2014 - what a year

2014 has not been an easy year, but it was worth it and I can look back with a smile, even more with a fire burning inside of me to reach the goals I want to reach, a great hunger to learn and a twinkle in my eyes of curiosity and laughter. My stubborness and awkwardness will not fade, and I am stealing parts of lines of a friend here ;): "I blend in, but will I ever fit in?" I do know I have been embraced by many and I embraced many, for all the so so many great people I met, even the dangerous and bad ones, I am grateful. This picture in Australia represents somewhere where I am standing, a small Indian woman with big dreams in a big world that is waiting to be explored, still many stairs to climb to come closer to making those dreams reality, while finding out who she is and staying true to herself. Making mistakes, falling down, standing up again and always full of questions 

Facebook, a privacy issue or something else? - short thought

When I decided I had to clean up my Facebook too, there was actually not a lot to clean up . The people who did not like me or felt we were too much out of touch already unfriended me or will do so in future (I think haha  ), so have a group of managable Facebook contacts, also thanks to mostly ignoring requests from people I don't know or don't know well... and all my pages and groups I like are not huge in numbers and quite organized in lists, at least I find . Pictures, well, I don't have much to hide there and already regularly untagged what I didn't found necessary to have or deleted my own pics at some point. I wondered: what privacy am I now actually trying to maintain? Facebook records practically everything I do online, well that is what they say, right? I guess it just feels better to believe I am in control, while also in real life, in fact, we hardly control anything, sometimes even not ourselves 

India and its rapes

http://nos.nl/…/2007881-hoe-een-verkrachte-superheld-india-…

It reaches the news in Netherlands also, again: every 21 minutes a woman is being raped in India. I love India for many reasons, not for the one here, because every few times a year when I go to New Delhi and other parts, I also observe and feel how men behave towards women. And in my case an Indian woman who comes from abroad. There are many sweet and nice men!! But equal narrow minded men. Also so called highly educated men are narrow minded. Often ask: should our culture change? And how? - Many people seem to want to avoid the topic, or only discuss a lot instead of further implementing solutions. And why do some solutions not work yet?