 66px auto 0px;"><div class="ew ex ey ez fa l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 40px;"><div class="o ct" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="di dq ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 32px; max-width: 692px; min-width: 0px; width: 692px;"><article class="meteredContent" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="hc hd he hf hg" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><ol class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu ro qy rp lc ry lg rz lk sa iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d5df" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They only choose those clothing, shoes, accessories and other articles that have brand name displayed on them in bold.</span> Twisted brand-consciousness. They never buy anything that doesn’t have a prestigious brand name. They can literally throw huge sums of money just to own an expensive branded product not because they are happy with it, but because they can use it as status proof or trophy to indirectly show off their financial superiority.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4058" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">During casual conversations with people, strangers, friends and colleagues they deliberately (and feigning innocence) blurt vital hints as to where they went for vacation,</span> which VIP they met or planning to, and which car they drive. Pictures of villas, resorts, vacations, cars, or airports are very common with very innocent captions.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f1f1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They talk about which high-end product they purchased or always purchase.</span> They may even pout petulantly and tell you how a famous crazily expensive branded product is pure trash according to their personal experience just so you know they purchased/used it. Stereotypical symbols of wealth…</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1564" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They talk about low and medium brands in degrading light</span> telling everyone how their products are untrustworthy and cheap, just to let you know indirectly that ‘I don’t buy cheap/medium brands.’ Don’t be surprised if you happen to see such products secretly being used by them.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ff42" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They ensure people know which car they drive, and which upscale restaurant they visited on the weekend.</span> Expect lots and lots of pics of all these all over the social media including WhatsApp status and selfies. (Even though these things are just normal standards and don’t spell wealth at all.) They photoshop their pictures to painful details highlighting or completely altering the reality/ background.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d7ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Their house from living room to the toilets, will be displayed with items as if they are on a stage or a show.</span> Real in-use unbranded or cheaper items will be safely tucked out of sight in closed shelves.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1b18" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">May let travel tags hanging and stuck on bags for months</span> after returning just to let others accidentally know where they’ve been to.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aea8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">During vacations, they make sure they shoot their pictures with famous landmarks.</span> We all do this for precious moments and memories, but they do it for proof to shout to the world: ‘Hey, do you see? I have been there. I can afford to do so’.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="92e6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">This one is hard to believe but very true: they mention how much salary they are being offered</span> at a new company but they refused because the place was not to their liking. Or how many fat salaried offers they’ve refused. The bigger your eyes pop, the happier they get.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9e38" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They give importance to richer acquaintances and people just to hang around with them</span> to let their wealth, contacts and importance rub on them by sheer virtue of company. They don’t stop at this. They will somehow make sure others see them with their richer relatives/ acquaintances.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e27a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They never fail to mention how a family member/friend of theirs lives in a posh house,</span> drives a Bugatti, once rode a Lamborghini, or works at the White House. The poor ones will never be mentioned. If they must mention, they will cleverly omit details that give their low status away.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="508a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Selfie with celebrities.</span> Not for memories and moments but as proof of ‘Look, I even met this celebrity!’</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="96c3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They manipulate words to appear high sounding and full of importance:</span>International, club, society, investment, summit, seminar, tax…</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1a9e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They sometimes fake meetings and appointments to appear terribly busy </span>doing ‘important work’ in order to appear high-mighty-not so easily available-rich.