With the kind of person I am, I don't know what a plan means to outside world. As I always was on a back foot in case of planning and scheduling or perhaps you can say in a better sense something like prioritizing things, there is no wonder my life was full of adjustments and compromises.
When I go back in my childhood, I found myself surrounded with lots of expectations, much of it dealt with behavior and academics. I did well but when I see it from here it looks I lost my childhood doing nothing, probably I should not think like that. But the reason I think like this is because I was always in a comfortable zone with my family and friends around. I never thought even a single second that I am going to be alone one day like everyone. The word "alone" means feeling yourself in a different frequency which is easy to tune with others but still you will feel its different as there is no echo. In most of childhood years, I was with my little brother. He is nice to me always and I love him as he is very near to my heart and soul. You see, he is none other than my brother. We almost share same kind of voice but now he is taller than me. He has a taste and he is all set for a good carrier. He also sounds as if he has a plan for his life.
Being an elder brother is a huge responsibility because I was his natural trainer in almost every aspect of life. I was his close friend, but as we mature things change and he has a new friend circle and so as I. My friendship to him has taken a shape of responsibility. I care about him but the age in which he is now demands freedom. I abide by this. In terms of a son and as a elder brother I feel things went as they should have gone and I am happy for it. It did not require much of the planning and scheduling in terms of life. Things planned themselves.
Now coming to center of the topic, when I started living alone, I noticed a lot about my mind and my behavior which I found was not very different from other people except I was different for a many people, something like a "crazy mind" or a "lost and confused electron with high energy". But things started changing as I worked in a MNC. The friends of office were very different from the friends of school and colleges. May be because office was not meant for friendship, it was meant for team-ship. It took me some time to understand this difference. I realized it soon and tried to analyze it deeply as I was living alone and I had thus plentiful of time to understand people and analyze about their behavior and their mind uniqueness. Friends from school and colleges still mingle as they were before but all of them have changed or adjusted in the bigger school or college which we see outside our usual college/school. They all are good and living their life untouched. I don't know why I use "untouched", probably I can not touch them inside their mind.:) No matter how, if i ever planned for something, I only panned my studies for exams in schools and colleges and it was natural. I think everyone was forced to plan during those days. I don't count it as planning.
Anyways, planning and scheduling is not my job till now. Seniors used to plan about the job and the work used to come as scheduled. I was getting my job as assigned and I was doing it. I was happy. Slowly, I saw people jumping one company to another and from top it looked like an unstable bunch of electrons trying to search stability. Suddenly, I felt as if I am also not in a stable condition and that triggered an alarm. Now, I have realized the may I did not plan for this.
Making a perfect plan is not easy and experience comes handy in this case. Working out on that plan needs proper scheduling. Their are examples available for the different patterns for different kinds of planning. But they lead to same results in almost every case. Using right pattern is key as there are so many solutions for a particular situation. This is the same rule which applies in designing a application in software industry. The architect is most reputed guy in software industry because he plans the actual thing that has to be worked out. To reach a role of architect, if you see, it takes lot of effort and in actual terms he is the most intelligent guy around. He knows the base and limitations very well of everything involved.
Being an architect of your own self is the biggest task of one's life. Planning and scheduling may be one of the vital part of this role. Sticking to that plan is a manager's role. Managing time and experience is another important thing. This role says that their is no limit and drives us to reach our best potential for the plan that the architect made. Life is nothing but a set of patterns already waiting for you. You just need to get with the right skills there. Everyone goes through these patterns in their life for sure but they use/follow/ship through it in a different way.
Today, the whole world seems to have a plan for them except me. If I have one, I know deep inside me that I am not going to follow it because I don't have the reasons. People may say these reasons as motivation but I think there is always a reason behind existence of everything whether it is a motivation or desire. It is not true that I don't have desires, I have, but, I don't have reasons. If I have one now, that is not for me, although I am going to be involved.
I feel deep inside that if I have a reason to do something, I will do it. If that reason affects me only I will do it for sure. If that affects my family I have to do it. If that affect whole world except me, I will try to do it. If that affects nobody, I will only dream about it and will leave it as it is. I may sound wrong here in my approach. Now let's reverse it out and try to correct it.If the reason affects nobody, it should not be dream t at all. It's waste of my time and dreams. If it affects whole world in a good sense, I will do it for sure. If it affects my family, i will do it. If it affects me only, I will neglect it. Thus, there is no question of "I" here. There is nothing which can affect me except my meanness. Thus, whatever I have to plan there should be something for somebody else also. This makes things simple to plan and schedule.
To be more clear and precise in my planning, the people I know closely are my family and rest who are unknown are world for me. There is no existence of me. I am just a thought. Now when I plan for something, I need a real reason behind it, which should have something for others always. That makes sense. Now when I schedule the time for this plan, I have to seek others co operation. All my work should have a single goal "Growth". Isn't it?
Although, I am not clear about what "growth" will actually mean for this world but I will try to find it. One thing for sure is that, this growth should increase humanity and co operation. How I am going to contribute is the way I have to find? This is what I need to plan and work it out. The next thing what will be scale of my contribution. If I say a very large scale then, I will have to leave a lot of things behind and say good bye to many of my personal feeling which affects directly me. Now, as I have declared myself nothing but a thought, so there is no impact for me. I will try to maximize this scale of my impact.
As now it is clear what would be the scale and direction (which are too big for a thought like me). I have to start planning which no doubt is the most admirable job in this universe. the scheduling is the next big thing and needs commitment to deliver it on time. But as I said if you have a strong reason you will do it, so am I. But, one thing that I have to always realize and keep in mind is that I am just a thought. :) .
The one character which always gets into my mind was "Joker's" character in the movie called Dark Knight. They showed him like a perfect planner, although he was for wrong reasons but I find it very good example here to illustrate my point.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
TOPIC
This is going to be new experiment of my life. I have started writing my book named "TOPIC". This book will solve many puzzles of day to day life. I have kept a deadline of 3 years to complete it.
To complete this work I have decided to cut my time on orkut (www) and entertainment. I have literally decided to keep my maximum time for this work of mine. It will be taking most of my time. I hope I will continue writing my experiences on my blogs but it would be less frequent. I have already wrote few pages of my book but I will be counting my days from Jan1st, 2010.
The reason I named it as TOPIC is that I am not sure about the topic itself as I am covering almost everything in it but in my journey for next three years,for sure, this TOPIC will discover a better name or road for itself otherwise it will be the same.
To complete this work I have decided to cut my time on orkut (www) and entertainment. I have literally decided to keep my maximum time for this work of mine. It will be taking most of my time. I hope I will continue writing my experiences on my blogs but it would be less frequent. I have already wrote few pages of my book but I will be counting my days from Jan1st, 2010.
The reason I named it as TOPIC is that I am not sure about the topic itself as I am covering almost everything in it but in my journey for next three years,for sure, this TOPIC will discover a better name or road for itself otherwise it will be the same.
