http://www.bloodbankindia.net/search_donors.php
http://www.bharatbloodbank.com/
http://www.plateletdonors.org/#sthash.lCrfWULE.dpbs
http://www.indianblooddonors.com/
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Why Intelligent People Fail
Why Intelligent People Fail
Content from Sternberg, R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace.
1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example, social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done, for instance). External sources tend to be transient, while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance.
2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the way of optimal performance. Some people do not bring their full intellectual resources to bear on a problem but go with the first solution that pops into their heads.
3. Lack of perserverance and perseveration. Some people give up too easily, while others are unable to stop even when the quest will clearly be fruitless.
4. Using the wrong abilities. People may not be using the right abilities for the tasks in which they are engaged.
5. Inability to translate thought into action. Some people seem buried in thought. They have good ideas but rarely seem able to do anything about them.
6. Lack of product orientation. Some people seem more concerned about the process than the result of activity.
7. Inability to complete tasks. For some people nothing ever draws to a close. Perhaps it’s fear of what they would do next or fear of becoming hopelessly enmeshed in detail.
8. Failure to initiate. Still others are unwilling or unable to initiate a project. It may be indecision or fear of commitment.
9. Fear of failure. People may not reach peak performance because they avoid the really important challenges in life.
10. Procrastination. Some people are unable to act without pressure. They may also look for little things to do in order to put off the big ones.
11. Misattribution of blame. Some people always blame themselves for even the slightest mishap. Some always blame others.
12. Excessive self-pity. Some people spend more time feeling sorry for themselves than expending the effort necessary to overcome the problem.
13. Excessive dependency. Some people expect others to do for them what they ought to be doing themselves.
14. Wallowing in personal difficulties. Some people let their personal difficulties interfere grossly with their work. During the course of life, one can expect some real joys and some real sorrows. Maintaining a proper perspective is often difficult.
15. Distractibility and lack of concentration. Even some very intelligent people have very short attention spans.
16. Spreading oneself too think or too thick. Undertaking too many activities may result in none being completed on time. Undertaking too few can also result in missed opportunities and reduced levels of accomplishment.
17. Inability to delay gratification. Some people reward themselves and are rewarded by others for finishing small tasks, while avoiding bigger tasks that would earn them larger rewards.
18. Inability to see the forest for the trees. Some people become obsessed with details and are either unwilling or unable to see or deal with the larger picture in the projects they undertake.
19. Lack of balance between critical, analytical thinking and creative, synthetic thinking. It is important for people to learn what kind of thinking is expected of them in each situation.
20. Too little or too much self-confidence. Lack of self-confidence can gnaw away at a person’s ability to get things done and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Conversely, individuals with too much self-confidence may not know when to admit they are wrong or in need of self-improvement.
Content from Sternberg, R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace.
1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example, social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done, for instance). External sources tend to be transient, while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance.
2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the way of optimal performance. Some people do not bring their full intellectual resources to bear on a problem but go with the first solution that pops into their heads.
3. Lack of perserverance and perseveration. Some people give up too easily, while others are unable to stop even when the quest will clearly be fruitless.
4. Using the wrong abilities. People may not be using the right abilities for the tasks in which they are engaged.
5. Inability to translate thought into action. Some people seem buried in thought. They have good ideas but rarely seem able to do anything about them.
6. Lack of product orientation. Some people seem more concerned about the process than the result of activity.
7. Inability to complete tasks. For some people nothing ever draws to a close. Perhaps it’s fear of what they would do next or fear of becoming hopelessly enmeshed in detail.
8. Failure to initiate. Still others are unwilling or unable to initiate a project. It may be indecision or fear of commitment.
9. Fear of failure. People may not reach peak performance because they avoid the really important challenges in life.
10. Procrastination. Some people are unable to act without pressure. They may also look for little things to do in order to put off the big ones.
11. Misattribution of blame. Some people always blame themselves for even the slightest mishap. Some always blame others.
12. Excessive self-pity. Some people spend more time feeling sorry for themselves than expending the effort necessary to overcome the problem.
13. Excessive dependency. Some people expect others to do for them what they ought to be doing themselves.
14. Wallowing in personal difficulties. Some people let their personal difficulties interfere grossly with their work. During the course of life, one can expect some real joys and some real sorrows. Maintaining a proper perspective is often difficult.
15. Distractibility and lack of concentration. Even some very intelligent people have very short attention spans.
16. Spreading oneself too think or too thick. Undertaking too many activities may result in none being completed on time. Undertaking too few can also result in missed opportunities and reduced levels of accomplishment.
17. Inability to delay gratification. Some people reward themselves and are rewarded by others for finishing small tasks, while avoiding bigger tasks that would earn them larger rewards.
18. Inability to see the forest for the trees. Some people become obsessed with details and are either unwilling or unable to see or deal with the larger picture in the projects they undertake.
19. Lack of balance between critical, analytical thinking and creative, synthetic thinking. It is important for people to learn what kind of thinking is expected of them in each situation.
20. Too little or too much self-confidence. Lack of self-confidence can gnaw away at a person’s ability to get things done and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Conversely, individuals with too much self-confidence may not know when to admit they are wrong or in need of self-improvement.
Friday, May 7, 2010
List of favourite links - part 1
http://knowledgefiles.com/
http://propaganda.mrdonn.org/
http://www.softpanorama.org/index.shtml
http://www.paggu.com/
http://publicspeaker.quickanddirtytips.com/
http://thebelievers.freeservers.com/
http://www.coachville.com/basic/attraction/1.html
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/
http://www.helium.com/
http://www.buildfreedom.com/
http://therunningmannow.com/site/
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/
http://www.digitaltonto.com/
http://www.nbc-links.com/stupidity.html
http://cobb.typepad.com/
http://www.arrogantatheist.com/forum/
http://propaganda.mrdonn.org/
http://www.softpanorama.org/index.shtml
http://www.paggu.com/
http://publicspeaker.quickanddirtytips.com/
http://thebelievers.freeservers.com/
http://www.coachville.com/basic/attraction/1.html
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/
http://www.helium.com/
http://www.buildfreedom.com/
http://therunningmannow.com/site/
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/
http://www.digitaltonto.com/
http://www.nbc-links.com/stupidity.html
http://cobb.typepad.com/
http://www.arrogantatheist.com/forum/
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Random Thought 1
By now you must have realized that this bog is different from most of the other blogs out there. Some blogs relate to the personal life or personal daily schedules of the writers while others discuss the various current domestic or world affairs. After visiting such blogs and reading all that the authors have got to write, I decided to make my blog different.
