The rat race

Ain’t all of us running??? Yes, but I think everyone’s approach/level of interest/level of involvement is different…

I wonder how people can keep cribbing about the ‘rat race’ and at the same time get so engrossed in it that they take their personla lives for granted! And what are they left with… not much at the personal front for sure… maybe something (or a lot) at the professional front. But I really wanna know… does it give them a real sense of accomplishment? Are they really able to enjoy or celebrate that professional success after they’ve screwed their personal lives for that?

Someone recently told me that once his boss held a meeting on a Saturday… and said that you guys continue working..I’ll be back in a couple of hours.. and she got back even before those couple of hours got over… and guess where she went… to her son’s first birthday party… honestly, ridiculous is the only word that comes to my mind!

I don’t say there’s any harm in being that career-oriented also. But you must have your preferences clear in your head. Why do you have to have a child or even get married for that matter, if you are so concerned about your professional success?

My blood boils… yes!!!

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Love

Read these beautiful lines today…

The night has a thousand eyes, the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies, with the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes, the heart but one’

Yet the light of the whole life dies, when love is done.

– Francis W. Bourdillon

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Aghast!

Sometimes you come across situations/stories in life to which you don’t know how to react. I came across one today. Someone who has recently become close to me shared a piece of her life…probably the worst one… and i was completely shocked… didn’t know what to tell her… but she is someone who is mature enough to get comforted by silence also!

All I can say is we, humans, can be so so wrong in judging people…God, this is so disturbing… I hope she finds peace… soon!

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From hedge funds to pizzas!!!

Just read another of this recession stories…. it shocked the hell outta me…

The only good part of this phase is that people are learning a lot and realizing the importance of savings… but do we really implement it till such time that we really face it?! I guess most of us don’t. And me…writing this here… have I really done something yet? No. In fact I just did some crazy shopping this weekend. And I am feeling stupid now. And so I hope I continue feeling this stupid and do something about it soon!!!

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Succisive Moments

Yes…I have lots of them… ‘SUCCISIVE’ moments… and in my view anyone can… you just have to make that effort… be determined to have your own ‘succisive’ time…to be yourself…to be with yourself… to realize yourself… to know yourself…and to do some other random stuff!!!

Well… a proof of the statement that I have a lot of ‘succisive’ time is that I keep stumbling on new and interesting things every single day (apart from being myself).. but I’m not ranting… I love it! This time, thanks to Shivanand, I came across this website called “Save The Words” I think it’s an amazing concept. Herein, you can adopt any word from their huge list of words which are more or less no longer in use… you adopt a word and vow to spread it by using it in your conversations as much as possible…

And now I am a proud parent of the word ‘SUCCISIVE’ 🙂
SUCCISIVE –> of spare or extra time.

So all of you out there… don’t waste your succisive moments… there’s so much to do.. go get one for yourself! And trust me, it’s a nice feeling 🙂

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Think before you ‘Publish’

Yes, you read it right…’publish’ and not ‘speak’ or ‘write’… both of the latter are oh-so-retarded now!

Recently I wrote an article for a magazine saying how social media is becoming more and more powerful. And oh boy…it indeed has become very powerful. Just today I came across a story which is funny, sad and thought-provoking at the same time. There is this person who got a job with Cisco and posted his apprehensions on twitter. The employer somehow read it and the poor thing most likely would have lost the offer, though he tried everything like removing the post and making it private, but it was too late by then. This is how the conversation on twitter went –

“The guy – Cisco just offered me a job. I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
Cisco’s Reply – Who is the hiring manager? I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We her at Cisco are versed in the web.”

So guys… with the ever-rising power and presence of social media… one must be increasingly cautious of what is typed before he/she hits the ‘Publish’ button!

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This too shall pass!

One amazing article a friend emailed me today –

My Friends,

Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalisation bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother’s life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won’t remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.

Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn’t know from where the tomorrow will come… life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full… sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn’t enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.

The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support…

The first time she said ‘yes’ and it was two years since you proposed…

The first cry… the first steps… the first word… the first kiss… all of your child…

The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you…

The first award… the first public appreciation… the first stage performance…

And the list is endless… Experiences, with timeless memory…

No denying that anything that’s material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it’s economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn’t cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.

Time will pass… economy will revive… currency will soon be in current… and in all this, I don’t want you to look back and realise you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences… If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.

Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have.

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Make it special?!

Just a simple question to all of you out there – has it ever happened to you that you wanted to do something very special for someone very special in your life but didn’t know what to do…. or even worse…you knew what to do but didn’t know how to do it?

Please answer…it’s important for me to know!

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Talk? No. Behave!

Read this wonderful quote today –

“You can’t talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.”

This is exactly what I said in one of my posts earlier (in different words of course)… All of us go so much out of our way to hurt someone.. we do things we ourselves can’t imagine… and when it comes to resolving..we say let’s talk! I am not saying that talking is not important, in fact, it is the most important part/trait of any healthy relationship… but then, there are certain goof-ups which can’t or rather shouldn’t be solved by mere talking… one must get into action!!!

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PDA – Public Display of Affection

Well, I’m not here to argue whether its right or wrong… I guess it really varies from person to person and of course on the fact that how much you display…

I just saw a snippet of Barrack Obama’s swearing-in speech… He’s supposedly now one of the most, actually the most, powerful person in the world… This man never has any qualms in expressing his feeling for his wife in front of the whole world…I like the way they were hand-in-hand during the campaign, the way he kisses his wife after every speech, the way he hugs her before leaving the stage, the way they look at each other during the speech, the way Michelle got nervous when he stumbled once during his speech,  the way he expresses what he feels for her and what she means to him…

It might sound funny… but I think this man is just perfect at PDA…just as much is required… the ideal display which any woman would want and envy..its all just too sweet and cute to be fake!!! I really respect those men who have the balls to not make fun of the institution of marriage and their spouse just because all their friends and family do that and they will be made fun of if they don’t do that as well in front of the world!

Some people might think that he fakes it…but why would he? I really don’t think that he fakes it at all…you can see it in his eyes!

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