Lessons of professional life
When I look back, I remember few of the incidents from my professional carrier which made an impact on my brain. I will not tell any names here and I do not have any personal feelings or problems with them. They all are good people and they all deserve a great deal of rewards for their work.
I remeber my first TL. Whenever I went to him for any help his answer was same "What? If I will solve this then for what purpose you have been hired?" Whenever I went with some solution, he said " What? I can not send this to client". I used to call him sir and he was against it as once he said " What is this sir-sir? Call by my name." But he used to call his PM as Sirji to give him respect. First time in my life I saw a man with no values for his own words. He used to use words like quality, customer and client and makes such sentences in terms of questions that were unanswerable. He used to divide all the works among his team and himself used to learn Chinese, swiming, and was attending certification program from the company. He was more like a king that a TL.There is no doubt I did n't like him. Not only me but everyone in the team seems to be against him. Although, everybody was sweet to him except me. But he taught me first lesson of my life"It is your battle and you have to fight alone". I am thankful to him as he made me self dependent. He is now married and he still rememebers me.
There was a girl, she is still my good friend. I have never seen such potentials and firm mindedness in my carrier like her. She was straight and very intelligent. First day itself I was impressed with her voice, smile, mind and beauty. She was a complete talent package. She had ambitions and she was in sync with those ambitions. I wanted to win her trust so that she can be my friend for ever. In my life first time I felt so motivated that I gave her flowers picking from no where else but from the office reception. Her suggestion were always perfect and her timing was perfect. I tried to win her heart but I failed. I don't regret it as I think she deserved/deserves a better person than me. Once she told me "Don't behave like kids, this is professional world and you should keep your personal life always away from the professional life. I need my personal life out of this and I suggest you the same." This was my second lesson and I am thankful to her and I am going to follow this till my last working days.
Third lesson was from my first manager. I wrote a mail to my TL explaining him that my computer is not in good condition and I may not perform well in comparison to others but in that mail I sounded like an emotinal idiot. In a one to one meeting my manager told me "from my 9+ years of professional life I have learnt something and I am going to tell you what I have learnt--Don't be emotional about anything in this professional world. Save your ass." This words went and strike my brain nerves like thunder. I thank him for this lesson.
The forth lesson came just few days back when I was released from my account and was called back for a one to one meeting. I was surprised to know my PL has given me ratings and my manager is going to have a discussion for it and his manager is also joining the meeting. Since, it was supposed to be an one to one meeting and I firmly said I don't want anybody except my manager. My manager on files came and had a discussion with me. She clearly said that I have not given you rating, its your PL. I told her that my rating are good and I am thankful but I don't see these rating going into action. I also told her that I was told that I am going to be promoted. She gave me forth lesson my professional life " In this world, people say many things but you should not trust them utill it comes in paper or written".
I know things will keep changing. I am listing these experieces here so that I do not forget these lessons of my professional life. I do things from my heart and I usually go by my instinct. The professional world is an other world which is ruled by words - clients, economy, revenues, profit and there is a internal office politics. The people I met where so professional in their attitude that I almost lost faith in my company, friendship and team spirit. They were trying to send a message that co operate with everyone but they themselves where not co opertaing.
What I learnt from these incidents is simple -- this is a world where mind rules. You have to get that work done by hook or by crook. Man is a social animal but we are not at social work. This is professional work where intelligence rules with the help of skills. If you can not get it find it somewhere else where it exists but do not make noise.
I remeber my first TL. Whenever I went to him for any help his answer was same "What? If I will solve this then for what purpose you have been hired?" Whenever I went with some solution, he said " What? I can not send this to client". I used to call him sir and he was against it as once he said " What is this sir-sir? Call by my name." But he used to call his PM as Sirji to give him respect. First time in my life I saw a man with no values for his own words. He used to use words like quality, customer and client and makes such sentences in terms of questions that were unanswerable. He used to divide all the works among his team and himself used to learn Chinese, swiming, and was attending certification program from the company. He was more like a king that a TL.There is no doubt I did n't like him. Not only me but everyone in the team seems to be against him. Although, everybody was sweet to him except me. But he taught me first lesson of my life"It is your battle and you have to fight alone". I am thankful to him as he made me self dependent. He is now married and he still rememebers me.
There was a girl, she is still my good friend. I have never seen such potentials and firm mindedness in my carrier like her. She was straight and very intelligent. First day itself I was impressed with her voice, smile, mind and beauty. She was a complete talent package. She had ambitions and she was in sync with those ambitions. I wanted to win her trust so that she can be my friend for ever. In my life first time I felt so motivated that I gave her flowers picking from no where else but from the office reception. Her suggestion were always perfect and her timing was perfect. I tried to win her heart but I failed. I don't regret it as I think she deserved/deserves a better person than me. Once she told me "Don't behave like kids, this is professional world and you should keep your personal life always away from the professional life. I need my personal life out of this and I suggest you the same." This was my second lesson and I am thankful to her and I am going to follow this till my last working days.
Third lesson was from my first manager. I wrote a mail to my TL explaining him that my computer is not in good condition and I may not perform well in comparison to others but in that mail I sounded like an emotinal idiot. In a one to one meeting my manager told me "from my 9+ years of professional life I have learnt something and I am going to tell you what I have learnt--Don't be emotional about anything in this professional world. Save your ass." This words went and strike my brain nerves like thunder. I thank him for this lesson.
The forth lesson came just few days back when I was released from my account and was called back for a one to one meeting. I was surprised to know my PL has given me ratings and my manager is going to have a discussion for it and his manager is also joining the meeting. Since, it was supposed to be an one to one meeting and I firmly said I don't want anybody except my manager. My manager on files came and had a discussion with me. She clearly said that I have not given you rating, its your PL. I told her that my rating are good and I am thankful but I don't see these rating going into action. I also told her that I was told that I am going to be promoted. She gave me forth lesson my professional life " In this world, people say many things but you should not trust them utill it comes in paper or written".
I know things will keep changing. I am listing these experieces here so that I do not forget these lessons of my professional life. I do things from my heart and I usually go by my instinct. The professional world is an other world which is ruled by words - clients, economy, revenues, profit and there is a internal office politics. The people I met where so professional in their attitude that I almost lost faith in my company, friendship and team spirit. They were trying to send a message that co operate with everyone but they themselves where not co opertaing.
What I learnt from these incidents is simple -- this is a world where mind rules. You have to get that work done by hook or by crook. Man is a social animal but we are not at social work. This is professional work where intelligence rules with the help of skills. If you can not get it find it somewhere else where it exists but do not make noise.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Day
Today is Christmas Day. Everyone is supposed to be happy. I am also trying to make my self happy. But how? I can make others happy but not myself. There are few thoughts which are disturbing me. I am comparing my growth with others who joined the company with me and since I am no where closer to them it has started giving me a sense of discomfort as all of them got promoted except me. But am I supposed to think like that? Is that right? Few of my friends have made remarkable progress and they are now far ahead than me interms of salary as well as in terms of position. I think everyone compares himself with their friends or people they know. I can not find a single person who means what he says as they speak that they don't care these things. As per my understanding whatever we feel makes a print in our circuitry of brains and when we try to say something we want to create a impression on the others or circumstances that we don't care but in the background we do care.
