The Mantra of Life

This is a beautiful speech by Steve Jobs - titled: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish.

Truth be told - I listen to this every other day, and I cherish it as the mool mantra of life.

Some snippets:
1. You can't connect the dots looking forward, but it's quite obvious looking backward.
2. Believe that the dots will connect in the future, and follow your heart, even if it takes you off the well treaded path.
3. Do great work, and the only work that is great is what you love to do. So find what you actually love - and till then don't settle.
4. Sometimes life will hit you on the head with a brick, don't loose faith.
5. Live each day as if it's your last. Every morning look into the mirror and think, if today is your last day, would you still be doing what you are doing now.
If the answer is NO for too many days, that means you need to change something.
6. Your time is limited. Don't waste it living anyone else's life. Let not the noise of other's opinions drown your inner voice.
7. Follow your heart and intuition. Everything else is secondary !

Girls

The most random creatures on Earth.
The most beautiful creatures on Earth.
Creatures you cannot live with for long.
Creatures you cannot live without either.
Creatures who don't know what they want.
Creatures who expect everything what they can't give.
Creatures who would scowl when they are being called creatures.

Lastly,
The only Creatures who can create creatures and non-creatures.

...

There are rarely times when you thing of a week - looking ahead for planning for commitments and there comes only 1 answer:

NOTHING

It's a state of affairs which we all imagine at different times of our lives - some of us still fantasize about it.

However now that I am in the middle of a infinite sea of nothingness; there is this 1 truth that comes in front of me...

Life is an infinite pursuit of infinitely many desirable goals.

1 goal leads us to the next and the next one to yet another one. What happens when you run out of goals - Life becomes this sea of emptiness. A sea on whose coast one is all alone ...

Xerox

Given the fact that my emotions of the pensive where so well echoed by another completely unknown individual;

Would'nt it be true to say that for each person there always exists another person exactly same in emotional structure to the first?

Dumbledore's Pensive

I was just thinking about the pensive when I googled on it and found this on the net:

I am looking for a real world equivalent of Dumbledore's pensive.For those who don't read Harry Potter, it's a magical object that can be used to store memories. In Rowling's story, wizards can remove a thought from their mind, and keep it in storage. That leaves them with a clear, fresh mind to concentrate on more pressing matters.I could do with one of these right now. I have several important choices in lifestyle and career to make, whilst also facing some challenges in my current job. I find that my inability to block out thoughts from the larger decisions affects my concentration when working on lesser tasks. I am learning patience with my bigger challenges, as they have a relatively long cycle. But i would like to get on with other jobs while they unfold.I wonder if there are some mental techniques that could help. I am already using a diary, writing one or two entries a week. I do a healthy amount of exercise and am blessed with great friends who can listen and give counsel. It would be nice to have a magical pensive. But in the real world, I would be happy to settle for whatever mental exercise that would be recommended. In fact, I expect that the solution, if there is one, would involve a fair bit of effort and practice.

Logic

Is logic completely logical ?

Isnt being logical so illogical ?

I was told ... everything does'nt have a logic.

I said NO.

I still struggle to say YES. Waiting for the day .. waiting till I understand .. waiting till I learn .. or waiting till I logically decide that logic is not always logical.

The End of The World

Escaping from things ... escaping from reality ... doesnt it so happen that sometimes u r in the middle of some mess ... and there is a thought that I dont belong to this world ..


Im just a visitor ... I dont know these people ... there are just here for some time .. I have a world of my own somewhere where things happen according to my wishes ... there is no trouble .. I get what I desire ....


But lo and behold .. this is the only life I have .... that also for 60-80 years ...

Brings me back to the question ... WHY AM I HERE ???

There is no answer to me yet ... but yes there is one escape route ... PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS .....

Someone plz find some more meaning in life ....

The long road of life ...

My first poetic creation ... meant to be more philosophical than poetic ..

The Long Road of life ...

I walk it down all alone
you go ... go ahead
but do stop and turn back ..
coz the road has no end
only craziness .. and madness
the worlds madness ..
there to crush u exploit u harm u
but let confidence be ur greatest strength
but remember its overdose may become ur biggest weakness
do well
as i trudge the road slowly
all alone .. with tears in my eyes
tears not of sadness .. but just
shear emotion
i trudge down the road
the long empty road to success ..
but yes ill stop
stop when this quest for success takes my peace of mind
coz mental peace and happiness
is the ultimate goal of my life ......


