Legacy

You are a legacy of everything that came before you. Each and every experience has left an impression on you. Every person that has met you had changed you. And you bring that to the table. It's your effort and hard work though.

Alone

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
-- Orson Welles

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu

1984

It is slightly disturbing to know that we can hardly read all the interesting books out there in our short lifetime. Reading has reduced due to everything else around us. No wonder I missed the wonderful, wonderful 1984 all this while - it was a matter of 'could not by chance'. Always knew about it but could never get to it.

The idea is so simple and so complex at the same time. A society that makes you go against your very nature (whatever that may be) by its constant microscopic evaluation of your conduct, thoughts and actions is well described. And so are the impacts. We don't have to live in a post apocalypse world to know this feeling. It exists so much in our everyday life - subtlely.

Society slowly converts you as per their wish and demand by manipulating and conditioning you accordingly.