LG - Life's Good (.) (?)

Life isn't easy or difficult; what forms our perception of the ease of Life is our acceptance - or lack of - of the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Do you feel that your driving force is that you deserve more? You won't find Life to be too demanding.
But, do you feel that you deserve more than X, Y or Z? Or more than what you got from Life earlier? Or that you deserve more because you feel that the effort you are putting is more than the rewards you are getting? If you do, then Life is going to be very exasperating, my friend.

Accept the fact that there are others who are more deserving than we are. Rather than rue over that fact, take inspiration from those that you secretly envy and go that extra mile.

Accept the fact that maybe earlier you had things easy. They aren't easy now. So what? Will you just chicken out and surrender to a life of grumpiness? Or will you stand up against the adverse circumstances and show Fate that it must favour your courage, no matter what?

Maybe you aren't getting rewards commensurate with your efforts, but remember, your evaluation of your efforts is just that - your evaluation. Maybe the issue at hand does require that much effort. Or maybe, you are a hard worker in that specific circumstance, not a smart worker. What's more important to you - favourable result, or favourable result with minimum effort?

Don't be someone who shies away from putting in effort - and Life will reward you. Maybe sooner, maybe later. But since you are someone who doesn't mind putting in effort, you also know that it takes a lot of patience to keep doing that. And since you are blessed with patience, a small God in its own right in today's snappy world, you know you can make a good life.

Can you handle the truth?

I was in Delhi recently for a friend's wedding. While it was a lot of fun catching up with old friends after a long time (and happily realized that not much has changed over the years), there was this one instance which evoked some thoughts that I have always believed in, but haven't revisited since some time now...

So there I was, in the hotel room watching some TV when the channel menu showed that they were playing "Before Sunrise"... Now, its been sometime since I saw that and "After Sunset"...

I have actively avoided watching these kinds of movies because you know, they are too much mush and pain in the name of romance. I am not into intense romantic movies anyway. They, somehow, drain me of my energy... and yeah, I can definitely do without feeling drained at the end of a movie!

Anyways, I had nothing better to do and was looking for an alternative, having watched news all morning...

I tuned in for sometime, only to find that some parts were actually thought-provoking (philosophical, maybe?)...

For how many of us actually take long walks with our partners? How many of us are truthful with them in that we can talk about our true feelings and thoughts with them? How many of us really ask them, "What about me really bugs you?"; and if we do, how many of us are willing to hear the raw truth?

Worse, if the question was directed at us, how many of us are going to be honest in our answers? Even if we are - or they are - how many of us will accept each others' quirks willingly and just let them be, not demanding any "action"? Just be content in knowing them for the better, not wanting to change them to suit our perception of what is "better" for them?

We all have thoughts which, at some level, are questionable, immoral or unorthodox at best. How many of us give the freedom to our partners to share them with us, without judging them? Most people do that with their friends because they can't do that with their so-called life partners, soul-mates or whatever mush you will...

Maybe we need to really ask the first question to ourselves -- Can you handle the truth?

Words to remember...

I find I have a lot to learn from people who are not book-fed. I strongly recommend interacting with experienced people versus people who have been to big universities, if and where the two sets are exclusive.

I was visiting one of my clients, an elderly gentleman who's borne the brunt of many a sun's heat in the field. He was telling me how markets have become difficult over time and now, there is no place for complacency.

Among all other things, one of his sentences stayed with me. He said, " In order to succeed, you must either be the first one to do something, or be the best in what you do, or be different than the rest"

Now, I have heard and read about first mover advantage, differentiation, competitive advantage and all of that... but to hear the crux of all that in a single sentence, by a man who has not gone to a university to read about all this, took me a little by surprise.

Success cannot come by knowing the formula from books. One must forget about the formula and work with a single point focus on achieving either or more of the above.

...and am back!

Hadn't realized that I am writing after a gap of more than a year! Bloody 'ell!

Writing almost always helps me relax, though there are times when it brings on a bout of nostalgia and then, well... I get nostalgic ;P

Is it good? bad? stupid? Or, as the philosophers might say, natural (but) waste of time?

A rolling stone...

I was wondering about the origins of idioms the other day and talking to dad about it when he said that it was with years of observation and astute wit that such idioms came into existence.

While that might be the case, for a lot of people it is a mere matter of perception in today's times.

Centuries earlier, the world was still discovering itself; people were still learning about human behaviour and it's impact. People were slow to judge. 

Today the opposite is true. People are quick to judge someone else. A few occurances are enough to reach a conclusion. Everyone thinks they know everything about everything (and if there is any gap somewhere,  it can always be filled by searching on Google!)

Blogger on WP

My first post here through the Blogger app for Windows Phone.
I've been looking for it since a long time now, but I think it wasn't available on earlier versions.
This one isn't very comfortable either, but I guess it'll have to do till a proper one is developed. Frankly, it is quite crappy as it doesn't show the cursor position (!) and the page is not fit-to-screen; it seems it is a patch to the site, really!

Damn it, why cant these Windows guys shell out a few bucks to get proper apps developed!? And the irony here? Bill Gates donates tens of millions of dollars for charity, and his organization won't be bothered with the state of apps! Go figure!

Just Thought...

I'm not a 'poem guy', but some lines have been doing the rounds in my mind since a few days. Thought it's better to dump them out than keep them inside.

A cry without tears,
   A laughter without smiles,
Pain without needles,
   The heart rendered vile

This sounds as if it should have a second stanza. Hmmm... Maybe later.