during a lunch break in office

a quick blog

Never thought that i would see this in my life. I was waiting for lift to go to cafe for lunch in office. One new joiner girl(damn innocent) came to me and asked a doubt related to her work. i immediately came to know she has commited a mistake. But knowing her nature, i tuk care not to let her know that. But my reply made her realise she has done mistake. Her eyes turned from white to red and then became moist. She couldnt speak and nor did i. I was so aghast. It tuk few secs for me to realise whether such innocent ppl will be there.

I pray to god to make that girl strong enough to deal with this bad corporate world. God please give her all the strength, will power and knowledge to deal with this world.

Unconcious and concious part of brain

Needless to say that after another long gap this blog is being written by me.

I was explaining one of the concept of accountancy to my friend cum colleague in office. The subject is part of JAIIB exam. Since it was long gap after I passed the exam, I had to go thru that chapter and then explain her about it. We chose a conference room to discuss on the subject.

While explaining, I was telling the things which I never realized that I know. I mean I was explaining in a very simple manner. When I read it alone, I never conceptualized it like that. But to explain it, I was telling in that manner. It indeed helped me to realize how beneficial it would be if you share your knowledge. I think when we understand something, the unconscious part of our brain would grasp the concept. When we want to get answer to something related to that part, an action gets triggered from conscious part of the brain which invokes and gets the answer from the unconscious part. What lies in that unconscious part will not be known to us till we discuss or interact with someone about it and speak on that. The key to that understanding would come out then. Indeed god’s creation is so complex!!.

Last few days was devastating for the people of N.Karnataka, & AP. The floods created havoc in the region. 11 districts got affected in Kar and the loss is estimated to be 20k Crores! It was very sad to see people climbing on whatever they could to save their life. The sadest thing of all was that even Mantralayam was flooded. Swamiji was being airlifted from there to Raichur. It was really horrible. When I type this, I tend not to write much of the sufferings people faced. The reason being that I cannot console myself. My ma watched a documentary today in local news channel in which they told that Brindavan in Mantralayam was not affected by the floods! A real miracle. I was really damn happy when I heard that. What made me happier was the generousness that people of Bangalore and corporate are showing. The CM of Kar was able to collect 100 Crores in a single day by doing padayatra. Hope he will do more such padayatras to collect more funds as he announced. Let me not get into politics that central Govt is playing with our state. It is indeed cheap to see people taking advantage of even situations like these. As always I pray to the god to teach the guilty the lesson and also help the victims of Natural calamity.

Going to bed now. Good Night.

Don’t know why, from last few days I am getting a feeling that I will be rolled off from my current project. What is the reason, why I’ve started feeling like this, I realy don’t know. But somewhere in my mind I am feeling this frm last couple of days. Time will only have the answer and I’ve no other option but to wait and watch.

Feeling very bad that I will not be able to attend the marriage function of Seshu – my mentor. Let me try my level best by asking sandeep to come with me. If not I will have to drop the idea. What is most annoying fact is that the 2 guys who were extremely benefited by Seshu are not even showing any interest to come to the function. Man is such a selfish animal in this universe. I might have also done something like this, but I pray to god that never I should become like this – taking help frm someone and later forgetting about that person.

Lots of change happened last couple of days. I left going to gym in my office in morning. Was feeling too uncomfortable when I used to come back to the bay from gym. Also I was finding it very difficult to manage the work. So I have started going to the gym near my house in evening. This has provided me more time to work in office and also I feel that it has been very effective in doing exercise in this gym under a trainer than doing it myself without any guidance in office. But one more task I’m not able to accommodate in my life – reading for CAIIB. Don’t know why, all the interest, force whatever I had in me while reading for JAIIB is not present in me now. I feel very difficult to concentrate and read. Don’t know what is the reason.

One area in which I feel that I’m not skilled is making large number of friends. Sometimes back in a fwd mail that I received, there was some thing by which we were able to find out about ourselves. In that it was mentioned that I am too choosy or careful when it comes to select friends. I feel like it is very much true. One more fact is that I find it extremely difficult to cope up if someone among my close friends does something unexpected. I cant tolerate only. So much I have tried to improve upon this area. But not successful so far. But I have a miraculously high power to resist if someone in work area is trying to compete with me and in the process is trying to pull me down. I take it very light and try to give that person back whenever the time comes.

