The Prime-Flix-Star - A Discussion

 Hello Readers

 Hope You are doing well.

 By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

― Richard Dawkins

 The "virtual world" and the new normal is the latest jargon that is going around in all the corporate offices and workplaces.

 I am amazed and appreciate the great corporations and their strategic plans, which brought us into the remote mode of working, in a jiffy, I would say!

 We have heard this rhetoric that the world went through an unprecedented change, and to an extent changed forever.

 Switching gears to technology, the world is now partly ruled by technology and then by people.

 "Online" is the word which is in the limelight.

 Similarly, as we were not allowed to visit cinema halls to watch movies, the server farms of the OTT app owners would have skyrocketed with viewership traffic and increase in the membership numbers which is quite apparent.

 "OTT", again a household name, which stands for Over-the-top.

 This means streaming across different devices whenever we want is possible because of "over-the-top," a convenient little term that explains the new delivery method of film and TV content over the internet without the need for traditional cable or satellite pay-TV services.

 This has brought into a new dimension to entertainment, a new window to men and women who want to show their talent, a Pandora box of opportunities for sure.

 A new concept where you pause and play a movie, a soap opera at your whims and fancy, for a premium.

 There are movies involving eminent actors which got released directly into OTT apps which is definitely a paradigm.

 Now the ripple effect is that it boomed the smartphone market and most importantly, the android and apple TV market and service providers collaborated with OTT vendors and are selling a SIM card with these packages bundled with it.

 The concern.

 Till now, I have spoken all that is great about this whole eco-system called OTT, but now there are specific topics that need to be discussed and addressed.

 Firstly, the content, there is this concept "becoming a hero in the wrong way" I have noticed many Shows which are produced in these platforms move in that direction, for instance, drugs, murder, crime, domestic violence, taboos, and more and.

 The hero character is shown gaining money, name, and fame by becoming a tycoon in all of these! seriously? what is the example you want to set?

 When I took some time out and interviewed some friends and benefactors about this, I got mixed responses.

 Some told me, well it is just a TV show, not much of importance, others told me, they give us awareness about how criminal activities take place which is like a good thing! Basically, the positives and negatives which goes on in a society.

 Finally, there are the rest who say, there should be positive themes rather all the fuss and cry about negative societal themes.

 I am totally neutral just reporting my findings and leaving it to you to share your opinion.

 Here is mine:

 When we watch a video, there are many reactions which trigger in our mind, depending on what we see, and it is well known if you keep watching something continuously, we tend to follow or idolize.

 These TV shows are supposed to self-regulated, and you would get a PG 18 warning at the beginning, I do not think even the advanced economies follow it, so the self-regulation is a myth I strongly feel, the producers can do better.

 They do have all the potential to webcast something positive, and people can imbibe it in their daily life, but they sell what sells easy and quick!

 Am not saying that positive content does not exist, there are some beautiful TV shows and movies both positive and realistic out there worthy of being watched and enjoyed.

 But we as humans have proved that we have a negative affinity and so we get pulled into it watching the negative ones in the name of thrill and excitement and turn a villain character into a hero and celebrate him/or!

 More concerning is that kids are exposed to all this content habitually, intentionally, or unintentionally, what does it do to a young developing mind? will they not think that is the reality? We, as adults, should be more cautious and responsible and consider the viewership with care.

 

Courtesy Google Images

 Finally, the goal is to build a healthy society with good values, this is the era of online learning! So, what they learn matters.

 Enjoy the shows, the movies and all that but also be mindful about your screen time, check if this is making your life sedentary, couch potato, a passive thinker.?

  Step-up let us enjoy at the same time be mindful.

 Thanks for your time, have a great week ahead.

 Helios.

Veritable Civilization

Hello There 

I hope you are fine today.

The world has progressed from whatever state it was because, to be honest, I do not believe in the Big Bang theory as belief more in facts than Chimera or fantasy.

We are aware of the repetitive story of human evolution; I am not going to bore you by ranting on the same thing.

Think of this word equality, what are those vibes coming up in your brain? I asked this to some of my friends and family,  interestingly they came up with, the need to treat people equally, gender bias, inequality, the power of unity and most of them used this word unity.

So in the beginning, when humans were still making sense of this oasis in the universe called earth, we were just hunters, gathers until slowly we became intellectual and this world is now called "civilized?"

Hmm…. So let me think what do we mean by civilized, can we call it cultured, refined, urbane?

I want to talk about three crucial aspects today, 

One: what is true civilization or to be truly civilized.

Two: The bias mindset of homo sapiens.

Three: the need for equality.

The need for equality.

