Add a Zing to Your Life

It seems Paulo Coelho's tweet seems to kick start my blog nearly every day.He tweeted,"A very dangerous sentence:"but we'have always done it this way"."

The thought is very interesting as it is trying to evoke creativity in us. Every time we do a job we should try to do it differently.It might happen that all the changes that we make in our style may not be good but then that is for us to learn from our experience and improve on the same.

So, that means we add an element of newness to our life and I feel that is what is the crux of this statement.Though Paulo is more into, asking people to accept when they are wrong and ready to improve I want to treat this in another light.

In the present world we tend to get bored very easily, we are most of the time depressed with the monotonous way of our life.And this is because we are repeating our tasks in copy-paste mode.We are not every time trying to be innovative in our way of handling tasks.As soon as we have a job, we try to look into our mind for the way we have handled it till now and then mindlessly applying it.

This is one of the main cause of our being restless at work and at home.We feel we are just repeating ourselves, not realising that it is because we are not ready to put in effort to do it differently.So, let us all, every time, when ever we get opportunity try to do even mundane task as preparing salad differently.

Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow

I read an article on how we waste most of our time divulging on Yesterday and Tomorrow.the article tried very hard to explain the wastage of time and energy done in this process.It also talked about how we should only concentrate on today and enjoy present, which actually is a "present" from God.

An interesting thought,which we come across most of the time!But in actual none of us are able to follow it most of the time.There is a very simple logic behind that.

Our Today is either going very good, good,bad or very bad.In first two cases we are no doubt enjoying today but in back of our mind is always the pain inflicted by those who were in contact with us when our time was not good.

Now , the thought that might strike you is if your present is good why am I assuming your past will be bad? Simple logic, good and bad are relative terms.If your today is good, it is good in relation to your bad past.

So coming back to the issue, you work out how you will settle all the scores left unsettled in past now that you have a good phase going on.

Also , coming from a bad past in your mind you know that this good will not last so you are busy planning for your future to ensure it is also good.In the last two cases, it is reciprocal of logic applied in above case.(Sorry for use of mathematical terms but mathematics is part of me!). 

When you are having a bad present you are again and again going over your past events which lead to this present.You are again and again rearranging those events in your mind to reach a better conclusion.

Also on the other hand you are day dreaming and mind you ,you are doing that day and night to visualize a beautiful future which seems absolute far fetched seeing your present state.

But this dream is your only source of survival in other wise die-able situation.What say?

Truth and Nothing but Truth

Paulo Coelho tweeted, “Telling the Truth and making someone cry is better than telling a Lie to make someone laugh.”

This thought has been on my mind since I read it. Somehow I find it very easy to follow as it means a life without any pretense, without any stress of planning, “What to say.”But I feel in 24 hours I shall have nobody around me to say anything, because we are all living in a world of PRETENSE. All our relations whether in family or friends or office are based on keeping a diplomatic silence on many issues. In the present world, I cannot think of even one person I can share “Whole truth and nothing but Truth”. This can be due to fear on my part to lose all that I hold dear or it can be complete faith that there is nobody around me with whom I can share my all thoughts. And I am very sure this holds true for all. In fact being a mathematics person I can easily apply law of Mathematical Induction and say that this statement cannot hold true for anybody living in this world. In the present scenario half the time we are not even telling truth to ourselves let alone anybody else.

human and parents: Human and Separation

human and parents: Human and Separation: When do we decide we had enough of the person in our life.Sometimes we keep on with same people just because we are too scared to change. ...

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ―Rumi

Can we all be wise? It will save us so much heart burn if we stop molding everybody around us according to our view.We waste most of our life time trying to sell our view point to others because we feel our view point is most correct.We feel that everything will fall into place when all will behave the way we want, not realising that each individual has his own view point.And every individual feels his view point is right and needs to be followed by all.So why not just agree to disagree!Why not just do our best to make the journey comfortable for all and not try to prove to everyone around us how right and perfect our view point is!

Me and My View

CNN talked about virtual autopsy of King Tutankhaman, how the historians had assumed that the 100 walking sticks found in his tomb represented his power while actually they were used by King Tut to move around as he had a severely defected left foot.

This revelation made me think of how we assume so much in life based on our experiences .We build theories on our half-baked information. Then we float these theories around to others, convincing them of our correctness. We do this every day. We analyse situations based on our experiences, never bothering to confirm whether we are correct. We analyse people too with same confidence not realizing that they are not mummy like King Tut who cannot be bothered by your interpretations. People get hurt and sometimes beyond repair.

So let us all try to be more sensitive to feelings of others. Also let us not assume we know all. Give a benefit of doubt to all.

As they say “All is not as it meets the eye.” 

Hope and Wait

In all situations that are tougher than the usual, there is as much a human can do. After that he just can sit, wait, pray and hope.
 Hope for what?
Hope for Him to do his bit. There is no doubt in his benevolence only His time never matches ours. He always takes His own sweet time to get into action, the learned say that He knows the best. But what about our blood pressures. Who will tell our little heart that goes pit-patter-pit with fear that do not loose hope, wait, and have patience He will pull you out right a millisecond before drowning.
Well! all of us have no choice but to pray , to hope and waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!