Now, as I know what it means to be compared and feel sad. I today, promise myself that I am not going to compare my self with my colleagues or fiends for my entire life because it hurts deep inside my thinking process and makes gliches in my circuitry. I don't care anymore about those appraisal ratings which are just for the sake of some process and I Saurabh Kumar, promise myself that I will create my own way and I will not let anybody to compare me with anyone else. There is no limits for oppurtunities and there is no one who can play my God Father or mentor in this world. This means I have to take charge myself. Now, I will not let anyone take my charge or mentorship. I am not going to ask anyone for any favors or what I need or what I expect. No more promotion halla gulla, no cries for salary hikes. Now, onwards I will take my own decisions for everything. I will try my level best not to hurt anyone feelings and make everyone around me happy.
In one corner of my brain I feel as if I am sounding emotional and stupid or like a lost warrior or like frustrated professional but the truth is that I am making a commitment today to myself and till the time I exist, I will adhere to it. The reason why I am writing this because I should remember this moment to filter any such thoughts in future which is going to disturb me.
From today if I exists, it is because I am existing. Let the whole world play against or with me, I Saurabh Kumar will develop so many wings that I will not let my mind ever think of any kind of comparison. I wish Merry Christmas!! and prays to this world and mother Nature to help in my travel in this life without any friction. But if any friction comes I will make that path frictionless. I am going to assume that God is with me and whole world is against me from Day1. From day2, my aim is to win the confidence of this world on daily basis and make them come to my side.
Now, as I know what it means to be compared and feel sad. I today, promise myself that I am not going to compare my self with my colleagues or fiends for my entire life because it hurts deep inside my thinking process and makes gliches in my circuitry. I don't care anymore about those appraisal ratings which are just for the sake of some process and I Saurabh Kumar, promise myself that I will create my own way and I will not let anybody to compare me with anyone else. There is no limits for oppurtunities and there is no one who can play my God Father or mentor in this world. This means I have to take charge myself. Now, I will not let anyone take my charge or mentorship. I am not going to ask anyone for any favors or what I need or what I expect. No more promotion halla gulla, no cries for salary hikes. Now, onwards I will take my own decisions for everything. I will try my level best not to hurt anyone feelings and make everyone around me happy.
In one corner of my brain I feel as if I am sounding emotional and stupid or like a lost warrior or like frustrated professional but the truth is that I am making a commitment today to myself and till the time I exist, I will adhere to it. The reason why I am writing this because I should remember this moment to filter any such thoughts in future which is going to disturb me.
From today if I exists, it is because I am existing. Let the whole world play against or with me, I Saurabh Kumar will develop so many wings that I will not let my mind ever think of any kind of comparison. I wish Merry Christmas!! and prays to this world and mother Nature to help in my travel in this life without any friction. But if any friction comes I will make that path frictionless. I am going to assume that God is with me and whole world is against me from Day1. From day2, my aim is to win the confidence of this world on daily basis and make them come to my side.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Goal
The simple goals of my life are :
1. Knowing the power of mind.
2. Picturising my goal daily.
3. Establishment of a brand to communicate with entire universe physically.
4. Helping others.
1. Knowing the power of mind.
2. Picturising my goal daily.
3. Establishment of a brand to communicate with entire universe physically.
4. Helping others.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Resolution 2010
I know 2010 is coming with new challenges and to address them successfully I think I should change by thinking pattern a bit. My resolution for 2010 will be a step in that direction.
Steps that I need to take in order to make my plan for this year successful: 7 steps
1. No 2011 worries. Worries only for 2021.
2. Improve communication and write your experiences.
3. No comparisons; be sigle minded. Listen to people for helping them out only.
4. Define-->Measure-->Analyze--->Control--->Excecution--->Perfection--->Pattern
5. Think before act.
6. Read something, meditate and do light exercises for whole body daily.
7. Take account of your time.
That's cool! more than enough.
Steps that I need to take in order to make my plan for this year successful: 7 steps
1. No 2011 worries. Worries only for 2021.
2. Improve communication and write your experiences.
3. No comparisons; be sigle minded. Listen to people for helping them out only.
4. Define-->Measure-->Analyze--->Control--->Excecution--->Perfection--->Pattern
5. Think before act.
6. Read something, meditate and do light exercises for whole body daily.
7. Take account of your time.
That's cool! more than enough.
Friday, December 11, 2009
American Dream
In my days, in America, I am thinking of why this country has made such a progress and how is it able to sustain this progress. What can be its agenda and future?Instead of what this nation thinks and will do, it would be useful to learn from its experience with the world and technology.
Many people whom I met in America were workohlic and they were above 35-40. They have all energy and resources in place to utilize. A simple life in US is very easy to live and that simple life is 10 times better in terms of facilities in India. There is no doubt why those people in India who have migrated or have some link to US have also made a good progress. But US should not be destination to Indians; it should be place of learning. We should learn the good qualities of US and try to implement them in desi version.
What I like most about US is the control it has over law and order. It has a strong intelligence with tremendous power. They maintain data is an excellent manner and no body can enter and go out without being noticed out of those high quality dtabase management programs. Also, the common people have always a sense of responsibility to their environment and country. Although, it is much bigger and is actually huge in area, it is well managed. The infrastructure has been developed keeping an eye on future requirements. The reason of this progress can be that ...they have not much of history of their own and what they have is actually a refined experience from the whole world. They are too flexible to adopt a new improvement.
Although, they are consumer country and they have taught world most of the management rules to maintain quality and price but they are too much dependent on technology. They have an advantage with English language and have high demand currency with great technonlogies in place to kep it at top. I feel things are big here and very well arranged becuase in the background there are large number of Indians and Chinese working for all these American companies day and night. We do not have such advantage. The simple example I can give is that Americans are using Indians and Chinese brains to work for them during their off hours. They are utilizing the day time of India for their progress. This give them time advantage over whole world. Their companies are working 24 hours all around the globe. This is reason of progess of both sides in recent years. We have also achieved a lot and I am thankful to this country from bottom of my heart but we do not have such advantage.
The only thing they lack is Sprituality as they are too scientific in their approach. They have a proffesional approach for almost everything. Everyone want to be financially independent here and travelling is easy and part of life. The reality lies in its strong force and its constitution. The things which we can learn from them is their experience with these technologies as we have already sprituality in place. The place where technology can marry religion is India and that's the reason I want to live in India where technology has a not entered so deep in life.
Many people whom I met in America were workohlic and they were above 35-40. They have all energy and resources in place to utilize. A simple life in US is very easy to live and that simple life is 10 times better in terms of facilities in India. There is no doubt why those people in India who have migrated or have some link to US have also made a good progress. But US should not be destination to Indians; it should be place of learning. We should learn the good qualities of US and try to implement them in desi version.
