Life - An Epiphany

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I hope all of you are doing well today.

All my readers who are reading my blog since 2014 know that I start my blogs either in this hope of well-being or asking the question of wellness, interestingly I have received many responses from all you that asking this is a lovely way to start a blog.

Thank you for echoing my views about well-being guys because my intention of asking these two questions is the hope of well-being and a sense of assurance that this world is still is filled with a lot of joy and happiness, and it has to be that way!

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Okay, so this one is about experiences and what we can learn from them.

When you talk about this word experience, nowadays it kicks thoughts of paying for experiences, the hotels, the resorts, the amusement parks and so on. But, here the point of discussion is about our daily life experiences which define us!

  All of us have gone through experiences  and are still going through and definitely will go through in future.

What is actually an experience? It is know-how which we all go through in different stages of your life, it starts with your first laugh, which is a magical experience to your parent, your first walk which is a great moment for both you and your caretakers.

The experiences follow without stopping and now when you are reading this blog, your mind is recalling the expertise which you had recently. According to perceptive psychology, the brain triggers thoughts on what you see or read as you read along that is how the doctors say, we learn!

Live through is the common synonym used for experience, it is a process which is never completed when you undergo something, and you have come out of it, the next page begins to evolve itself. Before you know, it labelled as a new perspicacity.

It is inevitable and not at all under our control of what all have we gone through in this small specks of hope, joy, sorrow, fear and confusion called life!

There is a thin line between life and bereavement, life gives enough chances before your thin line starts to crack. Do we take the opportunities and make this life meaningful or fall prey to both your mind and brain which play the games of joy, disappointment, ego, fear and expectations with you?

We all need to start reading books is what i feel, you will learn great things about life and I think books are the best source of knowledge I am pretty sure internet will reach there someday, but as of now it is books for sure.

We evolve each day, and it is a process the people around you will have their own expectations on you, but you move in your track and reach your destination, be a pioneer rather than an imitator.

 The most important part: The reactions which are part of our lives which is the response to the stimuli.

 I have had many ups and downs in my life I am frank and candid in agreeing on that, some repulsive ones and some not so ugly ones, my initial reactions to all those were just like any other, what the psychologists call the fight or flight response.

Fight response : Is when your brain thinks you are in a threat and dangerous situation, tries to make you feel secure and be defensive to the stimuli, this can be triggered by simple argument with your friend, colleague, family or some phenomenal event, once you win that argument your ego is enriched, and you feel superior.

Flight: Is Again when your brain thinks you are in grave danger and instructs you to run away from a situation without looking back and tries to pacify and also assure that what you have done is right, your body will be relaxed once you distance away from that situation.

I hope I did not off-track from the core discussion, but, I had to explain the above as this forms the basis of how we take experiences in life.

Suppose in an interview they ask you what is your experience you proudly answer, but do we know what that number means?

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 It is not just those years, you punched on a payroll, it is those precious hours of work cycles you spent by contributing, sharing your emotions, happiness and sadness with all those people whom you worked with without even knowing that you did that! And your experiences is the sum total of all this.

When there is a tremor, everything on the land shakes and falls apart, but they grow back to what they were if they have given been enough, this is the law of nature.

So be ready for your next experience, enjoy it and learn and move forward, live this life to the fullest.

Life will give you whatever experience is the most for the evolution of your consciousness.

-Eckhart Tolle -A spiritual teacher

Experiences try to teach you a lot and always make you better, but do you have the acumen to tap those strings and understand the music of life ? is what you need to figure out, wishing you all the very best in your adventure and also wish you to come out of the meaningless curtain of stress your brain  created.

Life is definitely is an epiphany all through, but when do you understand this is the question.

Thanks for your time.

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.

Money Plant - A Delusion or Reality?

Hello readers 

  

Hope you all are fine. 

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
– Warren Buffett

The millennium is moving on, and we have walked twenty years in time after the famous Y2K. So what has changed in your life since then?

Well the obvious answers are, we moved out of colleges chose our carriers, realised a lot! oh my God! A lot of things which we thought were so rosy are just clouds and clouds of delusion.

We lost a few friends, understood a few of them who tried to help us in that part of our passage.

Some more things which changed for us, back at home people changed their perceptions towards us.

Now from a pampered kid, to a college kid to a young man or women, people at home are expecting more from you than you imagined before.

Well, the ground reality, specifically on the expectation part, Miss Sudha Murthy says in one of her books: whatever you become in life at the end of the day, is a just like a happy chat with your loved ones sipping a glass of coffee! And share that joke. That’s so true.

There is something new in your life since you became a career employee, that is money! Let us discuss.

In this blog:

· Do you need a financial plan?

· Is there something called financial independence?

There is a premise for this blog, even though when we blog it is for the worldwide web, I feel this will be more relevant to a country like India, for the simple fact that I am not sure on the earning capacities and employment realities and earning capacity of other countries.

How many times have you felt in the last six months that you had to save money, or “oh I could have bought this if I had worked on my savings”?

Have you been thinking and sometimes whining about when can I buy things or help people without thinking the monetary aspect of it?

These are the questions which are flashed in a bonanza ad queue on your Tv sets smartphones ETC, by the investment tycoons who want you to invest in their funds and securities.

Financial literacy is the word which is creating snow storms in the minds of people these days.

When a person starts earning, he experiences a few basic reactions or emotions initially, that is happiness, excitement, motivation, and also disappointments.

But unfortunately, the awareness and the zeal or higher thinking towards earning and saving has diminished, it’s only earned and spent.

What is the right thing to do? Even though earn and spend is fun, and I too have enjoyed it but save should a branch of your money plant.

We undertake courses in management, lessons in commerce, industrial engineering the list are endless, did they teach you how to run your life, even though I can’t say ultimately no. Still, there is a point where a course can’t take you forward, it is you who should understand life where bookish knowledge ended and begin!

 Financial planning

Explore the markets of your country, look at what best works for you, do your own analysis, talk to people your peers, colleagues who are already saving, I am sure some smart people around you are looking for an opportunity to open up on this.

Brooding about not saving and just borrowing loans is an endless dead pool, the banking bulldozers are just waiting for you to push your credit risk to the edge.

Mindless spending of money has to become the trend of this generation which is not wise, and feel is not future proof it is like, you are aware the fuel in the car not enough to reach your destination still you don’t stop fill.

Becoming a materialistic individual owning things which you might not use is also a cause for your cash crunch.

 I have written atleast more than ten blogs about materialism,

 ·        https://harishmurthy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-power-of-money.html

·        https://harishmurthy.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-post.html

The above two were my initial  two blogs which kick-started my blogging journey, and still the materialism fire is put this world in limbo.

Financial independence

Of course, some people are financially independent, take Rakesh Jhunjhunwala he is the most brilliant fund planner and investor I have seen, Warren buffet is another one.

Did they do it in one day? No, but they did a day on day.

Whatever may be the situation in your life, saving should be in your top 3 priorities this is the prescription of the famous financial planners in the world.

The money plant is not a delusion, if you the Gardner of that plant takes good and calculated steps and cultivate it, you will get the fruits of your gardening skills in the form of returns to your investments.

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Walk in the direction where you see only a few people take that road because the other path which you see is what everyone else has made as they know where it leads to!

-Anonymous

Thanks a lot for your time today. Please share and comment, keep reading, keep rocking!

Helios