http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/About politics in our day-to-day liveshourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/582950No man is an island, and no woman is either What I gather from the world I bring home -the personal is politicalhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/580685My approaches at home I carry to work and the world - the personal is politicalhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/576814You can't stand what a politician is saying.Or you detest his mannerisms. Your body language speaks and reveals this. Finally what is the political? It is about the body language of each person and community put together. Not just about the views that each one is expressing, but about the views...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/573221He nixed all the plans in my friend's house He let weeds mushroom He made the house a fort He was my friend's Dad. And to the world? He opposed anyone's plans being nixed He preached about maintenance He talked about letting all winds blow in He was also my friend's Dad!!!!http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/570382double standards? Otherwise my traits should have been reflecting uniformly in both places, isn't it? or is it the context that matters. Maybe I am motivated to work hard in the public sphere and that gets me appreciation or a sense of fulfilment. And that same factor is not there in the home. So...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/565856Personal non grata may be public much grata But public much grata sometimes may be personal grata And personal non grata may also be public non gratahttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/561231abusive on the internet in a mailgroup. I find the two irreconciliable and therefore impossible of existence in the same person. Many people tell me "but he's a very nice man with his family" and I can't help feeling that the family is just shutting up and endorsing the "nice man" image for the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/556534Have you come across persons who are known to throw tantrums and be enraged at home, but do not reflect the same tendencies at work or in the public arena, no matter what the provocation? So, you will say - in this case, the personal is not political. Wait a minute...he is placed differently...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/550156We treat someone with more resources in the home more respectably and others less so. This can be how a parent deals with his children or a child deals with his parents. We go out into the wide world and do the same. We end up having different yardsticks for relating to different sets of peoplehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/547486Confirmation of sticking to the highway of deciding to branch of on a particular road or making one's own road is a decision one must take. It's about being decisive. This same trait reflects itself in decisions at home and in the world (in the public arena that is). If one is indecisive, it's...