As mentioned in the introduction of my blog, I have already mentioned that I think and that thinking needs an outlet, since most of it is creative and I need more space which can only be made for the new thinking patterns when I get rid of the old ones. Now, this is the primary purpose of creating this blog. The thinking and the ideas and the necessary elaboration of the issues are indispensable.
So I find myself here again and again trying to give myself an outlet to the creative thoughts that creep into my mind and grow there. Though innumerable thoughts come to my mind every day I am able to relate to a few of them when I start writing. So this is the possible reason for my writing to be restricted to a few topics. I am working on my shortcomings and hope to improve upon them in the short term. I believe that identifying a shortcoming plays an important role in one's improvement plan. This, also, is the first step which a person can take in the positive direction i.e. towards improving. As you might already be aware that improvement need change.
I have already written about how change is the only constant factor in life. Now, change as described earlier is a change in the current situation or a relative difference between the current and previous situation. The change can be in any direction, but when we talk in the two dimensions and that too along the straight line; it could be a positive change or negative change. The nature of the change is dependent upon the how you view it. Broadly, any change which is for the betterment of the present situation can be termed as a positive change and any change which leads to the worsening of the present condition can be termed as a negative change. It takes time for an individual fin realizing whether the steps he has taken have taken him towards positive change or negative change.
As per a popular adage - the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and also well begun is half done, tends to highlight the importance of the first step that needs to be taken towards changing . Before this first step can be taken towards change comes the resolve to change and even before that comes the identification of the need for change and the specific areas where change needs to be brought about. Now, we may be able to see that the willingness to change comes after we identify the shortcoming, which is one of our weaknesses.
The identification of one's weakness and acknowledging it is a huge task which required confidence, self-esteem, and objective outlook. The reason why I have included objective outlook as one of the ingredients is because one cannot identify a shortcoming if he thinks of it as "his" shortcoming". The Subjectivism need to be set aside. You are less likely to see problems if you look at them as "your problems", whereas, the problems can be easily be identified if you look at them as merely problems which need to be solved by looking for a solution irrespective of the how’s and whys of it. If you are unable to inculcate this objectivism in yourself then a third person needs to be roped in to do it on your behalf. But let me warn you, he will not be as successful in identifying your deficiencies as you yourself are. His observations are solely dependent on your ability to express your observations.
It is just like hiring an external agent to do the work les efficiently as compared to the efficiency and the utilization of the time when you do it yourself. Nonetheless, do add this as one of your shortcomings in case you need to get an external agent to do it ob your behalf. I relate a quote of the famous industrialist Mr. Anil Ambani of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) “do not hire a consultant to tell you the time form your own watch". Also, one you have taken upon the task of improvement, make a strong resolve to abide by the plan that you are going to make. It will be a test of your resolve. If you cannot resolve to improve yourself, you may not be able to resolve to do anything, since most of the thinks need a steel resolve to take up tasks and achieve the goals.
One way of thinking that I read about was the reverse process of our conventional way of thinking. Instead of moving towards our goal from our present position, we identify the goal and trace our path backwards to our current position. Though this way of thinking has its own advantages, I feel that if we use a combination of both the strategies we will be able to plan our line of action and the path towards our goal in a timely and more efficient manner. Add to it the flexibility that we get out of it. At any time if we feel that there is lack of clarity, we can switch strategies. It also boosts are confidence to see that we have alternate courses to work on.
What comes to my mind is a question that I would like to ask you. You must be aware about the electrical earthing that is given to the electrical circuits to make them safer from short circuits and the resulting fires. The wire is connected from the main board and left to the ground. If you catch hold of that wire while the current is passing thru it, you don’t receive an electric shock. But if you touch another wire while the current is passing thru it ad it is connected to something other than the ground then you will definitely get a shock.
Why the difference when the situations are similar - the wires are made of copper, both the wires are carrying current, the person touching the wires in succession is same. The only difference is that one of the wires is connected to the ground and the other is connected to some particular appliance. The reason is that the resistance of the copper wire is less than the resistance offered to the current by your body. In other words, copper is a better conductor of current than your body and electric current takes the path of least cu resistance.
Same is the case is with water. Have you ever observed flowing water or even spilled water for that case? The water will start flowing towards the comparative lower point in the plane. In the case of a stream it always flows down from the mountains or the hills - why? Because it has the force of gravity acting on it which forces it to take any path possible to reach the lowest possible place in its course. What does this mean- this means that there is inherently something that pulls us downwards and prevents us from rising? I remember one of the interviews of Bruce LEE - the famous martial arts expert, quotes “one should be like water and inculcate the habit of taking the shape of whatever vessel one is put in". Simple put this means that one needs to be formless and should adjust oneself in accordance with the situation that one has to face. You put water in a jug- it takes the shape of the jug, you put water in a tumbler- it becomes a tumbler, and it goes this way for any container that might be used to store water in. Can there be any other element as versatile in character as water.
We need to have an attitude and that too a positive on. This is not a difficulty task, maintaining one in the face of adversity is.
We as humans lay our arms in front of nature- our own innate human nature. Let me tell you frankly, we are taming the wrong nature. We must utilize our time on earth to find out new, novel and effective ways of taming the human nature, but instead we are trying to tame Mother Nature. This will prove to be the most fatal mistake that humankind would ever have made, and believe me it is going to but a question mark on the existence of the human race itself. The humans consider themselves to be at the top of the pyramid of living beings due to their ability to think and communicate. But how effectively do we think and what about communication.
We have, in the name of our progress, carried out activities that have led to the extinction of so many species. According to he latest reports available from the WWF, we are losing out; one species is becoming extinct with each passing day. It will not be long before this intelligent species will create conditions when there would be no other species left. The human race will itself be responsible for their own extinction, since Mother Nature will strike back, and with all her fury. Then it will be too late for the humans to realize the extent of damage that has been done, and that they were trying to tame the wrong nature.
The damage caused is irreparable, and the bygones cannot be allowed to be forgotten, but there is still time and the future can be secured by bringing about a huge shift in paradigm of human thinking. It is really a pressing need for us to change the nature that we are trying to tame. Currently we are being myopic in our vision of our future, we are thinking about food for all, housing for all, medical facilities for all. Do u see that the word "all" in common in all the sentences. If we reduce the number in “all" we can reduce the amount of development that is needed, that would lead to a faster pace of the development.