 Well people say this is an era of open-minded people, free-living, easy going are some of the jargons, but I feel everything is not as transparent as it looks, because I am a realist I see what is going on in people’s lives, they are stuck on a lone cantilevers because they are not treated as same as others, and are not accepted in society for whatever reasons this "civilized" society thinks is logical! 

For instance, in the Oscar award winning movie joker, the director has tried to illustrate how a social outcast turns into a negative person and become a sadist! Is society not partly responsible? Think there may be so many people still fighting for their equality while we are enjoying ours!

The bias Mindset.

Chauvinism and feminism are related words, and there is a lot of bias that goes hand in hand with these two words. They are related to the opposite sexes pointing fingers each other and trying to prove one is superior to the other, where are we heading do you think this is the right direction? Come on, men can't tolerate women and women can’t tolerate men? So we never moved on.

 Men and women are at fault here, and I think it is just slowing the progress of the world by draining energies into parallel warehouses of hatred towards each other.

 The dream of true civilization.

You might have heard this before, but I think it makes sense and it may be real, individual sections in the society are living differently than you and me, how are they different? They are leading lives with bare minimum of resources, with no clean water to drink just following their survival instincts, do you think they understand the words like religion, gender bias, definitely not because they are living on a simple value system which helps them socialize with anyone and everyone who will help them to survive the sunset and allow them to see the next sunrise, I appreciate their value system more than the sophisticated ones which we are trapped in!

The essence of progress is the root of a society not at the tremendous economic standards of that domicile, even though a country is known to the world by these economic factors, the grass-root level reveals how happy a commoner in that country is? The day he has his smile on his face that is the dream of true civilization.

 

The essence is also the omission of trivial inequalities like gender wars, religious wars, discrimination of all kind and addition of simplicity, joyfulness purity in the name of humanity and nothing else.

Men and women should acknowledge each other's weaknesses and complement each other and work as a team which is the first step towards civilization.

Look back at the path you took when you have reached your destination, you will be the first to know if you have progressed.

 

Thanks for your time, Have a great day ahead.

Helios.

Help-A perspective

Hello Reader

How are you today?

Each day is a new realization like a caterpillar develops colors in the cocoon which it is not aware and finally when it comes out as a butterfly amazes itself and you with its colors!

-Michael Jackson

These are the days of realization for many of us because if you take the human life, the prime age of 20 till 40 shapes what we will end up as after these years. The point is how many of us are ready to realize this?

It's again an illusion which makes us feel there is still time for us to do what we want to but we forget, time just runs away in front of us like a bullet train and we miss it each time because of we just too slow to catch the speed of that train.

Can you lead a life without this word?  “help”.

If you ask me, I being a realistic and optimistic person I would say “no” it is impossible.

Look at the history book there are only a few people in this world who can beat their heart and say “I am totally independent” I would imagine in India it would be some monks on the top of the Himalayas who have explored the physical abilities of their body and brain beyond normal human beings.

It is a well-known fact that we are dependent on someone from the moment we are born until we end it.

How can I be so sure that I am confident to say that we always expect help, let me prove my point in the following paragraphs?

The day we are born we were fortunate enough to be taken care by our parents and the nurse at the hospital then the doctor who helped you in the maternity and next your dad who felicitated the whole process financially and morally and from then on till today you were fortunate to have a family happy or sad, you are part of it and realize one day the importance of it.

The helpers

According to me all the service providers in your life are fit to be called helpers at the end of the day if you say they are just doing it for money or you paid them to render that service it does not matter, because it requires a bent of service-mindedness to help someone sacrificing his own time for you.

This whole blog I have kept time as a reference, how much time a person lost of his own to help the other person that is the greatness of people who wish to help, you may return him a favour for his help but time lost is gone! so we need to show latest minimum gratitude for the help we got.

The words like “thank you” and “you are very kind” simply did not just come up with the evolution of vocabulary; it would have been used by people who seek help when they were in distress.

I have experienced helping is a very nice feeling but definitely, conditions apply.

Why do I say conditions apply because if you help without expectation it very pure to your heart and you enjoy the bliss, otherwise you will have a sour or sometimes a bitter taste of expectation hitting you back of your heart and making you feel uneasy?

The obvious

Some obvious feeling felt when we help people is: First of all we feel good about that we helped them, initially the expectation of a return help will arise, which you would not get and you might go tell to a friend about what happened and feel sad about that you helped that person in this crisis, but did not get anything in return and 2 you might stop helping which means the selfishness in you kicked in!

The last sentence of the last para will break you, so if you want to help never expect returns that way you move one step ahead towards higher thinking.

The society

Oh! What a cruel and low minded society we live in, a true disaster and the most disgusting part is, they are all sadists who can’t stand people helping each other and start gossiping about that too! Grow up the great jobless people of all times.

