The MANY mistakes of my life

I really have never been a reader of books....all my life the only books that have kept me interested are comic books which i have thoroughly enjoyed reading as a kid...still do.Being a technical being had to dig through a few study related books every now and then, but all those were always just for the heck of reading, not interesting really.....This past week i totally surprised myself by completly reading a book"THE 3 MISTAKES OF MY LIFE".i first saw that somewhere around last year [november maybe] and just the thought of reading a book was so repulsive that i did never go thru reading even the intro part of it that time around.Well, times have changed i guess coz i did manage to read thru the whole novel n the funny part was that i found it interesting enough to keep me going through it.something that not many novels that i have had the thought of reading could make me do.NICE story tho...Readin it along made me realise that i just did THE FIRST[nth maybe] MISTAKE OF MY LIFE....coz right there is this unusual urge to read the other books by chethan bhagat....this book had kept me so engrossed that i actually forgot the whole plot that i had read in the beginning....he sez that tis based on a true life incidents, the incidents were true though, but were the characters in it also true....if they are then i really am looking forward to the batting prodigy that was mentioned in it...cannot wait to meet the next icon of INDIAN cricket....hard to beleive it tho....
After this book, i guess there are many more mistakes to be made, more books to be read....more time to be killed .....and yes more n more blogs to write :-)

Is this what we are....

Yesterday Neha sent me over a mail, a forward which said about the cruelty being done on innocent animals.The first time i saw the subject it said : PLEASE SIGN this petition. Usually when someone has a look at such a subject, it is like, another one of those stupid forwards trying to do something better for the world, or someone is missing, or someone needs help...that really was my first impression when i saw the mail. Just decided to go through it once before probably deleting it.So i started to dig through it, it was being forwarded all over the world i guess coz i saw names of countries from all over the world in that.

I BEG OF YOU NOT TO WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE A FAINT HEARTED PERSON....IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL HAUNT YOUR MEMORIES FOR SOMETIME AT LEAST...

Then i read what it actually said, and this is what was exactly there in the mail at the bottom of the page:

Please sign, don't watch video its just too painful but we have to try
and stop this brutality. It's about animal rights. But if you must
watch there is a link below.

I explain the process below:
With a hidden camera, animals were filmed being
SKINNED ALIVE!!! They say it's done to get a more
perfect ''cut''.afterwards the carcasses
are tossed into a pile, still alive, and
for up to 10 minutes you can see their hearts still
beating, in agony, their eyes still blinking, and the puppies little
paws still shaking.
There was one pup, that still lifted his head and
gazed at the camera with bloodied eyes . If
you don't care to see the video, please sign and
forward to your friends:
this monstrosity has to be stopped, we have to act!!
Please scroll down and add your signature to the petition and send to
everyone in your address book. Do not click on the link, you have been warned
that it is too gruesome to watch and something needs to done to stop it...
Thanks for your support

There is no need to see the video, but if you must, be aware,
it's horrible. The following video is of excruciating violence. It's
painful silence affects us all deeply. If we don't protect animals from
this type of brutality, we become accomplices
http://www.peta.org/feat/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp


Reading it i felt a little pinch on my heart but it did not trigger any kind of hard thought, so i clicked on the link provided to actually watch it....I haven ever been much of very emotional person who can be moved by just reading something, very few things that i have read around have actually moved me to the point that i felt ashamed and a sense of disgust has filled inside.
I have watched some very barbaric clips, some really gross videos and pics and some really pathetic ones at that, but very few come remotely close to what i have seen here.....it has been the most pathetic experience that i have ever had. To be very frank, after watching this video, i have started to really hate the fact that i am a human and such barbaric act of utmost disgust is being performed by a fellow human.
The video was so horrible that for the first time in my life i actually did not watch it completely....jus closed to the window to a point where i just could not take it anymore...
In My short life i have seen a lot of things that speak of cruelty which is of an extreme in itself...i have watched videos of somebody`s head being chopped off, pics of cannibalism, some extreme pictures of road accidents and a real lot of things which make me put my head down in shame....but most of the times i myself have provided some kind of a justification to that particular act and just have just moved on only to find that there are far more worse realities up front.

I mean really, how can any person be so cold hearted, so cruel, so barbaric, so bloody cheap that can make someone else put their head down in disgust of have actually been a spectator of such a fiendish behavior.Skinning an animal alive is something that have never heard of, let alone having to look at.....and why is this being done, so that some very pathetic people around the world can keep it as a decorative item in their closet.How low can anybody get...the manner in which the poor animal was being beaten up while being skinned is an image that will haunt me for many more days to come.I can not even imagine the plight of animals all round the world that are being slaughtered right now for some or the other reason. with all of this happening and having to remain a mute spectator with very little that i can actually do to help is something that makes me curse myself.
All i could do for now was forward the mail over....someday, somewhr i hope to do something better .....

BOTTOM LINE: LIFE IN WHATEVER FORM, IF TAKEN FOR SPORT OR FUN IS AN UTMOST ACT OF DISGRACE....DO THINK IT OVER AGAIN