The First Temptation

From childhood I have always wondered: “Why did God restrict Adam and Eve from eating from that particular fruit tree?”
He created the entire universe for them and allowed them to use it however they wanted to .So what would stop him from giving that one tree to them. I am pretty sure he didn’t need that tree for himself. So Why? Why would he do such a thing? While people blamed Adam and Eve for disobeying God I used to somewhere believe he was at fault because he tried to test them. There are things God does which are hard to understand but I found this the hardest to understand.
I got the answer to this question of mine a few days back.
Just before my exams I ask my dad if I could take the unlimited download and he said yes and told me we shud have taken unlimited earlier itself.I know i am one of a lucky few whose dad is so cooperating when it comes to such issues. So we got the unlimited net. Then a few days later i told my dad that the computer isn’t working properly again.And he was pushing me to buy a laptop since long now.But i used 2 delay it because I knew then my desktop would go to waste. But I also was fed up of repairing my pc by myself all the time.Installing windows every 10 days and also keeping the cpu box open all the time with the risk of getting a shock. So i told my dad lets buy the laptop.The next day he goes 2 work and sets the necessary quotations on the dell site and mails me 2 see if i have a problem.I checked it made the necessary changes and mailed it back to him.And guess what he orders the laptop the same day.And he also made the dd to be sent to Chennai the next day.So my exams going on and i am going 2 get a new high end laptop and i already have unlimited net which i wasn’t being able to utilize bcoz of my faulty desktop. So i knew now once my laptop comes i am bound 2 be stuck 2 it.As ppl having unlimited download might know the first month u download the most bcoz u have had so many things in ur head 2 download but the restriction had stopped u earlier.
Now the analogy to my earlier question. Why did god have 2 test adam and eve? In my case my dad didn’t test my capabilities of studying with these temptations knowingly. But i knew it was a test for myself. If i wouldn’t have had that challenge of studying and yet enjoying my new temptations the success in my exams wouldn’t have been so enjoyable. I had got 68 % each in my first two semesters without any temptation. But in the third one i got 73% despite enjoying each and every day of the exam on my laptop with unlimited download.No doubt I felt I studied less.But I realise now that i might have studied more but because i enjoyed the laptop so much i thought i had studied less.Portion wise yes i studied less.But in engg i don’t believe completing the portion ensures good marks,but studying the whatever little you have studied properly that ensures good marks. And please note i said ensures good marks doesn’t make u a good engineer.
My dad never told me directly don’t over use the laptop.Thats why i never had any guilt in mind while using it.Yet at the same time God had asked adam and eve not to eat the fruit of that tree. So they wanted to see what is so great in the fruit of that tree.If my dad would have told me not to use the laptop i would have definitely not followed what he said after a period of time. That is simply human nature.If we are asked not to do something deep inside we want to do that thing even though we might not do it on majority of the occasions .
So the answer to the question:”Why did God have to test Adam and Eve?” What is life without temptations and hardships. The joy of overcoming a temptation is much more than the joy of enjoying everything you ever have. Although the adam and eve story may not be real but it has really a deep meaning regarding human behaviour...

Thank you for reading .May be u might have also asked the question I asked. Hope I have been able to satisfy at least a few with my answer.

Caste(Catholic) Stereotyping

Well I dont know whether I should be posting this or not.But I am doing so because this is something related to my religion and I have been hurt and I want others to understand something.NOTE: This is applicable only to a few people,so those who know they do it please try to avoid it if possible or do it only if it is positive.
Living in a country like India especially in a city like Mumbai where we find so many people belonging to different backgrounds and following different religions this is something I should have expected which I did.But still it hurts when people knowing you reveal certain things about this issue.
Being a catholic I am well aware of the catholic traditions and also the behaviour of catholic people.Well not all catholics but there are a few or i dont know many who spoil the image of catholics and I know that there are catholics not so well accepted by the society because of their habits basically drinking which according to majority people and religions is wrong.Well let me clarify one thing here first catholics are allowed to drink doesnt mean that all catholics drink or all catholics must drink. This point I raise because I have come across the question "Arre you are a catholic na so u drink na" ,"So you eat this and that(non veg stuff) na" "You know how to play the guitar??" "You play football well na" .. Well all these are a few examples which I have come across. Although the last two questions dont hurt but they also are a kind of stereotyping. The first two hurt and hurt real bad especially when I know i dont drink. Let me make it very clear I have no problem with drinking .I have a problem only with excessive drinking. And about eating non veg I dont consider it wrong at all but at the same time I respect the veggies and would avoid eating non veg in front of them.
Also people have a common notion that catholics are party animals .We just party on every occasion and drink at every possible celebration. And this too hurts.And this hurts to the extent that I myself hate those catholics because of which the remaining are stereotyped.
I would like to make it clear that I am not against stereotyping.Well I do it myself .But only if it is a good thought.I dont do it much .But I would like to narrate an example.For me i like gujurati people because i have come across them as the smarter lot of people study wise and also the kind of people who enjoy life balancing it well with their responsibilities.And I say this out of personal experience bcoz I had many gujurati friends in school who were almost all smart.Then I was in a gujurati minority college where i met even more smarter guju ppl.So now whenever I see a gujju I sense that he is a smart person.And if I tell that person that would make that person happy.
Well my aim of writing this is to make the few who have made me feel hurt indirectly that all human beings are not the same.Please dont make an image of a person before you know him based on his looks and most importantly his caste.
Thanks a lot for those people who know what kind of a person I am and not allowing caste to decide My First Impression on them....
Thanks a lot ...And felt a load of my chest after posting this ...Sorry If it has hurt anyone..But i havent narrated incidents or taken names for the same reason...
Thanks a lot for reading my post although it may not involve u....

A few of my beliefs

These are some of my own sayings and they help me become a better person

1.Life is the best teacher I have ever met.

2.Life is a battle and experience is the weapon u depend on.

3.Drinking is fine but excessive drinking is a crime.

4.Experience doesn't guarantee no mistakes But it helps in finding solutions to those mistakes.

5.The true joy of life is enjoy your life even without breaking any rules.

6.There is no such think as right or wrong;it's just the more favourable thought that is considered right.

7.If u never try 2 improve urself, it's like ur just turning the pages of a book without understanding the matter which is urself

8.No human being is perfect and no 1 can ever be.But i wont stop trying to reach there because i know there is something called almost perfect.


to be continued....