Friday, May 20, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
What are we afraid of?
Today, the thought stimulus came from Obama's speech on science and Technology. He urges the nation to not let any more microsoft, intel, google, oracle etc. to be created in China (or India). Fair enough, as a president of a country, this is very nice of him to envisage his country as the leader in science and technology. But, as a citizen of India, my interpretation would be "don't let people get scientifically advanced else where, lets monopolize this in USA". Is it good? Nah, I would say. Well, lets get in depth and think what could have been happening all these years. Why we (Indians) are not leaders in science and technology? We have IITs, IIMS and now we have IISc like institutes and still we lack in the innovation quotient. We are unable to retain our raw talents in our own country. From my school days, I have heard people saying "such and such is a bright student, has a great future. I am hoping he/she gets to a foreign country and earn big name". Not for a moment we think a bright student can be famous in our own country too. Why so? May be from our slavish mentality, we give too much of importance to white superiority. It seems to be there somewhere deep within ourselves that we lack confidence in ourselves. When someone from outside(preferably a white skinned person) says something, we start accepting it. At the same time, we also have too much fear. Yes, it is the fear of not succeeding is what keeping us from succeeding in the first place. We Indians are also averse to taking risk. We think that in our one and only life we should do things perfectly right, so that we lead a normal and comfortable life. That is right. We have tech companies like infosys, TCS etc. that are doing extremely well in terms of services (Read it risk free sector). When it comes to innovation, these companies shy away. At the moment Infosys has enough cash that it can attract bright and young individuals for product creation, but it does not want to. It wants to play safe.
We always look upon western countries for their innovations, and want them to lead us. We lack great leaders to motivate us. Here I feel like giving my own example. I like to do things and grow, but what has stopped me from doing it? It is nothing but my own attitude. I always need someone to tell me what I need to do rather than thinking and executing it by myself. This, despite having full confidence in my own abilities. What am I afraid of? May be fear of being criticized... Ridiculous! In order to grow and be world leaders we need to come out of our own fear and fear of being judged. We have to believe in ourselves and execute our thoughts. Then only India will be a world leader and we can prove Obama wrong.
We always look upon western countries for their innovations, and want them to lead us. We lack great leaders to motivate us. Here I feel like giving my own example. I like to do things and grow, but what has stopped me from doing it? It is nothing but my own attitude. I always need someone to tell me what I need to do rather than thinking and executing it by myself. This, despite having full confidence in my own abilities. What am I afraid of? May be fear of being criticized... Ridiculous! In order to grow and be world leaders we need to come out of our own fear and fear of being judged. We have to believe in ourselves and execute our thoughts. Then only India will be a world leader and we can prove Obama wrong.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Need too much happiness stimulus??
I have been listening to Brahma Kumari sister Shivani quite a bit these days. It is morally uplifting and an eye opener regarding many of the issues we face in day to day life...
I have been battling few things in my life such as giving material object to my near and dear ones and getting pleasure out of it. By not giving, would make me unhappy, but at the same time, I don't try to understand if it is absolutely necessary to give them the objects that they may or may not need. Here I said need it not like it - reason: people like a lot of things which they hardly need, so there is a clear difference between the two... Now, why do I want to give something that may not be of much use to them? By going deep inside, I realized that I am giving them for my own pleasure rather than for their pleasure. Does it sound strange? Yes, it is: but the reason is not them, but me. May be I am feeling a sense of satisfaction that I could give them something, may be I am assuming that they will be happy by getting the object and anticipating that, makes me happy, so I tend to do that often. After listening to sister Shivani, I realized that these are nothing but the external stimuli to keep myself happy. So, the underlying cause is me - not anyone else. Actually, in real sense I am not doing anything for anyone, rather trying to provide some kind of stimulus to myself to keep me happy. How true is that... It is almost an eye opener. How often do we do things for fear of loosing somebody's good will or affection? I would say 99% of us do that knowingly or unknowingly. Even I have seen people continuously writing or messaging on social media to keep themselves known or desired. To impose ourselves on somebody else's thoughts. Probably that makes us feel important and we feel good about it. This I thought may be part of being human -but actually not so. Before this media explosion, people still managed a very contended life without needing so much of "happiness stimulus". Now we need it more often than not because we are having a void somewhere, that is severely corroded of self esteem, self satisfaction, well being. We constantly need approval from people near us. We constantly want to be asked for to uplift our ego. That is why we look for happiness stimulus from outside than from within ourselves. I don't have an answer as to how to avoid this, but I am certainly positive that there is a way. May be through meditation or yoga/pranayama.
