The personal is political - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/About politics in our day-to-day liveshourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00When I moved out of home, they said it was not done for a young girl to behttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/635918out of home at such a young age. But I did go out on a conviction spree and would have fought my way through if anyone put restrictions on me. Now there is this Sanatan Sanstha which inspires people to get out of home and "dedicate" themselves and people say they do it by hypnosis. Parents of...Is researching oneself possible?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/633853Is researching oneself possible? Or can one get as far as writing an auto-biography? Just a question that went fleetingly through my mind.What does the Personal is Political mean?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/631939My blog "personal is political' has through the different posts over time conveyed different meanings of the above expression. But I was reading an article on the BLOG on wordpress of Feminist 101 and I realised that the origins of this expression are basically in an assumption that the personal...If I take advantage of someone's vulnerability. But in public I cry hoarsehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/629021about people taking advantage of other people's vulnerability. It's obvious I don't mean what I say in public, and it's obvious then that I don't understand the implications of such a behaviour for my own sense of humanity. What say?When winter comes, can spring be far behind? I've said this to so manyhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/626646people and yet when I go through a bad time, I am so anxious wondering if I will ever see the light at the end of the tunnel...Isn't that two different personalities at work?An interesting blog post on the history of "the personal is political"http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/624260http://mindthegapuk.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/the-personal-is-political/If I have a fatalistic approach in my own personal life, I cannot counselhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/620008others and say they must rise above the immediate with confidence in themselves, can I?Can only hold on to memories...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/617923I can only hold on to memories and even those memories are intercepted and challenged with questions of what was. Was it love Was it lust Was it lust and love Or was there no love and no lust - Just charity? I don’t want to sponge on anyone or be the recipient of anyone’s charity; I wanted love I...No more front row seat for me?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/613507No more front row seat for me? I am the apple of my father's eye. I am used to this and relish this. Do I end up wanting to be the cynosure of all eyes in the public domain? Or does it work differently here? With the security of the home, maybe I don't seek attention elsewhere?He who is cruel to animals...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward4974/609742He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Immanuel Kant