From the Street Dogs

I don't know how many of us have really observed the life of a street dog. In fact it might have never crossed anybody's mind that there is anything worth noticing in a dog's life, that also a dog from the street.

But just a few days back I observed a strange things in street dogs. They always follow or run after anything moving fast like a car, bike or any other vehicle preferably a brilliant colour. A group of dogs will follow these vehicles specially in the nights. Some of us might have noticed this thing but did we ever gave it a thought to what happens after they get the vehicle. I saw that they will start following a new one after another, that's it.They don't know what to do with it once they get it.

It reminded me of human being having the same habit or nature. All of them are running after fast moving and bright things, but once they get it they don't know what to do with it and there starts a new race for another one which they don't have or which they think as better.

This is quite an irony most of them live with. You can name it materialism or whatever you want but in the end it is all going to be of no use. In the long run we realise that getting more leads to get much more and its such a spiral track that we loose sight of what we've and run after which is ahead of us. All these things don't bring a kind of satisfaction in life,instead it makes us more thirsty. Life becomes a race to get the things and running more and more.

People don't realise what they are loosing and that they are missing to enjoy the fruits of their efforts just because of running after another one.

I don't know what to say to all these people who are blindly following anything that comes into that way, but I'll like to add this point for sure that life is much more than achievements and competition and anything that makes us to compare ourselves with others. We should be a more of us than being a winner of a worthless race, because in the end it doesn't count what you earned what counts is what you enjoyed.

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
This is another novel by a famous Russian novelist and writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Theme of the novel revolves around a Prince Myshkin who has returned from a sanatorium after few years.
The prince arrives at a relatives home in Russia and falls in love with the daughter of his relative Aglaya.
Prince was suffering from epilepsy. He has not much confidence in himself.
There is one more character in the story who is Anatasya Filipovna, ex-mistress of an aristocrat. She is supposed to be a bad woman for the society.
Prince falls in love with her also and tries to woo her by his recently inherited property from a distant relative. But Anastasya sees the simplicity in Myshkin and even if she wants to marry him but says otherwise and chooses another guy Rogozhin. She leaves the place with Rogozhin but she never forgets the prince.
On the other hand Agalya also gets attracted towards Myshkin for his simplicity but never accepts it openly. She says that Myshkin is a retard but had hidden feelings for him.
Myshkin follows Anastasya and Rogozhin for the next few months. Anastasya also meets secretly with Myshkin secretly but she never decides to stay with Myshkin.
Prince come backs to his relative and stays with Aglaya's and her family for some time along. During this time he gets fit and people think that he is not a proper match for Aglaya. But Aglaya follows her and takes care of her.
during this period Agalya and Anastasya communicate with each other and Anastasya tries to convince Aglaya to marry with Myshkin as she is a good match for him.
At one meeting all three again get stuck in a situation and both the women ask him to choose between his real love for Aglaya and the pity-love for Anastasya. Myshkin was unable to take a decision which makes Agalya feel bad and she moves away and Anastasya promises to marry Myshkin.
But again at the last moment she finds it difficult to marry Myshkin as she loves him so much and thinks that being with her will destroy him and runs away with Rogozhin.
Myshkin follows them again to find out next day that Rogozhin has stabbed Anastasya and she is dead now.
Myshkin tries to console Rogozhin for the death of Anastasya but he  gets broken himself.
 Rogozhin goes to jail and Myshkin back to sanatorium.
Aglaya marries to a guy against her wish to marry at all.
The most important point in this whole novel was a different definition of love.
Aglaya and Anastasya both love Myshkin and so he feels for both of them. But the biggest difference is that Aglaya loves but can't accept, Anastasya loves accepts but can't take it to a further level as she fears it will destroy Myshkin. Finally, the most complicated Myshkin who loves Aglaya for her being what she is and loves Anastasya for her being considered as a 'fallen' one. His love for Anastasya is a kind of pity or I'll better like to say a kind of kinship which he feels for himself too. This love is beyond the known forms of love because both of them (Myshkin and Anastasya) wants to sacrifice their love for the betterment of each other.
The first sentence that I quoted in the beginning can be taken as the theme of the whole plot. Or I will like to put it in simple words as we are far more complex than anybody can explain.
This indecisiveness stays with most of us for the lifetime as we always be dual minded for any decision. We are never sure whether we want to be logical, rational or just lead by heart. And this is the beauty of the nature that we still come out with the best ones.
Finally, love lives in sacrifice and over the time we realise that it was good for most of us involved in such situations. I'm not saying that every story should have a sad ending but in the end we can definitely see in most of the cases people are much better apart than being together.
I'll like to say that Anastasya and Myshkin being apart was good for both of them but it was not true in case of Aglaya. But reason has its limits and it is the love that makes us human whether we are successful or not.


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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way


Above is the opening line of the novel. I think of it the second best novel by Tolstoy after War and Peace.
I read this novel long back, in fact I remember it as the first novel I read but I still remember the theme and plot of the whole novel like I'm still reading it. Characters are so lively that I can relate everyone of them to somebody or the other around me even if I'm not living in the same society which Tolstoy paints in this novel.
The story revolves around three main characters Anna, her husband Alexei Karenin and her lover Alexei Vronsky. 
As the name suggests Anna is the central figure in the novel around whom the whole story is woven nicely.
Tolstoy has created all the characters in such a way that all of them looks realistic with all their desires, destiny, attitude, passion and all other human behaviour.
The novel starts with a scene of a woman dieing on the railway station which nobody knows for sure as an accident or suicide and ends with Anna committing suicide on railway track.
The whole plot sounds depressing but anybody reading the novel can find that it was not meant to be so but the writer was only trying to create the characters as real s possible and he succeeded very well.
While reading the novel you can understand the single rational behind the actions or thought process of the main characters. Even Anna taking the final step was quite obvious from her mental state depicted there and you don't need to be a psychologist to understand that.
The character I liked most is Anna only. She is such an embodiment of human nature full of desires and dreams that I never thought her infidelity as something immoral in nature. She is more like any other person who dreams and lusts(desires) for whatever they want irrespective of its moral aspects. She even doesn't like the behavior of her husband who kind of tries to show her mercy and asks her to forget the past and start things afresh. Anna can't stand such mercy and she thinks that whatever he is doing is just for the sake of saving his face in the society which sounds like a hypocrisy in itself to her. She looks like a rebellion against the society by saying no to any such offers.
I never like the idea of suicide because I'm quite sure that life never ends at a point when you can't do anything, there is always a door to exit to somewhere else but it can never be suicide. It's better to stand with something you believe in and follow it to see it happen. People say that people who commit suicide has nothing to live for but I think that they don't give a chance to something that they can live for. The only thing that can be counted as a possibility for somebody committing such a thing can loneliness, we can be so alone sometimes that we don't see anything coming towards us and life looks like a blackhole but this is the time when we've to be very much aware of ourselves and what we want from life and there should always be some reason to live for. We can't be dead for one reason when life gives us so many reasons to live for.
Anna Karenina, one of the best novels ever written, read it for yourself and don't get discouraged by the size of the book. You will never regret investing time in it.
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The First Post

Hey Netigens,


This is my first blog ever.


I think that the name I've chosen for my blog may not be quite telling what I'm going to post here but this is exactly the reason I didn't give a specified name. I just wanted to keep it away from being a stereotype.


Lets see how much its going to be.


I'll keep posting here.


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