</li><li class="rw rx hj qt b qu sf qy sg lc sh lg si lk sj iq sb sc sd se et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a9a8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="qt hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">They blatantly mention how much money they are dealing with, </span>investing in new venture, or got offered from.</li></ol><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph qr qs hj qt b qu ro qw qx qy rp ra rb lc rr rd re lg rt rg rh lk rv rj rk iq hc et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1d76" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Thank you for reading.</p></div></div></section></div></div></article></div></div></div><div class="o ct" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></figure>Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-12139547739704541952022-02-26T03:01:00.008-08:002022-02-26T03:01:55.514-08:00Practical Life Lessons to Learn From a Mirror<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitNurwY9b3Eatj31aMOJsZuUm52inHoF8xSCPVkejAZuGfJ-sk0ej0-UkO9RfyC_iYaqGo2hjpDsDtZjPIEmiXFtZUknvf__-DrgMEIJ9UCSFWebf_d4ZEkgO0CS5DQNYXulkHgEkHn1M913zMovZ8zoS23g_PfqjJq3KuteBTPQkp4KV3JPPf7uYG=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="1920" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitNurwY9b3Eatj31aMOJsZuUm52inHoF8xSCPVkejAZuGfJ-sk0ej0-UkO9RfyC_iYaqGo2hjpDsDtZjPIEmiXFtZUknvf__-DrgMEIJ9UCSFWebf_d4ZEkgO0CS5DQNYXulkHgEkHn1M913zMovZ8zoS23g_PfqjJq3KuteBTPQkp4KV3JPPf7uYG=w640-h516" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <span style="color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.009em;">Life is like a mirror. You see in it what you put in front of it.</span><p></p><div class="ew ex ey ez fa l" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 40px;"><div class="o ct" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="di dq ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 32px; max-width: 692px; min-width: 0px; width: 692px;"><article class="meteredContent" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="hc hd he hf hg" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><ol class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="jc jd hj je b jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7f44" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2.64em; padding-left: 0px;">The world is a beautiful place if you are in love. It’s ugly if you are in pain. It’s a market to buy and sell if you are like a businessman, a mall if you are a billionaire, a school if you are a learner in life, a hell if you’re moneyless and depressed, a puzzle if you’re a scientist, a miracle if you’re religious, a race if you are competitive player in arena of life, a tragic-comic circus if you are wise and a dream if you are spiritually enlightened. It wouldn’t be too wrong to say that the world is like a mirror. It will reflect you, your own outlook and your state of mind.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="df61" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="je hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Everyone sees this mirror from their own standpoint.</span> And fight fiercely with others over what they have seen. As with mirrors, the reflection changes with every miniscule flicker and move. (Something called perspective)</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c0ec" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">You can use this mirror to check your appearance instead of being angry at the reflection you get to see.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5180" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">If you don’t like the reflection you see, the fault may probably be in you.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d1b8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">There may be a difference between the reflection you want/expect to see and the one you get.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fc66" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Likewise, there may be difference between what you see in yourself and what the others see in you.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7a3e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Those who are wise/ or clever use this mirror to correct or improve themselves.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="35d1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Most people look at their reflection in this mirror and dissatisfied with what they see, blame the mirror and the reflection.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="69ee" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Some people find their reflection (in this mirror) so unacceptable that they end up shattering it. Well? The reality still stays. They just don’t have the mirror now to see the reflection though which is sad. (I am talking about suicide or taking lives.)</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7158" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">Polishing the mirror may indeed improve the mirror’s surface but it will still reflect what’s in front of it. Trash will still appear trash. Beauty will still appear beautiful.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f81e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="je hk" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Many people may look in the mirror and still never realise it is their own reflection.