What is life if full of care, that there's no time to stop and stare?

Congratulations !

I want to tell the world how happy I am for my two dearest friends- Nayantara Pani and Geraldine Nayagam.
Nayantara Pani has recently been selected for a high profile one and a half year stint in DHL Singapore. After a long wait and lots of disappointments and excitement, here comes the final appointment! You so deserve it,girl!
Im waiting for you to come to my city and do some crazy dancing :)

Geraldine Nayagam- I thought we would always be stuck together- after being in the same class, taking trains and buses back home, being in AIESEC together, same department, and so much more. Only of late when common groups dont bind us together, and have we actually started finding value in each other's friendship and making excuses to meet every week- whether at gym or some useless movie we really dont want to see..
I am so happy for you for getting selected onto the National team of AIESEC in Bulgaria. Congratulations congratulations congratulations- a hundred times.
I guess we're going to have to try a little harder now to find times and places to meet!

Im so happy for you guys, but Im going to miss you sooo much!

The Lost Gospel-found!

Happy Easter Everyone!
I don't know how many of you have been tracking the recent unearthing of the lost Gospel of the Bible- The Gospel of Judas.
The figure of Judas remains embedded in popular culture as the figure of a traitor and the very incarnate of evil. He is history's most hated man as the one black sheep apostle who betrayed Jesus Christ to the Romans.
Very recently, a Gospel has come to light that shows the tale of Judas in a completely different light.

Everyone remembers the story of Jesus Christ’s close friend, one of the 12 Apostles, who sold him out for 30 pieces of silver, identifying him with a kiss. Later, crazed with guilt, Judas hanged himself. He is the ultimate symbol of treachery. Stockyards call the goat that leads other animals to slaughter the Judas goat.
Guides at the historic Coptic (the language in those days) Hanging Church in Old Cairo point out one black column in the church’s white colonnades—Judas, of course. Christianity would not be the same without its traitor.
There is a sinister backdrop to traditional depictions of Judas. As Christianity distanced itself from its origins as a Jewish sect, Christian thinkers found it increasingly convenient to blame the Jews as a people for the arrest and execution of Christ, and to cast Judas as the archetypal Jew. The four Gospels, for example, treat Roman governor Pontius Pilate gently while condemning Judas and the Jewish high priests.

The key passage comes when Jesus tells Judas: “You will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” In plain English, or Coptic, Judas is going to kill Jesus—and thus do him a favor. “That really isn’t Jesus at all,” says Meyer. “He will at last get rid of his material, physical flesh, thereby liberating the real Christ, the divine being inside.”

That Judas is entrusted with this task is a sign of his special status. “Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it,” Jesus tells him encouragingly. “The star that leads the way is your star.” Ultimately, Judas has a revelation in which he enters a “luminous cloud.” People on the ground hear a voice from the cloud, though what it says may be forever unknown due to a tear in the papyrus.

The gospel ends abruptly with a brief note reporting that Judas “received some money” and handed Jesus over to the arresting party. The picture attached to this post shows a kiss imbedded in history- The kiss of Judas,before he "betrayed" him.

Almost 2006 years later, this Gospel is found, Judas, reborn, is about to face the world.
Read more about the lost Gospel

here.

Perhaps, this is an interpretation,perhaps it is the survival of a story hidden by people who didnt want it to be told. Whatever the case maybe, it has shaken the pillars of belief systems of people all accross the world.
Makes one think twice about how much we absorb as true without questioning.
What does the wisdom passed down the ages really signify?

Open to the world!

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That's me :)
Open to the world on my AIESEC traineeship at last.

The Quarter Life Crisis

A friend of mine sent me this email with some thoughts on the volatility of a twenty-something's existance.
I found myself able to relate to a large portion of this email and I thought I'd share it with you.

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that
there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not
like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two,
but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start
realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you
thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever
met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones.
What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really
cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be
doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have
to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of
groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you
realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.
You are beginning to
understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten
stronger.

You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than
usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life
and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not.
You are insecure and then secure.
You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and
scared and confused.
Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear
life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and
there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your
heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you
lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know
better.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same
emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same
topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans and
money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race
would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it.
We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to
figure this whole thing out

Does anyone out there relate to this?