Who Cares!! Get a LIfe .....

From the past few days i have seen a lot of people writing and wondering over what life means to them and what is wrong or right with this life.It seems that in due course of time we would have to role out degrees for specialisation in Life.

I am no expert at Life and neither i wish to be one , i believe that living and facing the challenges is far more wonderful than analysing how life is going or what it would have been with all those ifs and buts. Apparently lot of you would say that in the harder times i was also whining about the same thing but with the growth in the thought process and observing a trend in people to analyse life and pondering over the issues as problems in the hardest time they believe they are facing , I came to realise that we seek God and curse life only when we are having difficulties is grasping the life's truth and divine plan.We as humans have always cried over the spilled milk and still we continue to do the same thing.I have learnt that facing life with a smile is all you need to overcome the greatest of all miseries that life posts for us.With every low there is a possibility of greater height.Don't we realize that for a greater leap we have to take a head start not by going forward but by moving a few steps backwards but again what is important is not that we are going back but the target , the ultimate aim for which we are taking the leap and it should be always visible to us.The clarity and truthfulness you embed in your life, the more successful you would be and these attributes are not for the world but for you.

People come and go away from our life and we fail to realise the ultimate truth.I have realized that we meet certain individuals for a brief span of time and get the message they were there to convey , the possibility is that we may never meet them again but that is the life's plan of telling us how we could improve . Life always send us messages , signals and symbols in various forms through its vessels and then what do we do??? The choice is ours either to understand the message or ignore it and crib about the loss of vessel.

We crib all the time, for we want every thing good to happen to us but logically that is not viable.Why do we fail to see the other side of the picture , every thing is accompanied with positive and negative energies.I would like to ask you a question why do we have tears in our eyes after we have had a great laugh ??? I suppose that is the question we should look out for when we say why has this bad happened to me. Was i the only one that was supposed to suffer??

But ignorantly we are too engrossed in our situation that we fail to see meaning in small things happening around us, and with a conscientious effort we could see that life happens all around us.

And here i would like to thank someone who brought about this change in perception about small yet vital things happening around us and seeking clues and happiness from them.

Planned Life or Life's Plan

Planned life and Life' plan will seem to be different entities but they eventually end on one thing US and the direct repercussions can be on us and our environment alike.

It has been long since I last blogged but as we cannot foresee the unpredictable nature of life, so did I fail to see where it was heading. I say unpredictable because I never planned any of it in my last one year and anything and everything I planned eventually failed. Actually I would like to put it as the saying goes that when one door closes lot many come in the offering but I was actually thinking of sneaking out of the windows for I believe that if doors cannot be used use the most probable and possible exit .

But what we foolishly or to say ignorantly don’t check is whether the door is closed or locked for if it is just closed there are possibilities to open it but if its locked then the dependency is on the key , and I say dependencies are not too reliable. That was some practical and hypothetical interpretation of the learning of my life as I put it and the opinions on this could vary but I have actually started believing in life’s plan for us.

These are the hardest times any individual / professional could face. So many lives are changed, dreams shattered moreover altered, desires suppressed because life didn’t go as we planned it actually it doesn’t often but when you are used to being in control, you feel betrayed and you put a question mark on your abilities. I have seen people with virtues to be the best they think they could, crib in such desperate times. But does that change anything, you will remain the pathetic you if you crib. I believe that life has its own plan for us which is directed and controlled by our own choices but when life sees that we are deviating from its plan it creates another game plan and forces it onto us. And we as miserable creatures have to adapt to it in such times. I don’t undermine anyone’s ability to outperform life’s plan but I believe that plan was there so that they could identify their true ability and workout a method to defeat it. Very optimistic as most of you would say and lot of you will go ahead and say that you are questioning the ability of individuals for survival. But please don’t be offended it’s just the change in thought process that I have realized and acknowledged. What needs to be done has to be done, you cannot quit, life is ahead of you but it’s better to sneak into its plan before it’s too late and the next time you are in difficulty or something you wanted never made it to you then believe in yourself and the pattern of life which means to provide you opportunities better than you yourself can imagine.

