The title was quoted by Hon. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Azad. I think thats very true. The very fact that success gets its meaning is from difficulties. The fact that light can earns its meaning is by the absence of darkness. But most of the times we engulf ourselves so much in difficulty that we fail to notice success. I guess its each individual's perspective. Man's basic nature is to correct others and make them think and act like him - because he thinks he is right! I read this book called "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus". I found it very interesting and still keep applying a few things now and then when I come across situations. Man's basic instinct to find solutions to everything, Women's need for a compassionate listener - I think these form the building blocks of any marriage. If they can understand the simple fact that Men are Men and Women are Women and not try to change each other, things would be much better. More often than not, husband finds fault in wife and vice versa and tries to correct each other's behavior. I once learned that no matter what you can change in a person - you cannot change their intrinsic behavior/character. But inspite of all this, we still try to convince/pressurize/force people to change their intrinsic behavior and become something else. Why??? Why can't you just let people be what they are? (this line I learned from my friend's comments on my blog). In spite of people advising me to read books like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - one of the seven or (how many I forget ) liners was "Don't Condemn, Complain or Criticize" - Is this truly possible? Knowingly or unknowingly we all keep doing this day in day out - some even make it their full time work! So why blame others that they don't learn and implement anything after reading? Fact is person cannot live without those 3 C's I mentioned. Its what level you go to in doing those that differentiates individuals. So my title has not much to do with what I am writing. My friend send me this quote this morning and just felt like using it in my blog.
The other day I was mentioning to one of my friends how we argue on simple issues like wasting water, electricity, food, etc. Although I do think we shouldn't be wasting all these since they are not available in abundance - knowing for a fact that how many rich people in this world are wasting these in large amounts gets me to think - is it worth arguing at home or wherever and create bitter moments? As long as each individual realizes the value of it, I don't think there should be any more discussions on these topics. Because no matter what we save, what we don't - someone somewhere is wasting 10 times more than what we are saving.
So my new philosophy in Life - " Enjoy Optimally while it lasts " - Pretty general but I apply it to natural resources and optimum applies to what I consider optimum. I guess my up bringing will not allow me to waste food and other resources which were hard to come by back then.
Anyways.. thats it for now!
Take care,
SanDeep!
1 comment:
Well put. It's amazing how when you put your wandering and sometimes wavering thoughts into a piece of paper (e-paper in this case), it helps you to get a perspective on it, and a good one at that. While I generally agree with most of what is written, I do have a problem with (mis)using lessons from books/experience/mythology from one genre to the other. For example, what works in one culture will not in the other. Closer to home, what works in one family will not work with your neighbors'. It's debatable, but makes sense to me.
All said and done, it's a sensible and a necessary post. Well done!
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