"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Friday, August 13, 2010
Sunday, August 08, 2010
happiness
the happiness that you feel is the only barometer of life. Success is overrated. If you don't feel happy, take a U turn to the crossroad and if you must-start again on a new journey with your personal happiness the only fundamental and objective of life.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Fresh from my thought factory!
Why do things happen they way they do?
i guess i survived, yet again! No one has, no one will overpower the winds of destiny. What happened in your life was supposed to happen. It's a part of your life story. Your story is yours and it compares to none else.
One of the quotes I love is 'Only dead fish flow with the flow.' I like to believe that man creates his own destiny and life. The last few months have taught me that well, not quite. Man has a limited mandate. Our control, as far as I see is limited to two things:
Thoughts
Actions
Thoughts are things, so my card says. Whatever decisions we take, are right. Think about it. Have you ever taken a decision which intends to cause you pain, sadness, displeasure- deliberately? NO. You don't. We want our decisions to give us happiness, pleasure, fun, excitement and take our lives to a higher level. The decisions we take are right at the point they are taken. So, as far as sanity is concerned, ALL DECISIONS ARE RIGHT. Only lunatics take decisions that cause pain. We have a certain level of knowledge and experience and with that we take decisions that are intended to uplift our lives.
However, sometimes, they don't. Bizarre things happen and your decisions turn out to be wrong. Did you intend it at the time you made that decision? Of course not. Hindsight is always right. With what you learnt as a results of consequences, you will feel that it should have been obvious to you! Forgive yourself. If you could have, you would have.
We don't control results and consequences completely. We have limited control over them to the extent of directing our thoughts and actions with the power of our will! What happens is what is supposed to happen. HISTORY IS THE VICTOR'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED. Don't believe everything you hear.
Lets tickle the grey cells. Why did Helen Keller lose her eyesight and hearing at 19 months? Why was Nick Vujicic born without limbs? What did Nelson Mandela do to deserve to spend over 27 years in prison? Why did Lance Armstrong contract cancer in his 20s? Why do innocent people lose their lives in terrorist attacks? Why are people born to destitute poverty and helplessness? Some of these people like the ones I have quoted emerge and succeed. Many don't.
Things happen. There are so many questions which have no answers.
Sometimes you will do your best and fail. Sometimes, someone you loved a lot will leave you without reasons and explanation. Sometimes, bad things do happen to good people. As Steve job says, sometimes, life will hit you with a brick- without explanation! Yes, it's not fair. Whatever!
What's the worst that will happen? You will keep fighting till the last breath in your lungs. You will die. It's better than giving up without a fight. We fight since we are not willing to acknowledge defeat. NO. Give up or fight like hell (lance Armstrong)
The world moves on, without you. No one is indispensable here. You are relevant as long as you can prove it. The world will leave you for dead if you don't keep reminding it that you exist. The world has evolved and lives on the Darwinian Principle namely- LET THE STRONGEST LIVE AND THE WEAKEST DIE.
I am sure the greatest inspiration of my life- Helen Keller- understood this.
Do your work. Never give up. The purpose of life is purposeful motion. To do the best we can and keep improving our best with what we learn. Let results and consequences take care of themselves since they will, anyways.
Amar
i guess i survived, yet again! No one has, no one will overpower the winds of destiny. What happened in your life was supposed to happen. It's a part of your life story. Your story is yours and it compares to none else.
One of the quotes I love is 'Only dead fish flow with the flow.' I like to believe that man creates his own destiny and life. The last few months have taught me that well, not quite. Man has a limited mandate. Our control, as far as I see is limited to two things:
Thoughts
Actions
Thoughts are things, so my card says. Whatever decisions we take, are right. Think about it. Have you ever taken a decision which intends to cause you pain, sadness, displeasure- deliberately? NO. You don't. We want our decisions to give us happiness, pleasure, fun, excitement and take our lives to a higher level. The decisions we take are right at the point they are taken. So, as far as sanity is concerned, ALL DECISIONS ARE RIGHT. Only lunatics take decisions that cause pain. We have a certain level of knowledge and experience and with that we take decisions that are intended to uplift our lives.
