gurujee

@gurujee (216)

India • Age 68

Joined myLot 15 years ago

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A Tale told by an Idiot

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 1 Jan 13

To Shakespeare life is nothing but a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. This may sound true but life is indefinable and it sure defies any definite definition. Life remains a mystery adding up much...

life

shakespeare

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Sleeping Like a Child

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 1 Jan 13

Sleep is a real blessing because lack of sleep is the root cause of many of the medical problems that affect people nowadays. In the fast paced world of today even twenty four hours a day is not enough for some people. They sit...

sleep

sleeplessness

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2 people

Chameleon

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 10 Sep 12

When religion was a taboo subject for us in our younger days, one of my friends used to crack jokes about God. God, according to him, would not have been burdened with umbilical cord. Passing unsavory remarks, he made the...

believers

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Nostalgia

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 7 Sep 12

When I think of my schooldays, I invariably become nostalgic. Those good old days etched deep in my memory make me feel sad. The streets that my tiny feet trod in seem to be surprisingly narrow. The once gigantic trees look very...

nostalgia

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Origin Unknown Future Uncertain

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 9 Jul 12

No racking of the brain is likely to yield result as to the origin of human beings; so is the case with our future. In the interim period between our looming large on the horizon of life and the inevitable fading away, beaten and...

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Dreams

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 27 Jun 12

Dreams are said to be interpretative. However, there are more people out there who don't believe in dreams. The sanest advice offered is not to sleep on an empty stomach which is sure to stir up strange dreams. Sleeping on a full...

dreams

predictions

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4 people

Duty and Pastime

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 31 May 12

Work and pastime never go together; they are definitely poles apart in compatibility. Work is often associated with drudgery and boredom; pastime with fun and frolic. Browsing the net for long hours is a pastime for many in spite...

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Speech

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 27 Apr 12

When we are exposed to a new language, it sounds all gibberish and it begins to acquire meaning and intelligibility only after a period of time. The birds and animals around us which chirp and chatter do sound the same to us. When...

communication

speech

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What's in a name?

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 25 Mar 12

Honey will be as sweet as it is now even if it is known by any other name. We are not born with any name. Funny, the name we are given long after we are born cling to us long after we are gone. One may be great or small but one...

honey

name

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reading between the lines

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 21 Mar 12

In a world which abounds in people predominantly characterized by double-speak, it is difficult for simple folks to understand fellow beings and their real motives. There is a minuscule minority of people who can read between the...

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Sixth Sense

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 17 Mar 12

Call it sixth sense, clairvoyance or any other derivative of para-psychological mumbo jumbo, there are indeed people who have the ability to discern the unknown and communicate with them. Everyone may not be invested with this...

mumbo jumbo

sixth sense

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2 people

Tough going

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 16 Mar 12

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Sounds great on paper - Don't these people wilt under pressure in reality? There is another saying that admits that to err is human. Are these statements moral boosters or convenient...

escapist

sayings

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1 person

Commas, Colons and Semi-colons

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 10 Mar 12

When I was at school, I used to think that punctuation marks were mere fripperies to writing that could be easily dispensed with. This I changed when I heard my teacher telling this incident to underline the importance of the use...

comma

goof

hanging

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Empathy going short

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 9 Mar 12

There is an ever widening gap between the have-nots and the well off in their general outlook and their lifestyle. The saddest part of the whole thing is that the deprived lot, to whom life is a great struggle, are to remain the...

filthy

morality

rich

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Living on Borrowed Time

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 7 Mar 12

Considering that life is a terminal disease which has been sexually transmitted, should we be overwhelmed with a sense of gloom as we have been living on borrowed time since the time of our birth anticipating the onset of darkness...

death

disease

life

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Prose run mad

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 16 Feb 12

When life was at its own sweet and even pace, poetry had its pride of place and reigned supreme in human life soothing and comforting those who sought it. Now it seems to have lost out to prose, the most dominant form of writing...

poetry

prose

Forever and Ever

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 11 Nov 11

In simplistic terms, life is the specific period between our birth and the ultimate death although no one is willing to think about the imminent cessation of life. The experience of being alive and kicking is so exquisite a...

death

life

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Packaged Melodrama

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 10 Nov 11

I have come across a number of persons men and women alike virtually shedding tears while watching tragic movies in movie theaters. The selfsame people often keep a stoic silence and show no signs of love and sympathy on occasions...

cinema

life

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Android Edibles

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 9 Nov 11

Beginning with Cupcake, all the code names of Android OS for smartphones have mouth-watering food names, assigned in alphabetical order, like Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice cream Sandwich. What exactly is the...

android

food

items

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Addiction to Technology

gurujee @gurujee (216) • India 7 Nov 11

First came the television followed by the computer offering premium content for entertainment as well as enlightenment. Though these mind-boggling inventions have kept us in thrall for long, the hold that television has on us is...

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