You might have heard a thousand times that “you can be anything that you really put your mind into”. This is a cliché usage in motivation talks world over. If you have read the book “the secret” and pondered further to how people relate to what is written in the book to elements in quantum physics you will start believing a lot of that. As … Continue reading The 1% Factor
When do we say we are human or being human? May be it is tough to answer that in one sentence. But if you were to ask when are we being inhuman? people will give answers citing recent examples. That is the tragedy of our world. It is ironic that we remember examples of inhumanity than humanity in a world over populated by humans. The … Continue reading Chinese girl run over and people watch; world angered!
Our multifarious life is filled with tears, laughter, warnings, loss and gain. The beauty is that it gives us many second chances to correct, change and live. The tragedy is we don’t always realize and recognize these second times. If we live today as it is our second chance; we will see it through a new set of eyes 🙂 Continue reading The Multifarious Life
In turmoil everyone scrambles for a space of their own, to be themselves, to survive. Reacting different to life we try to escape, protect; snatch & even beg. Sales of self help books sky rocket; messiahs & healers emerge overnight & many start believing that there exists a magic wand somewhere, a spell, a secret that will remove miseries & bring normalcy. But the truth … Continue reading Turmoil Proof
Life moves at a natural pace when born. Then someone decides you are not fast enough and they set a new speed for you. You either give up or move on. You start believing that your speed is your control. You move faster, set new limits, overtake others; you dash through the world like a winner. Somewhere you slow down to look around and you … Continue reading Setting Life’s Pace
Are problems of the world the child of its own solutions? When we solve problems as citizens of a nation or belonging to a race, religion or gender will the solutions be problems in itself? Problems never cause conflict but their proposed or implemented solutions do. Climate, population, war, economy, social injustice all invariably effect us adversely in varied degrees, yet our solutions are not … Continue reading Problems as children of their own solutions
Some build their relationships on mistrust while some do it on pure trust. The former build their life with control systems and check points to not fall prey and name it being cautious. The latter believes that people are inherently trust worthy and there are times when they are wrong and bite the loss. Both have their sides of the argument but the question is … Continue reading Trust and Mistrust
Though I would love to believe it is thin, I think it is more like a vast space where each and every one of us falls in at various instances in life. There are things, situations and people we love and there are those that we love to hate, but in between there are also a lot many items to which we are quite indifferent. … Continue reading Between Love and Hate there is a thin line of indifference
You can be anything you want starting now, your past or your present will come together if you acknowledge both and are ready to learn from them to be what you want to be. I have over the past 100 days daily looked at one aspect of life in order to celebrate count down to my fortieth Birthday. I think these 100 days have been … Continue reading It is a new Beginning
What are our duties as individuals? How do we recognize our responsibilities without them being enforced? People growing up in different parts of the world and under different cultures grow up to look at world differently. Even though now there is much more evenness in the generic idea of an individual’s responsibility, society’s function differently giving its people varied levels of freedom and restrictions to … Continue reading Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it!
Vinod Narayan 