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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Empathising with the "evil" stepmother from Cinderella

So, lately I have been obsessing over villains of movies and stories and I strongly believe that some of them are misunderstood.
Maybe not all of them are evil, obviously some are, but not all. And one villain that I found really misunderstood is the Stepmother from Cinderella.

Maybe she was not evil as depicted in the story and the sisters not as wretched. Maybe the story has been exaggerated a lot than what it should have been.

We all know that Cinderella did "all" of the house work and how no one helped her.But, we often forget about the fact that she never really took care of Lucifer, Lady Tremaine's cat. And have you ever thought that maybe the house work was divided? Maybe the sisters took care of the cat while, Cinderella worked in the cinders. No one has given a thought to the struggles of  a single mother trying to raise three daughters and keep a farm.

Since, they had no source of livelihood, she could not afford rich clothes for her daughters, as there were three children. It was obvious that all of them felt a little neglected. Due to the fact that the family was poor, they had to dress up in poor quality clothes and rags, have you thought maybe, Cinderella wore rags because she worked in the cinders and it would not be economical for her to dress in rich clothes and fabrics.

The part where Cinderella is left at home while the other three go to the ball, is claimed to be the greatest evil that the Stepmother had done but, has anyone ever considered that she might have thought it worthy to get the older daughters married first.

Obviously, the authors made it quite clear that Cinderella was the pretty one. Consider for a minute that since Cinderella was prettier, which left her sisters feeling miserable and obviously might have affected their self confidence. And it is obvious that Lady Tremaine could not ruin the self esteem of the other two. So, it is justifiable as to why the stepsisters got more attention.

Since Cinderella worked in the cinders her sisters teasingly called her Cinderella instead of Ella, her real name. But don't we all give funny nicknames to our siblings?


Wednesday, 7 September 2016

The rules to texting

Firstly, I am so sorry for posting so late, I know I should have posted for the previous 2 Sundays, but was unable to as my dear laptop decided that he shall not work at all, so, I tried again today, and I think he had a good mood and he actually worked! So, I could not resist the urge of writing this article, even though it is not Sunday.

The reasons I have picked this topic are as follows
  1. I thought it would be relatable
  2. It might help people who fail to respond properly
  3. I got really, really irritated and frustrated because of the certain people I chat with, and they have no idea as to how to reply.

So without anymore background stories, let me begin.

1) How to reply to 'hi'

  Always, remember, when someone sends you a 'hi', its not because they are stupid, its because they want to have a conversation with you. So, either don't open the chat or if you already have always reply 'heyyy!!!' with extra exclamations, to show that you actually want to have a conversation, instead of leaving the person either on read or replying with 'hi'.

2) How to reply to unrepliable texts

  No one likes being left on read, so, please by all means, if someone sends you even '.....' as a response, depending on the conversation that you were having earlier, it is safe to send the emoji that best suits the above conversation.

3) initiate the conversation

  If someone, texts you everyday, then probably they like talking to you, and if you reply, then you should probably sometimes bother to send them a 'hi' or initiate a conversation, it might make their day.

4) Never leave anyone on read

  Never leave anyone on read, it is the worst kind of insult. Not just insult it feels like, when you speak to someone and they don't respond and you keep talking, but they still don't respond. It is precisely that same feeling that the other person gets. 
Example:

Me: hi!
Xyz:
Me:how are you?
Xyz:
Me: I am going for a party wanna join me?
Xyz:

Exact description of what I feel, whenever someone does this to me I feel like going to them, grabbing them by the neck, and sucking the life right out of them like a vampire.

5) Act fast

  I hate the people, who read your messages and still remain silent and keep reading your messages but somehow fail to reply. And then they start typing, so you wait and don't say anything and after they are done typing for one and a half hour what you get is 'hi'. These kind of people are like the kind of math sums that have so much calculations and you have to use so many different formulas, but the answer you get at the end is either 1 or 0.

6) React

  It particularly gets on my nerves, when you send someone a really long yet interesting forward and they just read it and don't respond... I mean, the whole reason for me to be sharing this is that
  • It is for you to read and react
  • I sent it cause I wanted you to react
  • I sent it because it was good, and I wanted to know what you think of it
But somehow, for some reason unknown to me, these people fail to respond.

7) How to end a conversation

  Certain people don't know how to end conversations, they simply end it with 'gtg' and kaboom they are gone. But, they fail to realise while they somehow, manage to disappear in simply 5 seconds, I was typing a response to their previous message, which I now have to delete, and I have to send 'bye'.

8) Do not type, when you know the other person is typing.

  It is so frustrating, when you are typing and the other person is typing as well, and maybe you are writing a really long story, but this person, disregarding that still types and sends you something totally different, and you have to erase all of your hardwork to respond to them.

9) Always reply.


  This is similar to rule number 4, but, here it ,might be accidental that you don't reply, so to that you can later reply by apologising for the late reply, and continue with the conversation. It is a totally different matter if you are upset with them and leave them on read because of that.

That is all for today, hope they helped. I would like to apologise once again for such a late entry.