What I like most about US is the control it has over law and order. It has a strong intelligence with tremendous power. They maintain data is an excellent manner and no body can enter and go out without being noticed out of those high quality dtabase management programs. Also, the common people have always a sense of responsibility to their environment and country. Although, it is much bigger and is actually huge in area, it is well managed. The infrastructure has been developed keeping an eye on future requirements. The reason of this progress can be that ...they have not much of history of their own and what they have is actually a refined experience from the whole world. They are too flexible to adopt a new improvement.
Although, they are consumer country and they have taught world most of the management rules to maintain quality and price but they are too much dependent on technology. They have an advantage with English language and have high demand currency with great technonlogies in place to kep it at top. I feel things are big here and very well arranged becuase in the background there are large number of Indians and Chinese working for all these American companies day and night. We do not have such advantage. The simple example I can give is that Americans are using Indians and Chinese brains to work for them during their off hours. They are utilizing the day time of India for their progress. This give them time advantage over whole world. Their companies are working 24 hours all around the globe. This is reason of progess of both sides in recent years. We have also achieved a lot and I am thankful to this country from bottom of my heart but we do not have such advantage.
The only thing they lack is Sprituality as they are too scientific in their approach. They have a proffesional approach for almost everything. Everyone want to be financially independent here and travelling is easy and part of life. The reality lies in its strong force and its constitution. The things which we can learn from them is their experience with these technologies as we have already sprituality in place. The place where technology can marry religion is India and that's the reason I want to live in India where technology has a not entered so deep in life.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Real Vs Virtual
It has been always difficult to live virtual and dream real. When you open eyes it seems everything is real. When closed everything is virtual; an image.
Although, it is always a difficult concept to grasp and understand just like concept of Virtual Memory but it works and is most liked. Real friendships, real relations and real feelings needs true emotions. If you are truthful always.... it hurts everyone directly in most of the cases. Hence, people put a cover and represent things in a presentable manner. It can happen like, if you did not like anything this means it might be too real and very less virtual. The hard truth is -- truth always wins but its "virtual" which is always liked and dreamed.
Thus, what it means that.. if you want to win the last days of your life, you would go for real things and real emotion and feelings or you would want everyone around you to be truthful and attentive but what you will get... will be a real image of your own virtual self.
The moral of the story is --if you are virtual to others...don't expect reality. That's it. Virtual wins virtual only. Thus, what you need is a reality check...and how you would know if that is real....it's simple..you will not like it. Ha ha..
Although, it is always a difficult concept to grasp and understand just like concept of Virtual Memory but it works and is most liked. Real friendships, real relations and real feelings needs true emotions. If you are truthful always.... it hurts everyone directly in most of the cases. Hence, people put a cover and represent things in a presentable manner. It can happen like, if you did not like anything this means it might be too real and very less virtual. The hard truth is -- truth always wins but its "virtual" which is always liked and dreamed.
Thus, what it means that.. if you want to win the last days of your life, you would go for real things and real emotion and feelings or you would want everyone around you to be truthful and attentive but what you will get... will be a real image of your own virtual self.
The moral of the story is --if you are virtual to others...don't expect reality. That's it. Virtual wins virtual only. Thus, what you need is a reality check...and how you would know if that is real....it's simple..you will not like it. Ha ha..
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The idea of happiness and fun
Imagine yourself in hotel room with all facilities at your door. Now, suppose you are alone there and it is snowing outside. How would you feel? Happy...funny....what?
You know whole idea of fun and happiness is with some other person who is near you.....for example it was snowing outside from past 6 hours yesterday......last time I felt too excited but not this time.. Any guess? Simple...I am alone.
You feel happy when your family feels it that way. You feel happy when your friends feel the same. You feel happy when people near you feel the same. There is no world if you are alone. Happiness can be felt only when shared otherwise it is just a thought. It is most important lesson that we should practice. Life is very simple and full of happiness and fun if you have somebody to share every moment together. This is the whole idea why we celebrate some occasions, some festivals, some incident..whatever..the whole idea is to make ourselves happy and be together.
You know whole idea of fun and happiness is with some other person who is near you.....for example it was snowing outside from past 6 hours yesterday......last time I felt too excited but not this time.. Any guess? Simple...I am alone.
You feel happy when your family feels it that way. You feel happy when your friends feel the same. You feel happy when people near you feel the same. There is no world if you are alone. Happiness can be felt only when shared otherwise it is just a thought. It is most important lesson that we should practice. Life is very simple and full of happiness and fun if you have somebody to share every moment together. This is the whole idea why we celebrate some occasions, some festivals, some incident..whatever..the whole idea is to make ourselves happy and be together.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Choices in Herndon
I am in a hotel room in Herndon, Virginia for an official assignment. It is snowing outside. The TV is ON and Tom Cruise is saving America. Please note this is weekend and I am witnessing the first snowfall of the season live from my window.
In this time of solitude, I have only one companion my chutki laptop. I was watching new released movie De Dana Dan when my internet stopped working. Well, I got to know why? Video streaming is not allowed in Hotel. Nice to know.
Morning started with milk,bread, egg,Orange Juice, potato chips and coke. Then lunch was also same. I thought of cooking but my laziness won over hunger. Anyways, I talked to few friends and home which killed bit of my time.
Killing time?Am I doing the right thing? What is right for me? AAH! this question haunts me always. Anyways, I know what to do. It is just two words and its "Reading + Writing". Simple, but believe me it is not me who made this choice, the truth is that I am not left with any other choice.
In this time of solitude, I have only one companion my chutki laptop. I was watching new released movie De Dana Dan when my internet stopped working. Well, I got to know why? Video streaming is not allowed in Hotel. Nice to know.
Morning started with milk,bread, egg,Orange Juice, potato chips and coke. Then lunch was also same. I thought of cooking but my laziness won over hunger. Anyways, I talked to few friends and home which killed bit of my time.
Killing time?Am I doing the right thing? What is right for me? AAH! this question haunts me always. Anyways, I know what to do. It is just two words and its "Reading + Writing". Simple, but believe me it is not me who made this choice, the truth is that I am not left with any other choice.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
A B C of Survival
A day will come when all of us will retire. A retirement from an assignment. In professions like most of the salaried class comes to an end at age of 60 or probably 58. I am going to be 26 years in another 3 to 4 months. The difference 58-24 = 34 years is what I have, still to work out for my survival as a professional. What do I need? Answer is simple - SKILLS.
What should I do for these 34 years? Should I continue or should I change my profession? Should I plan for a change or should I wait for a change? Do you get same questions in your mind? What to do? If yes, you are a pure confused idiot like me.
