3. Sight.

Do I think that the Scams going around the country aren’t affecting me directly or indirectly? If yes, I better RE-THINK.

Do I think that I can do nothing about the scams and corruption? If yes, I better RE-THINK.

The system is corrupt because I encourage it. The officials demands because they are confident that I am unaware or partly aware of the regulations and hence instead of falling into the complexities, I will better find an escape route. The escape route gives an instant benefit but surely is a long-term loss.

I, being a human am supposed to be a foresighted being then why do I live with such shortsightedness?

What should me my sole purpose that will work and create wonders?

Well, the purpose is not to bash the existing administration. The purpose is not to crib about the system. The purpose is to have an Ideology about a nation, which is my first home; an Ideology that aligns with the development of the nation; an ideology where I can understand and implement my roles and responsibilities towards the nation, society as much as I do understand and implement the same in my house and with my family.

There is no political manifesto; nor there is any intent of forming a political party and fight against the counterpart.

If I as an individual comprehend and contribute my bit, that will be more than enough.

2. Corrupt.

The entire nation is yelling the slogans pertaining to the transformation. There is an immense hue and cry about the political scenario of the country. All the individuals I come across are seeking change. Every resident of the peninsula wants the largest democracy of the world to be modified.
While I am one of those 1.26 billion resident individuals, I would like to check on the ground reality might as well.
When I say, I want the transformation to happen, I believe that it should initiate from the inner self. The imminent enquiry is what needs to be initiated from the inner self and the immediate trigger is what I want to be modified.
What is it that I am tired of? What is it that I want to change? What is it that I envision in a modified nation?
The one-word that can be encapsulated in all the replies is Corruption.
In philosophical, theological and moral stand-points, Corruption can be ideally defined as a spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities viz. Bribery, Embezzlement and there are many other relevant terminologies.
What is an Ideal? The rules and regulations written in the constitution of an institution, be it national, regional, organizational, social or in a family.
If I deviate from any of the rule, I very well fit in the definition of corrupt, obviously for that particular instance.
I am driving on a road. I jump a single. Cop catches me. I offer bribe. I am corrupt. I don’t offer a bribe. He asks me to bribe him. He is corrupt. In turn, I ask him to explain me rules. He complicates me. I give up. I offer a bribe. I am corrupt.
I go for buying a new house. The owner asks for part payment in cash and rest in cheque. He is corrupt. I abide to his rules. I am corrupt.
I make accounts in my business. I segregate black and white. I am corrupt. I am not an expert to do so hence I hire someone for the same. He agrees to help me. He is corrupt.
I decide not to be corrupt. I start living in the non-corrupt mode. Some instance occurs and I seem to be having no other option but to be corrupt for that instance and again come back to non-corrupt mode. I am still corrupt.
I take the satisfaction saying that most of the times I am non-corrupt. It’s like me going to buy a pair of trousers where the vendor says that the entire trouser is wonderful but it has a tiny hole which is not repairable. However the trouser is almost impeccable. Of course, I am gonna buy it, right?
Well, coming back to corruption. I think that if I alone be non-corrupt then what difference is it going to make when the whole country is corrupt. If I don’t offer bribe, my survival will be at stake. I will be left behind in this race where everyone will go ahead of me by virtue of their settings and I like a moron will keep looking at them.
By the way, why the heck then I want the nation to be modified? Just because there is a bunch of people who get an opportunity to do limitless corruption and I am not supposed to do the same? Just that they are allowed to pierce many holes in the pair of trousers and I get a chance to pierce one or two?
However, If I whole-heartedly want a corruption-free environment and I think that I alone cannot do anything about it, I fail to ponder on a couple of things here. If I refrain to offer bribe, the takers of the bribe will gradually diminish. The power of “I” is something that “I” need to implement. All that is needed is each individual realizes the power of “I”.
Once I implement the change within, I can be a reason to inspire and instigate several others around me and the real transformation will fire through the spark generated within.
PS: Heartfelt apologies from the bottom of my mind, heart and soul if I have hurt anyone’s individual or group sentiments, which was never intended.