On a lighter note ... if u don find this poetic consider it as an art of modern poetry .. you know the one which just has free verse and doesn't have to rhyme ...

coz it sure makes a hell lotta sense !!!

Raising a child ....

raising a child ... building a house ... nursing a dream ... all to make it a reality ...

And you have a nightmare ...
The child falls .. the house collapses ... the dream is shattered ... slowly yet steadily .....knocking the wind out of you

The worst of all is that you do not have enouh strength to stop the falling ... its there its inadverent ..

What does one think ... try and stop it ... or look ahead in life ....
is there anything to stop or ois it already shattered ...

does looking ahead mean giving up .. or a clever compromise

i see the doom as a give up ... the doom which will create havoc and will destroy the house .......................

A good job

the best question ..... for all those of us in college ... and those not in college ...

WHAT EXACTLY IS A GOOD JOB ???

first of all the inspiraton for this post .... i went to orlando, florida this weekend .... i stayed over at a friend from iit ... mayank ... who btw cooks excellent poha ... he'll have a lucky wife ...
now where does he stay .. with another indian ... who is doin a job there in the us ... nicknamed dadu ... very sweet and helpful .. he drove 30 miles just to pick up us ...

anyways comin back to the point ....excuse my diverging nature ...

what sparked this conversation ... we were a group of 4 friends me , mayank, shahsank , and ankit all comin back from disneyworld ....in a high spirit ....after a great day at the parks ...

all happy in the USA ... with their interns though ... not the country as such ... all except one ...

who had fallen in love with the country also ...

that is wot started the discussion ... 3 of us agreed that foreign countries are a great place to vacation ... but the 3 of us wanted to work and settle in India ..

that is when one friend said that he had decided to work and settle in the states ...
quite obviously we asked him why ?????

his ans was quite staright and simple

I WANT A GOOD JOB

our obvious response was that u get good jobs in india also ... and u have mnc's and everything ... though on a lighter vein u dont have strip clubs and topless beaches ...

lol ... btw i went to south beach miami .. which is topless...


anyways comin back to the point

his ans was the best job is one which gives the maximum money ....
IS MONEY EVERYTHING ???????

his ans was yes ...
we tried expalining him ... but i guess he was in a very immature state ... one in which i was abt 4 yrs ago ... when i had the notion that money is everything ..

but ive matured .... my mom was very thankful for that ...

money isnt everything ... peace of mind , happiness , satisfaction and time ..... are things that money can not buy ....

and these are things widout which there wuld be no life ...

i hope he realizes this before its too late ... else its a mad rat race

The older generation ..

what i write now esentially is an introspection into our relationship ...here our refers to ppl of my age group .. with the older generation ... more specifically grandparents

so first the prologue ... why this post

i dont know abt others .. but atleast i feel it is so difficult to stay wid ones grandparents .... and here when i say stay .. i mean for a longer durationof time ...

this question also is linked with a more traditional question of indian society ... joint family or nuclear family

given the prologue .. now the case

we've all seen and sympathised in so many hindi movies when a young couple wants to move out of the family home and the parents are pained ...

we all think that we'll never abandon r parents at any stage in life ..

we also think that we'll take gr8 care of them ...

but in reality ... lets see the situation wid r grandpaents ...
there are times when u critcisize ur parents for actions towads ur garndparents ... hope im not being confusin ....
they r times when u wish that ur grandparents were'nt there at taht particular moment and they wouldnt spoil ur programme ...
this can be seen in the lite of a smaal event like just eatin out ... where usually grand parents dont wanna eat out

its a big issue indeed ... and one of the greatest weaknesses of old age is i guess that old ppl become rigid

RIGIDITY IN ANY SPHERE OF LIFE ANY TIME EVEN IF SUPPORTED BY VALID LOGIC IS THE GREATEST WEAKNESS A PERSON CAN HAVE ....

this is one great truth i have learnt in the past few dayz ... even if u r right yet u r rigid .... u r the looser in the long run ...