Maybe....

Read this wonderful poem recently, so thought of sharing it. I don't know the name of the poet.

 MAY BE

Maybe. . we were supposed to meet the
wrong people before meeting the right
one so that, when we finally meet the
right person, we will know how to be
grateful for that gift.

Maybe . . . it is true that we don't
know what we have until we lose it,
but it is also true that we don't know
what we have been missing until it
arrives.

Maybe . . . the brightest future will
always be based on a forgotten past;
after all, you can't go on
successfully in life until you let go
of your past mistakes, failures and
heartaches.

Maybe . . you should hope for enough
happiness to make you sweet, enough
trials to make you strong, enough
sorrow to keep you human, and enough
hope to make you happy.

 Maybe . . . the happiest of people
don't necessarily have the best of
everything; they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.

Maybe .. . . the best kind of friend is
the kind you can sit on a porch and
swing with, never say a word, and then
walk away feeling like it was the best
conversation you've ever had.

Maybe . . . happiness waits for all
those who cry, all those who hurt, all
those who have searched, and all those
who have tried, for only they can
appreciate the importance of all the
people who have touched their lives.

May be . . you should do something nice
for someone every single day, even if
it is simply to leave them alone.

Maybe . . . there are moments in life
when you miss someone -- a parent, a
spouse, a friend, a child -- so much
that you just want to pick them from
your dreams and hug them for real, so
that once they are around you
appreciate them more.

Maybe giving someone all your love
is never an assurance that they will
love you back. Don't expect love in
return; just wait for it to grow in
their heart; but, if it doesn't, be
content that it grew in yours.

Maybe .. . . you should dream what you
want to dream; go where you want to
go, be what you want to be, because
you have only one life and one chance
to do all the things you dream of, and
want to do.

MAY BE..

Yummy To The Tummy - It's Locust In My Mouth !!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/europe/15bugs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

It is of course common in Africa, Japan and Thailand to eat insects such as locusts, worms, crickets etc. as a delicacy....but now it seems to be becoming a trend in Europe too. Anyone with any experience??

At a nearby stand with a Dutch name that translated roughly as the Tasting Garden, there were more insects than garden. While shoppers gazed with puzzled looks, Mr. Van Dongen, 41, warmed up portions of an Asian vegetable dish with crickets mixed in.

Obsession With Beauty

“She is young. She doesn’t understand — it doesn’t matter if a man is scarred or ugly, he will still get a wife. But a woman must do all she can to make herself the ideal wife. Our father loves Sarita too much, that’s why he wants her to be as beautiful as she can be.” (Link)

A perfect smile, a perfect nose, fair skin, a perfect figure every boady part has to be just perfect. Manufacturing Barbie dolls.......

 the mother who came to Dr Kalda from Uttar Pradesh to get her new daughter-in-law a complete makeover of six painful procedures — a reshaped forehead, a nose-job, new cheekbones, an altered jawline (which involves breaking the jaw for remodelling), breast implants (that will need to be removed for breast feeding) and butt implants. Comments Dr Kalda, “The saas examined the girl’s naked body before marriage and brought her to me so she could be perfect for her son.” It’s the highest number of procedures the good doctor has performed on a single patient, save those who get a sex change.

My Left and Your Right

Being a left hander is not easy as one is certainly a minority. Only11% of the world's population is left-handed. Lot of social stigma has been attached to it. Words like, lefty, southpaw, goofy are used as slangs. In some societies using your left hand to do chores esp. religious rituals is considered demeaning. Children, who begin to use their left hand automatically for writing, eating etc., are often forced to use their right hand.

As one grows it becomes difficult to use things like, scissors, can openers, peelers, PC mouse etc. which are made for right-handers. People refuse to shake hands and even to take things from a left hand. So I guess, quite few of us start using right hand too and thus become ambidextrous like me. They were certain things like, a peeler or scissors, I was forced to use it with right hand as there were no left-handed peelers and scicssors back then. I have even experienced cases like, were shop-keepers have refused to take money from me. ''I don't take it from left hand'' has often been said to me and my reply has been ''I am a left hander, now take it or leave it.'' At the university I found it difficult to use a folding-chair with tablet as they are again made for right handers.

Folding-Chair with Tablet

Left-Handed (left) Right-Handed (right)

It is now due to lot of awareness that products like, scissors, can openers etc. are even made for left handers. We are just asking the majority to be sensitive towards us and not call us ''confused'' etc. and understand that this happens naturally. Like you didn't ask to be right-handed, similarly we didn't ask to be left-handed.