To conclude my blog for those who think it was a confusing one, help is a universal instrument which was presented to us by cosmic forces to in short God,  just like water and air and it is required not only among humans but also within humans and animals and vice versa, be open-hearted and never stop helping for a good cause, and society what society?read what Mother Theresa said about the society she said I quote “helping arms are better than speaking lips” I think that says it all.

Think big do something that will change the perspective of you after you leave this earth for higher purposes and let people remember you forever and repent if they were unjust and unreasonable to you, help with the spirit of Karma yoga, and feel the satisfaction which is like no other.

Never give up.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Forgotten Etiquettes

Hello Reader

I hope you are doing well.

If a man keeps too many people happy and helps them,  he will be mostly a lonely person in life.

-Anonymous

According to you what is a relationship, the general perception and the imagination that we get in our minds is any love song from a Bollywood movie? Well, I feel these days this is the perception towards freindships and relationships, which is according to me is totally wrong, the fact of the matter is we actually do not understand the exact meaning of it.

The main purpose of writing this blog is that I have seen people around me and I have observed that in some places it is very ordeal the way people behave and look at a boy and a girl who are just talking to each other happily.

Why do people have an affinity to talk negative when they see two people of opposite sex just trying to speak?

I was a student of psychology some years back, I had read about human behavior during particular situations, some basic takeaways were:

Some people can’t tolerate happiness and they are popularly called sadists in English, it seems when they see people speaking in gleaming happiness, it will make them feel very insecure, and the resultant reaction is just bullying in that conversation, I have observed that who bullied finally walks away from their happily, so he made his environment unhappy and drained that happiness and filled his mind with it! 

The above is one category of people, there is another whom I consider a disease to this society, and yes I am sorry if the word disease is too harsh, but I ought to use it as the situation is very grim.

This is so pathetic that people backbite and gossip so much about a guy talking to a girl and just keep on blabbering filth about them, is it because you are jealous that you could not pull away a conversation with her.

Beautiful depiction of the boomerang effect by Norman Rochwell

Purely not being sexist here but this mindset is there equally in men and women and they strive to achieve their goals and go to whatever extent possible, ok! The goal here is just breaking open the friendship and again feeling happy about it.

The Basic Etiquette

Ok, I am not a travel savvy person and maybe not having so much acumen to speak on this but; I have worked with many foreigners from America to Brazil, to China, Sydney, and the Philippines, I feel more comfortable to work with them than Indians. Yes, you might question my judgment by asking me “of course in professional life people like to stay professional and are not interested in either passing personal comments or talking about other people, I would like to counter by saying, then why we Indians eat sleep and live gossips? please tell me if you disagree with this statement this question is for all the professionals who are working in MNCs' so are we professional? are we so immature to invade someone’s personal life and are so jobless to understand who is he speaking to and whom and be judgemental about it?

Why is a man speaking to women is considered as a stigma and a great sin even now in the neo-modern era? Why shouldn’t positive things like friendship co-operation, support come up instead of people calling that man a player or that women something worse?

First try to clean your own thinking lenses in the brain so that you can think without any fog of negativeness and short-sightedness, remember life is like a boomerang it will one day definitely hit back at you, so it is better you should plan whether you want a good one or a bad one to hit you.

What I feel we all should do when we get the craving to gossip about someone or talk rot about a relationship, try to rethink about it and first of all see if that adds any value to your life if you do that other than devilish pleasure.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.

Fear for nothing?

Hi Readers

Hope all of you are fine.

When was the last time you got scared and then took time to analyse why you got into that loop of fear and panic?

I am sure you would remember when you had felt frightened definitely you would not have taken time to analyse the reason behind it.

Let us discuss on this a bit today because in this era of people ending their lives for utter stupidity like some utterly obnoxious WhatsApp group called "blue whale" I feel where are driving our gen next? is this life or some social networking robot farm?

You know living itself is an activity and just to live have we realized someone is working from within to make you live, what do I mean by living? I mean it takes a lot of efforts just to be here now and able to read this passage because there are places in the world, even a moment away can just be death.

Talking about fear, do you think it is an illusion? if you are thinking so you are wrong even though Lau Tzu who is the father of Taoism in China said I quote: " There is no greater illusion in this world than fear!" I would not completely agree because it is no illusion as it is actually proved now as both a biological and psychological phenomenon of how your body and mind respond to certain stimuli.

Now the stimuli can a be a nightmare or a sudden blast of your car tyre, so as I told you getting scared, is not unnatural.