1. Lakeer.

Dilip says -

 Zindagi chahe hi ho chhoti mud ke dekhne le liye, Paani ki laqeer bhi (mere) dil par ankit ho gayee hai....

Suchit replies -

Hum lo likhte hai paani me khichi lakeer ki tarah,
zindagi bahot choti hai mud k dekhne ke liye

Super duper reply, dude :-)

5. Survive.

While getting down at the destination station, I notice that most of the passengers are in a hurry to get down while very few are super calm and glued to their seats until the gangway is clear enough to walk.

Well, at the end of the day, both ("most" and "few") survive.

4. Life is Beautiful.

Life is Beautiful
Adapted from a recent seminar

“Same” is the word so much so very attached with my so called leisurely urban life that each day of my life is attached to a more or less mundane living. I wake up at the same time, use the same paste to brush my teeth, same workouts, same soap, same shampoo, have the same beverage on the breakfast table, same people around, same newspaper with similar category of what they call “fresh” news, same mode of commute, same office, same colleagues, same workstation, same activities, same lunch time, same things on my plate except for a couple of variations and so many same things to such an extent that most of the times I meet same people in public transport and ultimately, same Life overall with no purpose other than just thinking about accumulating more and more wealth (Ironically, wealth is synonymous to money in the standard norms designed and defined by a set of people of which I am a subset)

It is said that not only the life and life-style but also the thoughts cropping out of mind are more or less the same. They say that 96% of the 60000 thoughts crossing the mind each day are the same. Thinking on a positive note, I feel a bit relieved that having said everything is more or less the same in life, I yet get 2400 new thoughts every day and if I can use few of those, I can strive to create a difference.

What makes me live the same life every day? Is it by choice or is it a mandate? If it’s a mandate, does that mean that in reality I want to be different but the circumstances are not allowing me to be so. Well, do all the people who want to be different become one only because all the circumstances were favorable to them?

What do I do if I am stuck somewhere and I feel that there is a no way out? Isn’t it true that in past there were many such occurrences where I must have been stuck and since I am alive and alright today, it certainly proves that I have come out of it some way or the other. That means that whenever I feel in present that there is a no way out, it actually means that the way out may not be visible today but it is just on its way. Hence, there is always a way but it is on the way until it comes along in front of me.

Such an attitude boosts my confidence level and I start striving for the unknown. The mind starts focusing on those 4% of the thoughts and the best example question is – “Don’t I usually auto-suggest when I am heavily stuck that Let me think on some different lines?” This is a more than enough trigger for mind to start working on the stuff that seems impossible at this point in time but taking it up as a practical challenge helps me get through it. Hence, challenging my situation will create an immense scope of doing something which I have always felt it practically difficult to achieve.

Well, not always there are difficult times. If I scan my life, it’s a mix of easy and difficult phases but if I drill further and ask myself, what is it that makes it easy or difficult. For instance, if I set a target of running 100 meters (yes, 100 meters) a day, while setting the target I am very well aware that it’s achievable and I start visualizing the destination. Let me add to more zeroes at the end to my target. What will happen? OMG, I cannot even visualize that how am I going to run 10 freaking kilometers. Well, the simple equation is easier (in the current belief of my capacity) the target, easier the life and smoother the process. However, this results in nothing but a same life each day with same target, same purpose and as a result everything same around me and if I want to come out of the “same” and try different, I need to set targets much higher than my current reach of my visualization and anticipation. Hence, if I set a target that I think can be achieved with not much challenges, I need to re-think on, re-work on and re-define my target if I want to create a difference in my “same” life that I more or less always “crib” about.

Cribbing has become so much a part of life that even in favorable situation, I don’t miss finding some fault or mismatch in it. Let me think of any situation in life and then analyze that how I did I react to it. I am certain to find faults in it. I don’t want to quote any example but am sure that in all the examples, small or big, the mind is so much acclimatized to fault finding that it doesn’t leave any chance to crib in the best of the situations.

