My life : One Step at a time

My motto has always been when in doubt write it out, I have been thinking about this for a really long time and I think I have finally  found the words.  You got to do something for me, think about the last time you bumped into someone or someone by mistake hit your hand. I doubt you can recall this instance now think of the time when someone said something to you which made you feel really small or miserable. I am sure you could think of at least one or two. Look at it this way when someone bumped into you it must have hurt you that time may be it even left your skin red, got a few reactions out of you. On the other hand when someone said something to you, randomly used a few words which left no physical scar on you it is this instance that you clearly remember, you know why because it is the way they made you feel.  The sad fact is that we have all done this, we have become the generation that doesn't think before we speak. We all have this friend who thinks he/she is so coo

We all have done this at least once may be, we tend to relate some habits, attributes to define a particular community or nationality. We all have created this perception about each other that if you belong to a particular country you tend to behave in a particular manner, which in unfair on way too many levels.  In the past few months I have been traveling a lot and I get asked questions which surprise me, but now I have started seeing a pattern in these questions, the questions are the same just the people asking are different. I don't know if it has ever happened to you but being an Indian I often get questions like "how come you are reading an english book ?" or "Oh you are a Muslim and an Indian?" or "Do you guys have a lot of wild animals back home?" If as an Indian you are reading this you could find these questions stupid, but there are people out there who really want to know this.  We tend to create these bubbles about how people from a