“O ecstasy I tasted thee”!

Love for no doubt makes wonders does not matter for how long it exists but it leaves its effects for life long, cupid’s shoot hit the heart and heart starts its own fantasy to experience a new way to see the world around. In the world of this fantasy lovers’ standards are varied to feel the height of the relation’s truth. And when the feeling of love and belongingness goes forth it turns into the “ekstasis” if I talk about the original word of Greek that is trans-like state, yes the ecstasy. It is not crucial for everyone to reach this height of love in his/her life time or sometimes a mind does not engross  the feelings that much deep even though they love deeply but as I said ideals vary according to the peoples own perceptions regarding the concepts of love and relations, preferences and satisfactions, and moreover what makes them happy either conjugal aspiration or their passion for a platonic relation but as I appreciate  john Donne’s philosophy here for his poem “the ecstasy” I feel all the divisions in one heart, the marvel of the world in the seventeenth century poet who is love adept and makes a relation of the soul with his beloved:

“Sat we two, one another's best.

Our hands were firmly cemented By a fast balm, which thence did spring ;
Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes upon one double string.

So to engraft our hands, as yet
Was all the means to make us one ;
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.

As, 'twixt two equal armies, Fate
Suspends uncertain victory,

Our souls—which to advance their state,
Were gone out—hung 'twixt her and me.

And whilst our souls negotiate there,
we like sepulchral statues lay;
All day, the same our postures were,
And we said nothing, all the day.

Actually the poem talks about the completeness of lovers or we can say an idea of real love that is free from the material bonds and when the soul becomes active in love making, the real status of ecstasy is felt in the following lines. As the setting of the poem also describes the development of his thoughts first he sets everything perfectly for sensual excitements. Pleasure of love out of love making from here starts going on towards the spiritual feelings of pure love

If any, so by love refined,
That he soul's language understood,
And by good love were grown all mind,
Within convenient distance stood,

He—though he knew not which soul spake,
Because both meant, both spake the same—
Might thence a new concoction take,
And part far purer than he came.  

Here Donne had clearly marked the modification in the journey towards the transitions. The feeling does not reach at this height unless not purified with a passionate experience of the relation. The more burnt in this fire of love the more heightened in this philosophy.

This concept of platonic love is very rare; love should be physical or spiritual? The very archaic question under discussion mostly observed with different answers; according to Donne love should be concretized; conjugal pleasure is the trial to the platonic height.

 “On man heaven’s influence works not so,
But that it first imprints the air;
For soul into the soul may flow,
Though it to body first repair.”

Moreover Donne’s love is the remedy of loneliness and all the deficiencies of life, he uses metaphor of violets how it increases in color and smells when transplanted next so the effect love makes on human lives it takes a new vigor out of it.

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it, it is like the perfume of a rose u can smell it and that’s all” said W. Somerset Maugham correctly. It’s simply the name of your passions height and I call it the height of the joy.

And here with my readers I would definitely share the history of this title that is really interesting and that intends me to write this piece; infact it’s a flash back of 8 years when I read a poem in weekly MAG and was very much impressed by the last line, it kept on rendering in my mind since then, and few days before I read the poem of Donne “the ecstasy”, un consciously I murmured with sensation “ o ecstasy I tasted thee” and gave the line a pretty good purpose.

I argue

Educators are at the elevated position of being taking part in raising a nation, giving the nation pillars to rely its future on them. History is evident that when educationists do not pay their due attention on making the moralities strong enough to tolerate a hard hit of venality, the nation’s fall starts right from the point. Education system is the transmissions of the civilization, said will Durant, but do we see any link between our contemporary and the forefather’s code of civilization? The very question is a less articulated fact regarding our nation’s deteriorating elements. No doubt new learning breaks the limits of time and helps us to escape from the confined thoughts but it should not be the escape from ones real values and identity. We are lost and fall from the position of a respected nation because our education system is failed to transform our original ethics and standards to the upcoming generations.

Uniqueness is the only standard for nations to be identifiable and respectable among others all over the globe. Each ethnic group has its own norms, but when our rules are overlapped by others’ we lost our own faces. The compulsion acquires: are we not responsible? Of course we are! And yes we are failed, to shift our golden moral shine to the new troops. And here the education system is left with a substantial responsibility to let the youth learn how to sustain with in our own recognition, Our young confront us, mothers are worrying for undue liabilities, interests are not focused, struggles are not concentrated, our elders are helpless and confined to their limits, and our values are overused in fashion determination. We have the sense to show up with social class differences but our sensibility is lacking in recognizing humanity, all such artificiality is visibly pushing us in the abyss of dark future.

Essentially the real fault is in training. We never mature our young with the fact that “everything is fair in love and war” but not with in our ideals, being in love and war cannot deviate our focus from the right direction, we did not even bothered to make them know, the nobility is not in appearance but it is in understanding human values, they don’t understand what being a knowledgeable really mean besides passing some examinations with outstanding grades. Along with the system the teachers’ individual concern demands that they teach not only the languages and scientific theories and calculation formulas at their end but alter some good habits in students, set the environment to value our own criterions, well matched with our customs, religious aspects and social acceptance, towards living a successful life.

