Live and Let Live.

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Hope you all are doing well.

" Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
- Chanakya

In school we all were used to completing one chapter after another and finally getting promoted to the next class actually, now I feel they were getting  us started  going in that momentum so that we understand life in the similar way where you move on from one stage to another,  a kid to becoming an teenager to an adult finally a parent to a grandparent and so on.

Recently I read an article on reddit.com a popular online people’s magazine, the troll was about a debate on generosity and conservativeness, which gives more satisfaction and peace of mind.

I was amazed to understand that these two words play such an important role in our lives, in building our character and also have an impact on our body.

It was found in a lab that when you become conservative in life you become an introvert and shy away from situations and will be confused in a confused state during social occasions.

There are some hormones in our body which stimulate when we are happy, it was understood that when you continue to be conservative for almost everything in life, the depression hormones are stimulated and you would always feel lost and insecure. 

Singer Michael Jackson is considered as one of the most generous people of the 21^st century, even though he passed away for many personal reasons, he had track record of the least depression suffered amount on the artist circle recollects Michael Jordan the famous basketball player and Jackson’s close friend.

So remember the more we are open and generous and go that extra mile to help people around us it is better, we may feel the pinch of ego at times and step back or, start thinking why should we help when no one else around you is help, but when you get these thoughts we should understand actually your conscious is telling you to help, but because of the basic human tendency of being selfish we do not help.

Please help the people who really need your help and definitely you will feel satisfied and contented that you did something good today and all those people whom you helped will definitely miss you when you are not around them.

Before I conclude I want to tell you, the feeling of fear is always not bad, it is actually mechanism in built in the body to make you aware of the situation and alert you and take necessary steps to prevent before something bad may happen, it just the body’s way of resiliency protection.

Thanks a lot for your time have a great week ahead.

Work cycle -1 :A case study.

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Hope you all are doing well.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

- Chanakya

Well the summer begins in Bangalore yes it is becoming more hot as the years come, we must all strive towards at least saving the nature which is left out.

Well our lives are moving in stages from many years, like our childhood, teenage, adulthood, old-age.

The prime time of our life is either our teenage or the adulthood; well I am not being biased that we cannot achieve anything in the old-age, but these facts area according to many surveys.

I want to explain a case study today, titled: The work cycle of a typical graduate in India.

To start which let us  take some assumptions, the subject or the sample if we may call so is just out of college and is a fresher looking out for a job irrespective of whether it is  private or a government job. Continuing on the case study

Phase one: selection

The sample either selects science or commerce as his stream of study.

Now if you imagine this as a flow chart if the selected stream is science then he mostly ends up as an engineer I am talking in a generic way and of course there are many streams in engineering the sample can select.

Option two the subject selects commerce, the most probable option he ends up as bachelor of commerce graduate, again I am being generic here.

Phase two: now what?

Well here we can see three possibilities 1 definitely a job hunt. 2 he writes an exam for a postgraduate course and enrols for a post graduate programme specializing in a subject or,

Phase 3 the job:

This is the most important stage in our corporate/work cycle; this stage can also be called as a learning phase.

Why it is named as the learning phase because it involves  lot of experiences and gives the person to understand the working of a company, what is work ?, the concept of time keeping, understanding actually how business works and so on?

Actually the work cycle can be stopped at that moment, but it is actually infinite and these three phases will keep happening with the difference that the sample will change from one organisation to another and will no longer be called a fresher.

Even I am a corporate professional my main motive why I chose to write about is that, I can see the concept of client servicing, over site project management, technical support, customer call centres have become such a huge business in India because the only conversation factor of the currency, which has made it possible to get labour so cheap that we have become a paradise for outsourcers.

Thinking about the pros and cons of this type of economy, I fell we have both the why I would give this a bouquet is that, it generates lot for foreign exchange to the country and exposes us to the advance technology followed in the silicon valley, you meet amazing people from all over the world and also build good networks.

Well there a several brick bats as well , I feel our graduations we get in colleges are becoming meaningless, It is just like a delegate pass which will enable you to wear your desired company’s badge, and you have a job!!!

