Important Dreams

This stuff is easy to forget. So I thought it's a good idea to summarize it, now that I have been jolted up.

This is a list of important dreams or fields I want to make a contribution in before I die:

1. Environment and sustainable energy

2. Education of underprivileged kids in India and Africa

3. Economic growth of India through the growth of manufacturing sector and emphasis on innovation.

Remember, dumbasss! Don't get all caught up in life and forget what is important!

The only way to achieve this is through personal vision and dedication. No degree can bring you closer or farther from these important dreams.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith's economic theory is collapsing in my head, or rather collapsing me. I feel like I suddenly want everything. Really everything...you name it and I want it. It seems there is a high price to pay when you are trying to get everything. Lets wait and see how things turn out.

Even more lessons

Life is interesting. Good time to build character and a general approach to life. I am facing real-life adult problems which is somehow awesome! I feel so grown-up, not just by the nature of the problems, but even my attitude and demeanor towards them.

1. White-water rafting trip revisited: Do not resist the flow. Dive right into it. Even if you fall, let go and have faith, there will be a rescue-boat down-stream. Have faith at all time no matter what.

2. Every life has a story to tell. This will be mine. Whichever way life turns from this point, there will be an amazing inspiring story at the end. Hold on and enjoy the ride.

3. There will be ups and downs in life. That is inevitable. Whatever be the case, drink 8 glasses of water and keep your muscle mass high. No single advice will serve you better. Do consume some fat as well in form of nuts and cheese, to look pretty while fighting. Appearances do matter. A battle is no place to look sloppy.

Solar Energy Thoughts

Life is like a big puzzle. Energy puzzle. When someone tells you that they have hidden something, the first thing which comes to mind is to look under the stuff which is visible. Thus, the fact that man first found his energy source under the earth is not very surprising. As the puzzle gets tougher, you realise that things are not what they seem to be and a perfect way to hide something is to make it so visible that its hidden to the unsuspecting eye. That is what I think of Solar Energy.

There's the sun and the sand. An idea and an infinite source just waiting to be tapped. There are physical limitations but as has been proven before, physics has never been able to curtail a man's desire. We don't change our wishes to fit into our science, we change our science to accomodate our wishes. We don't play by the rules. We make the rules along the way. What would you like to play by this time?

June 21st 2009

Glass Jar

First there was me.
Then there was you.

Then there were we.

First you left me.

Then I left you.

Then there was an earthquake in Chile.

The length of the day is 1.26 ms shorter.

That makes it more days per lifetime that we have to stay apart.

There we are on the fabric of space time.

Utterly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

- March 25, 2010

Tidbits!

1. Tidbits maketh a man.

2. You only truly understand that which you tame. You only truly control that which you can destroy.

3. Education is some people's penance and some people's liberty. - Palak 6/7/09 11:35 pm

4. Life is not in substances, it's in the spaces in between.

5. "Go do something weird, but not too weird!" - Lanny Schmidt, in the Common Room

6. In life, beware of 2 type of people: "People who try to look good by making others look bad! and Second, people who try to scare you into a conclusion" - Eray, 19th Nov.

7.  In the end, we are just humans and humans will we be. We will cry at small losses and laugh at smaller gains. With time we will learn to push our sorrows to the bottom of our heart and put on those smiles back on our faces and gain the strength to "Walk the streets!" :)

8.  Our jobs are nothing but our faiths. We are not out there trying out whether our minds sell, or our hearts sell, or our schemes sell or our ideas sell. We are out there to find out if our faiths sell. In some ways we are all like the clergy of our own faiths. 

9. Control your emotions and think about the repurcations of your actions. Learn to say NO!!

10. Never take a decision based on extremes of emotions: too much love or too much hatred.

11. Nobody ever harmed you. To fully take control of your life, you have to realise that you and only you are responsible for your actions. Never blame anyone. Then you will be free.

12. "Is this nature?  Is that our perception of nature? Or is it only wht we can know about nature?"

       - BJ Lee, Jan 02'09

13. "If not now, then when?" - 26th June 2009

Esteem

I remember reading somewhere that the worst day of a man's life is when he tries to get money without earning it. I think there is day worse than that. It's when he tries to base his self-worth up on other people's opinions.

When the penny is up in the air

I hate to put other people's work on my blog. But this one needs to be there just for reference sake. It is one of my favorite poems. A poem that is often visited in times of need. It's called "A Psychological Tip" by Piet Hein.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,

and you're hampered by not having any,

the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,

is simply by spinning a penny.

No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair

while you're passively standing there moping;

but the moment the penny is up in the air,

you suddenly know what you're hoping.

Though what I am wondering at this point is: which one is better: (a) knowing exactly what you want, but at the same time also knowing that you'll never get it, or (b) not knowing what you want, except that it is not whatever you have right now or are likely to get soon. Oh damn, the choices and the heart that just can't pick one!