But what is not good for oneself is that to have a fear psychosis problem I see so many of my peers, friends, family and benefactors  getting scared for nothing, I recently came across a book called  “ The fear book" by Cheri Huber where the author mentions about fear used an escape tool by our own brain and has lead to laziness of millions and developing the inability to carry on the even the simplest of  daily tasks , I agree this is just a perspective but definitely  it is a food for thought and a perspective to think alternatively and not get scared without logical reasons.

I remember in one the episodes of the much famed tonight show  Bill Maher had said "half our lives are wasted in fear and the other half in repentance" I feel he is right.

You know fear works in both ways it sometimes turns out to be a good for example you scold a child who has a habit of biting nails so that he will quit that bad habit.

So now how can fear turn to be bad, imagine you were a very active person in life and suddenly due to some incident you are grounded and end up spending more time at home than going out like you used to always? say for some months.

But then after that phase, is over you would get the same leisure time you got before to go out and explore and do your business or whatever you intended to do,this is the  turning point,  some people take it in the right spirit and will do what has to be done and be their  own self.

A scientific perspective explaining fear psychosis.

But, unfortunately, there are people who end up in the loop of feeling scared for nothing and imagine reasons like: I have become old, there is lot time lapse and the outside environment has changed to what I have seen and what it is now!  but still there are some people who still go out but sometimes it may so happen that may be a small accident or an injury may occur which is purely coincidental and I feel in these times it is common, but that person considers it  as a big blow to his mind will end not stepping out again or will begrudge and postpone when there is an opportunity.

Our body is actually a complicated biomechanical machine which has the most advanced controls in the world and the controller is you and who are you ? its your soul which is living inside you till you breathe and it goes to another body after you stop breathing and your soul is limited to your body, so suppose that soul enters a dog's body it is limited to what a dog can do , if it enters a  human body that soul is  supposed to be in the most superior and intellectual body available in this world, so how is that fear has a place where there are no limits to what you can achieve in all the good ways.

So stop feeling skirmish within yourself and think about a goal and achieve it and never become a machine that doesn’t move or work always be on your toes and never work in a semi-switched on mode minus the will power. Let the will power beacon glow like never before so bright that the mal-function lights like fear and panic do not get a chance to glow.

Be brave until the end, just look around and look at the boarders I am sure you will get some motivation. Choose what you want you to become and you will be that I assure you, only thing matters is your focus. 

The beauty about fear is that when you run to it,  it runs away.

-Robin Sharma

Until next week bye.

Are you Mr Nosey?

Hello reader

Hope you are doing well.

When you look at something around, you get a stream of thoughts on your mind that according to learned scholars is your basic thinking model of how your brain looks at this world.

I Will give you a small example when you look at a poster on the street of some product you may perceive what is the good feature of the commodity displayed, your friend may like the price of the, this is a simple concept that we almost aware of, but do you know the way we perceive shows our thinking model and our attitude, let us discuss more on this.

From the time in our lives we start building our perceptions about this world and foster over our own meanings we unknowingly end up in learning how the society works, how processes work and that they call “meaningfulness”.

But all good things will have cons in this case what is that, well you know humans become over smart to such an extent that they finally cheat themselves.

A small instance, you see two people talking pointing at you and laughing there is  a chance you  jump into a conclusion that they are laughing at you, in worst cases you may end up rebuke them only to embarrassed they were laughing at a banner which was just in your line of sight.

Ego is good for humans actually because without this self-personality we would lack a character, if you read the above line again there are 3 words which are synonymous yup you are right I am talking about ego, self-personality and character which one and the same.

We call ourselves adults and sometimes behave in such a way that we are not fit to be called as one.

We snoop on almost everyone possible in this world and we forget that there something even called as “minding our own business”

Why does this happen? We all have inherited this quality from our ancestors the apes they used this technique to gather food, a senior in the family used to  shout when he locates a branch full of fruits or lush green foliage this activity is called as ‘echoing’ in evolution biology hearing this call all the other family used to jump to that particular branch of the tree or to the place and share that food.

If you have noticed in big offices where there is a cubical arrangement people suddenly take their eyes of their workstations when someone makes a weird noise or a loud laugh or a cry or you hear a rubble, this is your last remaining quality of the ape in you which is still not mutated and vanished from us like the tail of an primate.

It’s about time and I seriously say it is about time, we start minding our own business try to do something meaningful, I don’t expect anyone to do something good to society atleast be good to your family and friends and yourself, that would propel you to think atleast and if you put your thinking image in the mind of the guy next door there is a hope this society will improve.

We are judging people around us without even knowing them, when we end up in this mode first let us think do they mean anything to us in our lives and also what will we get if we just snoop or gossip on someone.

Are snoopers snooping on their own pains?  Probably.

-Martin Amis-famous British Novelist.

Think again.

Thanks for your time.