You Looked.

I am on my knees, my eyes are closed. I take a deep breath. I try to concentrate. In the next few minutes, I will be talking to God, establishing what can only be called a transcendental connection.

While in prayer, it is amazing how one seems to be connected to God. The cathexis a person exudes, comes across and mesmerizes you. However, what goes on in the subconscious of the worshipper generally, is sometimes baffling, rather amusing. Before we go on, I must tell you about my deep reverence for God.

Ethics – a set of principles of right conduct. That’s what dictionary.com would have me believe. It’s a simple definition. Just one line. One glance at the definition and you would think it’s the simplest concept on Earth. Yet, it’s easily one of the most debated topics in the world today. The question is, is the concept of ethics, really as simple as you would like to believe?

The concept of ethics is a rather complex one. The reason is simple. The definition includes the words “right conduct”. What “right conduct” means, no one knows. Not even dictionary.com (which thinks I misspelled reconduct!). Yes, you may split it up into “right” and “conduct”, yet you still close in onto a very general term – “right”. What’s right? And what’s wrong? Why do we need to have the concept of right? Why can’t we just do things and leave them as they are? Why bother to see whether they are right or wrong? Or in simpler words… why do we need ethics? Why did they come up in the first place? Why do people have different ethics? Is something right somewhere, wrong elsewhere? Let’s explore.

Author’s note: Before you begin reading this article, be forewarned! This article is very specific to my life in undergrad college and is about the wonderful teachers/staff I found there. Unless you’re from CITM, I guarantee you that you’ll find this article boring!

College is a fun place. Especially if its CITM. You just know something’s gonna happen, even though the time table may suggest a boring 7 lectures in continuation. Ah, 7…!! That reminds me of something. Oh ya! Isn’t that the number of bullets in a revolver. Hmmm… It’s a pretty similar situation you see. Day in and day out, I move around like a criminal trying to save myself from those 7 bullets. Those 7 lectures. Some are eventually gonna get you, cause the very first day Vijay sir had told us that we were going to be marked for attendance. I still remember the long “Awwww….” that had followed. Brings me back to my old days. Good old days.

I remember my first blog, it was way back in the early months of 2006. I can only faintly recall why I even started it. But blogs were new (or so I thought! Blogging began way back in 1994 – can you believe that!?) and fancied by people. Reading and writing blogs was in, you know. I mean that still is, but well, back then, it was the thing. I didn’t even know what blogs were or what they really stood for. I just had a few articles I thought I might as well put up for my friends to read (on the pretext of blogging). My articles were already published you know, but I never got a mail from any of my fans about how my article was out of this world, about how it was the best thing they had ever read, or about how I had touched the very inner core of their hearts. And thus to satiate the desire every blogger out there is out there for, I stepped into the blogging world.