ഞാന്‍ ഇന്നലെ അര്‍ദ്ധരാത്രിക്ക് ശേഷമായിരുന്നു ഉറങ്ങിയതെങ്കിലും, ഇന്നു രാവിലെ അഞ്ചു മണിക്ക് അറിയാതെ ഉണര്‍ന്നു പോയി. സമയം മൂന്നേ ആയുള്ളൂ എന്ന ധാരണയില്‍ ഞാന്‍ കിടന്നാലോചിച്ചത് ഇതാണ്:
ആദരവ്‌ കാണിക്കല്‍ ഒരു കലയാണ്‌.
ഹൃദയങ്ങളില്‍ മനുഷ്യര്‍ എല്ലാവരും ഒരേ പോലെയാണ്. വയസ്സിലും അനുഭവങ്ങളിലും വ്യത്യാസം ഉണ്ടായേക്കാമെങ്കിലും ഒരു മനുഷ്യനും മറ്റൊരുവനും തമ്മില്‍ വല്ല്യ അന്തരമില്ല (മറ്റൊരുവന്‍ മഹാനായ ഒരുവന്‍ അല്ലെങ്കില്‍)
കുരങ്ങു വര്‍ഗ്ഗം പോലും ആദരവ്‌ കാനിക്കുന്നില്ല്ല
അങ്ങനെയാണെങ്കില്‍ ആദരവ്‌ കാണിക്കല്‍ ഒരു കലയല്ലേ?
ഞാന്‍ അല്‍പ നിമിഷത്തേക്ക് അഭിനയിക്കാന്‍ മറന്നു പോയ ഒരു കലാകാരനും
ആര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലുംമുറിഞ്ഞു എന്നുണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ സാരമാക്കേണ്ട. മാറിയാല്‍ പോയിക്കോളും.

Now for my international friends :

This morning, though I slept at only 12:00, yesterday, I woke up at 5:00 and thinking that it was only 3:00, thought:

I’ve always tried my best to show respect to elders, deserve it or not.
But, now, I have to think this.
Aren’t we all human beings? But for the difference in age and difference in experience, is there anything different among any two human beings? There are quite a few great exceptions. But for that.

Showing respect is an art. It is not having respect. It is showing respect. Does an organism of any other species in this vast biodiversity hot spot called earth respect any other member. In monkeys, there are leaders. But, but for the fear of getting thrashed into a pulp, does the other monkeys respect the Alpha male?

That’s why I said, respecting is an art. And I am an actor who forgot to act for a few minutes. So, if anyone is wounded at their hearts, please don’t care. It will go when it go.

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It is human nature to yearn for attention. But everyone is certainly not going to be successful in this very particular case, just as there can’t be two lions in a single pride. Now there are many ways to make people listen to you. But attention must be bought. It can’t automatically come to you without you doing something. Now keep in mind these things:

• The world is a mirror. It gives you back whatever you give it. So to earn attention, you will have to pay it too.
• The best way to have people around you and the best way to have friends around you is the same: befriend who is around you. And the best way to make friends is to talk. Talk something. Anything. Words have a magical touch. As the graviton pulls the body it reaches to the body it left, words attract people to the one who lets out them and bind them with emotional gravity to the speaker. Therefore to have people glued around you, always talk something so that if they go away, they would miss something.
• Don’t show that you are eager to receive attention. But unobtrusively, start gaining attention.
• One thing you will have to certainly avoid from your life is skipping chances. There can be no other thing as agonizing as a wasted opportunity. If you get a chance to perform, do it then and there. Hesitate for a moment and it’s lost. There’s no way you can buy back the chance, and almost surely the same chance will not come to you again.
• Keep smiling. Ha! This one. It’s sure gonna be a grand success. Unless there are around you people who are very nice that they hate smiling people, you’re always gone to be admired if you keep a smiling face 24/7. Now the only problem is you will have to widen your mouth a little extra than your natural pose to smile to a person.
• Always be frank. There is no quality better than frankness that’s going to attract people. Be ready to admit mistakes. Do tell out loud the silly mistake that you committed. Because, if you try to hide up, and if someone had seen it, then there’s no way that you can roll out of the issue. Honesty is the best policy.

Best of luck

FROM Arvind Khamitkar , I.A.S, Director of Medical & Research Div, Chennai
Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago, in a movie theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a Needle sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying
‘You have just been infected by HIV’.
The Disease Control Center (in Paris ) reports many similar events in many other cities recently. All tested needles were HIV Positive. The Center also reports that needles have been found in cash dispensers at public banking machines. We ask everyone to use extreme caution when faced with this kind of situation. All public chairs/seats should be inspected with vigilance and caution before use. A careful visual inspection should be enough. In addition, they ask that each of you pass this message along to all members of your family and your friends of the potential danger.
Recently, one doctor has narrated a somewhat similar instance that happened to one of his patients at the Priya Cinema in Delhi … A young girl, engaged and about to be married in a couple of months, was pricked while the movie was going on. The tag with the needle had the message ‘Welcome to the World of HIV family’.
Though the doctors told her family that it takes about 6 Months before the virus grows strong enough to start Damaging the system and a healthy victim could survive about 5-6 years,the girl died in 4 months, perhaps more because of the ‘Shock thought’. We all have to be careful at public places, rest God help! Just think about saving a life by forwarding this message. Please, take a few seconds of your time to pass along.
With Regards, Arvind Khamitkar, I.A.S, Director of Medical & Research Div, Chennai.
Kindly pass this to every one. Probably your mail can help some save his/her life