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"He licked at our hands and, staggering, fell, but got up again. We could see that he was looking for someone. One of his three masters was not home. He did not get home for an hour. During that hour the bull terrier fought against death as he had fought against the cold, strong current of the creek. When the person he was waiting for did come through the gate, whistling, ceasing to whistle, Rex walked a few wabbly paces toward him, touched his hand with his muzzle, and fell down again. This time he didn't get up."

These are the lines used by James Thurber in his essay The snapshot of a Dog. Few minutes ago I just published it for the readers and then I read it. As I read the say I was taken back to the times of my teenage self 5 Years ago When I was in 10th . I remember our school principle who also taught us English. I never understood why she also was emotional in the end. I never did. All I cared was the marks that lesson had in the SSC examinations. Today as I sit here and write this I pray my respects to that great teacher who introduced me in the world of getting emotionally involved in books. Many a times I used to wonder why she used to tell me to read other books and enrich my vocabulary . I used to say What the hell man? idhar 10vi ki padai key liye time nahi milthi baaki ka kya padthey baithu paagal hu kya? That time I was a pompous little antichrist who will later go on and write such entries emphasising on reading. Never did the reading bug get into me never did it went in untill and unless I met my First job. My vocabulary was scaling new heights nothing for the better though. I used to have language like filthy puppets smoking Pot and squeling. My attitude was all like Chalta hai and such things... I was all done.. Fully moulded into a Crappy Young Individual...Here Fate comes into play..

I read a book " The story of my experiments with Truth " Gandhi was never an influencer for me Nor he will ever will be due to many protests against his outrageos behaviour against Bhagat Singh and many other causes. He says in that "Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth prevail " Let the truth prevail. The Truth he says

"Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God. There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable. They overwhelm me with wonder and awe and for a moment stun me. But I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded be my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it. But as long as I have not realized this Absolute Truth, so long must I hold by the relative truth as I have conceived it. That relative truth must, meanwhile, be my beacon, my shield and buckler. Though this path is strait and narrow and sharp as the razor's edge, for me it has been the quickest and easiest. Even my Himalayan blunders have seemed trifling to me because I have kept strictly to this path. For the path has saved me from coming to grief, and I have gone forward according to my light. Often in my progress I have had faint glimpses of the
Absolute Truth, God, and daily the conviction is growing upon me that He alone is real and all else is unreal. Let those, who wish, realize how the conviction has grown upon me; let them share my experiments and share also my conviction if they can. The further conviction has been growing upon me that whatever is possible for me is possible even for a child, and I have sound reasons for saying so. The instruments for the quest of truth are as simple as they are difficult. They may appear quite impossible to an arrogant person, and quite possible to an innocent child. The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."

Let the Truth prevails and after so many preposterous acts committed by me and Experimentations I had with truth The result always came that the Truth wins. You can lie for a while and escape. You can cheat people for a while and Escape. You can Kill a man and lie that Your not the culprit and You may forget all these crimes for now and go on But one day One day The Truth will come back. It will hit you back twice. Its a cycle , A Karma which gets completed. As mahatma gandhi states The Truth is God. The Truth is waht makes you closer to god. This may go against some people advocating poojas and other religious activities But in a radical transparency potrayal The Truth is the God. The Truth may Hurt for once But it will just make you straightforward rather than keep things closed and then reveal to the person which can hurt the person more.

I wont say much but I feel so much grattitude towards my principle who once gave me this lesson on Truth . I never listened to her at that time but through one experience of a job and meeting people You just discover the Truth wins. And When it wins you are the ultimate looser. Gandhi and all his ultimate manfiested talks win!

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