Random Musings for College Students: Part One

By Raja Sharma

I started excavated the sleeping ideas and decided to give them the shapes of essays, articles, and stories to help my students develop the art of writing.

In this series I am presenting random writings which are definitely going to help school and college students if you are pursuing your career studies in Literature or Social sciences. The writing may seem to be not systematically planned, after all they are Random Musings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466073197

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

Book preview

Random Musings for College Students: Part One

Raja Sharma

Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

Smashwords Edition

All Rights Reserved

Chapter One: Preface

Innumerable thoughts develop in mind while teaching the students of literature in a classroom but it is not always possible to transfer all the ideas which suddenly crop up in a teacher’s mind, and as a result such ideas continue to be stored in sleeping memory.

I started excavated the sleeping ideas and decided to give them the shapes of essays, articles, and stories to help my students develop the art of writing.

In this series I am presenting random writings which are definitely going to help school and college students if you are pursuing your career studies in Literature or Social sciences. The writing may seem to be not systematically planned, after all they are Random Musings.

All the best.

Raja Sharma (Rajasir)

Chapter Two: Does the Idea of Death Appall You?

Generally, people seem to be so much lost in the worldly affairs that they hardly ever bring to mind that one day they will have to depart from this earth too. May be, the struggle for survival, or accumulation of material comforts to add to their life style give them an illusion that the dream of life is going to last forever.

At a certain age, normally, after they have crossed the age of fifty, a sudden and ever-increasing fear begins to develop in their minds. The people who have this kind of phobia in their minds should pay attention to the following lines:

"Life is an uncertain and unpredictable preparation for death. And, if there is life after life, then there is nothing to worry because you will get one too, and if there is reincarnation, my friends, you will also be reincarnated, and if there is going to be an encounter with the so-called God, then there is nothing like that, and, finally, if there is nothing after this life, or, everything will end, then it is