Everything in this universe undergoes a change. In other words, the things are cyclic in nature. But not that when everytime the cycle repeats, all the things in different stages has to remain same. J

I saw TL’s new baby photos today in office. I started feeling very nice about it. How great you will feel when you see your own little cute soft sensitive and extremely (I’m dying for words) delicate baby in front of you. I guess it is the most beautiful moment any parent in this world can have. I don’t know whether I will even take my eyes off from the baby even for a short fraction of second. Somethings in this nature are un describable.

little steps

I had an opportunity to go thru many forwards today which created sort of multiple thoughts in my mind. If I had gone to bed without allowing it to come out, I would have missed another opportunity to realize my potential to think on some thing substantial.

“Faith dog” – a dog which has only two legs and can still walk like a human. Yes, sounds unbelievable but true. When it was born, the owner of the dog decided to put it to “permanent sleep”. But god had some thing great in store for it. The dog was buyed by another owner who decided to name it as faith and made up a goal which none of us could ever think in our dreams – “Teach it how to walk”. Of course she had to struggle for good 6months to make it learn that. But now her effort has been paid off. The dog walks like any normal human without any slightest difficulty. The owner has left the teaching job to be with the dog and take it out all the day. The dog has already appeared in various TV shows and also about to come in Harry potter movie. What it proves flatly is -“Nothing is impossible”

In another instance I saw in TV program that a young handicap boy who has congenital defect of calcium deficiency. All his bones were very brittle when he was born and hence suffered multiple fractures even by a gentle touch. But her mother was not ready to give up. She nurtured her kid and also taught him how to read and write. He can now lie down on floor and write. He can also read quran in Arabic language.

I don’t want to say that we are no match compared to them. My ma tells that such handicap people will be gifted some extraordinary thing by god. I don’t say that we don’t have such thing with us. We have to realise it. Just small approach towards something will help us to reach the aim. So what is important is the aim and then the work towards it. Yes this is what I wanted to understand from those two instances. None of them got the end results by miracle. The lady had to teach the dog every day for 6months and the mother had to take immense care of the kid who would get hurt just by a touch. What went in their advantage is the aim and the little constant steps towards that aim. We will realise our gift only if we follow the similar approach. Little steps towards the aim actually is the key to open that gift.

The moment which I’m going to write down here is something which I don’t think anyone of us face very often in our life.

It was 8^th July 09, 2009. We had this BOA townhall (aka Bofa Party) in Chancery pavilion, Residency Road. We will have this every half year. But this time it became very special for me.

The function was going on as usual with speech from leadership, programs, company achievements show case etc. then it was the turn for giving away awards. First it was the turn of those who completed 5 years in Accenture. Next they announced that they will give the award under intellectual people category to those who have done JAIIB and CAIIB certification. My ears became extra attentive and heart started beating a bit more than normal conditions. I have literally felt that every part in my body started playing the role of Ears to help me hear even the whisper of that anchor on stage. First they called up my senior’s name who was not present on that day. “we would like to call upon the stage Mr. Vishwas Shenoy” the music started playing in the background, claps started from the audience, a few of who knew me, started searching for me in the Auditorium. My heart started beating so hardly that each beat created sort of heaviness inside me. I could feel the blood flowing throughout my body from head to Toe. My legs had become so light that I was virtually flying when I was walking towards the stage. I had to struggle a lot to keep the composure and maintain dignity. In next 15 sec I was near the stage. The 3 steps that I had to climb to reach the stage, sort of created confusion as to how do I start. Should I place right leg first or left? The intention was to land on the stage with right foot, bit superstitiousJ. I really don’t remember what I did finally. May be the unconscious mind inside me told its controlling organs that the need of the hour is to make sure that i reach the stage properly, and not to bother with which leg i land there. Finally I was there at the All-happening-spot of the evening. Those blissfull moments of receiving the award (500 Rs gift voucher of landmark) is something which I could never forget in my life. I stayed there on stage for another 5 secs to take the photograph and then walked down. My teammates started cheering at me and I was really clueless as how to react for it. At that moment I just wanted to find some place to sit down, and relax my heart which was beating at un-recognizable pace. It took nearly 10 mins for me to come back to normalcy and feel that I’m still here in the auditorium. Those few secs of walking towards the podium to receive award and stay there to take photo with Bharath Doraiswamy ( Sr. Exec) was more blissful than the award itself.

