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Pleasure
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do.
Pleasure is when you have lots to do and you are doing nothing. Continue reading
Practical advice
Let me not say anything… go ahead and listen to this and I am sure it will come across the most sane advice you have ever received. Of course this is what your parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and your conscience has been asking you to do all along but somehow it sounds so much better and doable this way.
Baz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).mp3
If you prefer to read the song then here are the lyrics…
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97
Wear Sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience
I will dispense this advice now. Continue reading
Making of a person
Is a person really independent? Or is that just an illusion he creates to satisfy an ego? Is a person solely responsible for what he is today and what has done in the past? Or does some of the credit or blame go to people around him mainly his family, friends and colleagues. How much of of me is made up of other people? I live, how many people live inside me.
What if a person is full of bitterness? What if he is full of love? What if he is full of both? Will people around him also become bitter? Or full of love? Will people around him want to give something of theirs to him? Or will they shoo him away?
I wonder how much of me is other people and how much of the people around me is me. Continue reading
Contender
Somebody I know and somebody who is very close to my heart wrote this. I could not believe my eyes when I read it. It was as if I had written it myself. It was a much much bigger paragraph and I agree with 90% of it. These are the statements I could relate to most. Isn’t it amazing that 2 different people feel almost exactly the same thing? 2 people in different places, at different phases in life, having different lifestyles…
They call it the “Quarter-Life Crisis.” It is when I stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about me that I didn’t know and may not like. I start feeling insecure and wonder where I will be in a year or two, but then get scared because I barely know where I m now.
I laugh and cry with the greatest force of my life. I feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and I try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where I’m or move forward.
I worry about loans, money, and the future and making a life for myself…and while winning the race would be great, right now i’d just like to be a contender!
What I just realize is that everyone reading this relates to it or related to it once. We are in our best of times and worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
I have asked this person to start blogging on a regular basis. His blog would be very very interesting to read, don’t you agree? Continue reading
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The Struggle
I almost titled this post “The Rat Race” or “My Quarter-life Crisis”.
It’s weird. Each passing day makes me feel that I am in a rat race, not your usual rat race but a rat race with myself. I want to keep doing better, learn more, do more, earn more, become more efficient, in general become more than what I currently am. Is this usual? Is this abnormal? Is this good? I don’t know. On one hand I am not unhappy with the way things are going in my personal life and professional life. On the other hand sometimes I feel very inadequate and unsuccessful. Continue reading
Acceptance Mode is Bliss
Acceptance Mode is when you have 1000 tasks to do and the capacity/time to do only 500. So you “accept” the simple fact that you are not going to be able to do 500.
Right now I am in Acceptance Mode. Aah… it is indeed very peaceful here 
Am wondering when all hell will break loose. Till then I will enjoy myself. Continue reading
Multiple Personality Disorder
MPD: I have it. Maybe. Maybe not. No. I definitely have it. Continue reading
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