EYES - The Mirror of our Personality

Hello Folks,

Sorry for the dreaded delay, but was really caught up last weekend. Been a good week, this, light on work and even lighter on my probabilities of finding new problems for my own self.

With my tiny experience, I always think as which sense of organ forms and builds our personality, our Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, Touch and end up with the answer as EYES. We often never believe what we hear, do not care much about smell and touch till it is not disturbing and the bone less Tongue is rather the output than the contributor. Eyes is what forms us and is responsible for the Good, Bad and Ugly of our Personality.

 There are no Hard Bounded Rules stating the Rights and the Wrongs, the Do's and Don't, yet we are always stuck in the moral dilemma of always doing the RIGHT thing. With things of preference, we let the very RIGHT parameters give a damn about us but when we are judged we prefer to always do the RIGHT thing.

The comments we make, the judgments we pass, the opinions we provide give a deep insight of how our EYES are and what have you seen to pass the opinion. Each opinion passed by us gives a pretty good picture of our Personality to others. By conserving opinions for self, it actually mirrors our own self and shows the scary motion picture of our standing and the way forward.

The Brain is a tow edged sword, if used by you can reap you the greatest rewards, but you let the brain idle to work by itself, it is a cruel master. To actually elaborate I give you two examples of our current week
The Death of Sathya Sai Baba and the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate.

Before reading any further, form an opinion on these two situations.............


As soon as Sathya Sai Baba left for the heavenly abode the long forgotten Questionnaire of him being a real GOD or an IMPOSTOR was pulled out. Staunch supporters fought for the Godly status, whereas Atheists and other Scientifically Advanced Mortals uploaded videos of tricks performed in the name of God and rationalizing everything he did physically etc. But, whether a God or a Magician, he did noble work of channelizing funding to build Infrastructure for his country, his Village, his people and brought many wavering people to a streamline called LIFE. Though magic was not required but then Chamatkar ko hi Namaskar hota hai (roughly Only Magic is Revered in India). Could a politician or any follower or any Scientifically Advanced Mortal or an Atheist could bring the growth of Puttaparthi the way he did......NO, so even if he wasn't a GOD, he was SPECIAL.

The other one the So much publicized wedding of the Royal Prince William. Shopping of wedding clothes to honeymoon, to invitees and non invitees, people faking invitation !!!! GOSH !!!! so much for a ceremony which is conducted on mass bases in our country ?? After creating Interest will come the disappointment of how someone did not dress appropriate to the occasion, the Fashion Police dissecting each and every aspect of the mere clothing of the Royal Couple, Family and the Distinguished Guests. Imagine people with an annual salary which is half the cost of the particular outfit worn by a particular person criticizing it in the GODLY name of FASHION......Seriously if you do not like it turn your face or gift something better. Even today, as I was going through my Facebook feeds, I saw status updates saying When will the Stupid Marriage end ?? Do not like the dress of Kate, Jewelry worn by someone as if they care about these comments of people living in a rented house with a job and a fear of it going out to competition and recession. And, for the ending of the Marriage as the Buckingham Palace is leased  by these people to the Royals..

We depict our Culture when we offer an opinion and hence we should eye it to mirror how it will be received and tattered like we are tattering somebody by our opinion.

The age old saying "What you Sow, so Shall you Reap" still holds the best.

A bit of Retrospection on the previous blog Success,  received very positively and was also asked, why did I not elaborate it more and kept it the way it was. I am very humbled by the opinion of going a bit further more but did not want to dilute the core message that being Successful is like being Satisfied and analyzing the growth on purely parameters set by the Individual and not the Worldly Luxuries and Media Hounding. Monetary Benefits, Luxuries, etc are like ancillary  articles to Excellence. Money and Show is Temporary, Class and Goodwill is Permanent. Britishers after losing half the globe owned by them still Possess and Display a Class even in the time of Economic Crisis.

Hoped the work EYES enticed you and please give me your opinions as they are really valuable to me.

Stay Healthy, Stay Wise :)

Till the next work.....
KS

SUCCESS - The Most Subjective Object

Hello Folks,

 I have been very lucky to receive a great and a highly encouraging response to my writing, but like Nothing is Perfect......so isn't the Writing. I more than heartily thank also the semi good responses but I am most humbled by the CAN DO MUCH BETTER responses, as people really see me doing better than what I did.....its INSPIRING !!!!!

The noteworthy responses in the last category are that it shouldn't be like an editorial, the writing is a bit stressed and the language is a bit heavy and cliched !! The only answer is Work In Progress !!!!!!

SUCCESS - this word holds the highest significance in all our lives. Everything we do is finally targeted in Achieving Success. It is the TEST of our lives and needs a lot of effort, struggle, sacrifice, strain...but after all is it worth ???

Yes, any individual will answer in affirmation and when asked indicators of the Achievement will list down Money and all that can be bought by Money....basically everything MONETARY. Is it the MONEY or SUCCESS ???

Success is a very very Subjective term affiliated in the most Objective manner with Monetary Benefits. It definitely isn't Objective. The rat race and the competition is to Achieve Monetary Benefits and never Success.

There is actually no Competition to Achieve Success as Success is very Intrinsic and Personal and no one competes you to achieve it. You can be really good at what you do, earn a decent living, but Intrinsically, be very Successful. It isn't an armband to be worn around as a tag to mark.

It has very often made me wonder, things we use of Great Ideas, Engineering, Food we Eat, Branded clothes and goods we use, would never have come up had all the Individuals in the whole world would yearn for SUCCESS - THE OBJECT.

