Education, means or end...

 

So many times I am surprised by the reaction of the educated lot in my social circle and so many times I get disgusted with the same...

In our society and so many others which I have read about, education has now comes to be an end to earn more... yes, I too believe that education is essential to good earning but I seriously don't believe in the fact that it is an end... I believe that education is a means to achieve so many more things in life (of-course, the earnings is just a small part...)

Education in our society is so much concentrated on the earnings aspect that the basic essentials are forgotten easily... No matter people earn these higher degrees to show that they are more educated than the few others, but they don't show the attitude or mental state of a more educated person... So much so that it has forced me to go back and ask myself that is is the same kind of education I would allow myself, my family members or my next generation to go through...

But alas, world is not governed by what is right or wrong (infarct, as the saying goes there is no right or wrong), but what is public perception... If this remains to be the course which our society or the others take in future, the human civilization would come to a standstill in terms of understanding, mental growth and will only grow in population...

After all the eternal question of what is life? still remains answers and we have billions of years to go before we find an answer...

मैं अपनी मात्रू भाषा में लिखना फिर से सीख रह हूँ ...

सालों पहले मैंने हिंदी में लिखना पड़ना छोड़ दिया था! पर अब गूगल की मदद से मैं फिर से सीख रहा हूँ...
Isn't this amazing??

Remembering Someone Special...

Not easy to forget...

Human Mind is a complex system, more compex than any supercomputer man ever designed. And this will remain so, for all the ages to come. Among many of its qualities, which scientists, doctors, may or may not know about is the uncanny ability to remember each and every nitty-gritty details of the past but also weave them in the dreams to make a new dream which is as close to reality as we are to it.

It does hurt when someone special, someone close and someone dear leaves you for a journey far beyond. But what hurts more is the fact that you dont knwo whether you will be able to catch up with that special person when youstart your journey...

I was always a special kid, loved by my parents, grandparents and so many others... Now, parents are always special, but grandparents are more so (this is truly vice-versa). The love from my grandparents to me, infact it still does... hardly has there been a day when I don't remember those old sweet times and those old sweet memories. I have never been able to forget those wonderful wonderful times and still long for them.

I have no answer to the perennial quetion of life and death, but what makes it harder is the fact that Life and Death does do loved ones apart...

I hope in the coming life or journey beyond life or death I would be able to meet these special persons and show my gratitude for the love they showered on me all my life.

I have always been an athiest (atleast from the tiime I remember) but for their sake and mine and the love between us I do hope God does exist and he is taking care of them now and will do that forever...

Let their souls find peace...

Of old friends and Old times...

It is indeed surprising how time flies off... it only seemed yesterday when we were all together, innocent in a way, unholding thougts, fighting over trivial things, going through unserious stuff seriously and the list goes on and on...

Now that we have come a long way, it is pleasantly amazing how my mind can recollect all those things and re-live the past... What is more surprising is that we have been distanced not only in time but also in locations and yet we connect at the same level, at the same plane even now.

I consider myself (and of-course my dear friends) to be lucky to still have friends like these. I have seen friendships disintegrate fatser with distance than any titanic, but ours have stood beyond time and I hope it does for another age to come...

This blog is in sincere dedication to all my friends...

Decisions

Decision making is always the bone of contention for lot of folks; it definitely is for me...
When we start to look at the number of decisions which we make in our day to day life it really outnumbers everything else. The irony of this is that we dont have time enough to actually stop and ponder on each of these decisions. The essential character of a person, for the most part, is synonymous with decision making, however very few people give decisions/calls the credence they deserve.

It is when we get up, what we wear, where we go and so on and so forth kind of decisions which define our day, week, month, year and essentially our life. Although the number of decisions which we take is daunting most of the decisions are etched in our understanding because of long training, understanding and that is why we dont notice them. I would classify these decisions as easy ones, with no importance attached.

Then there are those which we take rarely, like whom should I invite to the party?, wher eshould we go for the year end vacation?, etc. etc. These are decisions which we take on a regular basis, give some importance to and thus I classify them as medium difficult.

Then there the toughest ones which we brood over for long and are still unsure of what to do... These are the ones which decide what course our life takes and it is really difficult to comprehend.

We usually shy away from taking big, difficult decisions; but this only adds up to the problem and does not solve anything. Moreover, as much as we delay our difficult decisions we actually end up in not making decisions and leaving things to circumstances/destiny/God/life whatever you want to call it. In effect, we lose control over our own life. (This is what I hate most)


I usually break down the toughest decision into the small parts and only look at things which are in my control. It doesnt make sense to me that we spend our good time over things which are beyond our control, so i just try to evaluate and take decisions on stuff which is still under my control. The good or bad aspect of this is (depending on the view point) that the things under my control for any given decision changes with time.

Faislon se likhi jaati hai kahani zindagi ki, faislon se peeche mat bhago...