Saturday, September 14, 2019
प्रिय सुरज सर
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
A new year resolution.
Confused? But yes, I have decided to take a pause every time before doing anything and just give a small thought to it. It is always said that the thoughtful actions are much prudent and this is certainly one of the reasons for the resolution. But beyond this obvious reason, I have two more intents behind the resolution.
What I have realized over the years is that there is a certain kind of normalization leading to boredom in our daily activities, routine etc. As a result of which many of us have just stopped thinking about what we are doing and our actions have become quite mechanical. This hampers the out of the box thinking and creativity. Taking a little pause and thinking vefore doing can help in this. For example, take a small pause even before a daily activity like reading the newspaper. Think, what you read yesterday, what you learned, how did u read it, can you do this reading more productive etc. And eureka! You will certainly find some new way, probably not every day and probably not something of the sort of some paradigm shift. But incrementally you will grow and enrich for sure.
The other intent behind the resolution is to break the continuous chain of activities in a day. So here my idea is to break this chain with little pause to think about our action, though casually. This break in between the actions will give some fresh air to our daily chores. This will help rebuild the lost interest in the things we are doing.
So one, doing things in a better manner and two rebuilding the interest in whatever we are doing are mainly two things I am looking for here.
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Length or breadth?
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Human Nature
Human nature, behavioural patterns really attract me a lot. In the today's world of homogeneity, nature and its reflection in behaviour is something which is really very distinct for everyone. In fact no two individuals can have same nature or behaviour. In very crude sense, we can say that nature is in built whereas behaviour is translation of nature in day to day life. Due to different nature, every individual behaves in different way in same situation.
Now what does it mean when someone comments like he or she is good natured. Are there any objective criteria for deciding good or bad nature or behaviour? In fact what is good for one may not be for others. It all depends upon the what is within the zone of tolerance. It means if some kind of behaviour is within one's zone of tolerance then he may find it good . Beyond that zone it becomes very irritating or bad for him.
Certainly, over the time period humans have arrived at some kind of consensus or at least some common denominator about what is good behaviour. It is solely for the purpose of convenience and running the society.
But still we find so many clashes, fights, hatred around us. One way to solve or at least minimize it is by widening our zones of tolerance. Obvious question is how to widen it ? The practice that I'm following for some days now is to just give a little thought to the roots of someone's behaviour. Just think, why he might be behaving in this manner or responding like this. Probably he might be good natured but just because of some situations, he might be behaving in particular manner. If we can dig little deeper like this, we will hardly get annoyed or angry on anyone. So the key is to go to roots of nature of a person than just judging him based upon the behaviour. I believe that this will help reduce the hatred and clashes amongst us as a society
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Be passionate.
This is well-established fact and many of our sages, heroes have always talked of the passion over the years. But unfortunately, the innovations- technological or otherwise- over the years and the human evolution have been exactly in a manner that kills the passion or at least shrink the space for passion.
Today we just scan on the net and not dig deep into anything. We just serf and not search deep down.Even during the travel, the tendency is just visiting as many places nearby as possible than having a stop and absorbing something within.
People are not interested in reading long articles. Twitter thrives on this very mentality of mankind today. We can't watch three-hour-long movies today neither the day-long cricket matches, leave alone the five-day test cricket matches.
This is not because we have become very busy. This is more because our attention span is lacking and degrading day by day. Just stop a while and give a thought, about how many things we know in depth, every nook and corner of it. And this is draining down our passion. We want to be into everything but ultimately we are into nothing.
If we are interested or care about something, then take a moment to understand and absorb it. Otherwise just leave it and don't get bothered about it.