Turning Point

Turning Point was an amazing science show hosted by Girish Karnard and was broad casted in , i must say,the most coveted days of Doordarshan and had the fan following like any of the MTV shows hosted by Nikhil or Ranvijay today.I was a frequent watcher as this show answered the basic curiosities of "Why and How" and taught me some of the most amazing science tricks. Creating these simple tricks manifest in real had altogether inspired me to be an innovator , a creator and still today I price this instinct above any thing else i learned during my life.

Well don't worry this blog is not about that show but the effect it left and the perception which the show imbibed in me and the way i relate to it in the modern era of technology.

How does it feel to be a creator ??? I suppose all of us have an innate desire to create something. I could say this not because i am assuming it,but that is the conclusion i have drawn over the years of interacting with Individuals,i say individuals because i believe that the property to progressive evolution could come from a single mind whether for self or for the society and when such like minded individuals meet a progressive group is formed.So i was saying that i have interacted with individuals and drawn conclusion that they desire to create be it a software, a house for self or family,a group to cater to the social and political needs of the society or simply a successful career. Whether does this desire springs from? Are we born with it or do we learn it ? This is an open ended question and i don't suppose we would like to go into the controversial topic of nature and nurture to justify whether its something genetic or assimilated from the environment. I would like to add another angle to it, I believe it has something to do with our desire to be in control and be successful,yes the pleasure of creating is indeed remarkable and sometimes it definitely takes our head off the heels.What you feel is a mix of pleasure , power and satisfaction and it creates a belief in you that you are all powerful to do anything you like.

Most of the individuals i have met and talked this over, have been individuals who were complete control freaks , loved there life to turn out the way they had anticipated and took pleasure at astonishing themselves with the outcomes of life and their anticipation and calculating how close they rowed by their target. Still wondering how does all this add to the title 'Turning Point' .

It all does make sense , they are becoming victims of their inhibitions , lets say that "God created this world" and in the process of marveling over his own genius he forgot about its growth and development and that is when Adam and Eve were made victims of desire by Sebastian or Devil as we generally refer to him and look at what is happening to this world from that day on onwards , i believe it's crumbling and that was the turning point.Similarly with every creation there is a turning point which is controlled by the creator and if he grows ignorant of it then panic is created.And i believe,this is how it all goes.

The Eventualities of Time....

This is going to be a very special piece of blog for the people who have been part and parcel of my life in the past 5 yrs.I met them at my college hostel,made friends with them and life was never the same again , those sessions on technical discussions,life building plans,the get-together to discuss the most irrelevant things on this planet and the enthusiasm to fight back with life and show it who is the boss where things which did gave us hope of proving us to this world. But what we never saw coming was that the time we could have been together was spent in chasing dreams and when it was time to realize the dreams we all wouldn't be together. I am not saying that we are falling apart but we would be distantly placed , thanks to Internet and mobile communication that we would be able to keep in touch and update each other of our states but then physical presence is, for me, a mere necessity in any relationship.
This was probably the last weekend that we were able to enjoy the way we used to in the college days. Gathering together, cherishing the memories of the past ,discussing the present and the future , the late night movie shows , the jam sessions, going to places where we used to put up during the college days and gathering those memories but now i suppose certain things would change , Noida would not remain a cool place for me.Actually i am still fighting to understand the consequences but the uncertainty of the events falling in place is merely a coincidence now.
Although past year has been unpredictable and has unfolded in a way i never anticipated so i always keep my fingers crossed and hope that any thing or every thing would change for the betterment of me and my friends.But as every thing has a beginning and an end this phase is also ending,although it is a part of our lives yet lets see what unfolds from the Pandora's box.

P.S.:If something in your life has recently changed, it's time to embrace the newness of it all rather than worrying about what has ended. Look forward to a more interesting tomorrow.

Adaptability and Flexibility

I had an innate urge to write something for a few days but I was short of time.So today after a hectic week I got a holiday which I utilized for sleeping for the entire day and when the insomniac tendencies were on the high I thought why not write something futile.
What should I start with? Having abandoned the domain of life sciences in my previous post I wont shed out any gyan on life.For i would just say go out,get going and live Life to the fullest.So what should I write about now??
Let me try this, this was one of the abilities I realized I possessed during the days of training.I have been a stage shy person and have difficulty in grasping the fact that i could even write a skit, direct it and enact in it.This was an alien domain to me, ask me to shed light on a technical topic or behavioral patterns and I would go on for hours and finally you would have to ask me to stop , "it was OK that we asked" would be your remark.But ask me to act and you would see a confident person getting butterflies in his stomach,it is easy to preach than act and stage is one such platform where you have to act and preach alike.

I always thought that's a difficult job with someone so disabled in creative ideas and having sense of humor that the worst in a group could be praised above me , I always thought that i am feebly inappropriate in that department.But lo and behold with every skit i wrote i gained confidence i was improving. My scripts were carrying the exact message that we were to deliver and the trainer was appreciating the directness and i couldn't believe it ,was i naive in my thinking or are there people with worst humor than mine were the few questions that i was asking myself.I don't see failure in people or shortcomings in their character.I am selfish enough to learn the best skills they possess so feeling negative was out of question because that would have highly hampered my thought process and value system. I have learned a lot about myself in this past year and in fact i am realizing it now that most of the intellectual people told us that the best way to overcome this harsh phase, which was worse than the '98 slowdown and the bursting of the dot com bubble,would be to introspect ,learn and grow.And i suppose it all went as they said it but i am a bit dumb at realizing this fact.As they say the sooner the better,so my ignorant self has suddenly grown conscience of my surrounding.Having learnt to appreciate life and the abilities one possesses has been a great achievement on my part and this need not be your opinion but i have learnt and understood that beauty of life could be seen and appreciated in all proportions and you should be open to learning and doing whatever comes your way. As they say it, "Adaptability and Flexibility are the greatest virtues of a man today".

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.