In our life, we get at least one chance per year to change our life. If money is what we need then it can be earned in many ways but it is not only money which is needed for survival. It is a hope which you need to live and grow. Money is just a helping tool to reach a destination , not the destination but, still it is vital and very important if you have responsibilities on your shoulder as a son, as a brother, as a sister or as a father or mother. The cost of living is the reason for cash flow but, cost of living should not be paid on cost of life. The importance of money is vital but only gathering money is not important. It is 20% of your life, the rest 80% is your life minus money. Then, how much should you earn? According to me, I will propose a simple solution for this;
1. Think of how much you need now. Suppose, a guys needs (approx)
10000 - food
10000 - rent
10000 - saving
10000 - others misc
Thus, he should earn 40000 per month. If he earns less than this he should get this figure as soon as possible. The aim should be earning net 40000 per month or 4.8 lakhs per annum. No compromise.
2. Once you have reached this mark, think on how much would you need after 5 years.
20000- food
20000- rent
30000 -saving
20000 - others misc
Thus, you need 90000 per month. thus start working for next five years to reach this figure. Now work it out. See options how to get to this figure. You have five years to get this figure. Try to work out a plan and go for it. Do this kind of planning every five years or three years and you would know how much you need.
Since, by this time you would have already figured out how much you need then, what is next? Once you know you can earn and have a plan for execution for next five years, plan for a family. Family? yes, a family which can provide you a backup support. The question comes --"Do I need a family for my survival ?" Answer is "YES". Plan for your marriage. A guy should get married before the half of the age of retirement. Thus, it comes around on or before 29.
Then? Once you are married it's time to give some share of your plans to the lady of your life, get you wife on discussion table and get your plan which you made before marriage approved. If she advises something else include it or discuss it. Done. Now both of you know what you both need to do for next five or three years. Therefore, you have now 4 hands and 2 heads to accomplish your goal. Now, give the planning commission file to your wife to make any number of amendments as per her vision and get the approval of your parents. Get your plan approved from your father and mother (include in-laws, if she insists). And you are set. :) It is not necessary to get the whole file approved. You can keep the confidential matters out of it. But that should be home ministry's decision and let her do what she want with the planning file. You got it approved by her now its her responsibility to get it approved by cabinet, not yours.
Keep one thing in mind, by the time you are a bachelor, you life is only yours. Once, you are a family man, your life is for your family. Then what about you? Oh! your future is already in that file. Remember? the one which you made before starting a family and got it approved after marriage also. If you got my point, it is simple. You planned everything for your life including everyone's who are part of your life. The main thing which plays and pays is your plans and their execution.
Although, you have already understood A and B of life which you planned . The C is for compromise. That's A B and C of Survival. In simple terms, A is After marriage. B is Before marriage. C stands Compromises you make.
What should I do for these 34 years? Should I continue or should I change my profession? Should I plan for a change or should I wait for a change? Do you get same questions in your mind? What to do? If yes, you are a pure confused idiot like me.
In our life, we get at least one chance per year to change our life. If money is what we need then it can be earned in many ways but it is not only money which is needed for survival. It is a hope which you need to live and grow. Money is just a helping tool to reach a destination , not the destination but, still it is vital and very important if you have responsibilities on your shoulder as a son, as a brother, as a sister or as a father or mother. The cost of living is the reason for cash flow but, cost of living should not be paid on cost of life. The importance of money is vital but only gathering money is not important. It is 20% of your life, the rest 80% is your life minus money. Then, how much should you earn? According to me, I will propose a simple solution for this;
1. Think of how much you need now. Suppose, a guys needs (approx)
10000 - food
10000 - rent
10000 - saving
10000 - others misc
Thus, he should earn 40000 per month. If he earns less than this he should get this figure as soon as possible. The aim should be earning net 40000 per month or 4.8 lakhs per annum. No compromise.
2. Once you have reached this mark, think on how much would you need after 5 years.
20000- food
20000- rent
30000 -saving
20000 - others misc
Thus, you need 90000 per month. thus start working for next five years to reach this figure. Now work it out. See options how to get to this figure. You have five years to get this figure. Try to work out a plan and go for it. Do this kind of planning every five years or three years and you would know how much you need.
Since, by this time you would have already figured out how much you need then, what is next? Once you know you can earn and have a plan for execution for next five years, plan for a family. Family? yes, a family which can provide you a backup support. The question comes --"Do I need a family for my survival ?" Answer is "YES". Plan for your marriage. A guy should get married before the half of the age of retirement. Thus, it comes around on or before 29.
Then? Once you are married it's time to give some share of your plans to the lady of your life, get you wife on discussion table and get your plan which you made before marriage approved. If she advises something else include it or discuss it. Done. Now both of you know what you both need to do for next five or three years. Therefore, you have now 4 hands and 2 heads to accomplish your goal. Now, give the planning commission file to your wife to make any number of amendments as per her vision and get the approval of your parents. Get your plan approved from your father and mother (include in-laws, if she insists). And you are set. :) It is not necessary to get the whole file approved. You can keep the confidential matters out of it. But that should be home ministry's decision and let her do what she want with the planning file. You got it approved by her now its her responsibility to get it approved by cabinet, not yours.
Keep one thing in mind, by the time you are a bachelor, you life is only yours. Once, you are a family man, your life is for your family. Then what about you? Oh! your future is already in that file. Remember? the one which you made before starting a family and got it approved after marriage also. If you got my point, it is simple. You planned everything for your life including everyone's who are part of your life. The main thing which plays and pays is your plans and their execution.
Although, you have already understood A and B of life which you planned . The C is for compromise. That's A B and C of Survival. In simple terms, A is After marriage. B is Before marriage. C stands Compromises you make.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Release : Classic View
Nov16, 2009. The day would be marked as a new day in my life. Things are not only going to change but they would go for a toss. The outcome will have an impact on my life and surely is going to set a course for a brand new beginning. Although, I never thought that I would get released so soon but it seemed to be well planned. It would be too early to comment on it as there are still 2 days to Nov15, my release day. I thought that I would pen my thoughts for these days.
The office politics and drama continues. Let's have a look how it goes. I would request you to just have a look and not believe it as the things for granted. It can be specific to me only. So here it goes...
I was asked 3 months ago " What would you like to do? - technical work or managerial work ? Hopefully, it was my first trap. I left the decision to my manager as I was not sure and planned fr this question. Hopefully, It was my first mistake. My manager said "You should not only come into my role as I have recommended your name in front of others as a person leading this team but you should start leading from the front. Also, it is necessary that you come into my shoes so that I go up in hierarchy too." Till here --no issues and well said. I was delegated most of managerial work and thus it was decided that I am going on a managerial path. Two months ago, I heard "you should be promoted next promotion cycle as you are most suitable candidate. You should start leading team and take up tasks proactively."One month ago, I heard "I don't know if you would be promoted or not but definitely going to get a good hike." Although, I could see that statements were changing every fifteen days. Hopefully, it was an alarm which I ignored. Hopefully, this was my second mistake. Things do change but not as fast as the plans of my managers. You can easily guess the reason for so many changes in their plans as there are around 13 managers to manage 50 resources. Anyways, it is quite clear that they are fighting their battle for their own existence according to famous Darwin's statement " Survival for the fittest." I told my manager "May be I will not get anything - no promotion and no hikes because it is hard to trust management" but she said "You wait and watch." My project manager was trying to keep me hopeful. My manager is outcome of older policies of my company which keeps you always hopeful.
