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CHOSEN RELATIONSHIPS....

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After studying relationships at micro level, I felt that in today’s world trust has become an object which is needed to be gained in order to maintain relationships. It is gained by communicating and sharing common ideas, beliefs and emotions. If trust gained by other means than these , I can surely say that it can be diluted by personal, physical and material interests which cannot maintain relationships for longer period of time. I have come across many people, on internet whom I haven’t met personally, but they share their personal issues, happiness, ideas etc. with me. What makes them to express their feelings and emotions to a stranger?? Answer first come in my mind was, it’s because of trust. If I recall all my conversations with these stranger friends I found many things about human relationships and its nature. Most of them are frustrated or irritated by real life relationships for various reasons. Common thing I found among their experience are all relationshi

….because there are more girls!!!

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Today, passing by temple I saw crowd, nothing was new to that, every Tuesday people come there to please Sai baba :)  I taken that crowd for granted as normal person does. After reaching at nearby ‘kitli’ (tea stall), I attempted to strike a conversation with gang of boys sitting there. I asked simple question to them, why do they come to temple? And in light mood two of them answered, because on Tuesday there good number of girls comes to temple!!!! This response actually forced me to think lot many things about gender relations in society and culture. It also enabled to give answer to one of my friend who was irritated by discrimination of boys in several aspects of social life. One of my friend was irritated by discrimination happening to boys during festive time of Navratri (for those who don’t know- Navratri is traditional festival of Nine Nights, celebrated in mainly in Gujarat where girls and boys does traditional dance for whole night ) where guys are highly charge