Going to be another year older in few hrs...

As each year passes it seems that it was more eventful that the previous one... And by that rule last year was the most eventful that I have had and I think next will be more so.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
--Jennifer Yane

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How do you pick up the threads of an old life?
How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand, there is no going back.
There are somethings that time cannot mend, some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
--Lord of the Rings

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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
-- Thomas H. Husley

words fail you
thoughts are a mess
emotions r misplaced
nothing seems to be right...

thought

To let your life drift with the flow or to give it a direction?

More educated women and less educated men

Male Pride And Female Prejudice from NYTimes

When there are three women for every two men graduating from college, whom will the third woman marry?

This is not an academic question. Women, who were a minority on campuses a quarter-century ago, today make up 57 percent of undergraduates, and the gender gap is projected to reach a 60-40 ratio within a few years. So more women, especially black and Hispanic women, will be in a position to get better-paying, more prestigious jobs than their husbands, which makes for a tricky variation of ''Pride and Prejudice.''

It's still a universal truth, as Jane Austen wrote, that a man with a fortune has good marriage prospects. It's not so universal for a woman with a fortune, because pride makes some men determined to be the chief breadwinner. But these traditionalists seem to be a dwindling minority as men have come to appreciate the value of a wife's paycheck.

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Which means that, on average, college-educated women and high-school-educated men will have a harder time finding partners as long as educators keep ignoring the gender gap that starts long before college. Advocates for women have been so effective politically that high schools and colleges are still focusing on supposed discrimination against women: the shortage of women in science classes and on sports teams rather than the shortage of men, period. You could think of this as a victory for women's rights, but many of the victors will end up celebrating alone.

I don't have words and I didn't have a clue

Hard truth: India is haven for child sex tourism from Hindustan Times

India has become one of the hottest child sex tourism destinations. A report, Trafficking in Women and Children in India, sponsored by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), highlights this, mentioning not just Goa, which since the 1990s has uncovered rackets by Freddy Peats and Helmut Brinkmann, but also Alleppy and Ernakulam districts of Kerala, where houseboat tourism has lately seen a boom.
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In Mumbai, nearly 70,000 minors are abused yearly, estimates Kusumbar Choudhury of Save the Children India. Given that the sex tourism trade is as invisible as it is efficient, there are no hard numbers, but it is believed that the kids come from all corners of the country, as well as Nepal and Bangladesh.