However, sometimes, they don't. Bizarre things happen and your decisions turn out to be wrong. Did you intend it at the time you made that decision? Of course not. Hindsight is always right. With what you learnt as a results of consequences, you will feel that it should have been obvious to you! Forgive yourself. If you could have, you would have.
We don't control results and consequences completely. We have limited control over them to the extent of directing our thoughts and actions with the power of our will! What happens is what is supposed to happen. HISTORY IS THE VICTOR'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED. Don't believe everything you hear.
Lets tickle the grey cells. Why did Helen Keller lose her eyesight and hearing at 19 months? Why was Nick Vujicic born without limbs? What did Nelson Mandela do to deserve to spend over 27 years in prison? Why did Lance Armstrong contract cancer in his 20s? Why do innocent people lose their lives in terrorist attacks? Why are people born to destitute poverty and helplessness? Some of these people like the ones I have quoted emerge and succeed. Many don't.
Things happen. There are so many questions which have no answers.
Sometimes you will do your best and fail. Sometimes, someone you loved a lot will leave you without reasons and explanation. Sometimes, bad things do happen to good people. As Steve job says, sometimes, life will hit you with a brick- without explanation! Yes, it's not fair. Whatever!
What's the worst that will happen? You will keep fighting till the last breath in your lungs. You will die. It's better than giving up without a fight. We fight since we are not willing to acknowledge defeat. NO. Give up or fight like hell (lance Armstrong)
The world moves on, without you. No one is indispensable here. You are relevant as long as you can prove it. The world will leave you for dead if you don't keep reminding it that you exist. The world has evolved and lives on the Darwinian Principle namely- LET THE STRONGEST LIVE AND THE WEAKEST DIE.
I am sure the greatest inspiration of my life- Helen Keller- understood this.
Do your work. Never give up. The purpose of life is purposeful motion. To do the best we can and keep improving our best with what we learn. Let results and consequences take care of themselves since they will, anyways.
Amar
Saturday, July 24, 2010
totd
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Forgive yourself! Let's restart life all over again from step one....
I am too hard on myself. It's tough for me sometimes to forgive my own mistakes. When things go wrong like they did 6 months back, I tend to look back and berate myself! Why did I do that? Why did I take that decision? Why did I not accept the google offer in 2005? Why did I go for MBA? Why did I not try in advertising after graduation? Hell, why did I not study advertising in graduation to start with, there were no tests then...everyone was after Bcom and economics?! Why did I not apply to advertising companies from the campus, just because they said that the salaries will be low?!!!!
now, the answer to all these questions is....
I was a different person then. I was not wise enough to know what I know now. I know all this because of the mistakes that I made and the pain that I have gone through and going through! I was a different person yesterday. And.....if I could have done better, I would have done better, i have, after all, always wanted happiness for myself and my people....
So, I forgive myself. This was all predetermined, part of my destiny, my growing process if I am supposed to survive. If I am not supposed to survive, I will not.
So, I forgive myself. I can say with 100% confidence that I have always tried to be the best I can be. And I promise this for future as well.
Let's hit again, as hard as possible, leaving the results to destiny. . Let's restart life!
now, the answer to all these questions is....
I was a different person then. I was not wise enough to know what I know now. I know all this because of the mistakes that I made and the pain that I have gone through and going through! I was a different person yesterday. And.....if I could have done better, I would have done better, i have, after all, always wanted happiness for myself and my people....
So, I forgive myself. This was all predetermined, part of my destiny, my growing process if I am supposed to survive. If I am not supposed to survive, I will not.
So, I forgive myself. I can say with 100% confidence that I have always tried to be the best I can be. And I promise this for future as well.
Let's hit again, as hard as possible, leaving the results to destiny. . Let's restart life!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
thoughts to live by
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodre Roosevelt!
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” wow!- John W Gardner
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodre Roosevelt!
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” wow!- John W Gardner
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”
Thoughts I live by!
We will find a way or make one-----Hannibal
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” Aristotle
Okay, I have failed to find a way in 6 months. Let's try making one now.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” Aristotle
Okay, I have failed to find a way in 6 months. Let's try making one now.
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