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You go to Lifestyle, Shoppers Stop, wherever, look at a t-shirt, shirt, pair of pants/dress which has been amazingly appealing to you [which you had already chosen to buy before but, as you would all know, Indians are not "IMPULSIVE" buyers], then your eyes fall upon another new, attractive piece of cloth, then another one which dominates the previous one, then you have a look at price tag and you go, "never mind" :p even though dad's there to pay the bill. You go to a restaurant, look at the price of tea and reminisce that the last time you had an entire meal for the same cost. You go to a particular website to download your favorite movie, and realize there are too many options to choose from. You think, ponder over, surf more, which one has the best quality, which one is the perfect size and keep thinking, ultimately you have done nothing except that you have lost a lot of time and you are back to square one. To quote Enrique, "In these crazy world of...

So, its starts a week ago. All and sundry is worried about that one ailing person. And then came the end. Of Balasaheb Thackeray. So my inspiration for blogging today, I have been all free, thanks to the bandh due to his death and I have had ample of time to go through everything written about him from the wall posts on FB to newspaper pieces to different messages and I felt, why not blog too?! The Tiger Yesterday, I was in my class solving a problem being taught by a very patient teacher when suddenly around 5.30 pm, a boy stands up with his bag on his shoulder and says,”Sir,I need to leave. Sorry.” Followed by a few. I was a little confused as I did not know why they just stood up and left without explaining themselves, disrespecting the professor. That is when I read a text flashing on my cell phone saying, "Balasabeb has passed away." The teacher tried to calm us down but we were reluctant. We all left in 5 min. As I walked down, I saw that none of the shops we...

Justifications! We manage to justify all the mistakes we commit. We can stop feeling guilty about simply anything by justifying it. We drive past a traffic signal when it is still red and we apparently have a convincing reason for it. We choose something over the other, and we have a persuasive reason for that too. This kind of defense mechanism is known as rationalization. Rationalization is of two types- 'Sour Grape Rationalization' and 'Sweet Lime Rationalization'. I refuse to go dining at a pizzeria. And the reason I give? I hate pizzas (Which certainly is a lie). They're not good for health at all; I would rather have my mum's home-cooked food, I say. This may seem convincing enough but the real reason behind my refusal is that I'm broke. But do I let the cat out of the box? Of course not. This behaviour, where one devalues what they don't possess, is called 'Sour Grape Rationalization'. While we are on the topic let me add tha...