I do not think that we will take his path, as we do to our inherent nature innate to us will be bogged down by the forces of nature. We have a destiny to wards which we are moving thinking that we are progressing, but maybe we are oblivious of the fact that we are crafting our own end which will be the fresh beginning to a new world. In a nutshell, we are going back to the future.
As mentioned in the introduction of my blog, I have already mentioned that I think and that thinking needs an outlet, since most of it is creative and I need more space which can only be made for the new thinking patterns when I get rid of the old ones. Now, this is the primary purpose of creating this blog. The thinking and the ideas and the necessary elaboration of the issues are indispensable.
So I find myself here again and again trying to give myself an outlet to the creative thoughts that creep into my mind and grow there. Though innumerable thoughts come to my mind every day I am able to relate to a few of them when I start writing. So this is the possible reason for my writing to be restricted to a few topics. I am working on my shortcomings and hope to improve upon them in the short term. I believe that identifying a shortcoming plays an important role in one's improvement plan. This, also, is the first step which a person can take in the positive direction i.e. towards improving. As you might already be aware that improvement need change.
I have already written about how change is the only constant factor in life. Now, change as described earlier is a change in the current situation or a relative difference between the current and previous situation. The change can be in any direction, but when we talk in the two dimensions and that too along the straight line; it could be a positive change or negative change. The nature of the change is dependent upon the how you view it. Broadly, any change which is for the betterment of the present situation can be termed as a positive change and any change which leads to the worsening of the present condition can be termed as a negative change. It takes time for an individual fin realizing whether the steps he has taken have taken him towards positive change or negative change.
As per a popular adage - the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and also well begun is half done, tends to highlight the importance of the first step that needs to be taken towards changing . Before this first step can be taken towards change comes the resolve to change and even before that comes the identification of the need for change and the specific areas where change needs to be brought about. Now, we may be able to see that the willingness to change comes after we identify the shortcoming, which is one of our weaknesses.
The identification of one's weakness and acknowledging it is a huge task which required confidence, self-esteem, and objective outlook. The reason why I have included objective outlook as one of the ingredients is because one cannot identify a shortcoming if he thinks of it as "his" shortcoming". The Subjectivism need to be set aside. You are less likely to see problems if you look at them as "your problems", whereas, the problems can be easily be identified if you look at them as merely problems which need to be solved by looking for a solution irrespective of the how’s and whys of it. If you are unable to inculcate this objectivism in yourself then a third person needs to be roped in to do it on your behalf. But let me warn you, he will not be as successful in identifying your deficiencies as you yourself are. His observations are solely dependent on your ability to express your observations.
It is just like hiring an external agent to do the work les efficiently as compared to the efficiency and the utilization of the time when you do it yourself. Nonetheless, do add this as one of your shortcomings in case you need to get an external agent to do it ob your behalf. I relate a quote of the famous industrialist Mr. Anil Ambani of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) “do not hire a consultant to tell you the time form your own watch". Also, one you have taken upon the task of improvement, make a strong resolve to abide by the plan that you are going to make. It will be a test of your resolve. If you cannot resolve to improve yourself, you may not be able to resolve to do anything, since most of the thinks need a steel resolve to take up tasks and achieve the goals.
One way of thinking that I read about was the reverse process of our conventional way of thinking. Instead of moving towards our goal from our present position, we identify the goal and trace our path backwards to our current position. Though this way of thinking has its own advantages, I feel that if we use a combination of both the strategies we will be able to plan our line of action and the path towards our goal in a timely and more efficient manner. Add to it the flexibility that we get out of it. At any time if we feel that there is lack of clarity, we can switch strategies. It also boosts are confidence to see that we have alternate courses to work on.
What comes to my mind is a question that I would like to ask you. You must be aware about the electrical earthing that is given to the electrical circuits to make them safer from short circuits and the resulting fires. The wire is connected from the main board and left to the ground. If you catch hold of that wire while the current is passing thru it, you don’t receive an electric shock. But if you touch another wire while the current is passing thru it ad it is connected to something other than the ground then you will definitely get a shock.
Why the difference when the situations are similar - the wires are made of copper, both the wires are carrying current, the person touching the wires in succession is same. The only difference is that one of the wires is connected to the ground and the other is connected to some particular appliance. The reason is that the resistance of the copper wire is less than the resistance offered to the current by your body. In other words, copper is a better conductor of current than your body and electric current takes the path of least cu resistance.
Same is the case is with water. Have you ever observed flowing water or even spilled water for that case? The water will start flowing towards the comparative lower point in the plane. In the case of a stream it always flows down from the mountains or the hills - why? Because it has the force of gravity acting on it which forces it to take any path possible to reach the lowest possible place in its course. What does this mean- this means that there is inherently something that pulls us downwards and prevents us from rising? I remember one of the interviews of Bruce LEE - the famous martial arts expert, quotes “one should be like water and inculcate the habit of taking the shape of whatever vessel one is put in". Simple put this means that one needs to be formless and should adjust oneself in accordance with the situation that one has to face. You put water in a jug- it takes the shape of the jug, you put water in a tumbler- it becomes a tumbler, and it goes this way for any container that might be used to store water in. Can there be any other element as versatile in character as water.
We need to have an attitude and that too a positive on. This is not a difficulty task, maintaining one in the face of adversity is.
We as humans lay our arms in front of nature- our own innate human nature. Let me tell you frankly, we are taming the wrong nature. We must utilize our time on earth to find out new, novel and effective ways of taming the human nature, but instead we are trying to tame Mother Nature. This will prove to be the most fatal mistake that humankind would ever have made, and believe me it is going to but a question mark on the existence of the human race itself. The humans consider themselves to be at the top of the pyramid of living beings due to their ability to think and communicate. But how effectively do we think and what about communication.
We have, in the name of our progress, carried out activities that have led to the extinction of so many species. According to he latest reports available from the WWF, we are losing out; one species is becoming extinct with each passing day. It will not be long before this intelligent species will create conditions when there would be no other species left. The human race will itself be responsible for their own extinction, since Mother Nature will strike back, and with all her fury. Then it will be too late for the humans to realize the extent of damage that has been done, and that they were trying to tame the wrong nature.
