Choices. What is it about making one? Why is life always up with choices? Why is it that when we have we are confused and when we don't we crave for them? Irony of living it is. Why can't life just give us one plain choice and make a straight easy way through it?
Well, only if life were so easy. It stands as a challenge for us by giving us a plethora of choices, when we do not need even a few. And gives us none when we crave for them. And most strikingly, when we are just trying to figure out a way through making the right choice we fail to realize that the best one just passed by and we missed it. And by the time we actually grasp ourselves back to this realization, we tend to ignore the ones remaining and lament at the one which we missed. Alas! real blasphemy it turns out in the end.
But still we have winners amongst us. And its not that the winners made the right choice. They converted the choices that they had into the right ones for them in the long run. That's how life is. Not about making the right choice but to survive with what we have and make the best out of it.
The option in front of us shouldn't decide what is best for us. It should be us who should convert the selected option as the best one. Mastering that art decides the winner.
Only if one learnt not to care much and be happy with what one had there wouldn't have been all this confusion but then what is that life which is not bothered with challenges and hurdles to strive further and further. What is that life which doesn't teach us to learn to fail and fail till we succeed.
Finally, in an urge to succeed, we chose to live and live with choices. What we learn eventually in the process of living is to be the writer of our fate and not let fate be the decider of our way of leading life. Life sets itself up in a way that tames us to mould it for our good, the ones who get tamed and carve the best artifacts out of it, end up taming life.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Indian women and sports
Okay, the title at the first glimpse might give you the impression of a truly feminist article coming up. Well, I wouldn't really defend in that case. But yes 100% assertion to this notion is also not there. I chanced upon writing an article on this subject after having read an article on the same lines by a writer of the opposite sex. You won't call him a feminist right? So, spare me also from the same honor.
However getting back to the point, why at all sports and why relate it to the gender presumed to be the weaker of the two sexes? Well here I would disagree with my own statement. Weaker? Why would that status be accorded to? Well maybe so, when comparison is done with men. But the discussion is not about comparing men with women. Its about Indian Sportswomen and their contemporaries outside.
Well, when we see the laurels and ranks achieved by our female sports fraternity, who would not strike a pride of honor. We have PT Usha missing an Olympic Bronze by a fraction of a second, Anju Bobby Geroge being the first Indian Athlete to win a medal in World Championships in Athletics. Saina Nehwal, having acquired the World No 2 ranking, Mary Kom, 5-time World's Boxing Championship. What more do you need?
This indeed shows that Indian women have the potential for grabbing more and adding more to the hall of fame of Indian Sports. Despite being born in a country known to have always outcast or neglected the apparently "weaker sex", we have names from this sex which would always be remembered not just by those aware in sports' trivia, but by all Indians.
Even within a state, I have witnessed my fellow friend who was state no 1 in Lawn tennis and then she went on to be India No 2. The same couldn't be said for the boys who played Lawn tennis in our state. So this in itself shows that once proper attention is shown to this section of the sports fraternity we can count more laurels for our nation.
Why stay behind, just by thinking it's after all women's sports? When we have women's football team at world no 53 and men's at world no 154, we can have many more such comparisons. But this isn't really a time to compare which sex is better, or which one has contributed more to the world of sports. Its more about exploiting the best out of the current situation, grooming the best talent, make the best possible efforts to let every girl try every sport she wants to. Because she has it in herself. Its just the spark which she needs. And believe me as a girl, when it comes to feminism, proving our worth is all that matters.
However getting back to the point, why at all sports and why relate it to the gender presumed to be the weaker of the two sexes? Well here I would disagree with my own statement. Weaker? Why would that status be accorded to? Well maybe so, when comparison is done with men. But the discussion is not about comparing men with women. Its about Indian Sportswomen and their contemporaries outside.
Well, when we see the laurels and ranks achieved by our female sports fraternity, who would not strike a pride of honor. We have PT Usha missing an Olympic Bronze by a fraction of a second, Anju Bobby Geroge being the first Indian Athlete to win a medal in World Championships in Athletics. Saina Nehwal, having acquired the World No 2 ranking, Mary Kom, 5-time World's Boxing Championship. What more do you need?
