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Negatives

A list of Toxic Vocabulary words. Notice when you or other people use them. But: Negates any words that are stated before it. Try: Presupposes failure. If: Presupposes that you may not. Might: It does nothing definite. It leaves options for your listener.. Would Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen. Should Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen (and implies guilt.) Could Have: Past tense that draws attention to things that didn't actually happen but the person tries to take credit as if it did happen. Can't/Don't: These words force the listener to focus on exactly the opposite of what you want. This is a classic mistake that parents and coaches make without knowing the damage of this linguistic error. Toxic phrase: "Don't drop the ball!" Likely result: Drops the ballBetter language: "Catch the ball!" Toxic phrase: "You shouldn't watch so much television. &quo

Hearts - Intertwined

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"Dasavatharam" Thirai vimarsanam

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தசாவதாரம் திரை விமர்சனத்தை எழுத தூண்டிய நண்பர்களுக்கு சமர்ப்பணம். இந்த கதை பற்றி கூற வேண்டும் என்றால் பிரபஞ்சம் பற்றி கொஞ்சம் கூற வேண்டும். Three theories have been said so far by scientists about the mysterious birth of the universe, rather the early moments of universe. The first one is "The BigBang" which is the most accepted one. Second is "Existance theory", and the last one is "Pulsation theory". The Big Bang “Theory” (12 - 15 Billion years ago) The Big Bang is actually not a "theory" at all, but rather a scenario or model about the early moments of our universe, for which the evidence is overwhelming. It is a common misconception that the Big Bang was the origin of the universe. In reality, the Big Bang scenario is completely silent about how the universe came into existence in the first place. In fact, the closer we look to time "zero," the less certain we are about what actually happened, because our current description of phy

Never say, "Never Again"

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It was a n evening of a saturday. Usually I prefer to go to a nearby park which is full of colourful flowers and greenary all around and reasonably serene. I use to pass my evening time with my children either at home or in this park. The park provides all kinds of fun to children and even to elders. When I was walking slowly near the entrance of the park, I noticed a middle aged person trying to get down of an autorickshaw. I understood that the man was disabled. He tookout his standing support and placed it on the ground. Immediately, I saw a group of persons rushing towards him to help him. Two of them supported the person who cameout of the auto and escorted him to a bench inside the park. While they were crossing me, I closedly looked at the person. Oh, what a shocking scene it was. The person was none other than my old friend. He was the captain of our cricket team who played with immense passion to the game. My memories went back by ten years when we played together. He had alwa

வீட்டு வாசலில் வீசும் தென்றல்

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வான் மேகங்களே வாழ்த்துங்கள், வாழுங்கள். நான் இன்று கண்டு கொண்டேன் சீதையை.

Psychopath-etic

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In the last few weeks, many of the news papers were publishing the news about the menace posed by psychopaths. And the public have been hyperbolised about this. People were so alert that, they started beating everyone they come across, if the person has no knowledge of local language. People behaved in a manner that, one would get confused with, who is actually the psychopath. They went mad in a such a manner that, they broke the legs of an innocent deranged person and even went on to kill in some cases. I can understand, a psychopath doing crime against normal human being, but, it is hard and pathetic that normal persons doing such heinous acts against a mentally challenged person. Is it not our duty to take care of these unfortunate fellow beings ? Is it the fault of them to be born with insanity? As a matter of fact, I can say that, everyone of us has some kind of insanity in us. Are we not aware of this? Treat them as our patients. Help them. If not, atleast don't do any harm

Love and Affection - Understood and Not Understood

In the Morning Yesterday was my birthday. It gives much pleasure for anyone whether he /she celebrates it or not. Many of us would like to be greeted on that particular day. It was true in my case also until two, three years ago. But, later I considered not to celebrate my birthday with the same enthuse. If at all, it is celebrated, it is to be by someone else, but not by me. But to realise such things, one has to find an abode in many hearts. Yesterday morning I entered in to my office room after being greeted by some of my friends. With the usual smile and morning greetings to my colleagues, I just peeked at my table. To my astonishment, I found a floral arrangement over my table and a piece of paper, well decorated with loving wishes. Ah.... I dont find words to express my feelings. I was totally mouth-shut. I understood that, it was the work of my close cute friend. It took atleast few minutes to recover from the kind of emotion I was in. Just think for a while, a person taking muc

Magic Twins

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Its not illusion. Believe me. Its justttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt........... Photography.

Circles in Life

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Life is full of colourful circles as you see here. Everyone of us seat at the center of each circle. Everyone has our own colour, our own dimension, and our own position. Still we intersect other circles without losing the colour and dimension of our own. Please understand that, these colour, dimension and position are never the same all the time. We expand our boundaries at each and every moment like the universe. This is the true nature of our own being. This life is as beautiful as the universe is, when I understand and accept the very nature of my circle and the circles around, also the circles that intersect my circle. But we fail to undertstand the nature of these circles and try to rule over them and finally feel miserable. Understand that, we do not have any control over its nature, even the radius of our own circle is not decided by us. It is decided by the other circles as well. Your circles expands depending upon your own qualities, such as your personality, your charisma a

The Ant and Spider

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If we closely observe ourselves, we will notice two kinds of people among us. First one is "Ant" type and the other one is "Spider" type. Ant-people will always look around, move around and they will be working all the time untiringly. They are the kind of people, who have convinced themselves that, food doesn't come so easily. One has to earn their food by running to every corner. Also, they believe that, Our future is always at stake, if we forget to save for the future. They possess extra-ordinary capabilities like an Ant carrying twice the weight of its own. On the otherhand there are spider-people. They make their own web, and wait for their food to come to them. Unlike ant-people, they never run for their food. They feel satisfied with what they have at the moment. But they are no lazy people. They are always alert and ready for the ambush. Both these ant and spider people are good as long as they are convinced with their own method and potential. But prob