This was an unforgettable trip of 2days and 1 night. Finally we were able to break the evil spell on us and plan the trip. This particular place – MM hills was there in our to-be-visited list from long time and for many reasons we were not able to plan our trip properly. Each one of us were busy in our own work leaving ma bored in doing her routine household work.

Finally when my CAIIB exams were over(in which I fared so bad that I didn’t think about writing a blog for that) I made it a point to visit the place atleast now. I drew a firm plan- start early morning on Saturday,visit couple of more place on the way to MM Hills, stay that night on hills and come back next day. Bingo! Everyone gave their consent to my plan and I was looking for 6th june to come ASAP.

As planned we started from home early mrng on Sat – 8am!!!! Well not everything goes according to plan and 2hrs delay from planned departure time is excusable in India. My mother with her long vision as always had prepared dosa for Breakfast which helped us not to waste any money and time for Breakfast by stopping in any restaur. We just stopped at Kamat LokaRuchi for a tea break, parceled some snacks to eat on the way and continued our journey.

Near maddur we took a left turn to proceed towards Kollegal. On the way we stopped at Shivanasamudram aka Shimsha, the waterfall. Since the monsoon was yet to start, there was not much water there. But the view was really superb. We spent some time there and then continued journey towards Kollegal. At around 1pm we reached Kollegal-the town famous for black magic. Even with lots of resistance from my ultra clean bro, we had lunch at a restaur there since we didn’t had any other option. Post lunch we started our journey towards the MM Hills. When we were just 10mins distance from kollegal town, it started raining cats and dogs. Throughout our journey to and fro MM Hills the rain didn’t stop. Every inch of distance was such a beauty that I find it very difficult to explain. Never in my life had I ever watched so much of clouds flowing over the roads, hills, trees. The chilling cold make me shiver everytime I remember the moment. The frequent stops on the route to take snaps was really awesome. I had a great difficulty in driving too as the view was not clear. The never stopping rain added its own contribution to it.

We had darshan at the temple at around 5.30pm. there was no rush or q in the temple as we made it a point to visit the temple on non-spl day to avoid problems in finding accommodation on hill top. But when we were about to reach the car after darshan, ma came up with a brilliant idea. She told that it is not worth staying on top of the hill when it is raining so continuously. We will just get bored. Instead it will be good if we go down to Chamarajnagar (aka Nagar) so that the next morning we can leave to BR Hills from there. We consulted a few ppl there about the routes and distance and came to know that it is nearly 110 km from hills. We decided to move!! Around 8.30 Pm we again came down to Kollegal , had dinner there and left to Nagar from there at 9pm. It was 10 pm when we reached Nagar! We managed to get an accommodation there where we spent our night.

7th june- 8am. We got ready in our hotel. Checked out from there and left to the Chamarajeswara temple- the town diety. Around 8.30 am we had breakfast at a nearby restaur and left for BR Hills. When we enquired the hotel owner about the route to BR Hills he told that there are two routes which leads to BR Hills. One is thru the Yelandur town and the other is direct Nagar to BR Hills thru dense Forest. The forest is protected wildlife sanctuary and very famous for wild Elephants and Tigers!! The route is also famous for its nature beauty and at the same time very risky he told. We didn’t think twice before deciding to take the risky route to enjoy the nature beauty. Except for slight resistance by dad.

9.30am: BR Hills Entry Checkpost : we were made to write down our details at the entry point to the hills. We asked him what to do if we come across any elephant herd. Pat came the reply – “Nothing”. We went ahead into the deep jungle. Man!!!! Every cm of the distance was true beauty. You cannot forget the nature beauty. We couldn’t decide which one is more beautiful- MM Hills or BR Hills. At around 12pm we finished the darshan at the famous Biligiri Ranganatha temple, came to our car, finished the breakfast parcel we got in them morning and started our journey to next famous Temple – SriKanteshwara Temple, Nanjangud. Famously known as Dakshina Kashi.