Cherish Your Freedom

I have really been touched by the news this past month of the political turmoil in Iran. The protests and demands for freedom by the Iranian people have both moved and inspired me, probably in the same way that many have been inspired by the labors of those who became the founding fathers of the United States. There are many countries that still fight for even the smallest liberties that many of us of take for granted. Did you know,that out of 103 countries of the world, 43 are still not free? And that actually equals over a third of our world population!

In some of these countries, the population is kept in the dark, denied education and healthcare, and often left in a constant state of fear for life and limb. In others, women are denied education and live an extremely oppressed existence. And in still others, entire tribes or races are the victims of genocide. If what I am writing seems too terrible to think about, well it is terrible! I have to admit that, when I compare my life to the lives of people in countries who still struggle under the yoke of oppression, all of my personal cares and concerns seem very small indeed.

I certainly don't want to imply,that we should feel guilty about the freedoms we benefit from. On the contrary, we should be joyful and grateful for the many liberties we enjoy each and every day, because any of us could have been born in a country where we might never experience the independence and free will we have now.

We enjoy a number of very precious liberties, including the right to speak freely without fear of being arrested, the right to a free press, the right to practice the religion of your choice, the right to a full education, and the right to vote for your candidate of choice. And because these freedoms have been practiced for a long time, it has become an accepted and expected way of living. I just wanted to take this opportunity in lieu of the turmoil going on in our world to say how fortunate those of us who do benefit from such freedoms actually are.

"Freedom" may be a small word, but it carries a huge significance, especially for those who are still fighting for it and for those to whom it is nothing more than a dim hope. I am sure you will agree that we should greet each new day with a sense of humility and gratitude for the privileges and liberties we continue to enjoy, and that we should never take our freedom for granted.

INDIA = (ME > COUNTRY) ? CROUCHING TIGER : LEAPING TIGER.

I was traveling to Delhi on the day when news paper carried a story of Mr.Nandan Nilekani resigning from the board of Infosys in order to dawn the character of a visionary leader as the head of the proposed single ID card development department.
I was , in those days , pretty busy with my own life which was i would say undergoing "QUARTER LIFE CRISIS" and i had no thoughts other than my life's , which had gone hay-wired.But that's a different story.Incidentally i had stopped reading newspaper for a few days now, thanks to google news,but on a train its pretty difficult even now to access google,I suppose we may have to wait for 3G services to be fully operational before we could actually get google on a train.So the newspaper was the last escape from the chatter box sitting just next to me, please don't get ideas ,she was not talking to me but with her boyfriend and that to on her mobile and i was wondering ,when will her balance end so that she may turn silent,but that was not to happen,not on this journey.So coming back onto the news I read it said that Nandan Nilekani will head the team that will initiate the development and implementation of this project and Infosys is the biggest contender in order to bag the tenders for development.The Newspaper said that this project should be considered a milestone project similar to the DMRC (Delhi Metro) that would change the way India is looked upon and Nandan Nlekani would be parallel to the greats like Mr. E. Sreedharan, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, who is credited for the zeal with which Metro Rail in Delhi has developed.
But what the newspaper didn't tell us is that this highly anticipated project will be funded by the world bank and governments strategy of putting a respected corporate leader like Nandan Nilekani , as the chief of the project is merely a stunt to add credibility to the government projects.Why add credibility to the government project is Indian government not self capable??
That is not the point, the high level of corruption in bureaucracy and the Satyam scam are more than enough to be cautious with the system and since internationally there has been so much financial crisis, they are definitely unwilling to put stakes where there is a possibility of risk.
Then the second point which cannot be ignored is that we have hundreds of people trying to get a passport as a valid legal document of there existence and their citizenship of our country and they pay around 1500 to 3500 bucks in order to get that then what is the need to start something new do we in the wake of so many crisis either financial,social or terrorism , have time to invest in the infrastructure in order to develop single ID for all the citizens.
HYPOTHETICAL SOLUTION
Why don't we try something like this lets say passport is a valid legal document nationally and internationally and people are willing to pay in order to get this document then why don't we make it mandatory for everyone to get a passport. Will this not be better than investing in a new infrastructure , creating a system an independent organization and bearing the salary burden of unnecessary people.secondly if you are so interested in a smart card technology then also add a card to the passport and demolish every other identity proof that exists in this country.