Finally, when my name never appeared in the list for promotion, I was told that you are getting released from the account. A strong sense of betrayal left a bad taste in my mouth. I had only one choice and that was "To React". But I had only one thought in my mind " people who can not stand on their statements are not trustworthy and it is always best to leave the company of such people and it was purely my mistake that I did not do it in first place. I went for this choice of mine and now I have to pay the price." I showed no reactions and will try to leave my place without making any noise. But should I? The taste of a betrayal will be always be in your mouth. It depends on your digestive system how fast you can digest it. But it is always good if you digest it fast and come up with a smiling face. That's how life goes and goes on. I did the same. I learn two things from this incident. In professional world " I am a victim and only I can help my self."
I have no hard personal feeling for anybody for my condition as it is going to be fine and it goes like this only. I was replaceable and thus was replaced. That's the hard truth. Now, I must find a place for me as soon as possible. This is the way things goes and will go. "Beggars are not choosers" and the other way is also true "Choosers are not beggars." Let's see what is there for me in future but right now things are gloomy.:). It all depends on the choices you make.
The office politics and drama continues. Let's have a look how it goes. I would request you to just have a look and not believe it as the things for granted. It can be specific to me only. So here it goes...
I was asked 3 months ago " What would you like to do? - technical work or managerial work ? Hopefully, it was my first trap. I left the decision to my manager as I was not sure and planned fr this question. Hopefully, It was my first mistake. My manager said "You should not only come into my role as I have recommended your name in front of others as a person leading this team but you should start leading from the front. Also, it is necessary that you come into my shoes so that I go up in hierarchy too." Till here --no issues and well said. I was delegated most of managerial work and thus it was decided that I am going on a managerial path. Two months ago, I heard "you should be promoted next promotion cycle as you are most suitable candidate. You should start leading team and take up tasks proactively."One month ago, I heard "I don't know if you would be promoted or not but definitely going to get a good hike." Although, I could see that statements were changing every fifteen days. Hopefully, it was an alarm which I ignored. Hopefully, this was my second mistake. Things do change but not as fast as the plans of my managers. You can easily guess the reason for so many changes in their plans as there are around 13 managers to manage 50 resources. Anyways, it is quite clear that they are fighting their battle for their own existence according to famous Darwin's statement " Survival for the fittest." I told my manager "May be I will not get anything - no promotion and no hikes because it is hard to trust management" but she said "You wait and watch." My project manager was trying to keep me hopeful. My manager is outcome of older policies of my company which keeps you always hopeful.
Finally, when my name never appeared in the list for promotion, I was told that you are getting released from the account. A strong sense of betrayal left a bad taste in my mouth. I had only one choice and that was "To React". But I had only one thought in my mind " people who can not stand on their statements are not trustworthy and it is always best to leave the company of such people and it was purely my mistake that I did not do it in first place. I went for this choice of mine and now I have to pay the price." I showed no reactions and will try to leave my place without making any noise. But should I? The taste of a betrayal will be always be in your mouth. It depends on your digestive system how fast you can digest it. But it is always good if you digest it fast and come up with a smiling face. That's how life goes and goes on. I did the same. I learn two things from this incident. In professional world " I am a victim and only I can help my self."
I have no hard personal feeling for anybody for my condition as it is going to be fine and it goes like this only. I was replaceable and thus was replaced. That's the hard truth. Now, I must find a place for me as soon as possible. This is the way things goes and will go. "Beggars are not choosers" and the other way is also true "Choosers are not beggars." Let's see what is there for me in future but right now things are gloomy.:). It all depends on the choices you make.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
THE THOUGHTS
We have a wonderful mind. An ultimate complex tool called brain. This brain had a very unique structure. It saves and serves information. This information can be called impulses of thoughts. The unique thing here is how it generates thoughts. A good thought and bad thought; and ultimately its reactions on these thoughts. But what decides the action or a reaction. this is interesting.
(................To be continued...............................)
(................To be continued...............................)
Friday, August 14, 2009
Tryst with Destiny of my Country : Independence Day Celebration
Sometimes, we do things which we never expect ourselves to do. Well, this time, it was time for celebrating Independence Day. Of course it's an important occasion for every Indian. But do we Indians have any sense of what this means? I have started my quest for it.
In my childhood school days, I never displayed any kind of fervor for an occasion like this. For me Independence Day was a day where some idiot kids will give mugged up speech which they themselves don't understand. A mindless principal will give an endless speech while he will start like “I will not take much of your time.". Some stupid girls will dance on stage. And we will get sweets at last. I used to get some money from my father to eat ‘Samosa’ and ‘jeelabi’ with my friends. I always tried to skip the speech of Prime Minister. Yeah, that day, my mother used to cook some delicious food like "mutter paneer" or "kathal ki sabji" or "rajma ki sabji". In every sense for me Independence Day meant delicious spicy food, sweets and the movies telecasted on DD1. It was the same kind of show every year for me.
In my engineering days, Independence day meant no class and no celebration. I used to sleep and watch movie. That means complete rest. It was just a national holiday for all of us. To flout a day like Independence Day was my foible. I was an engineer in making without even 1% of common sense.
Now-a-days, I feel myself more involved in the celebration of Independence Day. Particularly, this year the zeal is more. First of all, I am getting ample opportunities to show my creativity independently. I participated in almost all the events conducted in my company. There were no established rules and everything I did was for the first time in my life. And thus, it makes things more special like the day. I had a unforgettable last two days. Yesterday, it started with a kite making competition. I with two of my colleagues participated and made a big kite. It was a organizational level competition and results are still to come. Then, I took part in "pen your thoughts", a floor based competition. We were given a topic "what one thing you would like to change in our political system." I could not put my words or my thinking the way, I should. Perhaps, I was more exhausted due to my participation in kite making. But an event is an event and that moment my mind has no idea to click and drill in allotted time of 15 minutes. I am very upset with my performance in “pen my thoughts”. I could have performed better in that. I would like to pen my thoughts again. Next, I with three of my colleagues participated in "Antaakshri", another floor based event in which my team stood first.
Today, there was a floor decoration competition with ethic touch. I became a farmer as I have to represent the era of green revolution. I had an outfit of farmer with lots of greenery and fields around me. The whole floor was decorated and all the cubicles were decorated according to the floor theme "Past Prsent and Future of India". The most beautiful part was that we were the part of floor decoration too and we acted also as per our outfits and roles. The actor inside us was on its high. I enjoyed a lot.
In the course of celebration I came to know few things like "the speech of Jawaharlal Lal Nehru on the eve of Independence day was called "Tryst with destiny." I read the whole speech. I also came to know about Green revolution and White revolution. Now, I know how to make a kite? I acted like a farmer on bare feet. And above all, I became aware about the importance of Independence and its celebration with my team.
