So many thoughts ramble through my mind but when it comes to putting it down in words I fail miserably. Inspite of it I try my best to express myself. Blog is a wonderful avenue to express one’s thoughts, views and the incoherent ramblings of one’s mind. Does one have to write for an audience? How does it matter whether anyone reads this blog or not! I write because it helps me understand my own thoughts, as I read it again and again.
Some of my friends whom I tried to rope in for contributing to this blog hesitate to do so, perhaps because they feel their thoughts are too insignificant to be expressed or they fear ridicule or do not wish to reveal their innermost thoughts. Some of them might also consider it to be a waste of time, a foolish affair not worth their while. Whatever be the reason, I urge, nay plead them to set aside their reservations and come forward to share their thoughts. I am sure all the contributors will agree it is a wonderful and exhilarating experience.
Some of my younger friends have talked about their lack of proficiency in writing in their posts, but have had the gumption to go ahead and put across their thoughts. I sincerely appreciate and thank them from the deepest recess of my heart for acceding to my request. I expect more from them, maybe it will encourage others to come forward and contribute to this blog.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Living Life on the Edge!!!!
Dear Pals,
At the outset, let me first express my gratitude to Gopal Sir for creating blog forum for softlinkers. It really helps us to share our thoughts & explore our ideas. Though writing a blog enables us to think out of the box, most of the times we don’t devote our quality time for some constructive work & keep on agitating ourselves with other things.
That reminds me about one incidence, a few weeks back, on my birthday; I was talking to my maternal grandfather, who is running 95. After our nice conversation I questioned myself that will I be as healthy & satisfied as grandpa at my older age. In last week there was an article in TOI about average lifespan of Indians. The life was totally different at our ancestor’s era, where they were lucky to breathe under fresh air, fully satisfied with their basic amenities with no further expectations in life. Where day by day our mundane has become chaotic, scrambling for toehold on trains, snaking one’s way through traffic snarls, increasing stress levels at work, and all apart from this our ambitions to strive success & excellence has hassled our span. But is it erratic to have expectations? Especially our young generation is striving to benchmark accomplishments in the prevailing competitive scenario.
During my management lessons, I had learned about Maslow’s hierarchical need theory which defines about Human needs. It is often depicted as a pyramid consisting of five levels: the lowest level is associated with physiological needs, while the uppermost level is associated with self esteem & self-actualization needs, particularly those related to identity and purpose. Today our young generation is in striving to accomplish self esteem, which includes establishing individual identity by achieving desired standards & aiming for high in life. Due to augment in earning ability (especially thanks to IT Industry for their healthy packages, we have been inclined towards high criterions. For e.g. Today’s era have become technological savvy, indeed buying costly cell phone with latest trends, allure in purchasing branded items or spend money in costly restaurant etc. These all above mentioned things has changed our lifestyle also we chase to become more successful in life.
Despite of all availability of leisure I still find life more stressful & complex. But I have read somewhere that, unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. So don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distorting your mind.
On concluding this note, I would want all my friends to come forward to express your thoughts, put your thinking caps & share your views. Till then stay blessed, keep smiling & keep blogging!!!!!!!
Prachi Deshpande
At the outset, let me first express my gratitude to Gopal Sir for creating blog forum for softlinkers. It really helps us to share our thoughts & explore our ideas. Though writing a blog enables us to think out of the box, most of the times we don’t devote our quality time for some constructive work & keep on agitating ourselves with other things.
That reminds me about one incidence, a few weeks back, on my birthday; I was talking to my maternal grandfather, who is running 95. After our nice conversation I questioned myself that will I be as healthy & satisfied as grandpa at my older age. In last week there was an article in TOI about average lifespan of Indians. The life was totally different at our ancestor’s era, where they were lucky to breathe under fresh air, fully satisfied with their basic amenities with no further expectations in life. Where day by day our mundane has become chaotic, scrambling for toehold on trains, snaking one’s way through traffic snarls, increasing stress levels at work, and all apart from this our ambitions to strive success & excellence has hassled our span. But is it erratic to have expectations? Especially our young generation is striving to benchmark accomplishments in the prevailing competitive scenario.
During my management lessons, I had learned about Maslow’s hierarchical need theory which defines about Human needs. It is often depicted as a pyramid consisting of five levels: the lowest level is associated with physiological needs, while the uppermost level is associated with self esteem & self-actualization needs, particularly those related to identity and purpose. Today our young generation is in striving to accomplish self esteem, which includes establishing individual identity by achieving desired standards & aiming for high in life. Due to augment in earning ability (especially thanks to IT Industry for their healthy packages, we have been inclined towards high criterions. For e.g. Today’s era have become technological savvy, indeed buying costly cell phone with latest trends, allure in purchasing branded items or spend money in costly restaurant etc. These all above mentioned things has changed our lifestyle also we chase to become more successful in life.
Despite of all availability of leisure I still find life more stressful & complex. But I have read somewhere that, unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. So don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distorting your mind.
On concluding this note, I would want all my friends to come forward to express your thoughts, put your thinking caps & share your views. Till then stay blessed, keep smiling & keep blogging!!!!!!!
Prachi Deshpande
Monday, November 16, 2009
Life in Moment
Hello everybody,
Today, here I am going to write something for the first time in life using such way, so obviously there must be some misteks, I apologize for that, just ignore it and read the feelings.
Still I am confused. What’s to write? And I don’t know what I am going to write, whether you’ll like it or not.
Everybody wrote their thoughts about life, about their own life or about others life, so it seems good theme to write about. So finally I decided to write about life.