The youth have stopped studying for knowledge, but rather attending colleges only to get placed in a good company, which I feel is seriously not the right perspective to treat knowledge.

I have also seen a new group dynamics which is called a traitor psychology, where a group of employees feel ashamed that they work for other countries.

Overall the work cycle in India is not balanced as the government jobs are very hard to find and the recruitment process is based on various reservations and quotas, which has made even more thought to get jobs.

We see our brainy crowd from IITs and IIMs are joining the biggest companies in the world like Google, Microsoft and so on, there I see a concern where India is losing its brain power.

I urge the government to make a system which makes the jobseeker feel amused and must imbibe the feeling him that this looks better than a private job.I also urge the brainy star kids to give back to our country as well, it may seem compulsive but I feel this concern now as there is too much of imbalance.

Hope I was at least able to analyse a bit today,  I will write more blogs on this topic as it needs to discussion, next time I will discuss how entrepreneurship is becoming a hit in the Indian Sub-continent and the importance of studying arts as a subject.

Thanks a lot for your time. 

The Love Story.

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“A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise”

These days people are using this one word for all possible, reasons  it is been a constant tradition of making movies on it, marketing this word countless number of apps and website about this word.

Well the word is "love" well we all know about this word and we also have experienced it.

The first person you would have experienced love is from your mom and dad.

Well what is love? Is it that feeling that makes you hug someone or is that moment where you smile to yourself silly when you remember that person?

Well I must say even though these words are close to love, but they are not.

This process of love at first site then, meeting up with your soul mate getting married is all bookish and is most suitable to be a very good movie.

But let me narrate a short story which will help us understand that real meaning of love.

This story was written by me few years ago here we go:

Long ago during there was a great war going on in Europe , deep in the woods when all the soldiers were trying to protect their camps, they heard the sound of mounted troops advancing towards them, even though the watch towers tried to restrict them , the cavalry  was  too strong and destroyed the towers and advanced further.

All the soldiers used all the ammo they had and tamed down this outrage except for the last troop, as they were out of ammo they ran for their lives.

Among the soldiers who ran was Lt. John , who was known for his quality of sacrifice in his battalion so he managed to hide his troop including the sergeant beside a deep trunk of a tree and gave the enemies a chase of their life, until he was cornered by them in an old barn, when he looked at the snowy sky and thought that was his end, indeed his prayers were answered when the enemies heard a stiff rustle in the bushes which distracted them and the John got hold of his rifle and fired rounds of bullets that rattled the enemies fled in retreat.

The curious lieutenant wanted to know who caused such a noise which helped him to save himself from the enemy.

When he was about to investigate, there came out a beautiful lady who looked quite frightened and confused and was still trying to understand what just happened.

Seeing her John  smiled at her and said “thank you miss” for saving my life, hearing this the lady was revealed and replied, “ glad to be of service sir and I must thank you for trying to protect our state  at the cost of your own life.!”

Well  they say their souls were in-sync from the moment they had met, well the lady introduced herself as Clara a shepherded women who depended on the wool of her sheep and its meat for her living.

So the situation of war was unstable , the unpredicted attacks by the enemies made John worried about the survival of his army.

But as the saying goes, “ all is fair in love and war” the war went on and John met Clara occasionally during his usual rounds in the forest.

One morning, John and his battalion were woken up by a dreadful attack by the

enemies, unfortunately  most of the soldiers martyred in the attempt John and his two segments got on  their horses and galloped only to be pursued by the enemy.

They landed up in the same barn again, and hid themselves, but were spotted by the enemies, John hid in the bushes, the same bushes where he had met Clara for the first time, eventually he was caught by the enemies and was dragged out, they were asked to choose between death or to be jailed for life all the three brave men , promptly selected death, the first two were executed brutally.

Then came the turn of the Lt. John, who just prayed for one last time and was blind folded by the firing squad, ready to be massacred.

He was shot four bullets, and then the miracle happened! Well he never felt the pain of the bullets, suddenly his blindfold was removed and he was shocked to see that Clara came in- between and saved his life, oh what a tragedy exclaimed John and, shot himself.

