Meena Mangalathil:

Hey Guys!!! You know, when you are full of ideas, you wouldn't know where to start or what to start. But one thing is for sure, you will have to get off from the regular life to know the difference between the way you live and way you can make your life live. Get to see the people other than you, your family or your immediate society, believe it, its an eye opener. The society where I live are people who are more bothered about appearances than anything which has depth. There is a saying which says that if your wife is from Cochin, its better to meet her family on the street than in her house because she would not have anything commendable there. Its not only in one place now its a part of society - thinking of me and my immediate family, the rest are outsiders. So after a long time, I travelled to the slums of Mumbai. The amount of work, the number of people living and working there, the busy streets, the small pathways, the way they manage their space, the ceremonie...

Hey Guys!!!! Today, as I was walking back home in the morning, two nuns were rushing to work, one a senior and another a junior. They were wearing their official nun's dress and the senior had a hand bag and a carry bag and the junior a backpack using as it should be. She was not shy to carry it on her back. Nobody felt it odd that a nun is having a backpack on her back, but the senior was not comfortable with that. She forced the junior to take off the backpack (It was quite heavy) and offered to carry it for her in her hand and gave her the carry bag.  It was an eye opener to me, though the junior was comfortable with the way she took care of herself with that bag, the senior was making sure that the junior conducts herself as the society dictates. Its not weird, we all do that in our daily life, the question everyone asks before they do anything is, "what would people think?" And we direct our life according to the society's norms and also accordi...