Earlier the day was important coz it meant yummy ladoos from school the only hurdle was to get up early and dress tidily even on the Day when elder siblings were still sleeping and enjoying their college/work holiday.
Then eventually it promised lot of dance, drama and cultural event practice in school (teachers made it compulsory for junior students and we loved it!) as it meant officially bunking so many boring classes for nothing but practice, cramming patriotic dialogues of Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Gandhi . Glorifying their heroic deeds and the mettle. Independence Day was such a fun day with colorful dresses and tricolors!
Then we came to college and omg Independence Day meant no attendance, lectures and more time to hang out with friends, and now again when we are working Independence Day is like a boon to the Monday-Friday 8-7 life, only if it doesn’t fall on a weekend. That feels like such a waste... (Which it is this time!)
Neways, the point is quite LITERALLY we do celebrate Independence Day every year, freedom from our daily job /routine and rules and to live this day as per our wishes and probably we will continue to do so irrespective of the fact that this day is so much more than that.(which some of us realise and many of us dont)
This year also I expected to feel the same but just then my heart sank in to read about the huge corruption scam lingering CWG ,speculated terror attack on India, tribal girl raped in front of villagers,
Turmoil in Kashmir, Politicians fighting over naxals!
And I shivered is India actually free?
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Are choices good!
Just when you have decided on one thing the prospect of other options overpowers your logical sense and leaves you bemused. Sometimes, I wonder had their been no choices available Life would have been much simpler and we would have achieved a lot more then what we end up getting now.
Most of our times these days go into deciding what we want (which itself is the most difficult question to answer) and which option to choose from. The whole exercise of analyzing (sometime) and deciding (no other option) leaves us with no energy to proceed further and hence we blame it on the chosen option.
Sometimes, I wonder these choices instead of making us strong have made us weak and vulnerable. We tend to question our decision every now and then and hence the need of somebody approving our decision becomes indispensible (after all we do seek approval and assurance), no wonder every body is trying to do and compete over the same thing( crowd approves of the decision)
And, probably that is why we have so many helplines→consultants→pshyciatrists mushrooming suddenly.
But On the brighter side of it no other way would have helped to inculcate managerial skills in us in a better way. It doesn’t matter which option you choose or what approval/assurance you seek as long as you are getting the results (again result is relative/u define results as what everybody else thinks the result should be). There is no good or bad way of doing things in management there is only two definitions which works here pass or fail.
So it doesn’t matter even if you have chosen the wisest of path but if u still couldn’t get results you have made a BAD decision.
So, the point here is choices are just illusion we still are following the same rules and we still know what we are going to decide(safe and approved) it’s just the gestation which has widened.
Most of our times these days go into deciding what we want (which itself is the most difficult question to answer) and which option to choose from. The whole exercise of analyzing (sometime) and deciding (no other option) leaves us with no energy to proceed further and hence we blame it on the chosen option.
Sometimes, I wonder these choices instead of making us strong have made us weak and vulnerable. We tend to question our decision every now and then and hence the need of somebody approving our decision becomes indispensible (after all we do seek approval and assurance), no wonder every body is trying to do and compete over the same thing( crowd approves of the decision)
And, probably that is why we have so many helplines→consultants→pshyciatrists mushrooming suddenly.
But On the brighter side of it no other way would have helped to inculcate managerial skills in us in a better way. It doesn’t matter which option you choose or what approval/assurance you seek as long as you are getting the results (again result is relative/u define results as what everybody else thinks the result should be). There is no good or bad way of doing things in management there is only two definitions which works here pass or fail.
So it doesn’t matter even if you have chosen the wisest of path but if u still couldn’t get results you have made a BAD decision.
So, the point here is choices are just illusion we still are following the same rules and we still know what we are going to decide(safe and approved) it’s just the gestation which has widened.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Ecstatic!
When is the last time you experienced the Power of U!
Somebody appreciated you not for any amount of accomplishments you have achieved or for the conventional unconventional aspirations you hold from your life but just for your mere existence, the fact that you are there sharing a moment of your life with him.
No amount of expectations and no room for assumptions! Just enjoying and living the moment with utmost sincerity and contentment.
Making the harmony gratifying enough, no words exchanged and no smiles shared.
That’s Ecstasy and that’s Life! You just never know how small and petty things can reward you sometimes.
Sincere thanks to the construction worker I shared a cup of tea with. He made me Happy for being “ME”
Somebody appreciated you not for any amount of accomplishments you have achieved or for the conventional unconventional aspirations you hold from your life but just for your mere existence, the fact that you are there sharing a moment of your life with him.
No amount of expectations and no room for assumptions! Just enjoying and living the moment with utmost sincerity and contentment.
Making the harmony gratifying enough, no words exchanged and no smiles shared.
That’s Ecstasy and that’s Life! You just never know how small and petty things can reward you sometimes.
Sincere thanks to the construction worker I shared a cup of tea with. He made me Happy for being “ME”
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Passion!
How bad do you what things in life? Or to put it right do you know what you want in life and to what extent are you ready to pay for it.
This defines the passion for the thing. You are just ready to pay anything for it.
