Saturday, May 22, 2010

The fun of mystery lies in its disclosure..

Frustration

Frustration is simply a function of difference between Ambitions and achievements.
Frustration reduces with increasing achievements or reducing ambitions.
Frustration increases with no new achievements or increasing ambitions.

To live a peaceful life, try and manage frustration levels.
There are so many ways of managing frustration -

1. Something called "GOD". Do a prayer and realise that life is not about ambitions and achievements.
2. Sayings like "जो है उसमें संतोष कर लो " (No Ambitions)
3. Sex can also control frustration for sometime.
4. Alcohol makes you forget ambitions as well as achievements for sometime. ;-)

But, the best way is to increase achievements and control frustration. The fun of having ambitions is in achieving them.

Cheers

Mangalore Air Crash

Today morning witnessed a plane crash in Mangalore. Approx 160 people died. I feel so sorry about the people who died and their relatives. I feel bad about the incident as well.

There is a lot of hue and cry about 160 people who died. It happens in such high profile cases. For eg - A plane crash, terrorist attacks in mumbai, Jessica lal murder case, Arushi murder case in noida and there are so many.

Some unknown NGO's will come together, go to India gate and light candles to grab media attention. They will also give some statements to be published on Page 3.

But nobody wants to talk about 75 security personnels who recently died in dantewada. After that 20 more died in a blast. And it has become a regular affair.

These are still accidents.

There are thousands of people in our country who silently die on a daily basis because of hunger, heat or cold waves and treatable diseases. No NGO wants to come forward and help such people.

Lakhs of children still work in manufacturing units of crackers, ornaments, etc. Who cares ?

Its the responsibility of well-to-do people to take care of such poor people.

Even if a few of them turn criminals just because of lack of basic neccesities, it will be very tough for the rest of the world to live peacefully.

We should understand that happiness is relative and not absolute. When there is a huge inequality in the society, peace will always be a dream. People will always live under a risk of poor people revolting and turning the tables down for others.

Just because these people agree to live without basic amenities and low payouts, others are able to live a comfortable life.

Otherwise, imagine a house maid asking for Rs 15000 per month or a driver asking for Rs 40000 a month or a sweeper asking for Rs 500 per visit. How many of us will be able to afford ?

Anyways , i started from Mangalore air crash. It was a bad morning to hear about such an incident.

The idea is that we as responsible citizens should take care of the poor and under privileged.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Reject Rejection

If you want to be succesful , you need to learn how to deal with rejection. Rejection is an integral part of life.
You are rejected when you are not picked for the team, don't get admitted to desired institutes, don't get the desired job or promotion, don't get the appointment, don't get the approval or even get sacked.
You are rejected when your proposal is turned down, your idea is dismissed, your application is denied or your offer is turned down.
Rejection is a myth. Yes, its a myth. It does'nt exist. Just think - If you ask a girl to go out on a date with you and she says no, you anyways had nobody to go on a date with and its the same after you asked her. The situation did'nt get any worse. It stayed the same.It only gets worse if you go inside and tell yourself something extra like - "Nobody likes me" or "I am good for nothing".
If you apply for harvard and get rejected, you have'nt really lost anything. And the best thing is that you very well know how to live without being at harvard. You have spent your whole life(till now) without being at harvard.
You just need to reject the rejection. Rejection is a myth.

Cheers

Monday, May 3, 2010

You lose only if you decide to lose

You lose only if you decide to lose. Once you decide to lose you stop trying hard and thats where you lose. In the game of cricket, all of us have seen batsmen getting out just after scoring a century. Thats because they get satisfied and hence the effort and energy goes down whereas bowlers are still trying hard to take the wicket.
This simply means that the moment you get satisfied , your energy level goes down, you want to relax and thus give a chance to somebody else to win. Thats where you lose...
The moment you get satisfied, process of losing starts. There is a bicycle theory. It says that you keep paddling a bicycle till the time you dont achieve your desired speed. Once you achieve that speed (get satisfied) you stop paddling and thats where speed starts declining (process of losing starts). So, if you want bicycle to run, you need to continuously paddle it else you will fall down.
Life is like a bicycle. If you have to ride, you need to paddle else you will fall down. You cant afford to not paddle and still sit at top. So if you want to keep sitting at top, keep paddling..

Cheers
Has anybody noticed that after 9/11 nothing major happened in US ?
Similarly, after 26/11, nothing major happened in India .
Does this mean that we should give dates to such events so as to put a full stop (or atleast comma) to such events. Or does this mean that giving dates to such events alerts us and we start taking preventive actions.
Whatever, but I am happy that they have not been able to do anything in my country after 26/11. Congratulations to the related agencies, home minister and everybody.
Yes , we still have a tough and different issue to handle - Naxals. All the best.
They had plans of bomb blasts in delhi over last weekend, but they could not do anything. Hurray....