Beaming sense of humor

Last friday I had been to the Emirates Humor Club's 22nd meet. The new talk show plan unveiled by the Humor Club made me think why not I put these topics to a wider audience so as to propagate this Humor epidemic!

The talk show topics are as follows:-

Sense of humor refines family life
sense of humor helps professional life
sense of humor is simply recreational

The participants are to take up one topic and impress the audience with their arguments humourously.

All the above statements are real facts and are very useful, if we practice them for increasing the overall happiness quotient. Like the Butan king's campaign for Gross National Happiness, if we all follow the above three humor statements, one can really achieve overall happiness.

For that simple reason, a famous poet had advocated the practice of humor even in adversity i.e., to laugh it out whenever somebody is in trouble, to be able to surmount such difficulty.

Humor requires a little bit of effort on the part of oneself. That is what the sense of humor is all about. Whilst humor is everywhere, we need to discern it to enjoy the same.

There are several people who refuse to get amused over any issue! such people radiate a sense of glum and seriousness around them and also vitiating the entire atmosphere.

How many marriages have happened through letters of love, for the sheer humor content despite the bad grammer!

A person who is humorous not only himself happy but also propagates the happiness all around them by creating an 'aura' of happiness to all!

Like the quality of mercy, the sense of humor is also doubly blessed; it blesseth the one who transmits it and the one who receives it too!

So friends, shall we start beaming our sense of Humor every where?

Corporal Punishments

There is still a school of thought that one cannot bring in discipline in children without the use of corporal punishments. To support this view the advocates of this theory still harp on old proverbs, like the one in Tamil 'adiyatha madu padiyathu', to the effect "beat the animal so that it doesn't go offbeat!"


I still remember my maths teacher Mr JV in 10th standard. He had an obsession of buying different kinds of canes from his own funds that he would flaunt in his class. He was like, say the character of "Gabbarsingh" of Sholay to all of us. We would be holding our breath every day in fear to find out who was his prey on every class. He would first choose his prey and call him to his side 'lovingly'. Then keep showering with pleasantries like 'your shirt is very nice.. where did you take it.. did you go to the shop yourself or you went with your parents'.. all such enquiries he will make whilst he would teasingly run his newly acquired cane on the body of the boy(Thankfully it was a boys only school!).

He would extract a confession that the boy did not complete the homework. He would then cane him at the most unexpected moment and inflicting excruciating pain.

This was in 1974!

Now I wonder if this person could have gone scotfree, had he been living now. There were several instances of suicides by young children due to sense of humiliation and loss of self esteem, due to corporal punishments or just due to the fear of an impending one. world over, Governments have now brought in strict rules prohibiting corporal punishments not only in schools but applicable to child abuses happening anywhere.

We all know that several old beliefs have been replaced over the years based on new findings about the ill-effects of following such beliefs.

There is a direct relation to the childhood experiences in the development of human personality. A child growing fearlessly grows in its natural behaviour and becomes a well-rounded personality.

In a forwarded mail, I read this heartrending story of a boy who inscribes something in the new car, using a nail. The father of the boy, in a fit of rage, punctures his hand only to learn later that his son had inscribed on the fender of his new car, "I love you Pappa"

Let us say no to corporal punishment, be at home or at school, or for that matter anywhere from the area of influence of children!

There is somebody ahead of you!

What if Newton did not find the law of gravity? What if the epic of Ramayana was not written?

Well if Newton had not made the findings of gravity, somebody else would have found it, depriving a chance for Subu!

How many versions of Ramayana(substitute for any other work like dictionery!) have been written so far? Can any one say that some of the ideas are unique and no one else could have generated those ideas?

Well for those who generate ideas, such ideas are thought to be unique only unless they themselves find those ideas to be already in existence.

Some simple ideas can be very useful in finding solutions to complex issues. I remember reading an English Lesson titled "Little Things". The story explains how ignoring small details, would result in great losses. Read these words which explains the result of failure to attend to a minor probleum:


For want of a nail a horseshoe was lost,
for want of a horseshoe a horse went lame,
for want of a horse a rider never got through,
for want of a rider a message never arrived,
for want of a message an army was never sent,
for want of an army a battle was lost,
for want of a battle a war was lost,
for want of a war a kingdom fell,


And all this happened for want of a nail!.

It is true that one should not ignore a potentially serious problem that may result 'a stich in time can save nine' kind of issues.

Recently, I returned from Mumbai to Dubai. In order to easily identify my checked baggage from a distance when it is put on the baggage bay, I used a 'unique' idea of tying a red ribbons to my bags.

Waiting for my two checked bags at the bay, I found a gentleman who was also travelling along with me looking out for his bag. Now I spotted one bag with ribbon tied approaching me. Before I could reach, the gentleman picked it up and left the aerodrome immediately!

I kept wondering if my bag was, by mistake, carried away by him, while I was waiting for the other bag with red ribbon. The small bag with red ribbon arrived but the bigger one was missing. Now I was almost certain that the other one must have been carried away by that gentleman.

When I was almost lost hope, there came my bag similingyu with red ribbon! Joyfully I collected it and approached the green channel exit.


Well, you may get some ideas which may look unique but be aware that there is somebody ahead of you to have visted there!