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As per Oxford dictionary, TRUST means  A firm belief in the reliability, truth or ability of someone or something.  However, we live in a world which has trust issues and commitment problems. How come our generation suddenly has trust issues ?  And how we have a commitment phobic population? Forever and always were never a lie until we made it that way. It's really disturbing to notice that people's faith on commitments , loyalty and trust is fading. Well, who is responsible for this downward fall?   We, our ownselves, are to be blamed for this new idea. As we cannot convince others for something we are not convinced about, just like that we are unable to trust others because we ourselves, are not trustworthy. We are disloyal. We have sometime broken promises and vows made to others. We have backstabbed someone and thus, we fear that karma might bring it back at us. It is our fear that doesn't allow us to trust others.  So a...

#Chapter 3 : Defining self Who were you before someone else defined it for you?  Such thoughtful combination of words, isn't it? Sometime back, we were having a random discussion in our lecture when our faculty, emphasized on this statement. And that's when I grasped something more apart from its obvious meaning that.. We, as human beings, do not independently define ourselves. We always respond or define with respect to some pre existing set of definitions. These definitions which are created, propagated and passed on by the society. But now there is a dire need to break free from these. One lesson that I learnt is we, only we have the right to define ourselves, the way we desire to. We do not have to fit in someone else's definitions. We need to believe that we are strong enough to change the existing streotypical definitions of everything. A nerd during the day can be a party animal by the night because being a bookworm in the daytime doesn't make him ...