It's only when you involve yourself in such events, you would discover the true meaning of it. One should participate in such event actively because there are lots of things which you can improve later when you know in what present condition it is now. An aware mind is the right mind of thoughts. And believe me an idea can click any time ; and has the power to change your life.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The LAST 3 YEARS of proffesional life
Well.......this story started on 7th of August, 2006.
A guy started his professional carrier as a VC++ trainee. He stood 2nd in the batch by scoring 79 out of 100. He joined a development team as VC++ developer. Although, the start was not so pleasant and there were few frictions that he had to face. He bought world's slimmest mobile phone with his saving in next three months. He made few good friends in this course of time and became a permanent employee after six months. He continued working as a Software Engineer.
April 1st, 2007 he became part of an another team in the same account. The new team had some magnificent team players like Vikrant Vardhan and Truptha Prabhu who played mentoring role for this guy. This guy was active and did some good work for his team.
January 5th, 2008 he bought a high tech laptop for personal use and reduced the use of paper and ink in his life.
March 31st, 2008, he was promoted to Senior Software Engineer . He did some very good development works and was awarded for his performance with a Blue Certificate but unfortunately, he got a wrong certificate. :) This happens sometimes. He was also nominated for Gold Club, which is to groom future managers to strengthen the organization.
September 14th, 2008 he went to US for official purpose. He was their for six months. He understood the working cultures and met some amazing people. He celebrated every moment there and improved his technical skills on other products and technologies.
April 1st, 2009 he came back to India and resumed office. He was asked to take bigger responsibilities.
August 7th, 2009; he is completing 3 full years of his professional carrier.
This guy is Me.
I thank God, my family, my friends and my colleagues for their support and inspiration. The last three years were amazing and full of accomplishments. Thanks!
A guy started his professional carrier as a VC++ trainee. He stood 2nd in the batch by scoring 79 out of 100. He joined a development team as VC++ developer. Although, the start was not so pleasant and there were few frictions that he had to face. He bought world's slimmest mobile phone with his saving in next three months. He made few good friends in this course of time and became a permanent employee after six months. He continued working as a Software Engineer.
April 1st, 2007 he became part of an another team in the same account. The new team had some magnificent team players like Vikrant Vardhan and Truptha Prabhu who played mentoring role for this guy. This guy was active and did some good work for his team.
January 5th, 2008 he bought a high tech laptop for personal use and reduced the use of paper and ink in his life.
March 31st, 2008, he was promoted to Senior Software Engineer . He did some very good development works and was awarded for his performance with a Blue Certificate but unfortunately, he got a wrong certificate. :) This happens sometimes. He was also nominated for Gold Club, which is to groom future managers to strengthen the organization.
September 14th, 2008 he went to US for official purpose. He was their for six months. He understood the working cultures and met some amazing people. He celebrated every moment there and improved his technical skills on other products and technologies.
April 1st, 2009 he came back to India and resumed office. He was asked to take bigger responsibilities.
August 7th, 2009; he is completing 3 full years of his professional carrier.
This guy is Me.
I thank God, my family, my friends and my colleagues for their support and inspiration. The last three years were amazing and full of accomplishments. Thanks!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
MAST
A wise man has said "If you want to grow in life; always see towards the sky." I really don't know who said that or maybe they are purely my words. One more wise man said “ if you want to grow in an organization; check out with the trainings conducted there”. In my opinion, these trainings make you think about yourself rather than the computer/software with which you spend most of your quality time.
Today, I attended a training called "Mast". It was like "Baby’s days out". Although, there were few interesting people around me but I did not see any kind of spark. Most of them looked tensed and unhappy. I am talking about what I saw their eyes. May be they were tired. Surprisingly, the trainer’s eyes were totally red due to some infection or allergy. But she was fine and ready to take her charge.
Initially, I was little bit upset with the strength of the crowd for the training. We were just 7 people including the trainer (3M+3F). There was a bit too much of theory involved. But it was kind of OK!! because it was not for fun but for MAST. The story started in a building (which I call) SER 1.5. As usual, the training room was empty when I arrived there (with one more guy). I had a weird feeling that probably nobody will turn up but my optimistic side said, may be I am just lucky enough to grab a chair of my own choice. Well, I settled myself right in the middle of the room to see everything around in a better way. Let me tell you that, I was very excited for this training as it has a reputation of its own. Also the name is "MAST" you know. MAST stands for managerial skill training not for someone like “Raveena Tondon” .You may ask yourself why the hell I am writing about something like that....crap...but anyways it never matters. It is worth to waste your time this way than going behind someone for something. At least, you will know that it is your original views getting in shape. Coming to the topic....
The training started late and ended well before the scheduled time today. I have to attend the rest of it tomorrow. Frankly, speaking I was disappointed with first day response. Perhaps, I wanted an aggressive training which would make me eat my nails something like “iss Jungle (Training) se mujhe bachao". Every one of us was feeling shy and everything was at place there. There was an unpleasant peace around. I thought I was back in my sweet school days where a teacher comes in SUPW and blabbers something and we go out more pleasantly when bell rings.
But, you know there was little bit of fun added here. There was a game in which you had to arrange some cups using few threads and few rubber bands without touching those cups with your fingers. You were supposed to make a structure. All boys were in one team and all girls grouped together. We made a bit of something piled up one over the other and it came like a structure in the given time of 3 minutes. The other group was given 2.5 minutes for the same activity but they could not do much. The hidden agenda behind this game was to let us know the importance of “planning and work sharing”. Basically, it was to make us aware of our responsibility. I learnt two more thing in two different tests:
1. I am less social than I think really I am. Socialism is nowhere in my life now-a-days. I am thinking to improve my socialist factor.
2. I am too much supportive and a confused kind of guy who is an emotional idiot and who has a wrong faith that he is social and also, I cannot take a clear decision. I have to work on this.
One more thing which I would like to add that now-a-days my driving factor is "Spirituality-Search for truth". :) Thanks to those Swami Vivekananda books which I read during my weekends.
You know last weekend I was reading Sanskrit because I had problem when I was reading holy Gita slokas(book). I spent most of time around spiritual books and discussing the same with my friend Shashi Shekhar. There is only truth which I cannot understand or perceive". The rest all is just "MAYA" a window of time space and causation. J SAB MAYA HAI.
The programs like MAST saves a lot of money and time when you compare it with going to a psychiatrist or doing self analysis. These programs give you a bit of feeling about your orientation in a better way as the questions are tested and designed by experts.
I think tomorrow it would be fun and better in comparison to the experience what I had today. The training programs in companies are kind of mirrors which reveals the expectation of that organization. A careful planning and a right approach can lead you to the sky. I hope tomorrow would be a better day with more sparks and hopes around.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Good thing about Recession
Recession, in many ways, is similar to acidity.
