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International Literacy Day

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Literacy the way one defines it tells many things about the perception of that person on the topic, but what can’t change with the variety of thoughts and points of view is the motive, the base, and everything which can tell the sheer drive of why and what behind the subject.

“The man who won’t read has no advantage on the man who can’t read”, as the saying goes we can easily see the importance of one’s literacy. The power one can harness from the depth of reading and knowledge is far much greater than anything.

The boundness of our imagination and information about things restricts us from achieving many things at the higher fronts, so reading and knowing contributes to your personal growth as well as on the backends of things too.

International Literacy Day is celebrated on the 8th of September every year all over the United States started in the year 1966.

But before knowing some of the amazing facts and information about literacy shouldn’t we know the real meaning of what literacy is and what one can interpret from it.

Literacy means the ability of a person through which one can understand, read, write and interpret things that they never can think of without the means of literacy.

“ The more you read, the more you learn and more places you go” by Dr. Seuss

Says everything about the benefit of the reading and how it can affect one’s all over the status of mind and as well as living methods.

So, let’s dive into the amazing facts and important notes related to the world’s literacy day.

First, let’s talk about the facts which concern the literacy rate of the world’s populations.

According to the stats of the United Nation, there are around 75 million children which are either dropouts or they don’t go to school.

As of this year, there are around 250 children which still can’t read or write, but the amazing fact is that around 84% of the world’s population is literate.

Almost the major portion of illiterate adults are from the top 10 countries like Nigeria, China, Pakistan, and India. One in five adults is illiterate according to the stats.

International Literacy day is not a day to celebrate it as a Holiday but it is the day to observe and know the importance of reading.

The literacy of India is somehow not so good or bad but it is something for which we all are working together and we will achieve it in the upcoming years ahead.

But again there is something lethargic about the rate of our literacy as if though we want to achieve it but we are unable to do so or it’s we just don’t want to achieve it right away.

Even in times of the global crisis, we have come up with alternatives to let the flow of literacy continue and people get their basic right of reading and literacy.

Even though around everything we should celebrate the people who can read and spread awareness who can’t.

THE PAST

Past gets linked with today and tomorrow where our activities affects us.

The past is never where you think you left it

Everyone have their very own past. Someone had success story in it. Someone had failures too. But it doesn’t matter the past is something that shows who you are up to oru what you’ve been brought up.

The past is very important to anybody because it allows oneself to self evaluate himself, before he is judged by others. There’s lot of interesting things behind everyone’s past. If a guy knows his past, he knows what would happen in future.

The mistakes what we’d done in our past will let us and spare us time to change ourself before being struggled in future. There are many right thins too, which should be carried to the future. But there’s wrong too which should be left in past itself.

I’m very sure a successful man had a very bad past. The past influence a person to take an elevation of fall to rise. Many people nowadays running to fix things what we’d done in past, but the saddes truth is we can’t. Yesterday’s right may be wrong in future. Great things takes great time.

The past encourages us to lead a worthy life. The name, the position, the emotions, the character everything changes if we compare our today with yesterday. Every new day is new born to ourself. Peaceful life can be lead by us if we leave our past and work today so that good things joins at tomorrow. Yesterday is a comma today is a question mark and never let your tomorrow to be your fullstop.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

The Road Not Taken

When every choice involves the loss of opportunity, which path will you choose? When your choices come with incomplete information, how can you be certain? How long will you stand still before making your choice? How confident are you when you realize you can’t save the first road for another day when the road you chose tends to lead onward to another? Whichever road you choose will make all the difference. In order to be different and do something great, you have to think different and implement things with a different approach. You have to take a different lane; the road not taken.

Remember the poem “The Road Not Taken” penned by Robert Frost?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth…

The poem describes someone standing at a fork, or turning point, in a road in the woods, trying to decide which path he is going to take. He looks down one road as far as he can see, and after thinking for another minute, decides to take one because it looks like nobody’s been that way yet, and he is curious about where it leads. He thinks maybe he might come back another day and try out the other path but he has a feeling that the road he has chosen will lead him to new places and discoveries, and he probably won’t be back. He thinks wistfully about that road, which he did not take, and where he might have wound up if he’d gone that way instead. Part of him regrets his decision, but he also realizes that the things he’s seen and the places he’s gone because of the direction he chose has made him who he is.

This poem tells a lot about life in general. Life is all about making choices, whether it’s about choosing to change your daily diet or choosing the right partner. Every choice has its significance in some way or the other.

