Some cardinal truths of life

• We always get angry with others, never at ourselves
• We cannot drink those 8 glasses of water, we can drink only as much as our body craves
• We can eat everything in small quantities and those that we crave to eat a lot, only occasionally
• The car in front of ours is the slowest in the traffic
• ‘Everybody is all the time thinking of me’ is a myth, nobody is ever thinking of you
• My experiences are the greatest or the worst is a myth
• Experiences get their significance based on our feelings at that point of time
• When you are full, no food tastes good
• You feel sleepy all day when there is no challenge to be faced
• We think of loved ones death more often than our own
• We go back to our first choice in shopping though we spend half a day scouting all over the place
• There are coincidences in life; we think of someone or something, we hear about them/ it very soon
• We all have favourite dresses that we preserve for those special days
• Innately we are all superstitious, each of us might have a different one though
• We have told most of our lies trying to be polite, deferring to a relationship, age, or out of affection
• We are never that thrilled when we reach a goal as we expected to be
• We would all like to talk but not listen; however we want others to listen to us!
• It is hard for us to hide things; all of us tell somebody and ask them not to repeat, but it gets repeated anyway
• We put people into slots and judge them, it is hard for us to judge persons individually
• We all see the world as a very negative place, but we do want to live on and live on in this world itself
• Our experiences are as important as our genes, but we fail to fill our lives with positive , worthwhile experiences
• We can never recognise a good thing as we encounter it the first time; its takes ages or never to recognize it
• We feel elated less often than we feel hurt and angry
• We suspect every compliment we receive
• We find kids intolerable, until they stop being kids
• We assess  any object based on its cost rather than its usefulness for us
• We cannot apologise, it’s the most hurtful thing of all
• Many times achievers are more insecure and jealous than non achievers
• We think people who endorse our ideas are wise and those who contradict us are stupid, immature and completely wrong
• In the long run, we want peace, not love and romance, thrills and excitements
• The best years of our life starts after sixty, though we will never realize it
• Anonymity is bliss
• Consciousness of our happy moments is important, since happiness is elusive and the feeling disappears fast
• The longer we live, the more number of known persons will we see dying
• A little psychology can go a long way—Steven Pinker says. How right!
• With children, what we “are” is more important than what we “do”
• All of us have an urge to showoff…some do not indulge in it because of being ridiculed, or feeling that we are being ridiculed
• Humans can never forget their own perfidy, even if the world will never know of it
• The day we choose peace over thrill, we have matured
• Too good to be true?…it is often true
• People envy you…just because you are you. Can’t help it
• No human understands another in toto. It’s a myth to think we know the others very well
• The government in place is never doing well
• We need effortless entertainment; someone must exert themselves to give us that.
• Marriage is a business transaction at one level…she pays dowry to get into it and he pays alimony to get out of it!
• There is no cure for pessimism
• We all lose self control… but strongly defend it with interesting excuses
• If we are not heroes in our own eyes, how can we expect to be heroes in anyone’s eyes?
• We out grow everything
• The past is always golden and the present is always a nightmare
• Our parents become our heroes after they are no more
• Those who enjoy being with themselves are the happiest
• We all make unknowing enemies
• The mot tranquil time comes when we stop explaining ourselves to others
• Finally, every life is a tragedy… we all die

So it goes on and on… need to stop somewhere. Maybe later,  will get back with another set.