Blissful Life

Category: thoughts

  • What Does Being Alive Mean?

    We are alive. For, we breathe, we move, we do things that pebbles probably cannot.
    But what does it mean, “to live”?

    There ARE more than 6 billion people on earth. And we are only a few among them. It doesn’t make a difference whether we live or we die. Nobody cares to see what we do, what we don’t. And even if we don’t do something, nothing happens to the system. The sky doesn’t break apart and fall on your roof.
    Then, why should we live?

    This of course is the question that philosophers have been asking themselves and others for centuries. This of course is the question that makes many men in their harshest times, lie on the railway track waiting for the train, or tie one end of a rope on a ceiling fan and the other end around the neck?

    Why?

    There are many ways to answer this:

    One way is the path of spirituality. You don’t know why you live, you ask why and move, hopefully, towards the answer. These are most often propelled by spirituality gurus. They tell you that God is there, but you can find him, only through unflinching devotion. But betting on a God one whose very existence is doubted, is a risk that no sane human is gonna take. (That’s why we call a saint, insane)

    Another way is to accept the truth and just live. You know you are living. And though you don’t know why you are living, you know how to live, so, you live.
    And to live so, there are many ways. Some people live luxuriously. Some miserably. Some are happy, that they are living. Some wait for death. You just live the way you lived until this why-question came to your mind.

    Yet another way is to know that you are blessed to be living, and more, to be living as a human, and then, to use your life to the best, reach out for the maximum and make it huge.
    This is the kind of life that we should aim at.
    We are alive. There is only one life. Then why not make it huge???

    Socialize. Volunteer. Participate in whatever is going on around. Read everything. Learn anything new. Help every one. Love all. Play for fun. Laugh. Smile. Make others happy. Talk. Teach. Dream. Do big things. Change the world.

    And finally you’ve got the answer. Why are you alive?

  • Making the Best Out of Poverty

    There are a lot of poor in India. Instead of seeing them as liabilities, can’t we possibly convert them into potential reserves?

    How?

    This may seem a little bit absurd. But consider:

    Kids among the needy are kids like us.
    They are also born with the same intellectual capabilities as we are.
    They can learn things as fast as we do.

    Let us provide them with free education, under one condition, that when they grow up they will work for us. Free education of high quality may be costly.
    But, if we take that risk and sow those seeds. In the future we may end up with a bunch of highly talented and ready to work professionals. They can be put under jobs that require skill.

    To sum up, my idea is that the poor becomes a liability only when they are unskilled because unskilled labour is cheap, and difficult to obtain. But when they become skilled they are more valuable than assets. The only problem is that there is a slight risk.

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  • Know Your Value…………

    A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note.

    In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this Rupee 500 note?”

    Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one of you
    but first let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple the note up.
    He then asked, “Who still wants it?”

    Still the hands were up in the air.
    “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and
    started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all
    crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?”
    Still the hands went into the air.

    “My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
    No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not
    decrease in value. It was still worth Rupee 500/-.

    Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt
    by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as
    though we are worthless.
    But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose
    your value.

    You are special. Don’t ever forget it! Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.

    ” VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED”

    From the Orkut community Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s Fan Club (Thread:Know your value TS:Shabbir)

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  • Isn’t Recession Fear-in-Mind-Borne

    orkut – What is recession?
    from India (IC 370)
    by ♬ →JiMiT← ♬ © ∞
    This Story is about a man who once upon a time was selling Hot dogs by the roadside.
    He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers.
    He was hard of hearing, so he never listened to the radio.
    His eyes were weak, so he never watched television.
    But enthusiastically, he sold lots of hot dogs.
    He was smart enough to offer some attractive schemes to increase his sales.
    His sales and profit went up.
    He ordered more a more raw material and buns and use to sale more.
    He recruited few more supporting staff to serve more customers.
    He started offering home deliveries. Eventually he got himself a bigger and better stove.
    As his business was growing, the son, who had recently graduated from College, joined his father.

    Then something strange happened.
    The son asked, “Dad, aren’t you aware of the great recession that is coming our way?”
    The father replied, “No, but tell me about it.” The son said, “The international situation is terrible.
    The domestic situation is even worse. We should be prepared for the coming bad times.”
    The man thought that since his son had been to college, read the papers, listened to the radio and watched TV.
    He ought to know and his advice should not be taken lightly.
    So the next day onwards, the father cut down the his raw material order and buns, took down the colourful signboard,
    removed all the special schemes he was offering to the customers and was no longer as enthusiastic.
    He reduced his staff strength by giving layoffs.
    Very soon, fewer and fewer people bothered to stop at his hot dog stand.
    And his sales started coming down rapidly, same is the profit.
    The father said to his son, “Son, you were right”.
    “We are in the middle of a recession and crisis. I am glad you warned me ahead of time.”

    Moral of The Story: It’s all in your MIND! And we actually FUEL this recession much more than we think we do!!!!!!!!!! !!

    What can we take away from this story??

    1. How many times we confuse intelligence with good judgment?

    2. Choose your advisers carefully but use your own judgment

    3. A person or an organization will survive forever, if they have the 5 Cs

    * Character
    * Commitment
    * Conviction
    * Courtesy
    * Courage

    The tragedy today is that there are many walking encyclopedias that are living failures.
    The More practical and appropriate views on this economic recession is:
    “This is the time to reunite together for any small or a big organization,
    this is the time to motivate and retain people which are the biggest asset,
    this is the time to show more commitments to the customers,
    this is the time show values of our company to the world,
    and this is the time to stand by our Nation”.