It makes me remember that past is always dynamic because it shapes my present and therefore, I should be careful about my present as it will take care of my future. Most importantly, this poem makes me think wisely about my choices. It reminds me that I should not make such a choice which I would regret one day and say ‘if I would have taken the other road, it would have been better’. Rather I should be proud of my decision and say ‘Yes! Since I chose the right path, it has led to all this difference’. The difference is what makes it different. Just as Frost ended the poem: “I took the road less travelled, and that’s all that matters”. There are no bad roads, there are only different battles that births different results.

In my opinion, the poet encourages the readers to create opportunities that may be overlooked by us because we all are in search of solutions for our problems rather than trying to sort out the things in the less conventional way.

    HOW TO FACE OUR TOMORROW

    Ask yourself the above question.

     There’s a myth revolving around us how to face our day to day life and socialize ourself. The answer is, in this generation the people lead a much sophisticated life which results lack of good qualities. Everyone does their everyone’s personal work and just move on. They just forgot to look up others. 

                              As I already said if we have to face tomorrow we should be ready to face someone whose strange to us. Nowadays people just doesn’t know where to laugh as they always expose their emotions and expression only on social medias like Facebook, whatsApp, Instagram, twitter etc…, But the saddest truth is the friends we earn through online is not always available for us to cope up. 

                      First we should make ourself stead in making and taking wise decision to get out of our today’s problems because the solution we get for today’s problems is the result of happiness that we enjoy for tomorrow. 

                         We should practice to do our day to day work within the clock ends today as because every new day begins with every new challenge. We should ready to tackle and finish our race which is nothing but our toady. 

    This two quotes easily says how the time is important to us…. 

               ” The two most powerful warriors are patience and time” and” Time is money”.

    So the answer for the biggest question HOW TO FACE TOMORROW gets its point on the day before that is TODAY itself. The smile you have today is the pain you gone through yesterday. Always be ready to get on and move on. Evaluation is constant. 

    Food from scratch…

    • Noodles

    A 4000 year old bowl of noodles unearthed in China is the earliest example ever found of one of the world’s most popular foods. Noodles have been a staple food in many parts of the world for at least 2000 years. But who inverted the noodle? This is a hotly contested topic – with the Chinese , Italian and Arabs all staking a claim.

    •Ice cream

    The first ice cream was probably made by chance when someone left some milk outside on a cold night and it froze!

    Alexander the great enjoyed ice cream made with milk, fruit juice, honey and snow in the 4th century B.C. and the Roman emperor Nero ordered ice to ne brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit toppings. The Chinese also had a method of making ice creams and some believe that ice cream came to Europe from China.

    It was Quintus Maximus, a roman general, who first wrote down a recipe for ice cream. Marco Polo brought the Chinese recipe to Venice after his visit to Peking. The king of England, Charles I is supposed to have offered his chef a handsome reward to keep his ice cream recipe a secret!

    You favourite ice cream cone was invented by a pastry maker Ernest Hamwi in 1904, at the World Fair in St. Louis. He put a scoop of ice cream on his pastry when an ice cream seller in a neighbouring stall ran out of dishes- and it became an instant hit!

    • Chocolate

    Cocoa, from which chocolate is made is said to have originated in the Amazon atleast 4000 years ago. The origins of chocolate can be traced back to the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilization in central America, who first enjoyed ‘chocolatel’, a much prized spicy drink made from roasted cocoa beans, the Aztecs believed that the cocoa tree was a gift from their God, Quetzalcoatl. According to legend, He had been banished by the other gods for giving the tree to mankind, but he promised to return to them one day.

    The Spanish, led by Hernando Cortez, invaded Mexico in the 16th century. When the Aztecs saw Cortez, they believed their god had returned and welcomed him with a golden cup of chocolate! When Cortez returned to Spain in 1528, he loaded his galleons with cocoa beans and equipment for making the chocolate drink. Soon ‘chocolate’ became a fashionable drink enjoyed by the rich in Spain.

    It was in 1847 that solid chocolate, as we know of today, was made by Fry and sons of Bristol by mixing sugar with cocoa powder and cocoa butter and your favourite treat was born.

    • Chewing gum

    Thousands of years ago people chewed gum in it’s natural form. The most common ancient chewing gum was tree resin lumps, but people chewed various sweet grasses, leaves, grains and waxes also. The first commercial Chewing gum was made and sold in 1848 by John Bacon Curtis. He made a sticky, rubbery material from the spruce tree which could be chewed. In the 1860’s, Thomas Adams began selling chicle, a gum from the sapodilla tree of Mexico’s Yucatan desert.

    Thank you for reading. Have a nice day!🌼