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		<title>Friendship &#8211; What Matters?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stretch long and far, people say, in hopes of getting you to transcend your normal friending process.
And so, you dig deep, you stretch long and you befriend others unlike yourself and it’s refreshing—wonderful even. But then you find that having all the friends you can stand isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You learn that some [...]


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		<title>People Come and People Go&#8230; That’s Sad, But that’s Life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as we may wish it weren’t so, a plain fact of human relationships is this: People come and people go!
Someone that we have loved with all of our hearts one day can, quite literally, vanish from our lives the next. Not necessarily from death. Not even from rancor. Sometimes simple circumstance can take [...]


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		<title>Make Someone Happy Today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unquenchable is man&#8217;s thirst for happiness. As I said in my earlier post, whatever we do (study, work, earn, learn, for that matter&#8230; anything) is geared towards making us or the others around us happy. There is a Golden Rule for happiness, that, happiness comes to him who gives happiness to others.
Nothing Gives More Happiness [...]


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		<title>Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Office of Disability Services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. As everyone knows, the answer to the Question, will depend on how you see things! This Post is just about how i learnt it from my own recent experience.
I started working at the University a few weeks back. Till now i have registered and am working at 2 places. The Office of Disability Services [...]


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		<title>Mayakkamaa?!! Kalakkamaa!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the song that is running in the Background of my Mind right now&#8230;!
I have my exams next week&#8230; And I Don&#8217;t know ANYTHING about the Courses! During Group meetings, i am like staring at the faces of my group members(with my mouth wide open), how do these guys know so much! :O
I start [...]


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		<title>There is No Equality in Nature!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be kinda&#8217; low, depressed, sad&#8230; on seeing how poor people suffer! There was this old man who clears the over grown grass on our garden. He always comes after 12pm. My mom asked him why he&#8217;s coming only in the afternoon and is working in the scorching sun, whereas it would be [...]


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		<title>What&#8217;s In Store For Me?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanna know what is to be&#8230;
To see what life&#8217;s cut out for me&#8230;
I&#8217;m waiting for my fate&#8230;
I wanna know just what&#8217;s in store for me&#8230;
I wish I had a crystal ball&#8230;
To see my rise and see my fall&#8230;
I&#8217;ll just have to wait and see!!!


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		<title>The Grass only LOOKS Greener On The Other Side&#8230;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a hillside that looks like a perfectly manicured lawn? The grass looks unreal, so green and lush? You wished your grass looked like that and even if only for a moment, you want to sit in peace on that beautiful hillside. However, as you get closer you see weeds, bare patches, [...]


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		<title>Life&#8217;s Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You always learn something about life everyday. In other words, Life teaches something new about something each day. Here under this Category &#8220;Life&#8217;s Lessons&#8221; i&#8217;m going to Post what I learnt from Life!


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		<title>Fortune Favors the Brave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must have always wondered, why there are some people who always end up on top. Even I used to wonder why? A friend told me that there are some that are just plain lucky. That&#8217;s just a humbug. No one can be plain lucky, luck happens when someone tries something and ends up successful [...]


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