The damage caused is irreparable, and the bygones cannot be allowed to be forgotten, but there is still time and the future can be secured by bringing about a huge shift in paradigm of human thinking. It is really a pressing need for us to change the nature that we are trying to tame. Currently we are being myopic in our vision of our future, we are thinking about food for all, housing for all, medical facilities for all. Do u see that the word "all" in common in all the sentences. If we reduce the number in “all" we can reduce the amount of development that is needed, that would lead to a faster pace of the development.
I do not think that we will take his path, as we do to our inherent nature innate to us will be bogged down by the forces of nature. We have a destiny to wards which we are moving thinking that we are progressing, but maybe we are oblivious of the fact that we are crafting our own end which will be the fresh beginning to a new world. In a nutshell, we are going back to the future.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
I am the one.
I am the one.
I am the one who is responsible for my actions.
I am the one who will bring about a change.
I am the one who will learn from other's mistakes.
I am the one who will make my own mistakes.
I am the one who will learn from my own mistakes.
I am the one who will let other's make their own desisions.
I am the one who will make my own decisions.
I am the one who will not run away from threats.
I am the one who will not let opportunities pass.
I am the one who will not leave any stone unturned.
I am the one who will work towards success.
I am the one who will fail but will not break.
I am the one who will make failures his steps.
I am the one who will climb those steps to success.
I am the one who will be successful.
I am the one.
I am the one who is responsible for my actions.
I am the one who will bring about a change.
I am the one who will learn from other's mistakes.
I am the one who will make my own mistakes.
I am the one who will learn from my own mistakes.
I am the one who will let other's make their own desisions.
I am the one who will make my own decisions.
I am the one who will not run away from threats.
I am the one who will not let opportunities pass.
I am the one who will not leave any stone unturned.
I am the one who will work towards success.
I am the one who will fail but will not break.
I am the one who will make failures his steps.
I am the one who will climb those steps to success.
I am the one who will be successful.
I am the one.
What is success according to you..?
I encountered this question in numerous discussions. The first time was at an informal discussion which was not exactly a discussion but a conversation which my co-passenger struck with me while going to college in the college bus.
He was a year junior to me, but I had not thought about that question even them, and he had, so, maybe he was smarter than me. When he saw my helplessness at answering his question he continued that success can be broadly defined in three domains - fame, power or money. He also added that the order was not fixed and varies from person to person. Perspective is the word that he used.
I was surprised at his knowledge level, it had never occoured to me that success could be defined in such broad terms and could vary with a person's perspective. I was of the opinion that you work hard and achieve success. But that there were different aspects to success was news to me. So I requested him to elaborate on his earlier statement. He happened to to be a well read person. Nonetheless, he had read somewhere that success was 99% hardwork and 1% luck. When a person relentlessly puts in hardwork and since hardwork never fails, when a person reaches the threshold of success, other people call it a matter of luck. They fail to understand that it was due to the hardwork which brought success and not luck.
Luck is simply the caumaflage behind which hardwork is hidden. It also serves another purpose-- it lets other people believe that it was simply a miracle or better still the successful person simply got lucky, it was written in the destiny which cannot be changed since the destiny of the person is written at the time of birth. So, people start doing everything they cvan to get lucky. Huge responses to the KBC TV show is proof of that, so is the reason for all the state lottery tickets getting sold every month.
People do not like hard work, after all who likes to work hard? But it is only the person who works hard, who deserved and is able to enjoy the better things in life. I myself had read that money is actually a by product of success. If you work for money, the chances of your earning money are slim. But if you work towards that larger cause, which is providing some service to you fellow humans, such that they come to you for more, they will happily shower their money on you. You need not be innovative to create new attitudes, services etc. You simply need to recreate the magic and fill the void that is waiting to be filled. This void could exist anywhere- it could be the entertainment industry, the service industry, the manufacturing industry or the food products industry.
There is no dearth of opportunities, its just that we are myopic enough to think of life to be static. We simple believe that we have a destiny in place created by the divine powers which cannot be changed. So, we continue toiling and fail to put in hardwork which can save us from all the tough phases which we go thru in life thinking that it is all the part of the master plan which is our destiny.
Being a realist, I do not approve of fantasies. I am not averse to dreaming, for it is our dreams which further brighten our creative spark. It is due to the dreams that we are able to thing about things which do not exist yet. We believe in our dreams and work towards theiur realisation. In the process we work hard, but we do not realise it neither do we experience the pain and exaustion during the course of our pursuit, all because we are interested and enthused by the goal, in which we believe.
But lets look at another situation in which you have been instructed to finished an assignment by the college professor in a manner that makes you feel that it is simply a formality and does not add any value to your learning. Most probably, you would procastinate, and try to delay the task till the last day. As the deadline draws closer, you try to complete it in a hurry, but in vain. At the last moment, you find that it is too late to complete the assignment all by yourself, so you copy it from one of your friends, who reluctantly allows you to do so. After submitting the assignment you find that the professor uses a software program which is capable of identifying the similarities between the submitted assignments ans it has adentified that bothe the assignments are exact replicas of each other, and hence have been cancelled. So, the attitude here was not really averse to hardwork but there was a lack of interest or better still enthusiasm, which also was due to your perception.
On the contrary, look at the same situation wherein you have a pre-concieved notion that you need to present the best possible version of the assignment and it has to be better than any other student in the class. So you toil, and put in loads of hard work. The result is an original piece of work with a avariety of in-depth analysis. The professor is impressed, though not visibly, and recommends your name for the dessertion contest. You get the opportunity of participating in the contest, which was the dream of almost all the people of your class. But since only 3 people could participate, your name was one of them. Upon entering the class, after the announcement has been made, your classmates look at yopu and exclaim that you are one lucky guy to have the opportunity to participate in the contest and represent the college at the same time. Now, you get the picture. This was just a simple example.
What I intend to get across is that success is a step by step process. Each step is very delicately connected to the next step, and no step can be sidestepped. as you may be aware that the shortest path between any two points is a straight line. Also, there is no shortcut to success. So, we can infer that the path towards success has to be a straight line. Now this may look like a hypothetical concept, but actually it is a straight path in that it has the least number of deviations from the main path or cause i.e. an effort needs to be made to reduce the number of distractions, deviations or the pursuit of the lesser improtant goals needs to be minimised in order to preserve the energies and resourced to reach the desired goal.
