This is my religion !!!

I hail from a country that is known for its multicultural, multi-religious, multi-people diversity. For the people of the west, India is a land of mystery that can only be demystified by the understanding of religion and philosophy. As an Indian I know that we are just another set of people striving hard to improve the way we live and the way people around us think of us. It is true that India has so many religions that it could be incredibly interesting to know about all of them. It’s almost like the rainbow, all colors emerging from the same source and still having such different forms and perceptions. But, things are not always what they look like. From a rainbow, it may have now become an illusion, which is so hard to understand that millions of the ‘followers’ are driven to the limits of insanity while trying to find answers for their souls.
I can’t ask you what religion is. I don’t find myself capable enough and don’t expect you to provide an answer that would end all the miseries that this word has hurled upon us. Now, this is a dangerous thing to say. Religion and misery? But, things are quite like this in most parts of the world. Today we talk about global citizenship and economies expanding beyond the political and cultural boundaries and yet we have people with complete intolerance towards others’ views on something that is such a private affair, religion. I really fail to understand why people choose to comment on the beliefs of other people with very little or no understanding of their lives and/or religion.
I think that religion is all about making peace with yourself and the ‘community’ that you belong to. So, what happens when this process of making peace with you start to intrude into other lives and their right to a peaceful life? That’s when the clashes start and people like us start to question the whole point of having such a structure like religion to unite people. There are other forms in which segregations can be made and a common peace can be thought of, but the question remains, is it always necessary to segregate the society into sects based on one thing or the other? Like always, I don’t have the answer to this question!

Is it all really for everyone else?

Sometimes at University, we discuss about modern society. It's a Journalism course, so we tend to have classes about Sociology, Midia and Antropology as well.

And often, there is a moment where I am let to think that everything we do, all the stuff we buy and the way we want our bodies to look is not for us, it is not something only for our good. It is for everyone else.

Our personality, what we own and how we look only really means something when the other person notices those things. We live in a society; it's where we interact, share moments, live. And how we are seen by everyone else matters. It really does.

We want to feel part of the whole group. The last thing we want is to feel left out. So we behave, buy and aim the same goals in life. We all want a job that will make us all earn good money, we all want to look good.

We all want to be accepted.

Is that a good thing? Those who go the opposite way tend to be belong to the groups most people wouldn't want to be part of: the poor, the fat, the insane.

Is it really like that? I would like to think we are better than that. We want to belong and feel welcome, that is true. But do we really need to consume and feel like the way we look always need improvement?

Sometimes, wouldn't you just like to not care?

MASKS

Wherever I go, I see masks around me. I don’t see real people walking down the streets and lanes, I see masks. Different shapes and colors and sizes, but only masks no real people. A smile over here and a grimace there; some tears and some anger; some doubt and some happiness; all masks though, no real people at all.
And then I question myself, “Is it not possible for any human being to be the real himself, without the mask?” I think I know the answer and I don’t want to know it at all. Since there is no one who is totally like you (head and heart, soul and thought), there can be no time when you can be the true you. It is often said and written down in desolate blogs like these that people need to be real and true, but, it is not possible. There are certain aspects of each of us which need to be hidden from someone or the other. This way each of us carry the burden of masks all our lives, the difference is that, some know it and some are just too happy with everything around them and choose to ignore it.
I have two important questions to ask.
1. Do we ever have regret for wearing the masks? Does is ever bother us to see the world through masks and compelling the others to see you through the same filter?
2. What happens to two people who are exactly the same (monozygotic twins)? People with even the same DNA structures have a very strong bond and are virtually the same person in most of the situations. What would happen to such people? (I don't know)

Hello to you all. This is my first post and I just like to introduce myself (cuz right now I'm a little uninspired...)
I'm Carol, I'm a 25 year-old brazilian girl who loves to travel, party and music.
Well, that's about it for now. When I have something good to say, I promisse to came back...
See ya

No one noticed...

"A man in north-eastern Spain has made an unexpected discovery after buying a new home without seeing it first. Inside he found the mummified body of the previous owner.

He told police that he was shocked on going into the flat for the first time to discover her body sitting on the sofa. It seems that Maria Luisa Zamora failed to keep up payments on her mortgage because she had in fact died in 2001.

Police say neither her estranged husband nor her children in Madrid registered a missing persons report for the 55-year-old".

(By Pascal Harter BBC News, Barcelona)

I wonder why no one noticed she wasn't around anymore.

How can someone die and be found by a stranger going into her solitude home, after 6 years?

People always tell me what life is all about.
"It's about the memories you have about everything you did".
"It's about the people you've met that touched you somehow".
And it's about how, after you're gone, people will always have you their minds.

What about that old lady, then?

Sorry, just can't understand.