Well there ends the story. Well coming back to this word ‘love’ now, do we now understand it at-least? I have only thing to say love is  where your will to sacrifice even your life for the person whom you love or the country you love.

Let us all understand the true meaning of love, buying gifts needlessly and showing off the materialistic person in you will not hold good for long, start accepting people how they are, and start being compassionate to your surroundings, why I use the word surrounding is to highlight that we must all love, nature and its creations among which we are a part of. 

Hope you liked my story.

Changing your perception is the key to success, look for positives ignore the negative.

Thank you.

Better Late Than Never.

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Hope you all are doing well.

Nature has been very considerate to us even though we are exploiting it.

I would like to recall,  a great movie called shawshank redemption where we can  all understand the true meaning of hope, Red whose character is a Irish prisoner who was booked for murder is having an argument about hope with his dear friend and cellmate Andy Dufresne  who is also booked for murder.

Andy says hope is that one thing that no one can take from you, so Red replies , hope is a crazy thing and continues by saying it make you go crazy, and he just closes the conversation  with anger.

But by the time the movie ends  Red says "hope is a beautiful thing"

So what led to his sudden agreement with the latter?  Well it was his own experience which made him feel that.

So realisations are very much important in life, you know people always keep saying Better late than never, now why do they say that? Because some mistake that they did gives them the pinch to say that.

Back to the movie, when Red finishes his term in the department of corrections, he was very low in spirits to live that life of freedom as most of his life he  had spent in prison.

But he was bound to a promise that he made to his friend Andy that he will go to a particular place, so finally he keeps up his promise and finds some money some essentials and directions to meet Andy they and he  makes it to the destination,  the movie ends with a happy reunion.

From this movie we can understand the value of hope, friendship, how to be street smart and so on.

This movie has always been my favourite so I always love to narrate this story.

I feel our generations are getting  lost in the illusion of accomplishments, desire and materialism, I have spoken about all the three in many blogs, but I wanted to emphasis on this again because, recently I read a mail which was about the last conversation of Mr Steve Jobs, yes the same person who gave this world  the ‘Iphone’ !  We all consider him as the great modern inventor which of course he is, but how many of us know he died a bad death suffering from a rare type of cancer?

I have heard some speeches and interviews of Mr.Jobs, god he is so motivating! I thank him for that.

But according to him he realised some truths late in life, well here it is the full letter written by Mr Steve Jobs , I quote:

“I have come to the pinnacle of success in business. In the eyes of others, my life has been the symbol of success. However, apart from work, I have little joy. Finally, my wealth is simply a fact to which I am accustomed. At this time, lying on the hospital bed and remembering all my life, I realize that all the accolades and riches of which I was once so proud, have become insignificant with my imminent death. In the dark, when I look at green lights, of the equipment for artificial respiration and feel the buzz of their mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of my approaching death looming over me.

Only now do I understand that once you accumulate enough money for the rest of your life, you have to pursue objectives that are not related to wealth. It should be something more important: For example, stories of love, art, dreams of my childhood. No, stop pursuing wealth, it can only make a person into a twisted being, just like me.

God has made us one way, we can feel the love in the heart of each of us, and not illusions built by fame or money, like I made in my life, I cannot take them with me. I can only take with me the memories that were strengthened by love. This is the true wealth that will follow you; will accompany you, he will give strength and light to go ahead.

Love can travel thousands of miles and so life has no limits. Move to where you want to go. Strive to reach the goals you want to achieve. Everything is in your heart and in your hands.

What is the world's most expensive bed? The hospital bed. You, if you have money, you can hire someone to drive your car, but you cannot hire someone to take your illness that is killing you. Material things lost can be found. But one thing you can never find when you lose: life. Whatever stage of life where we are right now, at the end we will have to face the day when the curtain falls.

Please treasure your family love, love for your spouse, and love for your friends. Treat everyone well and stay friendly with your neighbours.”

At-least can we now realize the value of life and be balanced towards our families and our work or whatever you’re doing in life, the faster you understand this message the best it is for you, please stop realizing late .

I thank my Uncle for forwarding me that beautiful mail.

Thanks for your time. Hope you guys will be the change.