Branding success in terms of power, money, fame is a futile effort. Such a branding is superficial and does not necessarily reflect the success of an individual. It may work for celebrities, as it makes them look haute and " in sync" with the world of success. But in most of the cases it is not the case. Monet, power, fame are actually all the by products of hard work. You work hard and you may have any on or better still all of them.
So the next time, you meet someone who asks your preference of defining success as money, power, fame, simply smile and wink at him and say whatever you feel like saying.
He was a year junior to me, but I had not thought about that question even them, and he had, so, maybe he was smarter than me. When he saw my helplessness at answering his question he continued that success can be broadly defined in three domains - fame, power or money. He also added that the order was not fixed and varies from person to person. Perspective is the word that he used.
I was surprised at his knowledge level, it had never occoured to me that success could be defined in such broad terms and could vary with a person's perspective. I was of the opinion that you work hard and achieve success. But that there were different aspects to success was news to me. So I requested him to elaborate on his earlier statement. He happened to to be a well read person. Nonetheless, he had read somewhere that success was 99% hardwork and 1% luck. When a person relentlessly puts in hardwork and since hardwork never fails, when a person reaches the threshold of success, other people call it a matter of luck. They fail to understand that it was due to the hardwork which brought success and not luck.
Luck is simply the caumaflage behind which hardwork is hidden. It also serves another purpose-- it lets other people believe that it was simply a miracle or better still the successful person simply got lucky, it was written in the destiny which cannot be changed since the destiny of the person is written at the time of birth. So, people start doing everything they cvan to get lucky. Huge responses to the KBC TV show is proof of that, so is the reason for all the state lottery tickets getting sold every month.
People do not like hard work, after all who likes to work hard? But it is only the person who works hard, who deserved and is able to enjoy the better things in life. I myself had read that money is actually a by product of success. If you work for money, the chances of your earning money are slim. But if you work towards that larger cause, which is providing some service to you fellow humans, such that they come to you for more, they will happily shower their money on you. You need not be innovative to create new attitudes, services etc. You simply need to recreate the magic and fill the void that is waiting to be filled. This void could exist anywhere- it could be the entertainment industry, the service industry, the manufacturing industry or the food products industry.
There is no dearth of opportunities, its just that we are myopic enough to think of life to be static. We simple believe that we have a destiny in place created by the divine powers which cannot be changed. So, we continue toiling and fail to put in hardwork which can save us from all the tough phases which we go thru in life thinking that it is all the part of the master plan which is our destiny.
Being a realist, I do not approve of fantasies. I am not averse to dreaming, for it is our dreams which further brighten our creative spark. It is due to the dreams that we are able to thing about things which do not exist yet. We believe in our dreams and work towards theiur realisation. In the process we work hard, but we do not realise it neither do we experience the pain and exaustion during the course of our pursuit, all because we are interested and enthused by the goal, in which we believe.
But lets look at another situation in which you have been instructed to finished an assignment by the college professor in a manner that makes you feel that it is simply a formality and does not add any value to your learning. Most probably, you would procastinate, and try to delay the task till the last day. As the deadline draws closer, you try to complete it in a hurry, but in vain. At the last moment, you find that it is too late to complete the assignment all by yourself, so you copy it from one of your friends, who reluctantly allows you to do so. After submitting the assignment you find that the professor uses a software program which is capable of identifying the similarities between the submitted assignments ans it has adentified that bothe the assignments are exact replicas of each other, and hence have been cancelled. So, the attitude here was not really averse to hardwork but there was a lack of interest or better still enthusiasm, which also was due to your perception.
On the contrary, look at the same situation wherein you have a pre-concieved notion that you need to present the best possible version of the assignment and it has to be better than any other student in the class. So you toil, and put in loads of hard work. The result is an original piece of work with a avariety of in-depth analysis. The professor is impressed, though not visibly, and recommends your name for the dessertion contest. You get the opportunity of participating in the contest, which was the dream of almost all the people of your class. But since only 3 people could participate, your name was one of them. Upon entering the class, after the announcement has been made, your classmates look at yopu and exclaim that you are one lucky guy to have the opportunity to participate in the contest and represent the college at the same time. Now, you get the picture. This was just a simple example.
What I intend to get across is that success is a step by step process. Each step is very delicately connected to the next step, and no step can be sidestepped. as you may be aware that the shortest path between any two points is a straight line. Also, there is no shortcut to success. So, we can infer that the path towards success has to be a straight line. Now this may look like a hypothetical concept, but actually it is a straight path in that it has the least number of deviations from the main path or cause i.e. an effort needs to be made to reduce the number of distractions, deviations or the pursuit of the lesser improtant goals needs to be minimised in order to preserve the energies and resourced to reach the desired goal.
Branding success in terms of power, money, fame is a futile effort. Such a branding is superficial and does not necessarily reflect the success of an individual. It may work for celebrities, as it makes them look haute and " in sync" with the world of success. But in most of the cases it is not the case. Monet, power, fame are actually all the by products of hard work. You work hard and you may have any on or better still all of them.
So the next time, you meet someone who asks your preference of defining success as money, power, fame, simply smile and wink at him and say whatever you feel like saying.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Realise your helplessness.
Humans are petty helpless people, yet it does come as a surprse that they are sometimes eager to help other helpless people out. Helplessness is inherent to the innate nature of the typical human.
Take any situation for instance, a human being may try to take decisions, however small while looking for a solution towards taking a decision at any point in life. It is seldom that the person in question is himself able to take a decision of his own accord. Mostly, he has to rely, or voluntrarily relies on the advise of other people, and this advice is most often unwanted, is given by other helpless humans who are in no condition to take the decision themselves, they would rateher tell you to do this or that or provide you with an opinion of what is good and wht is bad for you, but more often than not, they will definitely be in no position to tell you what actually will work for you, obviously only you can help yourself in that.
To make my point clear I would take the help of an example. We has a family whih lived near our residense, there were four members n the family, the parents and their two sons, with a age difference of two years. Both were academically intelligent and passed their classes with flying colors. The elder son scored 90+ percent in his class 10 and was admitted to one of the best schools in delhi in the medical stream, later he cracked the coveted medical seat and was the talk of the town with his photos on the pamphlets distributed by the coaching institute, of which he was a student. The parents were proud.
The younger son followed suit and scored more than his brother in class 10, he too was admitted in the same school as his brother after class 10. He to studied hard and reached his goal of a coveted medical seat in Delhi. Th parents were more than happy.
