Sporadic Thoughts

By Adriana Dardan

Sporadic Thoughts is an attainment of reflections based on experience and observations gathered over a long period. People from different social strata, race, and culture; had a different level of education; young and old; each with a different personality and behavior; and acting differently in the same or similar circumstances were the inspiration for this work. Sensory details about their feelings, reactions, opinions, struggles, and actions are comprised in this collection of thoughts, with the hope and belief that they will be of some use to everyone who is interested in human nature and behavior.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524614348

Adriana Dardan

Adriana Dardan was born in Cernautzi–Bucovina, in a period of peace and prosperity of Romania. She attended the school and university in Bucureti graduating as an engineer. Privately, she studied philosophy, biology, and social sciences. She succeeded together with her family, to immigrate to the USA, where she worked as an engineer. The free time was devoted to writing realizing her basic works with subjects in various literary genres: philosophical, historical, reflective essays, novels, and personal opinions about human nature.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/17/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-1435-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-1434-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016909810

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Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Sporadic Thoughts

Dedication

Dedicated to my son Aram, from whom I learned to discern the gentleness and the beauty of the human mind, and whose ideal was to teach the young generation how to evolve rationally, and how to preserve the treasures left to us by the greatest thinkers of all times.

Adriana Dardan

Foreword

Writing a novel is a long and tedious process, requiring a planning in advance for the development of the story. Thoughts and feelings have to follow in a smooth way the sequences chosen to be described, according to the rules and standards of the literary concept. The story features the rising action where characters and events build a climax through developing suspense and details of the plot. At the end, the story has to show that it had a purpose to be written.

This is not a novel. It is a collection of thoughts based on experience and observations gathered over a long period of time. I met in my life many people, from different social strata, race, and culture, with a different level of education, young, and old, each with a different personality and behavior, acting differently in same or similar circumstances. From them I learned sensory details expressed in the daily realities of life. I observed and analyzed their feelings, reactions, opinions, struggles, and actions under favorable or adverse circumstances. My observations added to my personal experiences are comprised in this collection of thoughts, with my hope and belief that they will be of some use to every one who is interested in the human nature and behavior.

Adriana Dardan

Sporadic Thoughts

1. In my world, and in my society, I feel humble and like being nobody. As a minuscule particle of the Universe, I am proud, and feel like being somebody.

2. Man should be always responsible for his thoughts and his deeds, because regardless of the injustice or fairness of the social laws, before anything and anyone else, man should be ready anytime to be judged by the 'tomorrow day'. There is always a 'tomorrow' which never makes mistakes in judging every man, regardless of the fact that he is alive or he is dead, or even if he is important and educated, or he is simple and ignorant.

3. We cannot pretend to reach agreements, collaboration, peace, and equilibrium among nations and societies as long as their constituent members carry guns without any restriction and kill each other without any restraining laws.

4. Where fear is predominant in the life of the individual and in his community, freedom cannot exist. Where guns, unemployment, poverty, and permanent insecurity constantly threaten the individual, the human rights trumpeted by constitutional laws are nothing but sinister mockeries. Where fear, injustice, and abuses exist, individual, communities, and societies are on their knees, exploited and robbed of their means of development.

5. Mental disability is a lack of intelligence that restricts normal activity. Mental dullness is a diminishing of intelligence, all the way to downfall, initiated by refusal and stubbornness to understand and to accept the reality as it is.

6. A woman is the foundation of a family. A man is the inconvenience of it until he realizes that woman is stronger, more resolute, and capable of greater achievements than he first thought.

7. No one can live with only the smell of food. Hungry people are not always responsible for their misfortune and should not be blamed or be judged since they are in a state of weakness, and they cannot answer for the fault they committed.

8. A friend is one level below a mother, who cares and loves. Otherwise, the so-called friends are only pleasant companions and messmates.

9. I know that I am healthy, and you know that you are healthy. All people around us know that they are healthy. But, do we know in reality, how sick we are?

10. The more you learn and know, the more is left to be learned and known. Learning and knowledge shaped the roads of civilization before, and make possible the individual and social progress today and in the future.

11. We live in a world in which the precise time has come to teach us, what we all must learn -- regardless of our level of education and social stratus -- that we are, indeed, extremely tired of the burden we carry, and which is filled with our mistakes and with those inherited from our predecessors.

12. If we do not know, we have to learn. If we know, then we should apply to our daily realities whatever we know to construct the necessary conditions for our own survival and for those who follow us.

13. The human life is made of very small chambers. Some of them are furnished with elegance, some are poor and ugly, some contain wounds that never heal, some are deposits of treasures hidden from outsiders, many are filled with either love or hatred, and finally some are sealed, yet waiting for death to fill their emptiness.

14. The Universe looks chaotic, violent, and unfriendly, but, in spite of what we see and know, we have to admit that laws and a certain order are guiding it, from the distant galaxies to the subatomic particles. Otherwise, our life on Earth and our existence in the Universe will not be possible.

15. Mankind will be long gone, much before our shiny star will overheat and fry the Earth. Do not bother to look into deep space to find another planet where to transfer and seed our highly sophisticated civilization and our bad habits. Instead, look deep in our contemporary societies. Our sun is not the monster that will kill our life. Man alone is the big monster, because over time, he became a self-destroyer. Do not count billions of years still to come, hoping to give a surviving kit to the coming generations. Count the life of mankind, just in hours and days.

16. Our body is made of Supernova stuff, all right, but not our mind. There, the laws of physics and the mathematical equations do not apply. The energy of thought can travel back and forth, to the infinity of space, back in past time, or ahead in the far future, in less than a split second. The much we use it, the smarter we become, and the less of it is lost.

17. Children die every day in every corner of the world, either in wars, or, from starvation, diseases, mistreatment, and injuries. We try to understand, and therefore to accept the pain, sorrow, and suffering, with which we have to live for the rest of our lives. Nevertheless, when children are purposely aimed for death, we cannot understand, and therefore cannot accept such a monstrosity for which simple words are not enough to describe. If we start sobbing, we will never stop.

18. Basic education for the majority of people would help many societies of different cultures and traditions to understand each other, to share their different heritages, and to develop a common prosperity for the benefit of all mankind.

19. Squeeze a lemon to the right till the last drop, then squeeze it to the left, and you will be surprised to see how many drops are still left. Review your work back and forth, and you will find many details that you missed.

20. If ever I would inspire fear to someone, I would consider myself miserably poor and degrading, a wretched creature without dignity and deserving no respect.

21. I do not judge and I do not punish those who did harm to me, but, I do not have the power to forgive them, and I am glad not to have it.

22. Knowing the troubled history of humankind makes us to better understand, and accept with more compassion and kindness our contemporary world as it is. Every generation before said the same thing but every time very little has been achieved in this regard. The human behavior is not often inclined to become better.

23. Whatever still does not kill a man from sufferings, leaves him with a burnt soul that in time shapes into pieces like dried and dusty parchment paper which remain painful for the rest of his life. Out of wounds and pains and sufferings and devastating burns, never can strength arise and make man happier and more powerful than he was before. A good part of him was lost forever and he has to live with only whatever is left of him.

24. Man never bothered to see how beautiful