What I am seeing is not a mere act of growth for the country but the ministry and bureaucracy in terms of money which may be lost to the country as black money. What these people don' t understand is that it is their nation and they should make it the roaring and leaping tiger similar to the flying Eagle rather than a crouching tiger that is tired of the unethical behavior of its citizens.

The Faculty of Perception:A Mith or Reality

I just went through the 'blogs i follow ' list and was amazed at the extent of creativity people could go to and then i was wondering maybe that was no creativity that was reality , yes i know i sound like an atheist who denies the existence of god but believe me i am not trying to be one.
Am i a pessimist or optimist do i see the glass half fill or half empty , everyone says its our perception of reality that gives a meaningful existence to us and our environment. We assess ourselves and that is how we change our existence,to be optimized on the terms of our value system.So what is the value system, may be some institution like marriage that legalizes a moral concept or a hard core rule book that defines how we should live. Again its very hard to define something that has no physical existence , its like a form shifter ,yes something that changes with changing perception.Is it really hard to digest what i am pointing out.
I am trying to make a point by saying that what may be reality to a few may be an act of fiction to others and believe me it is not coming out of a movie , its live yes its happening all around us but we in the ignorance of our quest for happy life don't recognize the simple mysteries and the education, life is imparting us.We are just turning our back onto reality and are moving onto the verge of being ignorant of the tools that could perhaps comprehend this reality into knowledge.
'Knowledge is power' yet we run after power all our lives, yes power it doesn't only pertain to its literal meaning, it's symbolic of success and everything else a human wants in its life. Ain't he deluded , actually the faculty of perception deceives them it tells them that power is everything , its visible, even it forms a handsome mirror image that too a powerful one but the knowledge is hidden from naked eye and lost to most of us and then someone like Lord Mahavira or Lord Buddha or as a matter of fact any of those great souls that walked this earth have to seek it for us to be lost again in the human faculty of perception.

ShoeD: The Shoed Democracy

I have been asked to be very simple in my posts and try to bring out the essence of the topic in a bit easier fashion.So although i don't think that i write so disturbing thoughts that people don't get them but still since the request has been from one of my most wonderful senior,whom i respect a lot ,it cannot be ignored.
Since we are living in the world's largest democracy , I suppose everyone has the write to express themselves .This fact is well justified when one goes across the pages of the most sacred book in the Indian Politics , yes our CONSTITUTION drafted and proposed under Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. We even celebrate the Republic day in order to commemorate the occasion of us being legally civilized, by that I mean as a population and respected citizen of the country we ought to behave civilized and abide by the constitution which gives the definition of our rights and duties.
Yes we are very aware of the rights the right to education,equality,freedom and above all the right to free speech and the right to vote and select our representatives in the governments but what we may intend to ignore is that the constitution puts a few restriction on us in order to ensure peace in the society and the coexisting societies.Ok .. this again seems to be going a way off track and i need to consolidate my thoughts or else i may end up writing something wierd.
It is the shoes i am talking about yes the same shoe that flung past President Bush's face and then it was the turn of Indian Home Minister Mr.P.Chidambram followed by Mr Jindal and finally the BJP's PM candidate and senior leader Mr.L.K.Advani. This act is a very shameful one and hampers the image of our country as a civilized peace loving nation.When you have the bigger tool,yes your vote to show these polititians what they deserve then why use a shoe to express your anger.The politics is too corrupt and no one wishes to dirty his hands while cleaning this mess up but a SHOE , it needs a revolutionary movement on solid ground to rebuild this nation as the leaders and freedom fighters had thought when they fought to free this country .
We are far better than the people who appreciate the tantrum in the form of a SHOE,we are civilized and above all we are the democratic republic which is based on love , trust and equality.
So why be carried away with the trend from another country , You have the power and your Vote could bring a difference .So bring that change rather than shoeing this Democracy.