The neighbors were never short of praising the children and their parents alike. Every parent wanted their wards to be the future doctors and do their parents proud as the neighbor's sons. Moreover, they satrted coming to our neighbors with their children to seek advise on as to how to coach their children wo were "not serious" towards studies. Also, they were interested to know about the coaching classes the brothers had been to, they were ready to spend the cash, irrespective of the amount on the coaching to get their children to the threshold of the best medical college.
One such inquisitive family was on with 5 members- parents, elder sister, brother, younger sister. The father was a government employee, the mother ran a beauty parlor, no the on which comes to your mind when you think of it, but one of those hat you encounter at almost every corner of every colony in our country. The elder sister was studying in an engineering college, also she used to teach dance to young children for a minimal fee and help her mother with the parlour in her free time. Where did she get the time to study, is still an unanswered question for me. The brother was also in the same engineering college but a class lower than the elder sister. Well, as for him, he studied almost all the time.
The elder sister graduated and joined a call centre. The money earned was depodited for marriage. The brother after graduating was unable to find a job for sometime and later on joined a bank as a sales executive , a role which made no use of his skills. The younger sister was studying in school in the medical stream when the younger of the two boys of our neighbours was admitted to the medicla college. The mother of the girl thought, if he can then why not my daughter. This led her to chide her daughter for studying. The younger daughter was not that intelligent as the boys who has made it to the medical college. She studied hard. The mother payed the fee of Rupes two lacs to the coaching institute ( which the two brothers had joined earlier). However, afer then exams the results were not in her favour, she was broken .
Her dream of becoming a doctor was shattered. Nevertheless, she decided to give it another shot the next year. Her brother, meanwhile, had found a job with a reatail chain, though his salary was still meagre. The younger sister studied hard, sometimes falling asleep over her books in the process. She appeared for all the exams once again. But as if it was written in her destiny, she was unable to clear the exams. Since she had both medical and non-medical subjects in school, she was also elligible to appear for the engineering exams also. She appeared in the engineering exams and was able to secure payed seat in one of the private engineering colleges in Tamil nadu. The payed seat actually costs 3 times a norml merit seat. Seeing all this, what came to my mind were these question,
Is a normal human being so immature that he cannot recognise his innate capabilities.
Is a human being also, so very influenced by the choices that other peopele, not related to him in any way, make?
In context to the story above... will the girl do her engineering and become successful or will she alwas have a want for the profession that she alwas wanted to pursue?
Would'nt have it been a god idea for her to identify what was actually that she wanted to do, and I might have been neither medicine nor engineering ?
Is following the path that your parents think is right actually right for a student ?
Is it not that the awareness gathered during the student life must be utilised to make further decisions which are bound to affect you for the rest of your lives ?
I know, that I ask a lot of questions... but...give m your viewpoint...and we'll talk about the differnce, if any, which might surface.
Take any situation for instance, a human being may try to take decisions, however small while looking for a solution towards taking a decision at any point in life. It is seldom that the person in question is himself able to take a decision of his own accord. Mostly, he has to rely, or voluntrarily relies on the advise of other people, and this advice is most often unwanted, is given by other helpless humans who are in no condition to take the decision themselves, they would rateher tell you to do this or that or provide you with an opinion of what is good and wht is bad for you, but more often than not, they will definitely be in no position to tell you what actually will work for you, obviously only you can help yourself in that.
To make my point clear I would take the help of an example. We has a family whih lived near our residense, there were four members n the family, the parents and their two sons, with a age difference of two years. Both were academically intelligent and passed their classes with flying colors. The elder son scored 90+ percent in his class 10 and was admitted to one of the best schools in delhi in the medical stream, later he cracked the coveted medical seat and was the talk of the town with his photos on the pamphlets distributed by the coaching institute, of which he was a student. The parents were proud.
The younger son followed suit and scored more than his brother in class 10, he too was admitted in the same school as his brother after class 10. He to studied hard and reached his goal of a coveted medical seat in Delhi. Th parents were more than happy.
The neighbors were never short of praising the children and their parents alike. Every parent wanted their wards to be the future doctors and do their parents proud as the neighbor's sons. Moreover, they satrted coming to our neighbors with their children to seek advise on as to how to coach their children wo were "not serious" towards studies. Also, they were interested to know about the coaching classes the brothers had been to, they were ready to spend the cash, irrespective of the amount on the coaching to get their children to the threshold of the best medical college.
One such inquisitive family was on with 5 members- parents, elder sister, brother, younger sister. The father was a government employee, the mother ran a beauty parlor, no the on which comes to your mind when you think of it, but one of those hat you encounter at almost every corner of every colony in our country. The elder sister was studying in an engineering college, also she used to teach dance to young children for a minimal fee and help her mother with the parlour in her free time. Where did she get the time to study, is still an unanswered question for me. The brother was also in the same engineering college but a class lower than the elder sister. Well, as for him, he studied almost all the time.
The elder sister graduated and joined a call centre. The money earned was depodited for marriage. The brother after graduating was unable to find a job for sometime and later on joined a bank as a sales executive , a role which made no use of his skills. The younger sister was studying in school in the medical stream when the younger of the two boys of our neighbours was admitted to the medicla college. The mother of the girl thought, if he can then why not my daughter. This led her to chide her daughter for studying. The younger daughter was not that intelligent as the boys who has made it to the medical college. She studied hard. The mother payed the fee of Rupes two lacs to the coaching institute ( which the two brothers had joined earlier). However, afer then exams the results were not in her favour, she was broken .
Her dream of becoming a doctor was shattered. Nevertheless, she decided to give it another shot the next year. Her brother, meanwhile, had found a job with a reatail chain, though his salary was still meagre. The younger sister studied hard, sometimes falling asleep over her books in the process. She appeared for all the exams once again. But as if it was written in her destiny, she was unable to clear the exams. Since she had both medical and non-medical subjects in school, she was also elligible to appear for the engineering exams also. She appeared in the engineering exams and was able to secure payed seat in one of the private engineering colleges in Tamil nadu. The payed seat actually costs 3 times a norml merit seat. Seeing all this, what came to my mind were these question,
Is a normal human being so immature that he cannot recognise his innate capabilities.
Is a human being also, so very influenced by the choices that other peopele, not related to him in any way, make?