I have been battling few things in my life such as giving material object to my near and dear ones and getting pleasure out of it. By not giving, would make me unhappy, but at the same time, I don't try to understand if it is absolutely necessary to give them the objects that they may or may not need. Here I said need it not like it - reason: people like a lot of things which they hardly need, so there is a clear difference between the two... Now, why do I want to give something that may not be of much use to them? By going deep inside, I realized that I am giving them for my own pleasure rather than for their pleasure. Does it sound strange? Yes, it is: but the reason is not them, but me. May be I am feeling a sense of satisfaction that I could give them something, may be I am assuming that they will be happy by getting the object and anticipating that, makes me happy, so I tend to do that often. After listening to sister Shivani, I realized that these are nothing but the external stimuli to keep myself happy. So, the underlying cause is me - not anyone else. Actually, in real sense I am not doing anything for anyone, rather trying to provide some kind of stimulus to myself to keep me happy. How true is that... It is almost an eye opener. How often do we do things for fear of loosing somebody's good will or affection? I would say 99% of us do that knowingly or unknowingly. Even I have seen people continuously writing or messaging on social media to keep themselves known or desired. To impose ourselves on somebody else's thoughts. Probably that makes us feel important and we feel good about it. This I thought may be part of being human -but actually not so. Before this media explosion, people still managed a very contended life without needing so much of "happiness stimulus". Now we need it more often than not because we are having a void somewhere, that is severely corroded of self esteem, self satisfaction, well being. We constantly need approval from people near us. We constantly want to be asked for to uplift our ego. That is why we look for happiness stimulus from outside than from within ourselves. I don't have an answer as to how to avoid this, but I am certainly positive that there is a way. May be through meditation or yoga/pranayama.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Installing husband...
I got it forwarded few times earlier but it sounds funnier every time I read it...
INSTALLING HUSBAND
A woman writes to the IT Technical support Guy
To,
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance,
particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as
Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5..0, MONEY 3.0 and CRICKET 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system..
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5..3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed,
_______________________________________________________________________________________
================================================================
Reply
DEAR Madam,
First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
If that application works as designed, Husband1..0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5..
However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Silence 2.5 or Beer 6.1.
Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.
In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.
We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Looks 7.7.
Good Luck Madam!
Now This is my Version:
I did not have a chance to have entertainment package Boyfriend 5.0, instead I got an upgraded version Husband 5.0. It did occasionally run flower 2.1 and jewellery 1.0 applications initially, but long since these applications have crashed. I thought these programs come as trial versions - free for certain period of time. News 7.9 and Money 10.5 is already installed long time back and always runs in the background. Cricket application has been disabled. I tried nagging 5.1 to solve these problems, but to no avail. Most of the time Husband 5.0 slips into silence mode and needs re-booting. Loudsnowringbeta is operating in full swing.
INSTALLING HUSBAND
A woman writes to the IT Technical support Guy
To,
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance,
particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as
Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5..0, MONEY 3.0 and CRICKET 4.1.
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system..
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5..3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed,
_______________________________________________________________________________________
================================================================
Reply
DEAR Madam,
First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme. html and try to download Tears 6.2 and do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
If that application works as designed, Husband1..0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5..
However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Silence 2.5 or Beer 6.1.
Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.
In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.
We recommend: Cooking 3.0 and Hot Looks 7.7.
Good Luck Madam!
Now This is my Version:
I did not have a chance to have entertainment package Boyfriend 5.0, instead I got an upgraded version Husband 5.0. It did occasionally run flower 2.1 and jewellery 1.0 applications initially, but long since these applications have crashed. I thought these programs come as trial versions - free for certain period of time. News 7.9 and Money 10.5 is already installed long time back and always runs in the background. Cricket application has been disabled. I tried nagging 5.1 to solve these problems, but to no avail. Most of the time Husband 5.0 slips into silence mode and needs re-booting. Loudsnowringbeta is operating in full swing.
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