Elderly

I was on the bus today when I noticed this really old South Asian woman standing while the rest of us lots were enjoying our "nice" seats. Nobody even bothered to get up! I was in the back so I waited a few minutes to see if anyone would get up where she was standing but when they didn't...I gave her my seat. Though she had to walk all the way to the back! Now I am not saying this to show how nice I am...believe me I am far from that...I just have a really bad conscious and imagination that makes me think of all the possiblities in the world when I come across any situation or an event.

Anyways, my first thought, when I saw no one moving, was that maybe they are all bloody racist...I mean she is South Asian...but then when I looked closely...the bus was pretty pretty pretty multicultural. So you can really blame Anglo-phones...poor people always accused of racism when that clearly exists in every single culture. What I think, the matter was that we have very little respect for elderly...which is kind of counter productive since all the boomer generation folks are getting old and it's up to us to fend for them (as we all like to think unfortunately). We have all started to live in the "now" rather than to study from our past and think of our future. When we look at the elderly...not even for a second do we think oh what if we are old and this happens to us? (BTW I do that and that's why I do "nice" thing but I also think that this thought process is the worst of its kind...though it helps).

Actually, let's expand on the bracket comment...why I think selfish reasoning = doing good deeds is not a nice thing (even if it helps). As I have already said that this is a very selfish thing to do...we do not indulge in goodness because it is the right thing to do but because we think about what will happen to US in this situation. It helps...it really does...but it is really the worst of its kind. But since we are living in a very selfish world...why don't we just use this thought process to do some goodness in the world. What say?

I know I am not providing any concrete solutions (blame it on studying political science...there is no right answer!!!). Meh, all I care about is that we treat others as how we wish to be treated! If you see an elderly, pregnant or a disabled person...please get off your ass and give up your seat. Do a good dead!

Start of a Crucial Year

Well, it has been more than a few months since I turned 21...2 and a half months to be exact. Why didn't I start this earlier? Well, I was trying to keep my other blog up to date which I started with my bestie but as it turns out with all the other things that I do...I left it incomplete. Hm...well my intention this year is that I won't leave anything incomplete and finish it. But...can I do it? Probably not but who can stop anyone from hoping right?


There are a lot of things that I want out of my 21st year...here is the list of some of them (or maybe all...who knows):

Get into Law School (yeah this is not happening...but that isn't stopping me from writing my LSAT for the second time...go me!)

Have my essays and assignments complete at least a week if not hopefully two days before they are due (again...I have an essay due next Thursday but I still haven't finished reading the book...for all the curious people out there...it's called "Multicultural Citizenship" by Will Kymlicka)

Do something good for the world (and that's why I have a book lying beside me called "The Everyday Activist" by Michael Norton).

If not Law school then should be able to attain a good internship (well need to start applying for those)

If not Law school or internship then Grad school (Hmm...well my independent study supervisor has me convinced that even if I do two more years of undergrad...I can never get into grad school...go realism!)

Learn to cook properly and even sew (I should really stop being a true feminists in the sense that I will make the guy in my life do all the work...puhlease...realism sumi realism)

Learn how to put make up on (I know it's pretty trivial...but I went to a community party yesterday...and all the aunties were eyeing the made-up dolls and ignoring me...hmm...do I really care though? Probably and definately not...but I should do it for my Mamma)

Learn a new language (hmm...I don't particularly like learning languages...blame 6 years of French on that...but I do know some Korean, Japanese and Mandarin from all the Asian dramas I watch...and obviously English and my mother language Urdu. But you know learning a language can change the world...learn a language that is in danger of extinction...www.word2word.com/course.html)

Hmm...is there anything else that I want to do...most likely but I can't think of it right now...