4.30 pm: Nanjangud: the q was pretty long since it was Hunnime on that day. My dad knew the temple Pradhan Archak who helped us in getting quick darshan thru the back door. After a informal tea break at his home we started our journey back to B’lore at 5.30pm

10 pm: we were back home in B’lore. The total distance covered was 630 KM!! but we didn’t feel the tiredness. It was a memorable tour.

Shilpa's wedding

This is going to be the longest blog entry that I have written till date.

I would be doing injustice to myself if I don’t write the last couple of wonderful days I went thru.(April 16th to 18th 2009)

As I had mentioned in my earlier blog entry, I was looking forward for April 17th, 2009. I.e shilpa’s wedding day. As they say, Time really passes like wind. Weeks passed like days and we reached April 16th. The night on which we were supposed to catch train to the infamous Shivamogga(spelling changed frm Shimoga by recent Govt notification). I had applied for leave on both 16th and 17th (Thursday and Friday), since it was decades ago(atleast I feel like that, though it is exaggerated figure) that I took leave last time. And I had to create an un-married(both of my Cousin elder sis are already married) non existing “Cousin Elder Sister” for the purpose of getting leave sanctioned. And before putting the proposal for leave in front of my TL I thought of making the most out of my non-exsisting sis marriage and so took leave for two days instead of required one day. I had to bring in the sentiments of “MY only elder sister”, “My parents have already left”, “She will never talk to me if I don’t come atleast a day before” etc etc to get the leave sanctioned. Phew!!!!!

Well the story of getting leave will drag like anything if I don’t stop here. The other two dudes had no patience in creating any non existing human being on earth (due to the over population you see) for the sake of leave and with all courage, messaged their respective TL’s in the morning of 17th saying “Severe Headache, cannot make it to office today”. Sick leave Granted.

Now coming to the night of April 16th. As my parents really never take chance in anything, I had to get ready at 9.30 pm itself for the Train leaving at 11.40pm.!!! If I deliberately didn’t make delay in getting ready, I would have been ready by 8pm itself going by my Ma’s words. Ok, this is something which I would feel is not a object of fun, going by the fact that my mother’s intention is to make sure that I don’t end up missing my trainJ. So I was here at the railway at 10.20pm. Flat 1 hour 20 mins before the Train’s departure time. What next?!! I was really a bit tensed at the fact of finding myself alone in the State’s biggest Railway station. Heaps of people everywhere, some lying on the floor itself, some sitting, some running etc. To add to my anxiety, there were considerable number of Police and armymen moving around with larger than life size Arms and Ammo. I was soon found asking myself “Man what on earth am I doing here, escape I say”. Soon I called up my dude1(Vivek), he laughed when I told him I’m already there at the station, and assured me that he would be there in another 10mins. He asked me to go and stand in the platform, since there will be less rush there. I took his advice and went to platform only to find that the entrance was less rush than here. in next 5mins dude2(Vijay) called me to say that he reached the station and asked me where I’m. I was relaxed when he called me and in next 5mins we were together. We started searching for compartment(the train had just arrived) and the moment we went near S3, the dude1 was there showing all his 32 teeth (I would say 100). So here we are, together in the train. Another 1 hr passed like 1 sec with we doing all kinds of monkey acts much for the amusement of co-passssengers. The train chugged and in 10mins went past the IT city. It was time for us to sleep since we were not supposed to disturb the co-passengers anymore.
We could have had a nice sleep of 5 and half hours if not for the Idiot family who were there in the same cube with us. The person told us that we would reach the Shimoga old station at around 4.30am in the mrng and the train will stop there for only 2mins, so we have to hurry up or else we will reach the New station. We were of opinion that the two stations would be as far as Yeshwantpur and main Railway station in Blore and so didn’t wanted to take any chance. We kept alarm at 4 itself !!. but the anxiety was hardly letting us sleep peacefully. Every time the train stopped in some station either me or dude1 used to kick the other to wake up and take a look. Literally we didn’t sleep for the whole night. I don’t know about dude2 who was sleeping in another cubicle. The family which told us about the timelines happily got down at Bhadravthi at 4.15am in the mrng, leaving us cursing them enough for their lifetime as well as for their successive births. We didn’t had any other option but to look at nature’s beauty view outside and sit down as we didn’t wanted to take another round of battle with sleep. We were just laughing at ourselves for being made fool. It was nice view outside. When I yawned, I realized that it is time for me to take a face wash for the better of society. When I came back and sat for another round of funny chat with dude1 I got call from Shilpa at 5.30 am. Ellidiro? 5.30 aithu kanro, ennu half an hour nalli shivamogga barutte, eddu ready agi. God, she called us to wake up!!!. She was laughing unstoppable when we told our story. Soon it was 6 am and we reached the Old railway station(as they call it) of shivamogga. Time for us to get down.

