Saturday, July 5, 2008

It's all about YOUR choices...

Life works in mysterious ways... remember being a kid?? and people asking ....what do you want to do when you grow up?? and the kid used to answer... "i wanna be a pilot "or a painter (or an alien as in my case) . Remember what it felt like to have a free mind galloping the entire stretch of the universe no limits whatsoever... then what happened???

Suddenly that kid finds out...ooops.. i'm in college and about to graduate now what!! It's what people might feel after waking up from decade long coma with everything around changed without a warning. And what does one see... some lucky kids had become a pilot as they wanted or a painter...(i hear they're searching for aliens nowadays..) what happened to the rest??


Ever seen dust particles suspended in the air ,floating around on a sunny noon or a lazy winter morning?? Life is like that... we float riding upon particles of opportunities ,countless of them ... but yet each of them flowing with the wind of life from one destination to the other.....every thing seems to be a Brownian motion yet, a directional flow..

So how do we navigate though this disoriented yet organized mess?? In a broad sense there are two ways one can do it... One would be to wait for the particle of opportunity that you think will lead to the place or to jump on those particles of opportunities that seem to be going in that direction.

Second would be to take a rather carefree jump on the nearest opportunity particle that you feel is right and go on that way without having a specific destination in mind, free as a bird....

For the majority of us the prudent choice however would be to take the middle path i.e. go free as a bird but sometimes take a pause and choose a direction towards where you thought you'd be... The outcome of this however would be fascinatingly different... you'd be doing what you're good at and at the same time the fact that you are somewhere in the direction of the place you hoped for would bring extreme sense of self-satisfaction.. a sense of well being... that you made a difference to the field you aspired for....

So going back to the kid who wanted to be an artist and somehow become a businessperson ... so what ?? he/she can deal in art works , promote artists, maybe create an art gallery...the opportunities are many you just have to figure the right one and just hop on to it once in a while!!!

and so ....the kids wanting to be an alien...ah what crap!!! go to sleep!!!...........
( ....it's Star Wars...... i'm YODA!!!)...zzzzz

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Of imaginary blossoms and amateur penstrokes...

Hmmm... writing a blog for the 1st time?? well technically no .... fell asleep writing it at 1st ...... but I'd rather confess that i'm a complete novice at this ...

There is one thing odd about the human behavior...
what we take for granted may not be there the next moment and only when it's gone do we realize how deeply , intricately and beautifully we may be connected to it.... it's in a broad context..can be anything a person ,the nature, the environment or as simple as an object or the state of our living.....

We live in a life that achieves an equilibrium with the conditions around us so that rarely an event happens so as to bring a drastic change , what we need to realize is that simple decisions can effect this equilibrium in ways unseen to us and in a magnitude unfathomable...
the decision may be as simple to board a train laden with explosives or just to start a blog!!!



A plethora of ideas buzz in the head like sparks flying off a huge circuitry of the brain...the mind numbed down by the "holiday firewall" created by it which says " ignorance is bliss!!!".
The big question: is an idea worth it?? should one listen to random, sometimes seemingly ridiculous scehemes the crop up in one's head??
well .. i'd say why not?? after all is it wrong to assume that everyone has a "eureka" moment in his\her life?? The point is that people are so engrossed in mundane things that they refuse to acknowledge that they can make a difference .Now i'm not saying that each of us will make a ground breaking invention of some kind but the self belief that it can instill in us if we just open up our minds to "ourselves" !!
If u think u can make bits of left over candle wax into a piece of art...do it!!
If it strikes you to connect all the audio and video devices in different corners of your house to a single computer then do it!!( or at least try..) why be discouraged??!!

Even if we do not succeed or at least partially achieve what thought of , even then it wouldn't it be a tribute to the randomly firing and misfiring circuits up there in your head instilling a sense of joy and accomplishment???

P.S. - the examples may not look so elegant but what the heck!! you all get the point right??!!


P.PS- This is in the memory of a child who had an idea of creating a moving vehicle which used both suction and propulsion at the same time until one Uncle Newton came out of nowhere and kicked him hard in the balls.....