By paying of course I don’t mean something which you can afford but it simply means things which will take away a part of YOU and will be difficult to part with. Does passion means madness, is madness good? However irrational and illogical it is.
So many people I see, observe and follow have achieved things they are proud of, things they always wanted to do, things they have toiled for. And every time I saw them it always looked and felt good. To see them there, right at the helm of success. What remained hidden all this while was the price they must have paid for it. The ethereal/intangible things in life they have compromised or parted with.
Are you Passionate enough is the question here. Can you take that leap of faith and pay whatever it takes. Can it be build/worked on or is it something you either have or U don’t.
This defines the passion for the thing. You are just ready to pay anything for it.
By paying of course I don’t mean something which you can afford but it simply means things which will take away a part of YOU and will be difficult to part with. Does passion means madness, is madness good? However irrational and illogical it is.
So many people I see, observe and follow have achieved things they are proud of, things they always wanted to do, things they have toiled for. And every time I saw them it always looked and felt good. To see them there, right at the helm of success. What remained hidden all this while was the price they must have paid for it. The ethereal/intangible things in life they have compromised or parted with.
Are you Passionate enough is the question here. Can you take that leap of faith and pay whatever it takes. Can it be build/worked on or is it something you either have or U don’t.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
It’s when you lose all hope you become Free: Fight Club!
OMG! Been long when anything sounded so real than this..
Watched Fight club, the movie is fab!
And it came at such a right time just when I was thinking Y cannot I not THINK! When will I be Free?
Knowing what you want and going after it is all this life is worth for, it will involve a hell lot of pain but two minutes before you die and when you can see the snippets of your life before your eyes, u wont regret going through that pain.
Strongly recommended for those who haven’t seen it yet! Talks about Power of Mind and most importantly Power of YOU..
Watched Fight club, the movie is fab!
And it came at such a right time just when I was thinking Y cannot I not THINK! When will I be Free?
Knowing what you want and going after it is all this life is worth for, it will involve a hell lot of pain but two minutes before you die and when you can see the snippets of your life before your eyes, u wont regret going through that pain.
Strongly recommended for those who haven’t seen it yet! Talks about Power of Mind and most importantly Power of YOU..
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Y do you always seek companionship!
Y does heart always seeks companionship? What sort of high do we get to be with someone especially when in the back of our mind we know this courtship might just be an illusion and can end up at any point in time? Is der something else besides all those chemical/biological reactions taking place inside us which governs our believes/actions.
Nothing lasts forever, everything is subjected t0 change, the notion that this change will bring something good seem to shatter so many times but still we keep lingering to it.
Is it what we call optimism or is it just a way to run away from reality? Is it why people have come up with the idea of “Living in the moment”, what exactly matters in the end, what is that never changes. Is the art of adapting to these changes called being realistic/practical. I wonder why pessimism has so many negative connotation attached to it inspite of having a sound logical reason attached to it.
Y after putting up an act of being practical so efficiently the core doesn’t budge and still seem to remain the same. Why does the core remain the same inspite of braving so many changes? Sometime I wonder do we actually “CHANGE” or is it just the plot which changes and makes us play different roles. Who actually have the power to change this plots/scenarios.Whos playing the role of director here/who’s plotting us and what does he gets out of it?
I’ve seen people assuming GOD as the supreme power and I wonder what is GOD!
And y does he always wants us to plead before him or be thankful to him.Y can’t he be someone like you and me who could be cursed and who could go wrong. Who has the power to penalise in case he goes wrong.Y is he called the supreme power!
It is us who go through all the changes he put us into and yet he takes away the credit of being GOOD/BAD to take us through happy/sad times. Y den when things are so out of our power and we do not have any say in the happening/not happening of events we expect things/companionship to stay the way it is. Are we mere actors being paid/taxed for our good/bad performances.
Nothing lasts forever, everything is subjected t0 change, the notion that this change will bring something good seem to shatter so many times but still we keep lingering to it.
Is it what we call optimism or is it just a way to run away from reality? Is it why people have come up with the idea of “Living in the moment”, what exactly matters in the end, what is that never changes. Is the art of adapting to these changes called being realistic/practical. I wonder why pessimism has so many negative connotation attached to it inspite of having a sound logical reason attached to it.
Y after putting up an act of being practical so efficiently the core doesn’t budge and still seem to remain the same. Why does the core remain the same inspite of braving so many changes? Sometime I wonder do we actually “CHANGE” or is it just the plot which changes and makes us play different roles. Who actually have the power to change this plots/scenarios.Whos playing the role of director here/who’s plotting us and what does he gets out of it?
I’ve seen people assuming GOD as the supreme power and I wonder what is GOD!
And y does he always wants us to plead before him or be thankful to him.Y can’t he be someone like you and me who could be cursed and who could go wrong. Who has the power to penalise in case he goes wrong.Y is he called the supreme power!
It is us who go through all the changes he put us into and yet he takes away the credit of being GOOD/BAD to take us through happy/sad times. Y den when things are so out of our power and we do not have any say in the happening/not happening of events we expect things/companionship to stay the way it is. Are we mere actors being paid/taxed for our good/bad performances.
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