I argue for a real education system which is fully equipped with all the tools not only to teach advance world standard courses but also to make them absorb how the learning is help full in living a life of moralities. Our learned individuals should at least distinguish for their own originality and not adopt any substandard way blindly. Their concepts about the purpose of life, social aspects, and modesty should be crystal clear so the analyses for good and bad remain with no confusion for them.

Dealing with self-satisfaction

“Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started”. Most of us have this feeling concealed inside haunting the moments of our eventual happiness. But do we know what satisfaction is? Simply the Fulfillment of one's wishes, expectations, or needs! But of course it’s not that easy, here we some knowledgeable humans are running after something we never know. We are knowledgeable in a sense we have the blessings in shape of understanding and moreover we are thoughtful, but the ignorance of our own souls is showing us the way to the frustration and a reward less never ending struggles.

What can make one happy and satisfied; the standards are as much multiple as the peoples, except the common nature of human souls. The matter of contentment or fulfillment belongs to our particularly set ideals. This idealistic world disrupts our visions and sometimes we look for something else rather than particular one we really need, our minds become overwhelmed by the glaring vanity of the life.

The secret of a happy living  never lies in accumulating materialistic success as we cannot buy a machine to make our gesture smiling, I faith that a pure smile really belongs to the heart and souls so it  belongs to the purity of scruples in every aspect. I noticed many times in elders conversations that our early generations were living a contented life they were satisfied mostly and were grateful to Almighty all the time, they used to spend time together sharing and imparting their “dukh sukh” they feel sympathetically for others here the purity reflects that makes the souls happy.

Another attribute of the internal feeling of relaxation demands a burden free inner. We should keep our selves relax by making us free from the liabilities of all the due responsibilities.  Outstanding duties mostly hampered on the souls and somewhere to some extent irritating. Being honest is the only solution to get released; one may feel comfortable if his/her heart is light without extra load of anything owed to pay. In this context we can also carry ourselves well with our good and sensitive relationships.

Human being is a complex natured creature; there are no limits for any ones to be happy finally after getting this and that in life but limits should be set to suit any one’s own unique requirements. Standards should be made that where to halt the struggle.

As the souls belong to The Creator so the strong trust in Him leave them with fewer worries and free of extra loads of stress even in the critical situations of the life when we humans are helpless. Being helpless is not the thing to be worried upon but this is a blessing that where our limits remind us that there is one Who has the final authority so never give up wait for the right time.

Being satisfied is attached with the gratification of our cravings, there is need to halt the race of desires somewhere inside us, if our focus is not centered on the real needs and we don’t understand the value of the compromises and recompense, it leads towards the eternal disappointment.

‘I’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’, when the sound is double ‘ee’.

Running-through to be a spelling bee is really pathetic, if the case is of English language. Certainly English adores the cachet of global lingua franca, and is equipped with many good reasons and assets to attract the foreign learners, they find it simple to learn; a relaxed grammatical structure based on ancient Latin nonetheless, with its own exceptionality of simplicity; supplemented with metropolitan vocabulary; and assisting with its neutral gender; but enduring with spelling’s liability arises frowns on the other side.

Spellings are actually important for any one; the skill is used almost throughout the life. Spellings along with grammar are the tools to be a standard writer and help in good reading practices besides. Sometimes a minute spelling error in one’s resume or cover letter can lead the candidate towards the failure in his/her purpose, where the fault is taken as an inconsiderate approach towards serious matters.

How to spell correctly?  Is the most normally raised question by many learners. Fair or not the habit to learn correct spelling should be ingrained earlier in young’s. The responsibility lies on both parents and teachers to set the way for the young learners, they are needed to be encouraged to use safe spelling after learning and memorizing them accurately, the use of good handy dictionary is also helpful for the improvement. Kids should know the syllable structure of the words and better knowledge towards the word building including suffixes and prefixes, their exposure to the optional writing and reading for their self-pleasure without being scared of the criticism, along with the habit to look closely at words support them  for their spelling knowledge to get mature. Playing with word games like hangman, boggle, and scrabble are measured as additional approaches at schools and homes.

Basic strategies to write correct spellings are few but useful, in a sense that at least for certain situations we can follow them blindly as: a silent final ‘e’ is not dropped in compound words if a suffix begins with consonant, (careful) but the rule reversed in case of the vowel, (admirable). But never forget Likeable, rate able, saleable, sizable, unshakable are exclusions here. Another rule we have regarding placing double or single ‘l’, in making compounds double ‘ll’ becomes single as all + mighty=Almighty, joy + full = joyful. Letter ‘c’ is pronounced soft before the vowels ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ e.g. icy or city, but with other vowels it sounds hard, as in comb and come. Many others interesting and customary rules are discussed by the linguists, regarding the use of ise/ize, able/ible; the dealing with ‘y’ in compound words; making formal plurals; considering the permanent nature of diagraphs; they all should be learnt carefully with all the exceptions as they are several in English.

Spellings being the mechanics of the language can never be avoided. Learn out of authentic sources; try a lot of practices and take every step to combat the weakness with confident learning for the perfection of the skills.