We took an auto to the choultry. Any small kid of shivamogga would easily tell that we are not locals, and the same fact made the auto wallah to charge a sweet 20bucks for the distance less than 1KM!! who said Bangalore is expensive?!!!. The choultry was well decorated with the names of Shilpa and her Husband. We took some snaps and played some pranks there. When we reached the doors, Shilpa was already coming their with 100watt smile. (I guess someone might have flashed a breaking news inside saying that some insane people are there at the entrance). So here we are, all the 4 ppl of famous Bang1 gang together once again(for one day though). The loads of things which she wanted to share with us made her inarticulate for a moment. Spoke as fast as she could. Time for intro. Her father, uncle, brother and few more ppl came (I don’t remember exactly since I had a difficult task of hiding the fragrance coming out of un-brushed mouth).

Well soon we got a room for us to get ready. After some rest and play for 1 hour or so we got ready. Had breakfast. The boredom started from now. The guy was in mantap doing some rituals which the bearded purohit was making him to do and Shilpa was not where to see. We might have yawned like there is no tommorrow. We decided to go to room and sleep. The rest of the day went in similar fashion- come-sit-go-sleep. Took lots of snaps when I was around. The muhurat was really nice since this is the first time that I was witnessing the knot tying ceremony so close (I was on stage taking snaps). Soon after we gave the presentation and went back and slept again. After some 40 mins we came down for lunch and went to room back again. The next 1 hour was really very funny. We had a good fun in teasing dude2. suddenly dude2 realised that there is some tradition followed when the couple have lunch on wedding day. So we went rushing down to witness that. Luckily it hadn’t started. They had this tradition of joining some 4 to 5 leaves with rangoli and lamps around it decorated nicely. The guy will first offer the sweet to girl and vice versa. They will then have the lunch in same leaf. It was really nice to see that.

Fine, all the rituals were over and we decided that it is time for us to go out and explore. When we told this to Shilpa, she was so reluctant to let us go. Her cause of worry was that we will make fun of her place shivamogga if we go out and find out its sorry state. The govt is building new domestic airport there and so they have crushed the front portion of bldngs on either side of the road to expand the road. The whole town was looking very much like as if there was some mild earthquake. Somehow we convinced her and decided to go to TB dam in gajanur. Some 10 kms from Shivamogga. The journey was really horrible. Too hot and too dusty.

When we came back from there it was 7pm. We had decided not to go back to choultry again and disturb them. But Shilpa called exactly when we reached shivamogga. We had not other option but to go back. We had a good chat for some half an hour. She was also free that time. So had a gr8 time. She went back to attend reception and it was business as usual for us. We finished dinner around 8.15. it is time to kill time again. Shilpa came for phot session with 3 different typees of saree I guess. I was in no mood to take snaps as I was really tired at the EOD. Around 9 we got up to leave. Shilpa came with us till the gate and we chit chatted for 5 more mins.

We took the auto to “new Railway station” of shivamogga. After some initial hiccups in finding the coach of dude1, we setteled in our respective coach. Train left shivamogga at 10pm. We reached blore at 4.30am in mrng and dude1 reached mysore at 6.30am. The great day thus came to end. I am really very happy for having made it there and witnessing the wedding. I really enjoyed nicely.

aimless blog

We should not think a lot before doing anything !!!!!


Well if you are surprised about the sentence, here I provide the facts to support it. I strongly believe that even you will have a couple of instances to add to this after going thru this blog.

Ok, before going somewhere deep down the memory line and dig out some “once-upon-a-time” incidence, I will give a simple example to support my top statement. The evening I came frm office to home, I was in no mood to spend my time constructively in reading for my certification. And as I always wish, today also I thought I would utilize the time to write the blog instead. But I don’t know why, from morning itself I am not at all able to concentrate on what I do and say. I am not 100% present physically and mentally in whatver I did. So when I sat in front of my PC, I just opened some browsers, surfed some stuff, opened my office mails, closed-nothing of which is proper usage of time. I was not even interested to write the blog also finally.

