Manasa Rao

Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has!

A question that always haunts me. Why can__ people just be real? It__ easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance.

I realize my heart is forever Inexperienced. It does fall for the same tricks over and over again

If only people valued people and not money_. I've been on a journey of truth and realization. I wonder how many lessons I got to learn.

I was four when I started learning Music. I still remember my first vocal class where I tried telling my mother that I can never get it right. I am glad she made me stick with it because she already knew what makes me happy even before I did. And eventually I realize, that everyone has that point in life where we hit crossroads, had bunch of bad days and there's different ways to deal with it. And the way I dealt with it was I just turned to Music.

Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!

I haven__ been to a temple in years, never been forced. My folks always said, marry a nice human being, religion doesn__ matter. They said your god is inside you! Don__ you forget that. Krishna, Jesus, Allah, are all one. Follow vegetarianism as far as you can, but you can choose your own diet, doesn__ matter. Believe in god, but for you and not because the world asks you to. Forgive and forget to be at peace. Do not believe in revenge, believe in karma!!

As a writer, It__ an elation to see my own words in print, to float them out there for all the world to read and to learn that some of the world actually does read them. Of their own free will! It warms the heart. However, I have learnt that in spite of frequent and sound advice, the world has not become a noticeably more peaceful kingdom. Folly abounds, incompetence, wrath, crime, nonsense prevails, thieves multiply, power corrupts. And my bones creak in the morning. Still, spectacular things go on in the sky; forms and colors and movements, cloud shapes and sunscapes so awesome I ought to end everyday standing on a rooftop and clapping and calling for more. Slowly I learn bits of what there is to see, and then forget and learn again. And learn too that mortality is the stuff of life; learn how soon the young get old, how short a while is for ever. It__ sad to stand on the hill and, one by one, see the lights go out around you; sad to know the paper has begun turning yellow before the pencil gets to the bottom of the page, to realize there won__ be time enough to get it all done _ the chores, the cooking, the sitting on the porch to watch the birds dart at dusk, the major work. But there__ something reassuring too in understanding that death is nature__, life__, God__ way of letting us know that we are never meant to save the world single-handedly, to keep the sun aloft and the old globe spinning. What we__e meant to do, I hope, is fill some small and temporary slot, to give off a little light for a little while and then lie down. I__ comfortable with that, with the notion of being a small voice yapping away in a small planet. One of many voices, neither the wisest, nor the best, but mine, and fairly close to as good as I can make it.

My words always get me into troubles. And if not my words, it is my facial expressions.

Screw friendship. I need more enemies. At least they admit they don't like you.

When your ex says "I miss you", that means the person they tried to replace you with has failed.

Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it's not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I've invested so much time in the relationship.

Every sensitive person should make his point of view let known, at least, to one person other than yourself on every subject that gets you worked up. This is basic to every social being. And like theory of vibration it gains momentum as the time passes. However, it also happens that it can turn out to be wasted effort. Because we are common people. The fact that we are of no consequence, so are our utterances and statements, makes us indifferent to a lot of issues and situations around us. However, in a set-up we live in, it becomes incumbent upon every educated individual to air our views for the general good of all. Like wise, as public-spirited individuals we must believe in doing something, rather than grumble at home over the breakfast table that the World is not a pleasant place. After all, lighting a lamp is wiser than cursing the darkness.

White people now tan to get darker; and black people wear their hair like white people. We are all confused. Deep down we admire each other, but we don't accept it. The silly thing is that the color of one's skin is simply evolution's answer for dealing with different rates of exposure to the sun. How ignorant is it then to judge a person on that?

I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don__ accept, you__l mess it up.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Borrowing other people__ culture and adopting other people__ way of life does destroy nation__ self-respect which is the greatest asset a true citizen can enjoy more than food and clothes, more than all amenities and more than military glory. You can adopt a system of government and a way of life, but can you adopt the past history, travail and tradition out of which that system of government and a way of life were evolved? Can we adopt King Charles, King John, Magna Carta and civil wars and Cromwell as our own? They can always say __e evolved a system and a way of life_, but we must always sing in refrain, __e borrowed them_. Adopting a culture is not the same as adopting the use of a gadget. It is like tying other peoples_ mangoes to your tree, while plucking and throwing away your own. How absurd!

We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!