In context to the story above... will the girl do her engineering and become successful or will she alwas have a want for the profession that she alwas wanted to pursue?
Would'nt have it been a god idea for her to identify what was actually that she wanted to do, and I might have been neither medicine nor engineering ?
Is following the path that your parents think is right actually right for a student ?
Is it not that the awareness gathered during the student life must be utilised to make further decisions which are bound to affect you for the rest of your lives ?
I know, that I ask a lot of questions... but...give m your viewpoint...and we'll talk about the differnce, if any, which might surface.
Friday, July 10, 2009
लाइफ इस अ कांस्तंत !!
It is said that “the only constant is change “.
Is it really so?
I believe there is a mix of both truth and fallacy in the statement.
Lets take a look at the statements one step at a time.
Change can be described as a difference between the current state and the previous recorded state. This also defines the extent of the change.
Also the difference between the current state and the previous state when compared with the previous state provides us with the details of the rate at which such a change has taken place.
Normally the rate at which a particular change takes place also varies on a variety of factors.
It may be interesting to note that the factors affecting the factors affecting or contributing to such a change also have a degree of variation in them. Some of the facors may be fixed while he others may be variable. Also, the range of such a variation may be extremely small or negligible or huge, having an immensely huge role to play in the final outcome.
I feel that the constant also has a degree of variation in itself.
The degree of variation as talked about earlier may be dependent on a number of factors not in a fixed proportion but a variable proportion. The variation on the various factors may not be a consant variation but an instance of a variable variation of variable factors which themselves. vary according to the situation, which itself is variable.
Now, I feel there is a need to know how to expect a fixed outcome when we have so many factors which prove to be self defeating in our pursuit of reaching a fixed outcome or the constant.
It is a tough task. After looking at the whole story and the extent of variability of the variation, it may be inferred that the constant that we feel is constant is out perspective specific, as the constant for one person may signify a change for the other.
So, in other words the constnt is not itself a constant universally. As the perspective varies from person to person, there we have another factor of variation that can be added to out ever increasing variation while reaching the universal constant.
Can we infer that what actually is a constant to us is in fact a domain of the final value which is the outcome of the factors of variation mentioned earlier ? Or
Is it the constant which has been termed as a constant after it was believed by the representatives of community and agreed upon by others who did not have the time or the mental faculties required in ascertaining the universal constant?
A constant is a series or collection of small variable factors not strong enough in bringing about a change in the constant, of whose they are a contributing factor. The constant has within itself a degree of variation which is due to a combination of factors. This degree of change is extremely insignificant or negligible when compared to the value of the constant, but this change however small contributes to the change in the constant to whatsover small degree it may be.
It is also important to note that the constant does change after some time depending upon the contribution of the variable factors, and thus becomes a variable, since a change has come in the value of the constant. The magnitude of change acually depends upon the magnitude of the collection of the contributing factors.
The constant may further change, whenever the value of the contributing factors become large enough to cross the threshold to bring about a new value of the constant. The constant is nothing but a variable which has a particular value at the current moment,
it will remain a constant some time in the future, the only difference being that it would have a new vaule then, but, still it will remain a cnstant.
Is it really so?
I believe there is a mix of both truth and fallacy in the statement.
Lets take a look at the statements one step at a time.
Change can be described as a difference between the current state and the previous recorded state. This also defines the extent of the change.
Also the difference between the current state and the previous state when compared with the previous state provides us with the details of the rate at which such a change has taken place.
Normally the rate at which a particular change takes place also varies on a variety of factors.
It may be interesting to note that the factors affecting the factors affecting or contributing to such a change also have a degree of variation in them. Some of the facors may be fixed while he others may be variable. Also, the range of such a variation may be extremely small or negligible or huge, having an immensely huge role to play in the final outcome.
I feel that the constant also has a degree of variation in itself.
The degree of variation as talked about earlier may be dependent on a number of factors not in a fixed proportion but a variable proportion. The variation on the various factors may not be a consant variation but an instance of a variable variation of variable factors which themselves. vary according to the situation, which itself is variable.
Now, I feel there is a need to know how to expect a fixed outcome when we have so many factors which prove to be self defeating in our pursuit of reaching a fixed outcome or the constant.
It is a tough task. After looking at the whole story and the extent of variability of the variation, it may be inferred that the constant that we feel is constant is out perspective specific, as the constant for one person may signify a change for the other.
So, in other words the constnt is not itself a constant universally. As the perspective varies from person to person, there we have another factor of variation that can be added to out ever increasing variation while reaching the universal constant.
Can we infer that what actually is a constant to us is in fact a domain of the final value which is the outcome of the factors of variation mentioned earlier ? Or
Is it the constant which has been termed as a constant after it was believed by the representatives of community and agreed upon by others who did not have the time or the mental faculties required in ascertaining the universal constant?
A constant is a series or collection of small variable factors not strong enough in bringing about a change in the constant, of whose they are a contributing factor. The constant has within itself a degree of variation which is due to a combination of factors. This degree of change is extremely insignificant or negligible when compared to the value of the constant, but this change however small contributes to the change in the constant to whatsover small degree it may be.
It is also important to note that the constant does change after some time depending upon the contribution of the variable factors, and thus becomes a variable, since a change has come in the value of the constant. The magnitude of change acually depends upon the magnitude of the collection of the contributing factors.
The constant may further change, whenever the value of the contributing factors become large enough to cross the threshold to bring about a new value of the constant. The constant is nothing but a variable which has a particular value at the current moment,
it will remain a constant some time in the future, the only difference being that it would have a new vaule then, but, still it will remain a cnstant.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
An Inspirational story...!!
This is a story, I came across recently, and found it to be interesting, maybe it'll interest you people too...
One day I decided to quit. I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life. So I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God, can you give me one good reason not to quit.
His answer surprised me.
"Look around. Do you see the fern and the bamboo"
"Yes" I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seed, I took very good care of them. I gave them light, I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. It's brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed but I would not quit.
In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit.
Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant. But just six months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."
He asked me, "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots. I would not quit on you. Don't compare yourself to others. The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful. Your time will come. You will rise high.
"How high should I rise?" I asked.
"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return."
"As high as it can? I questioned.
"Yes. Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and brought back this story. I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you. Never, never , never give up.
Prayer is not an option but an opportunity.
One day I decided to quit. I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life. So I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.
"God, can you give me one good reason not to quit.