But only good thing that I could do was to read some of the finest blogs today. Written by professional bloggers. That was worth reading.

I recently came to know about the fact that I don’t have any hobby of recently. When I was in high school I used to collect rare coins, a hobby called as – Numismatics. But now, though I’ve not stopped it, I’m also not looking for the new sources for rare coins. So it has a kind of become stagnant. Well I realised this fact a few days ago when I had called my friend to meet him on weekend. He told me that he has started a new hobby – Guitar. And he has to attend a class to learn it. I started making fun of him saying that why don’t you develop some distinct hobby? This guitar has become so common that any lazy S/w engineer (I don’t know why the Tag “engineer” is attached to the softare professionals. We really don’t engineer anything in our job.) on this earth will “PROUDLY” say that his hobby his playing Guitar. To this, he asked me one simple question – “what is your hobby dude?”. I had no good answer to offer him and so decided to change the topic.

Well to end this aimless and direction less blog, let me mention a fact about democracy. If anyone asks me what is the difference between democracy and Monarchy(I had to google to find out this word) the answer I will give is that “Democracy, for every 5 years will offer you to choose the devil who will rule you, whereas the Monarchy will not give you this option and you have to wait for the ruler of nieghbouring place to come and attack your place and win it for change in governance”. Why I wrote this? Oh yeah I remember - “Elections are round the corner. So please vote for your next devil. Later on don’t cry that you wanted a different devil to rule and ruin you”.

I had this thought in my mind from a long time. Especially after joining my company. I don’t know how far I’m correct in saying this. I always feel that there are two types of opportunities in this world. One which will come in your way when you are least expecting it. The other one is which you achieve with your hardwork. Your sweat and dedication will earn you the opportunity which will take you to your dream destiny.
Example for first type would be, getting some recognition or perk or some thing which you never would have imagined in your dream that it will come to you. And Example for 2nd one would be some achievement in your life, dream, target, which you set for yourself and then work hard to reach there.

Well, now time for debate. I’m 100% sure that not a single soul on this earth will have any objection to the First type of Opp. The debate is only on the 2nd type. The most basic question which I myself get is “Why is there any limitation? If the opportunity hasn’t come in your way, go and achieve it. Why leave it to fate?” let me stop here. otherwise whole article will contain only questions. There should be some good explaination for these questions. If you ask me, my answer would be very simple- “Not every person in this world will get everything as the other. There should be some distinction. What we get and what we don’t is not in our hands in some matters. And instead of cursing ourselves for not getting it, we should be happy with what we have(but never be content, if you are content you wont think of improving yourself) and aim for further”. Let me end this debate here.

Last week my friend Shilpa got rolled off from the project. She would be moving to another location of our company here. She is the only female in our all male friends group which meets only during lunch. Poor girl, she always was our subject of fun. Be it making fool of her(I’ve a separate blog on one such experience), her taste in movies, (Abhishek Bachan, Chetan from A Dinagalu etc yuck ppl), her engagement, fiancée, marriage…. The list will never end. We decided to go out for dinner on Wednesday last week. Myself and Vivek went from office directly there and she joined us there- “Halli Mane” at Malleswaram. It was nice evening. We really enjoyed a lot that evening. Today was her last day in this facility and she got really emotional before leaving(but she made it a point not to show that, least we would make fun of her). All of us were really sad. My group has now reduced to only 2 (from 5 at one point of time). But only good part as of now is that we all will meet again during her marriage on April 17th this year. I’m really looking forward for that day. There are many firsts on that day. This is first friend’s wedding that I would be attending, first time going out of city to attend friend’s function, etc…… I wish and I pray to god to keep us all united in future also.

We Don’t have time for anything.

I had to think about this topic a lot. Not about the contents what I need to fill in. But whether I need to write this or not. Day in and out we read in newspapers, magazines or see in TV, how deteriorated our life is becoming. When I come across such stuff anywhere, I just avoid them saying to myself “We have to suffer it anyways, now why waste my time in reading or seeing about it again?!” But now I’m here writing about the same topic. There is a reason behind why I’m writing this. My belief is that if there is something disturbing your inner soul from long time, bring it out of you and face it. That is the only way to fight with it. So I’m here now waging a war against the topic-of-debate which has taken the form of a soldier.
I promise that I will try to keep the discussion as different as possible, and will try to abstain myself from blaming anyone.