What is life? There so many definitions about life, but I think “life is the moment which we are living at Present”. There are so many moments in our life like happy moments, sad moments, exciting moments and some serious moments. But most of the people lives most part of their life in serious moments, seriousness is in everything, whatever they do, and no time to share happy moment, actually no time to live, what I think why to be too serious; because too much seriousness is ugly face of life. And life is beautiful, happy and exciting…..
People are afraid about living freely or not being serious because other will think they are disrespectful about their life, but I think if you do not remain joyful or not celebrating life, you are disrespecting life. We have one life and it’s this one whether you believe in reincarnation or not. So live it to the fullest. Only we (Human being) have the special gift that we are able to choose happiness. Have you seen any animal, bird or other creature being serious, they are’nt be serious because they live in the Moment.
Now you all will ponder that the serious person is talking about not being serious, but I think I enjoyed and am enjoying my life in my own way, as Jitin sir written in his post about actual enjoyment and I really liked it, may be because I had same time…
Thanks for reading this post; Thanks again to all readers, I hope I had not wasted your precious moments. .
Sopan Magar
Today, here I am going to write something for the first time in life using such way, so obviously there must be some misteks, I apologize for that, just ignore it and read the feelings.
Still I am confused. What’s to write? And I don’t know what I am going to write, whether you’ll like it or not.
Everybody wrote their thoughts about life, about their own life or about others life, so it seems good theme to write about. So finally I decided to write about life.
What is life? There so many definitions about life, but I think “life is the moment which we are living at Present”. There are so many moments in our life like happy moments, sad moments, exciting moments and some serious moments. But most of the people lives most part of their life in serious moments, seriousness is in everything, whatever they do, and no time to share happy moment, actually no time to live, what I think why to be too serious; because too much seriousness is ugly face of life. And life is beautiful, happy and exciting…..
People are afraid about living freely or not being serious because other will think they are disrespectful about their life, but I think if you do not remain joyful or not celebrating life, you are disrespecting life. We have one life and it’s this one whether you believe in reincarnation or not. So live it to the fullest. Only we (Human being) have the special gift that we are able to choose happiness. Have you seen any animal, bird or other creature being serious, they are’nt be serious because they live in the Moment.
Now you all will ponder that the serious person is talking about not being serious, but I think I enjoyed and am enjoying my life in my own way, as Jitin sir written in his post about actual enjoyment and I really liked it, may be because I had same time…
Thanks for reading this post; Thanks again to all readers, I hope I had not wasted your precious moments. .
Sopan Magar
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Masters of our destiny
How many people have a set goal in their life? I mean there are people who just go through life, mechanically like automatons, not knowing its purpose and without any set goals. And then there are people who have certain goal in their life; be it Wealth, Health, Fame, Temporal Knowledge or Wisdom (Knowledge of the Self). It is for each to decide what it is that they seek in life.
Mahatma Gandhi says - find the purpose, the means will follow. Each of us have immense potential in us what is required is the conviction, will power and persistence to bring it forth. If we sincerely believe in ourselves we can achieve anything in life. Instead we see that people either lack self belief, considering themselves worthless or alternatively have a bloated self worth, believing themselves to be superior to others. A good character is the foundation of a great life. Apart from self belief It is essential we cultivate noble qualities such as humility, truthfulness and temperance and avoid negative qualities such as greed, jealousy, anger, arrogance and prurience. Any success that results in arrogance and makes one look down on others is absolutely not worth achieving.
The only obstacle in achieving our goals is our mind. Negative thoughts cloud our mind making us lose our sense of discrimination leading to delusion. It is up to each to chart the course of their lives. We can either accept defeat and lament our fate, or tread fearlessly on our chosen path regardless of the outcome. We are blind to the opportunities that life offers because of our own delusions, and tend to shift blame on circumstances for not being able to make best of it. The choice is entirely ours. We are the masters of our destiny.
If we stop finding excuses for every missed opportunity and instead turn each setback or challenge in life into a stepping stone for achieving our goal, we’ll soon be galloping merrily on the highway to success.
Finally I would like to quote Swami Vivekananda: “Each Soul is Potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these - and be free. This is whole of Religion.”
Mahatma Gandhi says - find the purpose, the means will follow. Each of us have immense potential in us what is required is the conviction, will power and persistence to bring it forth. If we sincerely believe in ourselves we can achieve anything in life. Instead we see that people either lack self belief, considering themselves worthless or alternatively have a bloated self worth, believing themselves to be superior to others. A good character is the foundation of a great life. Apart from self belief It is essential we cultivate noble qualities such as humility, truthfulness and temperance and avoid negative qualities such as greed, jealousy, anger, arrogance and prurience. Any success that results in arrogance and makes one look down on others is absolutely not worth achieving.
The only obstacle in achieving our goals is our mind. Negative thoughts cloud our mind making us lose our sense of discrimination leading to delusion. It is up to each to chart the course of their lives. We can either accept defeat and lament our fate, or tread fearlessly on our chosen path regardless of the outcome. We are blind to the opportunities that life offers because of our own delusions, and tend to shift blame on circumstances for not being able to make best of it. The choice is entirely ours. We are the masters of our destiny.
If we stop finding excuses for every missed opportunity and instead turn each setback or challenge in life into a stepping stone for achieving our goal, we’ll soon be galloping merrily on the highway to success.
Finally I would like to quote Swami Vivekananda: “Each Soul is Potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these - and be free. This is whole of Religion.”
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