Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

This is a Latin phrase, simply translated means, "Who will guard the guards?".

This was a question put across to Socrates, when he described the perfect society. According to him, the main character of the work, relies on laborers, slaves and tradesmen. The guardian class is to protect the city. So the question was Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Plato has a unique answer, he says and I quote "They will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a noble lie. The noble lie will inform them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege, they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it."

Well, this is the question that has arisen in my mind time and again!! Today morning, I felt the need to answer this question. I was on my way to the office in an auto. We were waiting at a signal even though it was green. I learnt during my school days that green in traffic signal means you have to go. Maybe it has changed over the period of time. I don't know.
Anyways coming back to what I was saying, I saw a policeman (I think he was one as he was wearing the uniform of one), who held up the traffic and was signaling the vehicles from the other lanes to move. There was no Ambulance in any of those lanes, nor was there a VIP coming (Oh ya, we have to make way for them, after all they are our rulers). Why did he do that?? I have no idea. Maybe he had a bad morning at home or maybe someone pissed him from our line. I dunno!!
So I come back to the question again!! Who will take him to task for eccentrically holding up the traffic??
This is not an isolated incident! How many of us have been caught by the traffic police and for no reason harassed endlessly till we pay him a little something?? How many of us can fearlessly walk into a police station to report that our cell phone or vehicle is stolen??
Can we lodge a case against our leaders and sleep peacefully??
I dunno, maybe I am asking for too much but these questions are in my mind.....

Falling Dry Leaves

I don't know how you're feeling
Now that we are apart,
But I am so sad.,
Coz I miss your arms,
Which would hold me tight.
I am thinking so hard,
If I ever hurt you?,
But I know,
I even loved you in my dreams.
But now there is no turning back.
You walk away, slamming the door,
Falling like dry leaves,
To be crushed under the feets',
From your LOVE tree.

Like a soldier fighting in the desert,
Giving his life for others,
Well, I spent every moment on you,
How could you leave me blue,
I need you to show me the direction.
Baby, don't think, Don't even think,
I love you for physical attraction,
I never needed your body,
To satisfy me,
Just a smile from you was fine with me,
But now when I call your name,
I don't get any answers,
When I see our snap separated and torn,
I fall down on the floor,
Crying like I never cried before,
Falling like dry leaves,
To be crushed under the feets',
From your LOVE tree.

Falling like dry leaves,
To be crushed under the feets',
From your LOVE tree.

Truth???

"That is life for you. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so that, it can't hurt you any more"

This is something that I read as a part of my English curriculum when I was in 7th standard. These are lines from a story the Dragon and the Lighthouse. I don't know why I was pretty much stuck by these lines....
Now I realize why??

Is it the truth or is it just a piece of my fractured imagination!!
I dunno!!
Still searching for answers........

The MAGIC of BELIEF

I realized some of these things and many others were learnt along the way.... So here goes!!

01. Pull yourself together.
02. Come to a decision.
03. Be unrelenting in your efforts and unbending in your willpower, defeatism and dejection cannot affect you.
04. Convince yourself of the hard fact that you can achieve excellence irrespective of:
---- What you have achieved so far; and
---- Other people's rating of you!!
05. Do not allow people's negative criticism to take hold of you and make you its victim.
06. Believe that you have vast kingly powers. You have to charge your whole personality - your every nerve, your every fibre - with this power packed thought!!
07. THINK BIG BECOME BIG!!
08. Ask GOD to pity the people who unintentionally stand in your way, - yes pity them, and give them wisdom. Soak your mind in sympathy which they badly need because they themselves are victims of unhealthy criticism and feelings of guilt and regret.
09. Never ignore the instructive part of all the criticism and ridicule that you encounter. Pay heed to it : do all you can to improve yourself, but there stops the matter.
10. Be happy and always wear a smile on your face.

:)

Why???

It is half past midnight!! Bleary eyed, I am sitting and staring at the monitors in my office cubicle!! Working, voluntarily and not complaining about it. Working on weekends as though it is a working day!!
I don't have to impress my boss or prove to my colleagues that I am good. (I have one of the best teams in the world to work with (No pun intended!!)).
This is not something that happened to me on a blue moon, it happens almost every day.
Why??
I have no idea..
This is the answer that I am trying to search through this.

My girlfriend ditched me coz i cud not give her enough time, my friends complain all the time that I am too preoccupied, I see my MOM once in 2 months, though she stays just 200 miles away. Why??

I have always done it out of my own interest, and everytime invariably I have been utilized by people. I know it and still can't change myself!!

Hopefully someday I will change and spend more time on myself!!
:)