What actually is the need of the time is to see happiness in relatively smaller things in life. For instance, if I love to walk and I don’t feel that I find enough time for it, I rather than giving up on walking can find some minutes to take a few little steps and stroll around my apartment and cherish the feeling. Once I start feeling happy about those steps taken, I will strive to discover more time and feel happy about it. Although the sense of achievement may come after a long while, I can always be happy about the milestones that I pass through.

While I penned down the first word in this write-up, I wasn’t quite sure that in less than 30 minutes I could reach word number 984 but since I chose to enjoy each second of writing, I now feel a sense of achievement too. Hence, while I saw happiness in a very small start, I feel successful in something significant that has happened. I coin it as significant because I attempted to come out of my clichéd Sunday afternoon and do something that could get me out of my comfort zone.

Net-Net, striving towards being different and setting higher and much higher goals makes the destination look extremely difficult but the happiness in the process of achieving it while going from one step to the next makes the entire journey happy and a feeling of success occurs at the time when the sense of a “big” and a “different” achievement comes into the play.

When I dwell around the success in small or insignificant looking things which I have always felt are within my reach results in a feeling that – “well, it was not that difficult to achieve and hence neither I enjoyed the journey and nor am I cherishing the destination; I am feeling the same”.

How do I go about the unrealistic looking targets then?

Well, first I need to set one. I need to think about something that is, at this point in time, seemingly far-fetched. The immediate and nearly obvious thought that may crop up is – “How am I going to do this? What if I am stuck at the first step? Will I find a way out?”

There is a way for everything; many a times it may be on the way.

The above statement is bound to generate a spark and develop a solution focusing attitude.

There are usually two ways to look at a challenge. Either believe that there is no solution and adapt to the current situation or look forward to a solution and strive to achieve the same. The latter is the attitude that focuses on the solution.

While it is necessary to have such an approach at the start of working on the solution, it is equally essential to possess an attitude of being happy and spirited throughout the journey.

Seeing and Experiencing Happiness in small things and Success in big ones is the way to go. What this means is Success is made of so many milestones and to enjoy each and every step towards it makes the journey worth an experience. All the small things eventually lead towards a big one and that’s where the Success is relished.

Life is beautiful, simply just beautiful…

3. Game.

Although Electronic based games don't fascinate me,  I try my fingers sometime especially on easy games that are meant for sheer entertainment and not to eat up the brain.

However, in level based games after crossing a couple of levels,  it starts raising the bar of involving brains and reduces the frequency of the desired entertainment.

While I was attempting one of such difficult (as per my amateur state) levels, I reached at a point and got stuck. Attempted again,  bettered my self but yet wasn't able to reach the destination.

This happened several times. Sometimes I bettered my reach while at some instances, I worsened it.

One thing I noticed is each time the device gave me an option of "Play Again" and I would play.

After numerous such chances,  I chose to come out of the game and as I was moving out,  it flashed "Do you really want to give up?"

Well well well,  that was the Eureka moment.

Life gives me so many PlayAgains... just that the flash is not physically evident but each attempt of failure creates a new opportunity and very much like in a game where as soon as I click on Play Again the situation gets recreated, in life too more or less similar situations gets recreated and after one, couple of, few, umpteen attempts it's always a deal between "Play Again" or "Do I really want to give up?"

Saying "No" to "Do you really want to give up? " flashing on the device got ne back to the screen flashing "Play Again".

Clicked, Crossed and Completed Level X :-)

2. Hand and Smile.

While taking the skywalk this morning, i saw a teenager boy taking his bicycle upstairs. He seemed to be enjoying it but there was an evidence of a bit of a struggle. I did nothing but slightly lifted the seat from the backside and asked him to focus on the handle.

We would have hardly taken 10 stairs together and as I left the seat and was overtaking him, he said a big thank you with a huge smile.

Although he was not that needy but it made me really happy mainly cost the smile on his face was vasool (vasool is an exaggerated form of worth it)....

Made my day... thanQ young boy.