</span></li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="441b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">One may eventually try covering up the mirror to avoid seeing their reflection, it however, doesn’t change the reality.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="587d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">The mirror tells the truth. How we interpret the truth is another question and certainly not everyone’s cup of tea.</li><li class="jc jd hj je b jf qn jh qo jj qp jl qq jn qr jb jp jq jr js et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a1a6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 28px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.14em; padding-left: 0px;">The wise realise that if their reflection is all they’re going to see in the mirror then they’d better look inside and forget the mirror and the reflection entirely. And they do.</li></ol><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph qs qt hj je b jf qu qv qw jh qx qy qz jj ra rb rc jl rd re rf jn rg rh ri jb hc et" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9fcf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Thank you for reading.</p></div></div></section></div></div></article></div></div></div><div class="o ct" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-88866143706635283552022-02-25T04:57:00.003-08:002022-02-25T05:12:04.545-08:00Why is our universe so obsessed with large numbers?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifRrNNo9WWJkBaA_le695exUTY8t67na4e2CkAsp58CwAFb5D-7n_JSjUH21bWJ1-MNiU7vM1HABIN8eeyTfbyg4fhORc22m4SyIW_DywnNvfkYEeCaagOImjkuUEkusGwIxBQBR-7N6vzsFk1gxXawErEdhI5DUSfSDHJX0byHKODGSZbbp_ABY27=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1087" data-original-width="1920" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifRrNNo9WWJkBaA_le695exUTY8t67na4e2CkAsp58CwAFb5D-7n_JSjUH21bWJ1-MNiU7vM1HABIN8eeyTfbyg4fhORc22m4SyIW_DywnNvfkYEeCaagOImjkuUEkusGwIxBQBR-7N6vzsFk1gxXawErEdhI5DUSfSDHJX0byHKODGSZbbp_ABY27=w640-h362" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The universe delights in large numbers even when it does not seem to be necessary. Check these out:</span><p></p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>There are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe but just one Earth.</li><li>There are stars as huge as UY Scuti, which is some 1,700 times as wide as the Sun or the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall that measures 10 billion lightyears in length even though our Earth is only 40,075 kilometers across. Technically not even a grain of sand!</li><li>The universe is (nearly) 14 billion years old although we humans have only been around 200000 years. And modern humans with technological advancement less than 2000 years ago! That's not even an eye-blink!</li><li>The universe is 14 billion years old and will probably exist for billion billion years in future although we humans get only about less than a hundred years to live on it.</li><li>A healthy male ejaculates about 250 million sperm cells in one go. However, only one impregnates a woman. The funny thing is, if the sperm count drops below 250 million, she may not get pregnant at all. What the heck then do other sperm cells do?</li><li>There are about 8.7 million of plants and animals species in existence. We humans are the only ones capable of superior intellect. (Don't remind me of dolphins, elephants, Octopus and crows)</li><li>An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet-enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over. Yet it is only one virus (and its mutations) that is still keeping the entire world hostage since two years in a row.</li><li>Scientists estimate that there are more than 400,000 speciesof plants on earth. Of these, we humans are entirely capable of consuming 300,000 species. Ironically, 75 percent of the world's food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species keeping a significant number of people hungry and dying of hunger.</li><li>Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface. 97% of the earth's water is found in the oceans. Only 3%of the earth's water is fresh which we need. In fact, half of the world's freshwater can be found in only six countries and several countries have already begun to run out of their water!</li><li>There are 7.753 billion people on this earth. There are only a handful of people who are really rich, or happy, or successful, or enlightened. The rest of us all struggle to be like them and lose the race in the end.</li></ol></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-58141849485521599732022-02-25T04:54:00.002-08:002022-02-25T05:07:32.205-08:00Why does History repeat itself? Has it nothing better to do?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbUbW1wrHhnJfFrmZscML6CLXGunYmV8Md9g1p7EC0-dYgrq0jYIPqOJXano7zleojQ1mNPo_zd5hPgP4ltnY_eQTT7QxawqO1MmhIQjizScaCWZTo9h2fQGNxktBMi4GKlIq3o3Wz5dl7-rq8t4zXsbShiuskxMx1JUJuJwXIYG-CNXjCBsSaF2DT=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbUbW1wrHhnJfFrmZscML6CLXGunYmV8Md9g1p7EC0-dYgrq0jYIPqOJXano7zleojQ1mNPo_zd5hPgP4ltnY_eQTT7QxawqO1MmhIQjizScaCWZTo9h2fQGNxktBMi4GKlIq3o3Wz5dl7-rq8t4zXsbShiuskxMx1JUJuJwXIYG-CNXjCBsSaF2DT=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">First off: History is not the only thing to repeat itself. So do numbers, alphabets, sounds, signals, waves, music notes, cells, atoms, Math, Geography, Nature, body-functions, seasons, space, galaxies! Everything, if you look closely enough, is just a systematic repetition of itself over and over again and again. Even water cycle, rock cycle, life cycle of living beings whether man, plants or animals is just a repetition. Well, so why not History?