Amar's Top 10 Wisdom Picks!

This morning, I thought of choosing 10 thoughts to live by. I have done a lot of reading and some thinking by myself as well by now. I have read thoughts and ruminations of some of the best minds of the world and been through personal learning experiences. Here are my top 10 thoughts to live by:-

1. That I am alive today is a gift, a minimum reason to smile.
2. Whatever happens, happens for good. The dots will somehow connect in the future. Believe in yourself.
3. Never bow your head, always hold it high, look the world in the eye.
4. Only dead fish flow with the flow
5. A ship is safe at the harbor but that's not what ships are built for. The purpose of life is purposeful motion.
6. Do what you love. Your dreams are your real job.
7. The mirror question: If today were my last day on earth, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
8. Reading is to mind what running is to body. Never miss either.
9. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
10. Failure is giving up. Never give up. Never never never give up.


**subject to revision

Do something!

Do what you love
Do what you can
No matter what you do
Always be doing something!
Try this Try that
Keep what works
Discard what does not
Do something.

When you are in bed, you are dead! The only consequence is what you do! If you must, fail a billion times. The only failure is in giving up.

Rules of Destiny!

You see, I am one of those guys who, in general, would hate admitting that my life is being determined not by my actions but by something else. But over the last few months, I have had to think about destiny a lot.

What percentage of my life is determined by destiny? The answer is almost 100% since the beginning of 2010. You know!!!! 100%. I have done everything possible within my power to find a job that challenges my spirit. Now, I am an extremely hard working guy, talented, energetic, educated. Zero Results.

Now, why is a question in a fair world. What determined the fate of my two seniors and extremely fine gentlemen Malayesh and Gaurav? Why did they have to die the way they did? Any answers? You see, there is a power at work and we don't understand it. Everything happens for a good reason? ya? Try giving me a reason for this.

okay, I have mistakes in life. I have. But nothing convinces me that they amount to the results I have now. It's excruciating! why?! why did the project fail? Why did I have to work with a cunt like Kenneth? why did i lose that disgusting job?

For that matter, why did I make the mistakes that I did? By the way, why am I alive right now?!!! I can't say for sure that I deserve it! Why do people who loved me when I was doing well have disappeared now? I mean, why do things happen the way they do?

The pictures of Malayesh and Gaurav will always remind me that:

1. There are things about this world that we will never be able to explain. Destiny determines it. There are things which we cannot control. It isn't a fair world.

2. I am still alive and this day that I have got is another opportunity to make something of my life and give something to the world before something hits me fatally! No matter how hard it gets, I must keep going and never never never, never give up.

I hope the two of them are safe and in peace wherever they have gone. By the way, where have they gone? Why are these questions not answered?

i will stop myself here.

staying alive! if i die tonight....

here, for anybody who cares!

in the last few months, after having finished my book, I guess the only thing that's kept me going is that I am alive and my persistent, compulsive optimism that staying alive is a gift!

It's not been a lot of fun being alive though but I guess this shall pass. A lot has passed and I survived. This shall pass too. Let's see. If something were to happen to stop my journey, it's okay too.

I have seen a lot of beautiful things about life already. Some moments were worth the whole life :), like

Falling in love
Scoring a first class in undergrad
holding her hand, the first kiss
Being the best performer at work many times over
getting an MBA from a top B school after 5 years of struggle
Organizing events, leadership forum, winning the name ball :)
Traveling to Singapore, Dubai and Batam Indonesia, some beautiful places in India
Every time I got to address an audience
Getting to share my poems and dedicating them to many faculty at campus
Writing my first book and having it read by many people who liked something or the other
Sitting on a rickshaw to riding a bicycle to school to riding my bike, driving my car
Making friends and spending time with them
Dating
Surviving adversity, over and over
Almost 3 decades with my parents
Teaching public speaking
Blogging
Reading great literature
My small library
Running and feeling the rush in my body
Rising up in the morning and feeling the grass
Being a rebel many times over
Being a proud atheist and apostle of selfish happiness
Just being myself in my own way!

It's been a good life, even if I die tonight! thanks the almighty powers for allowing me the wonderful days. I have been a nice guy if not a great guy, a man I respect and admire, someone who dares to stand for what he believes in.

I have had my faults and fallibility's. I have never been perfect and made many mistakes. But I never deliberately did anything to bring pain to another human being.

I have been faithful in love and did everything I could to be loving and caring. I have not been the best son and brother, perhaps.

If I die tonight, I will die a proud man. But the world would have lost someone very valuable who could make tremendous positive difference to it. ha ha

this was fun! and i meant it the whole of it :)