Assertive???
(The blog was written around a month back!) What is assertiveness? Usually, people associate assertiveness with the capability to say "no" to people because more often than not, people end up saying "yes" when actually they want to say "no". How many times have you yielded to a friend's request to go out for a drive when you wanted to lie down in your bed? Or, how many times have you lied to your relative about the abysmal state of your car which is in good shape and she asked for it. Assertiveness is much more than that. It is the ease with which one can state the correct irrespective of the odds without being rude or offending. It might sound easy but in practice that's one of the toughest things to do. Today I was coming in a train. I was lying on the upper berth. Suddenly I smelt a cigarette. A guy was sitting on the lower berth and was smoking happily unaware of the problems being faced by me because of his