Sunday, September 21, 2008

A Good Life...

I have not seen poverty, hunger or dearth. But I work hard everyday for a good life. Good life for me is to have a bigger TV, bigger car and more amenities then what my parents enjoyed.

For five days a week
• I cringe every morning when the alarm rings and drag myself everyday out of bed for a job I hate.
• I work with people I don’t want to be like
• I don’t see a value add in doing what a do
• I take many coffees to keep up my attention.
• I miss meals or eat while attending calls
• I miss gym because of the long hours I work.
• Stress ensure I don’t sleep very well
• I crib at the first opportunity I get about anything related to work.

I work for good life, losing five days of a seven day week. I work for good life where the sum of my weekdays is the paycheck I earn at the end of the month. I work for a good life which enables me to not worry about day to day survival and allows me to dream, but it also detaches my from my dreams…

Earning a livelihood is the imp but need to redefine a phrase “A Good Life”

80-20 Rule Changed

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

This rule has changed. Now it is the 99.99 - 0.01 rule, probably called the Destructive Rule or the law of irrational few.

Examples
• A handful of people defaced the “Brand Bengal” in name of social justice. After the Tata’s many company’s pulled out of West Bengal giving a big setback to the state’s economy. These people got the political mileage but what about millions of unemployed youth.
• A handful of MNS member (or I should say hooligans) changed the face of the most cosmopolitan city of India, Mumbai. The nuisance element is so high that International brands write the store names in hindi and the big & mighty apologize in public, lest they may have to fight unreasonable people.
• The so call moral police whose issues range from New Year celebrations to discotheques to school uniforms while hunger, poverty and exploitation persists.
• Few want to be politicians are the ones who throw Taslima out of the country, who rage at Hussain’s paintings, who make Sania take a decision not to play tennis in India to hide from controversies.
• Some people who hurt Indian economy by jamming transport between Jaipur and Delhi to earn reservation for their community. And a handful of politician who erode the social fabric of India to exploit the reservation law to win elections.
• Some people who create a strom when a celebrity hunts a black buck, but don’t even comment as many lions and tigers are hunted at times for profit and at times because of ignorance.


The coward terrorists… who hide and kill innocent people to get their whimsical demands noticed, who bind the whole world in mourning and pain.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Complex Chemistry

I somehow got addicted to Big Boss Season 2.


It is not very cool to walk into the house after hours of toiling in office, keep coffee in microwave with restless hands, fight guilt pangs of postponing gym and search for the day’s episodes on youtube. Though such obsession seems childish, I have my reasons. This may sound like a cover-up but I think the program talk’s volumes about human psychology, the chemistry of human interactions and the gospel art of living.


Following are of my observations of people, based on this show which incidently match well with my day to day interactions with other Homo Sapiens....

  • Everyone believes he/she is right.
  • Everyone believes that in a confrontational situation irrespective of their role, that they have been wronged.
  • If someone doesn’t like you there is nothing you can do to change their mind.
  • Complexes define personality.
  • It is easy, almost innate to take bad relationships on a downhill path, immensely difficult to redeem it.
  • Crying is a weapon for women that ensure undivided attention.
  • Revenge is best served cold.
  • You have to practice a lot of silence to earn value for your spoken words.
  • Looks matter.
  • Only winners can be graceful.
  • Life is not a game of chess where your winning or losing will matter. Life is a takeaway food joint with a long queue where your moving smoothly without creating a hassle counts.


Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Finding Prito

They say it is better to take a wrong road then wait at forever at the crossroads. But the fear of being wrong is enormous. As I struggle in the quest to find myself, I worry that my confusion will be evident in my writing… this results in many uncompleted and unpublished posts…

But the weight of unspoken words is weighs down the soul; add another worry of losing my skill to my palpable anxiousness.

So I promise to myself to write every single day for next 14 days…and publish