RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES                The United Nations Organization has established a list of several fundamental human rights. One right that needs to be added is 'Right to Make Mistakes'. To make  mistakes is every human's basic right. There is nobody in the whole wide world who has  never made any mistake. We ought to be compassionate to ourselves as well as others for  making mistakes.                 Some people feel very upset or guilty if they make a mistake. Karen Horney, a psychoanalyst, has referred to 'tyranny of the should' as one of the roots of mental illness. Many of us carry an obsession: "I must succeed in all that I undertake", " I must win if I  am p...

                                          WHAT WILL  OTHERS THINK ABOUT ME ?                Many of us harbor an irrational belief, " I must be a likeable person to others". We  then try to please everybody. We refrain from voicing our displeasure even when treated  inappropriately by someone. We do not speak up against injustice lest we fall out of favor of  some. We stay away from expressing our  hurt feelings out of fear that he or she will stop  liking me. In reality, so what if some people do not like you? The sky is not going to come  down. Be assured, other people's ill opinion about you is not going to damage your skin. We  have to stop measuring our self worth in terms of whar others think about us. If we keep  trying to please others. we wind up making ourslve...

                                                          GENGHIS  KHAN                  Born in 12th century ad., in the region of Mongolia, Genghis Khan grew up in a  world of tribal violence. From the harsh environment (no formal education) he cultivated  the full range of emotions: desire, ambition and cruelty. While still a child he killed his half- brother. As he reached his adulthood, year by year, he conquered all rival tribes on the  Mongolian steppe. Then he ventured out of his homeland, going on a killing spree, and  conquering towns and villages across  the Gobi and the yellow river, into the kingdoms of  China, thru the central Asian lands of Turks and Persians, across the mountains of  Afghanistan to the Indus ri...