Fear/Hope

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”

Fear – A very powerful emotion. Fear is the most primitive emotion.
The race Homo sapiens is still there on this planet may be because of the fear of being extinct.
Nothing can pump adrenaline as fear can.
Speed thrills may be because of the fear of getting off the road, or, may be because of losing control.
Fear keeps survival instinct alive. Gordon Geiko (Wall Street) had aptly put that Greed is the only thing that keeps human being going. May be Greed of Life is come into existence because of the fear of extinct.
Fear keeps you in control. Each time you try to race faster, it reminds you to tighten seat belt faster. You do tighten your seat belt; bring the road ahead into constant focus. But you never bring the gear down. You keep on racing. Because there is always Hope.
Hope comes with Fear. A power to override the fear and go on and on. Never to stop.
Hope asks nothing to believe in you. Hope let you go off the hands of fear.
When you are lost in the dense dark forest, hope is the only thing that will bring you to the highway.
You lose hope, you just lost yourself.
Hope bring human out the fear of being extinct.
There is always fear of going down, but there is also hope of winning.
Hope is the only thing that helped Andy Dufresne to break out from Shawshank Prison.
Hope is a good a thing. May be best of the things.
Never lose hope. Hope is magical.
Hope is what is made you go to work every day.
Every night we go to sleep with the hope of waking up in the morning.
Hope fuels our dreams.

"Hope -- hope is what led me here today. With a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
We are choosing hope over fear."
By Barack Obama.

Liberty vs. Freedom

The word Liberty originates from Latin “Libertas” and its adjective “Liber”, which means release from bondage, restrain.


“Free” is related to Norse “Fri”, German “Frei” which descends from an Indo-European “priya” or, “fria” or, “riya”, which mean dear or, beloved. Free, Freedom and Friend share the same etymology. Thereby, free relates to someone who was joined to a tribe of free people by ties of kinship and rights of belonging.


Considering the word origins, the words “Liberty” and “Freedom”, were not merely different, but opposed. Liberty implies separation whereas freedom means connection.
Taking account of ancient ideologies (as in Norse sagas/ Northern Europe), the idea of freedom meant being the ruler of oneself like choosing one’s own government or, ruler whereas “Freedom” was a birthright which all freemen shares.


In ancient Rome, people are not born free. Libertas was a ritual by which slaves were released from bondage. It’s said “the Romans consider Libertas as an acquired civil right, not as an innate right of man.”


The freeborn people of North Europe were alike in their birth right of freedom. Freedom created an element of equalities among inequalities. The ancient rule was summarized by Frederick Pollock and Frederick Maitland: “All freemen are equal before Law”.


In ancient Rome, liberty implied inequality. People were granted different liberties according to their condition. In Roman Republic, its citizen’s possessed the liberty of government by assembly, but in different ways according to their ranks. Magistrates and Senators had liberty to speak; Citizens had liberty listen and vote; Slaves had liberty to look on, but they could neither speak, nor listen or, vote.


Another difference is that, freeborn people in northern Europe had possessions which are called rights whereas Citizens of Rome were granted special favour, i.e. privileges. The privilege was something that might be given, but a right was something that must be given.
An interesting fact is that these ancient traditions of liberty and freedom both entailed obligations and responsibilities.


The gift of Libertas brought with it an obligation to act in wise and responsible way. A person with liberty was responsible for his own acts.


A person who was born to freedom in an ancient tribe had a sacred obligation to serve and support to folk, and keep the customs of free people, and to respect the rights of others on pain and banishment.


To be continued...
Extracted From: Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas – David Hackett Fischer

Adieu Old Friend

"We'll provide you laptop with an eco-friendly wireless e-campus"... Exact wordings of my beloved Chancellor when I joined engineering. It was way back in 2004 Aug/Sep.
Excitement...Laptop...wireless campus!!!
Most of us never used a laptop before... So, being excited wasn't at all a big deal...
Classes started...no sign of laptop... my God... when will i get my lappy...
(it seemed at that time as if i joined KiiT only for a laptop)
Then, in one fine afternoon, i got my HP nx5000 Intel Centrino Processor 30GB with 256MB RAM laptop.

My joy knew no bounds...i was so happy...there won't be enough words to describe...
Next comes the exploration...adventures what can be done with a laptop... lots of experiment... i got my hard-disc crashed...CD-Drive defunct...charger burnt...

Till six years...i mean till this date I was using the same nx5000.
Afterall, how can you ever forget your first love!!!
It feels today i was emotionally attached to that machine... even though i bought a new laptop... that feeling... that emotional bonding/apnapan i don't feel with my new lappy.
I loved my nx5000 so much...i really really can't get above it...
I might sound melodramatic...but thats the truth.

Old friend, you need some rest. Adieu...