This is my humble attempt to change the fast spreading notion that only to be Rich and Wealthy is being Successful. Undue and unnecessary pressure is put on the younger generations to join the specified streams well defined by the notions and psychology of parents and near and dear ones, without letting the prodigies to realise the Talent Within. We are preventing the future Tendulkars, Zuckerbergs, Ambanis to make it Real Big and be contained with the very OBJECTIVE SUCCESS.

Its been otherwise a helluva of a week, from torrid audit season to liberally used colorfully language verbal duels, from few shocks to lots of support, but tonight has been proved the Jinx with Tendulkar's Century to the HILT to end on a Heartbroken Crescendo... The Master must surely not be feeling so good about his century with the horrible loss....But as in Cricket, so as in Life....its Intrinsic what matters rather than the whole Exterior World watching you......तेंडल्या आता हा Jinx तोडाचे आणि शतक मारुण जिंकायचे !!!! (roughly translated into Break the Jinx and Win with a Century)

Eagerly awaiting responses and also A Very Happy VISHU and BAISAKHI !!!!

Cheers

KS :)

United by World Cup, Hazare, yet Divided by IPL

Hello Folks,

A bit early but was getting a bit itchy to write and also have so many reasons to. First of all, thanks for the responses to the start I made, really felt a good need to continue to write.

I got a lot of questions as to what made me write a blog ?? what will it be about ?? and why am I writing it ?? (being no celebrity, it is really difficult to answer these questions), but the simple reason is OUTPOUR !!!

And, to a thought out explanation, my situation is like that of VVS Laxman, coming out to bat with 3 days to survive with all stalwarts back in the hut.....know what I am doing but the whole future concept not concretely thought off.....

To continue from where I left, our country justified the sense of Adaptability I could see oozing out of us and our fellow countrymen.

In a span of less than just a good week three images are doing the rounds of all Media Coverage and our minds.

 

Two pictures, show the unity, yet the third picture paints the thoughts of diversity, though quite a healthy rivalry and also the biggest sporting phenomenon after the SUPERBOWL and EPL in club sports.

This indicates the complexities of us, our identity and our character. We as a nation accept things on its pure face value and start living with everything we have, we aspire to have, we don't have and also things which we never are going to have. This complexities are like a complete alter ego in ourself, which flairs up on occasions when the tide is against us.

We come together and yet also hold on to our own petty grudges after ages and ages of education on the very insignificant basis of caste, creed, color, race (to add a new one migration). We pride on education and litreacy but with such irrationality we are still uneducated and proving the laughing ghost of Winston Churchill right that we are not fit to be Independent.

We still need a 72 year old man to fight for our causes with people elected by us and we pride on youth empowerment. Its not the Government, not the Nation and certainly not any other external factor that requires CHANGE more than WE do INDIVIDUALLY. Always easy to find faults in friends, family, associates and all others but when it comes to self WE pass 100 on 100 on Self Evaluation.

Try writing a paragraph on things you as a person need to change and then any other person who you feels needs a change, it will show tremendous results.

Well KUDOS to Mr. Hazare to bring out the real value of ideas advocated by Mahatma Gandhi rather than just putting up his pictures, statues and winning votes for him being a EX CONGRESSMAN. I feel personally very happy that he will eat now.

On a much lighter note, the first packet of the 2 months Circus lived upto the expectation of us viewers, Raavi blasting on the Microphones and players performing as in a well organised and practiced performance to generate enough hype, tension, excitement and a mystery suspense to the end. SRK, dude you cannot WIN everywhere by tears....sometimes they are Genuine and for a Lost cause too.......

A sincere thanks to Mr. Modi, wherever he is watching his baby being Foster Parented by the Self Proclaimed Honest Individuals handling BCCI and IPL, who donot know the first law of INDEPENDENCE when dealing in ventures with Self Vested Interests........but yea very Powerful and Manupilative. Await your turn, till more powerful people enter the forray.

Enough for the nite as the Weekend is dedicated to Ernst & Young (oops S R Batliboi) damn LLP Act Implementation !!

Please offer some contradictory views to have a Constructive Dialogue :p 

ADIOS !! God Bless !!

KS 

Baby Steps into the World of Writing......

Writing has always made me feel its the best form of expression. Without any sense of backlash....a serene way of expressing, saying stuff, appealing, analysing, contemplating, recording. It has always amazed me, but I knew one day I will have a tryst with Writing. I am a simple guy, studying, dreaming and trying to carve a niche for myself in these wide world, where everyone is common yet everyone individually extremely SPECIAL. The only catch is REALISATION.

Being my first, it is short and a bit naive, but with time and sharpening it will improve, atleast that is what I trust and rest is FAITH.

I basked in the national glory of becoming No. 1 a couple of days ago with arguably the whole of India, when MSD hit that every going never returning ball outside the airy fairy Wankhede at Marine Drive to spur to the top spot in a whiplash. But, my heart goes out to two people highly responsible for the ultimate culmination of the goal of 2011, and who were amongst the fanfare but for different purpose. One, the coach of the current Kiwi Team JOHN WRIGHT and the other our own Debut Commentator DADA (Sourav Ganguly)...they were equally deserving to glory but were not destined.

They were Special Commoners but missed the chance in 2003 and that was it. India in a way is he bunch of most adaptable people. In a span of three days the mirth of the winning is replaced by the grit of Mr. Hazare who is single handedly rallying the people of this country to fight a cancer called CORRUPTION.

These are two brilliant examples, of how a completely diverse country like India is united by Causes and Glory.

Hail to these new awakening India and the self belief will always be the torch bearer.

Off for now......Next Blog coming up very soon....

Cheers and Regards

KS