Unlike the authors who have written their biography, I’ve a very weak memory. I can’t recollect many a things that happened in my childhood. At least till the class of 9th. But somewhere in my mind, one of the statement which my mother told me is deep etched. “look son, from here onwards I will not interfere in your studies. I will not ask how you are reading. But remember one thing that if you work hard and study, it is for your good only. Otherwise you have to sell the bhel puri on road side. Myself and your father have saved some little money with which we can take care of both of us. So whether you study or not is left to you. You need not feed us if you earn fortune, nor we will feed you if you fail”. This line has not got erased from my mind till now. But in spite of such a powerful sentence, I was always fortunate for not being pressurized to read. I always had ample time to mingle with my friends and do whatever I want. But only thing was that I used to study myself without any coercing from my mother or dad(hardly possible, given his hectic work)

But when I look at today’s children, I feel very fortunate for having born 22 years back itself. Not that I’m blaming today’s children for being pampered with lots of facilities or things like that. But I think on the changes that has happened, we have raised bar on everything everywhere. This underlined statement is what worries me, makes me think. Studies – less than 95%? Get lost. Sports – not within top 3? Get lost. These are just couple of examples that I’ve mentioned. But there are lots of such stuff. I feel like we have just made their living a hell. Childhood is the best phase of life. And if the children don’t enjoy that stage how we can imagine creating a society of happiness, togetherness?

Let me pull myself back from blaming. It is not just the children whom I want to target here. I want to address here all sections of society. We have a tendency to get adjusted to some particular way of style in life. We get up in mrng, read newspaper or go out for jogging(strictly for those working in non software industry) get ready and rush to office(this phrase minus the previous one is for s/w proffessionals ), follow the work routine there, come back, relax, have dinner and sleep. Without our own knowledge, we will fall into this way of life. This of course is very easy to follow also. And if you are not dreaming to achieve more, no harm in disturbing this lifestyle also.
Try changing anything in the above routine. Pat comes the reply “I don’t have time ya”. The answer will change depending upon the audience. It is not just applicable in the cases where you ask yourself to take up some exam or some certification or something. But it is applicable even in the cases where you ask yourself to change the lifestyle so that you can practice yoga, go for a jog, meet your friend or relative on weekend, go to temple, etc etc. remember that all these were amusing you a lot before you had joined the work. See the change!!!

We have lots of things which help us to cut down on our time spent on useless things and use it for useful work instead. We have mobile phones which helps us in connecting with our near and dear ones. But the same instrument is increasingly used to stay connected with our company colleagues for work matter rather than using it for calling up your friends. We have bikes, cars etc available for traveling from home to office, but the same has created the traffic chaos making the travel time eat our useful hours. As the technology has improved, our needs have also improved in same pace. Thus maintaining the equilibrium in nature!

I saw a movie called ‘Luck By Chance’. I Liked one particular sentence the protagonist makes there. In order to achieve something, it is imp that you make a move in that way. The success will come only if you ensure that you are working in that way. Otherwise you need to accept how your life is now, and forget about the change. You will not stand a chance to win the lottery(strictly confined to ad lotteries like “slogan bharo aur fridge jeeto” kind of stuff. No controversies please, don’t pull in play win or other lottery stuff) if you don’t mind to put it. So if you think you can do one extra thing to break the monotonous routine and fill in some life in your style, please work in that direction on a smart way.

Well I kind of like that a lot. Aptly applies to all of us I can say. Whether we have loads of money and luxury or not is not something which can be used as a metrics to measure our happiness. Whether we are leading our life by challenging our comfort zone is what we can use as metrics. The happiness what we get by achieving what we did by fighting with our limitation is something which no words can describe. Keeping faith in almighty and promising ourselves about the confidence in our own potential is the need of the hour.

Last but not least, I would like to mention the list of things which I ensured not to come in my discussion above
Name of cities, list of things in life which have changed badly(this is very very broad category), and finally the INDIAN POLITICS(something which really made me spend more time in editing the article, than writing).