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">How do you know that History repeats itself? There aren't many identical instances you would find in History that could justify that History repeats itself. No two wars, revolutions, conquests, civilisations, dominions, reigns, kingdoms, rulers, governments or catastrophes are alike.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">And yet, when we search for intricate patters over time we find that History does repeat itself in a very clear pattern that even the blinds could not miss. Yet we apparently keep missing despite knowing it. That's why it isn't fun. Or that's why it is!</p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>If we say History is a set of events leading to a set of events then most events fall in the same cyclic category: (ambition) desire for power, (success or failure) rise to power, decline, degeneration. Every civilisation whether ancient, medieval or modern has passed through these cycles. Our current civilisation is also doing the same.</li><li>It repeats itself in a way that isn't fun because all our ancestors, ancient Literature, myths and folks keep telling us what happened to them and what will happen to us. All we do is laugh at them, then go fall down in the same hole.</li><li>We like to think that History is History- a cold silent grave in the past, that has nothing to do with us gloriously modern humans. Then we suddenly stumble across things like Corona and Göbekli Tepe and don't know what to do.</li></ol></span><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9d9d9d; font-family: "Playfair Display", Playfair-Display-Fallback, serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 2.25rem 2.25rem 3.5rem 5.9375rem; position: relative;"><p style="border-color: rgba(186, 186, 186, 0.5); box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem;">''When People fail to realise that History repeats itself, History has to repeat itself even if that wasn't its plan initially.''</p><p style="border-color: rgba(186, 186, 186, 0.5); box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">-Emit Eht</p></blockquote>Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-18003073940464471452022-02-25T04:50:00.004-08:002022-02-25T05:06:43.295-08:00Happy people and Successful People<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmCIAreX6x46D7ByLddjZ7w8jdBv60L0MIJcZR20M3RYV0cGypAZyD7wiKpBEqBDam1bxwCt1g2AEhSOOXNSqympY0opZh4NKr4BbAyY2mo_MZUw8Fnq-Jog6nnww6DWArP3vcffhINxLurnUDuhep5A2FCLXgjXE-0y0qK2D64Vm5AM2qtG_y2AWa=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="960" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmCIAreX6x46D7ByLddjZ7w8jdBv60L0MIJcZR20M3RYV0cGypAZyD7wiKpBEqBDam1bxwCt1g2AEhSOOXNSqympY0opZh4NKr4BbAyY2mo_MZUw8Fnq-Jog6nnww6DWArP3vcffhINxLurnUDuhep5A2FCLXgjXE-0y0qK2D64Vm5AM2qtG_y2AWa=w640-h328" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Happy people may not be successful; Successful people may not be happy. The ones who are both are extremely rare. The ones who are neither appear to be rather plentiful.</li><li>When one decides to be successful one often has to sacrifice a lot of things. Usually time, age, health and happiness are the things we sacrifice the first.</li><li>When one decides to be happy one may have to sacrifice a lot of things: ambition, money, race, success.</li><li>Funny thing is: Happy people look successful because they look happy. Successful people look happy because they look successful.</li><li>Depending on your outlook and perspective your success could become your happiness or your happiness could become your success.</li></ol></span>Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876316600276886034.post-31021953857538855052022-02-25T04:46:00.000-08:002022-02-25T04:58:22.953-08:00Some Awesome Facts About Life<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCpJ8blrNPV63wEbb_8R3tQb2HpF6e-AduMrjheI0zUl3V2_3jefdcn7KYict4oxBYrBNbAceJupQB05WUtb3koosqWl913P-VC7TAE1ZBw40Tbl3YMU3Yf1hzkUskIIVAji4ycaM_w4bMcve6Jex_6UN3-Sv9Uznxkb8gXq3-lIZL_O4cv4Nnh8vr=s1920" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="1920" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCpJ8blrNPV63wEbb_8R3tQb2HpF6e-AduMrjheI0zUl3V2_3jefdcn7KYict4oxBYrBNbAceJupQB05WUtb3koosqWl913P-VC7TAE1ZBw40Tbl3YMU3Yf1hzkUskIIVAji4ycaM_w4bMcve6Jex_6UN3-Sv9Uznxkb8gXq3-lIZL_O4cv4Nnh8vr=w640-h416" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The more we learn, the more we learn that the more we need to learn. (Interesting word play and also true) </li><li><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The more we think we are wise, the more the possibility that we might be a fool.</span></li><li><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The more we think we're a fool, the more the possibility that we might actually be wise. (Dunning Krüger effect)</span></li><li><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">If we're rich and humble people admire us. If we're rich and haughty people still admire us. If we're poor and humble- people mistake us for being a nobody; if we're poor and haughty people condemn us for being vain.</span></li><li><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Proxima-Nova-Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">We often live without living and die without dying.</span></li></ol>Ratna Srivastavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07990120618758105675noreply@blogger.com0