The prophecy called Mind

The prophecy called Mind

After a long time I return to blogging with the inspiration coming from the most complex yet researched part of human body. For those who assumed I am talking about the brain.. Sorry I am not. I am talking about the Human Mind. I am motivated to write about the mind due to few thoughts, which have been flowing through my mind and how my mind has been processing it.

Every human mind is trained by self and surrounding, to process information less from self but more from surrounding in its own speed. Sometimes the mind is preoccupied with this processing and it tends to totally ignore things happening around. This is a safe state. And sometimes when there is a constant flood of thoughts, and the mind is constantly trying to increase its processing capacity, there is a state of turbulence. In software terminology we sometimes refer to this as deadlock.

This turbulence can however affect only active and aggressive thinkers. And there are very few who deploy their minds with such focus. And whenever the mind is turbulent it tends to form faster judgments and conclusions. And what comes out from our mouth after all those judgments is very tough to be perceived correctly by the listener. After all you cannot expect the same processing speeds in every RAM (Random access memory) !!

So where and what is the remedy for such critical situations we are forced into?

Whenever there is a rush of thoughts its better we postpone judgments. And if the situation does demand a quick judgment, we rather sit in solitude and decide a temporary solution which could address the imminent problem, and think about what’s to come after some time when the turbulence settles and the wave has receded :)

The next thing I was to briefly write about is the power of influence. The mind is a very smart creation and it very smartly embraces people, which is in its prime area of influence. But after an age the mind is dominated by one of the internal processes inside it and this process is called EGO. This process which is dormant in young age starts to take proportions as we age. And it is important to take that whip and goad (or) rather < –stop> this process when and where we feel it disturbs our integrity. And those to lack the skill to take that whip often end up as bad decision makers or, at least cannot make a win-win decision making.

This is just the part-1 of my writing admiring the Human Mind. I wish to at least write 25 of such blog’s tracking each of the emotions I encounter (both inside and outside) and see how excellently the mind does exception handling J. Thanks for your time and Keep thinking :)

Heads on!

Heads on!
I recently had a chance to listen to a presentation where a Foreigner shared his experiences of visiting India. He is someone who had been here for more than a year and his experiences are hence genuine, measured and matured!

As he started, he not surprisingly expressed all the problems of traffic, garbage collection (or in fact garbage stagnation) , communication problems, commuting etc.. etc..

But what struk me was his small quote about poverty and more so about beggars. He was telling his audience that India has deep-rooted poverty problems and many resort to the easy way of begging for a living. But he advised and followed the approach of not giving money to beggars. He said that he felt giving money to beggars was just solving the problem temporarily for them. He rather said to the audience that money should be given to NGO’s and other social service organizations that can bring about a transformation and in effect solve the problem for a long term. This is no new thought, but this made me think about something that might irritate many of my readers but I still want to write it down.

How different that these beggars from the thousands of so called NRI’s who leave this country for their own convenience. They fail to face the problems heads on here and resort to going to a developed country and living a cozy life. Most of the Indians leave this country for the so-called education facilities available in the US or elsewhere in the world. Interestingly many of the Americans travel to India these days for pursuing education in the IIM’s, IIT’s or to the medical colleges in India. The reason is two fold. Some of them come for genuine meritorious experience, while some come because education is costly in their country. Either way they wouldn’t come to spend in a worthless education.

Migration: I see this only as escapism. Many people don’t want to adjust to the environment they were born in and since emigration is an easy option with not many surprises at its destiny, they take the easy route, just like beggars in India who think to beg is easy and you don’t have any surprises. Sometime back I read that beggars in Bombay live like any other middle class family!!

As I turn to the other side of the coin or loonies :) , The immigrant countries aren’t idiots too. They are all high inflation economies and they want you to spend your productive years in their country. After all you earn for their economy and they let you spend in your economy. In return you get to experience the life of a middle class guy in their economy!! , which is rich class in Indian standards. And once your productive years end you realize that it’s too costly and unreal to spend your old age there and you quickly resort to get back to your home country.

Think about it. I admit I am not writing anything new. But I am certainly not a person who hates the western society or the western economy. I admire them, but just wanted to indict on the temporary pleasure people, who migrate from India falsely and seemingly enjoy!

Hurray I am not a beggar :).