Just Blasting!!

There is a sloka in Sanskrit i read when I was in +2. It says that character of a person is somewhat like water. When we boil water, the temperature increases but after a certain time the hot water again cools down to room temperature.

In the same way people change their behavior immediately after getting hurt. They take so many resolutions. But as soon as they get over with it, they resume their old style of living. I think learning from our past is a very difficult process.

But people learn. It may not necessarily the exact amount what 'they should' but a little less then that. In the case of boiling water it is very true that if left undisturbed hot water cools down to room temperature. But the salt dissolved in it breaks down.

The hardness in water is caused due to the presence of soluble salts like bi-carbonates, chlorides and sulphates of calcium and magnesium.

On boiling water we have the following reactions:

Ca (HCO3)2 - CaCO3+ H2O + CO2­
Mg (HCO3)2 - MgCO3 + H2O + CO2­

Ca and Mg carbonates can be removed simply by filtration.

So it is not the same water. It has gone through some chemical changes. The salts dissolved in it are removed. The hardness vanishes. So people also change. They change their behaviors. They learn. I have learnt too. But as I said earlier not the exact amount what I should but lesser than that.

Here one thing I forgot to mention that the hardness of water is of two types! Temporary hardness and permanent hardness. Temporary hardness can be removed easily by boiling when bi-carbonates are decomposed to insoluble carbonates as we have seen earlier. But permanent hardness, which is due to the presence of chlorides and sulphates of calcium and magnesium, cannot be removed by boiling. Here we have a reason. Some of the characters of a person can be changed, not all. Character of a person largely depends upon his genes. He acquires some characters from the locality he lives at, some from the society and some from the people with whom he spends most of his time.

We have different methods of treating water, like sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, sterilization etc. But unfortunately we don’t have similar solutions for changing/improving/or getting rid the characters of a man. The total change of self is impossible.

So I conclude by saying that I was, I am, and I’ll remain a nut:-)