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Modern day lock-down - curse or blessing

Never had I imagined that in the Year 2020, we all would be locked up in our homes and taught the basics of cleanliness like how to wash your hands, how to cough and sneeze and how often one should wash their hands. It is just sad that it had to take a pandemic for the world to realise they need God and should be clean. How hard is it to have clean habits? As we all are in lock-down due to the pandemic caused by the corona virus COVID-19. We can either use this time in a productive manner or waste it away like we normally do. I, personally am struggling with not having enough hours in the day to get everything I need to do done on time and in the best manner I can. But in saying this, I have still decided to utilize this time to connect and bond with my loved ones, wrap up all of my unfinished tasks and self-reflection. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle     [I don't own this image, I Googled it] We should all take this bre...

Generalization i.e deducement

“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”- Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage I had decided to be regular in my writing, but life happens and it's been months since my last post. I was struggling to think of what to write about as currently my mind is all over the place but then it hit me how we humans have this annoying habit of generalizing others and even things. I am guilty of doing this myself but despite not liking it, I have done it one too many times. [I don't own this image, I Googled it]   Some examples of generalisations that I can think of at the moment are: Cats are meaner than dogs. All IT people are hackers. Geeks/Nerds are not good at sports. Everyone is a cynic these days. People who smile the most are the happiest people,    etc. In my opinion (not that it matters, nor anyone asked), some generalisation may have some trut...