All of us keep eating various kind of food items everyday; which leads to acidity in the end. Sometimes, we even eat few things which we can not digest. Then, as a precautionary measure, for some time, we keep ourselves away from almost all kinds of foods, with a resolution like "ok! now onwards I shall not eat this and that. It is bad for my health." But irony is, we repeat the same mistake and we face it again and again; and we all know why? But anyways it is good of our health to avoid consumption for some time as a natural cycle of good food habit. It clears our stomach and it heals the damage cause to the precious digestive system. In the end, the acidity make us a bit more aware about our health and it provides a lesson for others too who learn by watching. Although, every time, it is not only a single person who suffers because of acidity but it affects the whole family food menu. Thus, every one in the family pays a price for it. And if, he is a senior member of the family (uncle) who is suffering then the whole family has to avoid delicious food for some days. Thus, it increases awareness of almost everyone in the family and thus leads to a health conscious family. Did you understand my point?
Recession gives us a better understanding about the goal of every company i.e.-->Profit and maintaining profitability. Although, there is nothing wrong in it; and we should not feel bad about it. It assures better economy and it is good for all of us. It leads us to think over our skill-sets and credentials; and above all, it assures a better future and a stable economy in the end.
I have felt/watch recession closely. I was in US when recession was in its youth. I saw lots of people who did not lit up lights and candles around their houses during Chrismas and ThanksGiving celebration. People were spending less. A rich country like America was hit worst and other friend countries also accompanied this country during its bad time. We all paid a price for that. The blame game still continues;recession is an old lady on it death bed now; but she has something good for all of us.
My gain was "a life time experience". Recession made me think of my strategies and in other words, now I am a bit more serious about growth of global economy and its effect on my life as an individual. I would like to make my self , my people and my country to handle such kind of situations in a better way. Recession spread like swine flu and affected us in some or other ways.
If you think deeply, then you will come to know "Recession is a state of mind reflected on various graphs of economies all over the globe". It is natural reaction of various minds and thoughts over an acidity like condition in global economy. A economy which signifies the health of a country. And we all know who is suffering with acidity. It's Uncle Sam !!
All of us keep eating various kind of food items everyday; which leads to acidity in the end. Sometimes, we even eat few things which we can not digest. Then, as a precautionary measure, for some time, we keep ourselves away from almost all kinds of foods, with a resolution like "ok! now onwards I shall not eat this and that. It is bad for my health." But irony is, we repeat the same mistake and we face it again and again; and we all know why? But anyways it is good of our health to avoid consumption for some time as a natural cycle of good food habit. It clears our stomach and it heals the damage cause to the precious digestive system. In the end, the acidity make us a bit more aware about our health and it provides a lesson for others too who learn by watching. Although, every time, it is not only a single person who suffers because of acidity but it affects the whole family food menu. Thus, every one in the family pays a price for it. And if, he is a senior member of the family (uncle) who is suffering then the whole family has to avoid delicious food for some days. Thus, it increases awareness of almost everyone in the family and thus leads to a health conscious family. Did you understand my point?
Recession gives us a better understanding about the goal of every company i.e.-->Profit and maintaining profitability. Although, there is nothing wrong in it; and we should not feel bad about it. It assures better economy and it is good for all of us. It leads us to think over our skill-sets and credentials; and above all, it assures a better future and a stable economy in the end.
I have felt/watch recession closely. I was in US when recession was in its youth. I saw lots of people who did not lit up lights and candles around their houses during Chrismas and ThanksGiving celebration. People were spending less. A rich country like America was hit worst and other friend countries also accompanied this country during its bad time. We all paid a price for that. The blame game still continues;recession is an old lady on it death bed now; but she has something good for all of us.
My gain was "a life time experience". Recession made me think of my strategies and in other words, now I am a bit more serious about growth of global economy and its effect on my life as an individual. I would like to make my self , my people and my country to handle such kind of situations in a better way. Recession spread like swine flu and affected us in some or other ways.
If you think deeply, then you will come to know "Recession is a state of mind reflected on various graphs of economies all over the globe". It is natural reaction of various minds and thoughts over an acidity like condition in global economy. A economy which signifies the health of a country. And we all know who is suffering with acidity. It's Uncle Sam !!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
One thing which I would like to change?
I thought continuously and I came to a conclusion that everything seems to be fine right now. It seems everything is going perfectly in sync around me. There is everything which can be changed but will it not change again?
I have two options to change: a) outside b)inside
The answer is " Any guess????" :) You are in sync with me. We all are in perfect harmony outside.
I have two options to change: a) outside b)inside
The answer is " Any guess????" :) You are in sync with me. We all are in perfect harmony outside.
One thing which you want to get?
It's funny but has a deep meaning. Everybody has some expectation from everybody and everything.
How it feels to be God? If I will get the power of God for one day, what I should do?
I should not worry about it, my credentials are not well enough to be even rated for it.
But if God will ask me "ask me one thing which you want to get?" What will be my answer?
a) Love b)Money c)Knowledge d)Power e)Freedom
If I get true love---> It will be eternal.
If I get all money---> I will be still thirsty.
If I get all knowledge---> It will lead me to freedom of mind.
If I get all power---> Those energy will be of no use because one day it will go off.
If I get freedom ---> Infinite will be mine.
What should I do? I can not get true love, all money, all knowledge and all power. And above all I am not free from even such stupid thoughts. God will never come to me and I need everything. How fool I am? Any suggestions? What should I do for my junoon? I want to feel alive.
Today, a person with some kind of love, a little money, some knowledge and a bit of power in a small building thinks that he has achieved more. I feel pity for them and myself because at the end, we all need a sound deep sleep , a good health and a smiling moment.
How it feels to be God? If I will get the power of God for one day, what I should do?
I should not worry about it, my credentials are not well enough to be even rated for it.
But if God will ask me "ask me one thing which you want to get?" What will be my answer?
a) Love b)Money c)Knowledge d)Power e)Freedom
If I get true love---> It will be eternal.
If I get all money---> I will be still thirsty.
If I get all knowledge---> It will lead me to freedom of mind.
If I get all power---> Those energy will be of no use because one day it will go off.
If I get freedom ---> Infinite will be mine.
What should I do? I can not get true love, all money, all knowledge and all power. And above all I am not free from even such stupid thoughts. God will never come to me and I need everything. How fool I am? Any suggestions? What should I do for my junoon? I want to feel alive.
Today, a person with some kind of love, a little money, some knowledge and a bit of power in a small building thinks that he has achieved more. I feel pity for them and myself because at the end, we all need a sound deep sleep , a good health and a smiling moment.
Have you ever done a job well?
for me....the answer is "there is nothing that I can count on?" We can achieve only excellence...perfection is God's business. Excellence is a dream and there is no "junoon" for it.
Every day millions of thoughts hit my mind and I will go and sleep well at the end....Even then, I think, I do not have proper sleep. :) Today also, I could not find a "junoon".
Every day millions of thoughts hit my mind and I will go and sleep well at the end....Even then, I think, I do not have proper sleep. :) Today also, I could not find a "junoon".
Monday, July 27, 2009
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