BETA

Life is about living. When I hear the word ‘life’ the first things that comes to my mind is being alive, studying, being able to do things you like and most of all being happy. So what happens when something in life goes wrong? For example someone dieing, how long does it take for us to recover from someone’s death and can all of us really recover from something as tragic as someone’s death.

Mr. Thamilchelvan’s death was very unexpected. Just as much as the Tsunami. All our homes would have gone through the stage where the T.V was tuned onto programs on Mr.Thamilchelvan and if we tried to change the channel we get a big lecture on how today’s teens don’t care about what’s happening to our home land and our fighters but in fact all we would have tried to do was to make a change so that the house is not full of crying and grumpiness. In a way you can avoid these unexpected events if you try really hard or can you? Will fate catch up? I know I’ve been bombarding you with questions but it is relevant; even though I’m saying ‘expect the unexpected’ I still don’t know the answer to these questions myself. But what ever happens how much control do we as humans have over these happenings.

Mr. Thamilchelvan’s sudden death did shake everyone as we all looked up to him after Mr. Anton Balasingham died and as the death trails continues it is hard to bare. But we must remember that for our fighters and representatives death follows them everywhere they go and sooner or later it comes. I know some of you reading this must hate me or even say “ how would you feel like if your loved one or family dies” and yes I agree, I would feel gutted. I might not have even been in a stable mind to write about it as I am doing now but on a personal note I do feel sorry, I too cried when I saw his coffin. I wish he finally finds freedom where he has gone now!!!

Once again I greet you all to yet another issue of ORU PAPER. I have come up with yet another article for all you teens. I noticed that my last article created a bit of a tsunami however I am not to blame for people’s immediate reaction. I was fully aware that it would happen as it was a problem or issue that everyone tries to pretend which doesn’t exist. However let’s leave that behind and start a fresh new article.

I was thinking about my future when I couldn’t stop wondering what I was personally good at. I know many teenagers have many different talents such as, singing, dancing, directing, creating music, and many are very talented in their field of studies. What came to my mind is that, what would happen if all of these talents get together back home in our home land Eelam and start their lives. Don’t you think it would be just amassing. I mean after the war, if we ever go back then we not only have to face problems such as poverty and homeless people but we would have to also face the facts that economically our land would be week. After all this fighting and loss, it will be a big struggle to get our country up and running again and that’s where our talented people come in.

What I believe and what I think everyone should believe is that nothing is impossible. This article isn’t to advise you to say don’t fall in love with this country don’t adapt. No this is to tell you to dream, dream and achieve your goals. Keep it up what ever you do. But also think about what you can personally do for your country when the time comes. In what way can you help back home no just with money but by using your brain, by using the skills you’ve learnt. That’s what this article is about. How many of you have actually though to yourselves, ‘after I finish studies or after I finish this course, I can help my country by doing this’.

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I would like to firstly inform all my readers that I do not write articles so that people can just follow me without thinking about it first. You may ask why I say this, I will explain further in the article. About this topic, I have got a lot of response from both the public and family and friends; some being in favour and let’s say some being not so in favour of me writing this article. Yet I still continue to write only to justify my point, after all it is my duty to explain my self and to reply back to those of you who have asked me many questions and even went a step further into telling me to “write to encourage our youngsters to use their potential in these areas and be revolutionised and innovative”.

To tell you all the truth I actually read through my previous articles on this subject many times just to see if I did write anything that was unnecessary or irrelevant or even something inappropriate but to tell you the truth; I really do not feel as if I have committed a huge crime in writing about this.

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Since the article came out in the last issue I have had many concerned parents who have phoned me and asked who it was. They did not believe me when I stated that it was actually a girl from work and so they believe it might just be their daughters and not to mention my Tamil friends and colleagues. Then and there I fully realised how many people actually read ORU PAPER and most of all, they read the ‘TEENS PAPER’. It just comes to show that many parents and youngsters are still interested and keep reading. Many of the parents phoned in with panic but I assured them that it was not their girl. And after a while I started to regret even writing the article in the first place.

But then again, I have only written about what I have seen and thought about. It’s not just a subject that should be forgotten about. It’s something that many Tamils should come to terms with, as this kind of relationships are becoming very common as time goes by. We are no longer in the ice age or the mid ages. This is the innovatory age, when race and colour does nothing to a relationship. And when youngsters become more and more revolutionised in the western world we tend to think, act and behave just like a foreigner. And so for many Tamil girls and boys they see a black or white person just as equal as an Asian.

From my heading you would probably have guessed what this issue’s article is particularly about. As you know, I write my articles on my own experiences or of others around me. In this particular article, I have decided to write about the lives of many Tamil girls who are increasingly falling in love with other race boys (just not tamil ) and the same goes for boys. In the last few weeks I have come across so much criticism from many tamils about my friend who is dating a black guy. Before I go on to talk about her deeply I would like to let you all know that she is a very nice and very shy and very quite girl ( just so that you guys don’t start saying she’s this n that).

As I was saying; She is a lovely quite girl who usually keeps to her work, however that lovely quite girl was disturbed by a black hero who took her away into his dreams and told her that he really liked her and since that day they have hanged out at lunch and breaks and have even walked home together. But as all love stories have a twist in them. This little fairytale was ended with a another tamil guy seeing this girl with the black boy doing shopping. And ten came the climax when everyone she knew was advising her and talking bad about her and why? Because she was in love with a black guy.

Tell me honestly, even before you began to read the article; just reading the title made you think twice did it not. You might have quickly thought “ is she mad, how is this possible…” You imagination must have ran wild with similar thoughts. This is all because we have been brought up in a way to think like that and to rebel against these rare love affairs and marriages. We were not born to think as such but brought up, and if we can be trained to think bad about these love affairs between two different race lovers then we can definitely be trained to accept as well. After all life is about learning new things is it not?

Life, love and trust; how many of us really know the true feeling of these words. I mean yes, we might know what life is but it’s only when we live it that we will learn the full true meaning of life, love and trust. If you take the article ‘Domestic violence and our society’ in the Issue 72; we can learn how life really never stays the same. That particular article was written by the victim’s friend who goes onto explain the difficulties her friend went through and still going through. But I was mostly touched by the ending when the writer actually says “I do not know to what I can do in short of me physically taking her away from the monster that is her husband. But I know that is not for me to decide. It is a decision that Nanthini must make herself. Until that day comes, I will be waiting by her side”.

I firstly decided to write about this particular issue because a similar story has been happeneing to a close person of mine too. Just reading the article made me cry and even think twice about life. I mean no one know’s what’s going to happen next, I can even be shot in the head while writing this article or have a heart attack or I might even win the lottery. Anything can happen, so in this situation should we really hate one another and treat others so cruely. It’s a question only those who hate and do cruel can answer but as for me I can never truly hate anyone or be cruel to anyone.