His answer surprised me.
"Look around. Do you see the fern and the bamboo"
"Yes" I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seed, I took very good care of them. I gave them light, I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. It's brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.
In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed but I would not quit.
In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit.
Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant. But just six months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."
He asked me, "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots. I would not quit on you. Don't compare yourself to others. The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful. Your time will come. You will rise high.
"How high should I rise?" I asked.
"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return."
"As high as it can? I questioned.
"Yes. Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and brought back this story. I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you. Never, never , never give up.
Prayer is not an option but an opportunity.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Racial Discrimination
It is so very shameful to realize that even after so many decades we are still affected be the social evil called RACISM. How does it matter if a person is white, black, brown, yellow, or whatever? If we intend to talk about success in personal/ business/ social domains, it's very important that we distance ourselves from such discriminations and move closer to eradicate them.
In one way or the other, it is going to hamper the pace of our progress. And another question...what are we supposed to get out of it? And does any human being have control over its choice of race, ethnicity, geographical location of birth, gender? No, so how can it ( the human in question) have the right to proclaim itself as being superior to another human, whose potential is of the same caliber ( if not more) than the self-proclaimed superior human.
There is a dire need for such initiatives in order to educate people about how this menace (racial discrimination) is hampering the social architecture of the world. One more question comes to my mind... We all have non-identical faces, no two people have the same face even if they belong to the same race, this fact doesn’t trouble us or does it?
Then how does the diversity of races affect us to such an extent?
In my opinion, these are notions, which have been engraved deeply in the social structure, and are further strengthened by the self- proclaimed superior race. In fact, since the self-proclaimed superior race doesn't have anything worthwhile to it's credit that can declare/ or support it's superiority, so it is leveraging on the argument that the color of the skin can be a deciding factor for differentiating among the superior and the inferior.
There is an immediate and dire need to empower the less privileged from the grass-root level. And the racial discrimination has definitely made the discriminated - less privileged. This calls for some damage control. Let's do it.
In one way or the other, it is going to hamper the pace of our progress. And another question...what are we supposed to get out of it? And does any human being have control over its choice of race, ethnicity, geographical location of birth, gender? No, so how can it ( the human in question) have the right to proclaim itself as being superior to another human, whose potential is of the same caliber ( if not more) than the self-proclaimed superior human.
There is a dire need for such initiatives in order to educate people about how this menace (racial discrimination) is hampering the social architecture of the world. One more question comes to my mind... We all have non-identical faces, no two people have the same face even if they belong to the same race, this fact doesn’t trouble us or does it?
Then how does the diversity of races affect us to such an extent?
In my opinion, these are notions, which have been engraved deeply in the social structure, and are further strengthened by the self- proclaimed superior race. In fact, since the self-proclaimed superior race doesn't have anything worthwhile to it's credit that can declare/ or support it's superiority, so it is leveraging on the argument that the color of the skin can be a deciding factor for differentiating among the superior and the inferior.
There is an immediate and dire need to empower the less privileged from the grass-root level. And the racial discrimination has definitely made the discriminated - less privileged. This calls for some damage control. Let's do it.
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Escalation
If we've got an issue,
in our hearts,
that has to be escalated,
to our mind,
If our heart could not deal with it,
and the soul was not satisfied,
the mind would have to take the lead,
even if it feels petrified,
Let’s ensure the mind is competent,
and it has the expertise,
to provide a satisfactory solution,
acceptable to our soul,
No more escalations are possible,
there is no next level,
if it begins here,
and here must it end,
The mind is the highest level,
of the escalation matrix,
the heart can be involved,
the issue must end, amicably.
in our hearts,
that has to be escalated,
to our mind,
If our heart could not deal with it,
and the soul was not satisfied,
the mind would have to take the lead,
even if it feels petrified,
Let’s ensure the mind is competent,
and it has the expertise,
to provide a satisfactory solution,
acceptable to our soul,
No more escalations are possible,
there is no next level,
if it begins here,
and here must it end,
The mind is the highest level,
of the escalation matrix,
the heart can be involved,
the issue must end, amicably.
Dilema
Dilema
As I stand here and as far as I see,
there's nobody, nobody but me,
there's not one human in my sight,
and the darkness is growing, is this night,
My mind wanders in the dark,
what's happened to my spark,
life is bleak, and it's not bright,
there's none to laugh at my plight,
I’ve reached here,
now where do I go,
there's already enough blood,
flowing from my brow,
What would happen to me,
have I cried,
but hey, that's doesn’t matter,
my eyes have dried,
Is this a challenge
that I must accept
let me create my checklist
let me introspect
I’ll overcome
would do it sure
I realized I’m strong
and I’ll endure.
As I stand here and as far as I see,
there's nobody, nobody but me,
there's not one human in my sight,
and the darkness is growing, is this night,
My mind wanders in the dark,
what's happened to my spark,
life is bleak, and it's not bright,
there's none to laugh at my plight,
I’ve reached here,
now where do I go,
there's already enough blood,
flowing from my brow,
What would happen to me,
have I cried,
but hey, that's doesn’t matter,
my eyes have dried,
Is this a challenge
that I must accept
let me create my checklist
let me introspect
I’ll overcome
would do it sure
I realized I’m strong
and I’ll endure.
Friendship
Friendship
We are rebels,
we do not follow trends,
but does that mean,
we do not have friends,
Friends are forever,
that is what we believe,
even if they are angry,
they never will deceive,
We choose our friends,
with utmost care,
u can achieve anything,
if even once they dare,
Do not under estimate,
friendship is not cheap,
if somebody doesn’t have friends,
then, buddy he's a creep,
Though there are a lot of friends,
that I’ve got,
friendship my dear,
cannot be traded or bought,
Friends help u in any way,
as and when they can,
and they’d even write a scrap,
when on orkut, there is a ban.
We are rebels,
we do not follow trends,
but does that mean,
we do not have friends,
Friends are forever,
that is what we believe,
even if they are angry,
they never will deceive,
We choose our friends,
with utmost care,
u can achieve anything,
if even once they dare,
Do not under estimate,
friendship is not cheap,
if somebody doesn’t have friends,
then, buddy he's a creep,
Though there are a lot of friends,
that I’ve got,
friendship my dear,
cannot be traded or bought,
Friends help u in any way,
as and when they can,
and they’d even write a scrap,
when on orkut, there is a ban.
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