Whirlpool-ish

India as a country has been picking up and drawing the attention of global community for all the good and bad reasons. As one sector looks at us with awe and admiration for the sheer capacity we exhibit another looks at us with pity. But amidst all the chaos this multi-billion people country has been burgeoning and swiftly moving like a gazelle. In this blog I want to delve into some of the exaggerated sectors and dig a little on what could be truth behind them. I am sure I would have to keep writing pages if I have to make justice to this premise. My I would just draw a line and leave the reader to ponder over the rest.

Stock Market:

As any economy expands disproportionately it will require a lot of intervention to solve the dis-ease that is bound to appear at the lower levels. But what will be more remarkable is the growth of the industrial sector and the corporate sector around the boom. During such booming times the hype that is created in the stock market is very very tepid and whirlpool-ish. Remember always that production is true while paper money (created through stocks and shares) is always false.

Media:

One of the important pillars of any democracy is the media. A democracy will be considered matured only if the media is allowed to play a free and fair role is showcasing a very transparent and true picture of the democracy to the world. But freedom is not free :D and truly so the media has to also understand its freedom and act responsibly. I was recently disturbed to listen to a debate where it was disclosed that more of 70% of the news telecasted by media in India is paid news. And I will surely suspect the credibility of the media and not trust them, to re-verify them before broadcast. The hype that the media creates is very dangerous and again whirlpool-ish.

Cricket (Sport):

And why should I look for another hyped sector while the IPL is running just in front of me as I am penning my thoughts down :D. The hype that this sport that drawn is quite ridiculous and has kept the central body ICC lip locked. While all other sports in this country are starved and under performing, the cricket team is always in limelight again for good and bad reasons. The winter Olympics that happened in Canada recently saw 3 Indians walk with the flag in opening ceremony and much to our shame all the three were not financed by the government to participate in Olympics! :(

As I close down due to my principle of showing restraint (of not writing more than one page) :D , I want to remind you that this country has more reasons to be worried than to celebrate. And just like the country every family including yours and mine have more reasons to retrospect than celebrate. Its time to get responsible and its time to play things down than hype things which are passing. Otherwise one day each one of us will getting encircled into a whirlpool of remorse.

Blessed...

Blessed

Many a times in life we dream about something happening in the future. But when we reach the moment, when, the then future is now the present, we tend to pinch our self to ascertain if we are living in reality or still in dream. This might sound whimsical but I am sure this would have happened to each one of us in our life. Such moments are truly to be cherished and such people are truly blessed!

I experienced one such moment on 12th of January this year when the pediatrician brought my daughter and asked me to hold her in my arms, seconds after the baby came into this world. I couldn’t trust that it was real. I was so ecstatic that I was pinching myself to convince that what I was experiencing was real and not a dream :D. And yet again last week another dream turned a reality, when the little one, now 2 months old smiled and tried to lick my face when I cuddled her and rubbed her cheeks with mine, I could only express my delight in one single word, and that is ‘BLESSED’ !

Another incident followed on the 18th of this month. And that taught me a good lesson and in turn motivated me to write this blog. This was another incident which made me feel I am blessed yet again. I or rather we (3) became proud owners of a residential flat in a nice residential area in the city. This particular day has been in my dream for years now and I when the dream did turn into a reality, I could not completely believe everything I was experiencing was real and not a dream :D

But as I sat down thinking, I realized that almost everyone is as blessed as me and what I was going through was just satisfaction of some kind. To slightly change the phrase

‘Blessed are those who are satisfied’

Every human being is given a equal opportunity to be satisfied. The environment might be different, but there can be no denial on the fact that there is definitely an opportunity. An opportunity to prove, an opportunity to improve and an opportunity to feel satisfied :D

And digging a little more I stuck upon another profound thought. To feel satisfied one must focus on life and give little importance to material things. If you understand the quality of life you wish to live you will feel satisfied on achieving that. But if you set targets on material things, by the time you achieve them they lose their value substantially, and all your life, you live aspiring for more, and miss to enjoy life, waiting to be lived !!

And there I stop but before I end,

I recently read this beneath the signature of someone who sent me a mail. And needless to say I liked it. I hope my reader can draw a line of relevance here.

God grant me -
Serenity to accept things I cannot change;
Courage to change things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference

Influence

Influence

We are living in a very analytical world and at the same time a very equivocal world. Everyday there are many things we read, listen to and perceive and that keeps influencing our thought process. The biggest challenge according to me is to be not influenced these influences ;) . I will call this state as neutrality.

Influences are different at different maturity levels to human beings. A kid for instance gets influenced by seeing a cartoon of superman. But the same kid as it grows realizes and moves towards human influence. And once he helplessly transforms to a man is influenced by close circle around him (parents/corporate icons etc..). And as he turns aged influenced by religious philosophers. Even a most analytical person often tends to get influenced. The only difference being, that he can create a pretense of being neutral by showing contrasting opinions which will keep the observer puzzled !

As I think deep I can almost certainly say that it’s impossible to be/remain un-influenced and present a very neutral thought process. It’s probably only possible for saints and only very few of them. Now the reason I started the topic is to explore how can we pick and choose the best influences in our life. It’s similar to deciding upon an investment in life. Every other one of them seems attractive but attractive is always un-safe/dangerous.

We must very subjectively decide on what we should get influenced with. The brain often tends to attach an emotional angle here. But it’s very important that we analyze well on which is best for us. Wrong influences are like multipliers. They grow fast while good influences are like additions. They get added up slowly and withdrawal is also easy.

Well closing down here. On a moral note, the best possible way to age is to slowly separate ourselves from influences. When you don’t get influenced you don’t expect people to hear and act by what you say. And when you start practicing this you can detach and slow achieve neutrality. Everything around you will seem to be so pure and unique. No relativity ;)

Genuin'ity

Genuin'ity

Almost 2 years since I last wrote a blog. If I claim that , its because I didn’t have time or because I didn’t have a good topic or because I am too busy to think about anything or because I lost interest for writing…

“All I can say is I am not being to genuine to myself. ”

Hang on, before assuming what genuin’ity is about. I know it’s a word that you cant find in the dictionary and I already know that from the red underline that the smart MSword is showing me!

I am writing about the genuin’ity that missing in humans and how fake a life many of us are living. If this one word makes me write a blog after 2 years you must catch the essence of how it could have affected me.

There have been 2-3 incidences recently which have affected me very much to loose my self-control and be highly critical. And not surprisingly all of them were due to money. Sometimes many of us including me attach too much of importance to this commodity that it seems more important that anything else on this world. I wish that a device called calculator was never invented. This device has provoked humans to multiply and divide in every moment of life. Yes, please look and delve into these words ‘multiply and divide’ and think about them beyond just money. And to whatever propositions you can think away from money, money would still always be a tangent* for all these situations in life.

People are so self-centered and rigid that they are sometimes so in-genuine to what their conscience says. They try to win over their conscience and try to dominate it internally. Its interesting, because you dominate yourself . And that’s what I call a false (in-genuine) living.

I don’t want to write more and want to restrict myself to the usual one page I write. Because I don’t want to get more emotional and spoil my day at office which has so beautifully begun.

Just to close on a moral note. Life is very meaningful and pleasantly designed by a cunning architect called God. This architect always wants his designs to learn by their# mistakes. And as I said mistakes are ours (#their). If we can live a much genuine life then life would be as pleasant and meaningful as the architect originally designed it for. But if we wanted to falsely wrap us with a million worries and live a life always calculating (with not just money, I stress again) we would only go up and down the roller coaster and keep blaming and praying to the cunning designer .

*A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point