This indeed shows that Indian women have the potential for grabbing more and adding more to the hall of fame of Indian Sports. Despite being born in a country known to have always outcast or neglected the apparently "weaker sex", we have names from this sex which would always be remembered not just by those aware in sports' trivia, but by all Indians.
Even within a state, I have witnessed my fellow friend who was state no 1 in Lawn tennis and then she went on to be India No 2. The same couldn't be said for the boys who played Lawn tennis in our state. So this in itself shows that once proper attention is shown to this section of the sports fraternity we can count more laurels for our nation.
Why stay behind, just by thinking it's after all women's sports? When we have women's football team at world no 53 and men's at world no 154, we can have many more such comparisons. But this isn't really a time to compare which sex is better, or which one has contributed more to the world of sports. Its more about exploiting the best out of the current situation, grooming the best talent, make the best possible efforts to let every girl try every sport she wants to. Because she has it in herself. Its just the spark which she needs. And believe me as a girl, when it comes to feminism, proving our worth is all that matters.
Oh! What an unpleasant surprise
How does uncertainty play a role in making people happy? Or for that matter why do people love being surprised? The mere realization of having or being treated with something beyond imagination or expectation is no doubt a magical feeling. But what if things turn up exactly contrary?
This is when you are wanting a surprise to come up, to cheer yourself up, to enliven your mood. But alas it never happens. You keep waiting for that moment to happen till the last hope isn't swallowed within. Why is it so?
Then is when you wish surprises never existed! You start blaming the fate or the time or the circumstances which bluffed you at the last moment. And then you start wondering why did you even want the surprise to happen. Why was it a surprise at the first place? It was an inner desire for something which you badly wanted to happen but at the same time you wanted it to be overruled with an element of uncertainty. You knew chances of it happening were very low but still you wanted it to happen out of sheer avidity. Its a game in which heart takes over and lets you feel more than expected. This is when you want to leave it to the other end and want things coming up your stride as desired by you, from the other end, but oh! not as planned mate. You want it to come, marvel you, so that you are taken by awe. But alas it turns out opposite in the end.
This is how time and fate play with our emotions. This is how situations are crafted to hurt and make people realize their folly. This is how surprises turn unpleasant.
This is when you are wanting a surprise to come up, to cheer yourself up, to enliven your mood. But alas it never happens. You keep waiting for that moment to happen till the last hope isn't swallowed within. Why is it so?
Then is when you wish surprises never existed! You start blaming the fate or the time or the circumstances which bluffed you at the last moment. And then you start wondering why did you even want the surprise to happen. Why was it a surprise at the first place? It was an inner desire for something which you badly wanted to happen but at the same time you wanted it to be overruled with an element of uncertainty. You knew chances of it happening were very low but still you wanted it to happen out of sheer avidity. Its a game in which heart takes over and lets you feel more than expected. This is when you want to leave it to the other end and want things coming up your stride as desired by you, from the other end, but oh! not as planned mate. You want it to come, marvel you, so that you are taken by awe. But alas it turns out opposite in the end.
This is how time and fate play with our emotions. This is how situations are crafted to hurt and make people realize their folly. This is how surprises turn unpleasant.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Why MBA?
Under the magnetic effect of peer pressure, we see a lot of youth chasing the rat race of pursuing an MBA. Never realizing in depth why do they want to go for it. Now when I myself am entrusted with the job of doing the ground work of a "Why MBA" question for my interviews, I go back to wonder why am i doing an MBA at the first place. Am i also one of those nebulous worshipers of the world of fame and money that is promised with an MBA degree?
This leaves me to ponder on what is my aim for my life. What is driving me to be focused in this field and driving my pursuit for an MBA? and just when i delve deeper I come across all the other options which I have for myself. And then i suddenly start feeling lucky. Yes, that I have the freedom to go for a profession which I want to and not which I am compelled to.
And just when I was reconsidering my thoughts, I see a traffic policeman and a couple of students studying subjects related to forensic science. On one side I see a student who has taken up a very unconventional choice of profession in the field of forensics and on the other hand the traffic personnel is one who has to mess around with the traffic of a city like Bangalore just for his and his family's survival.
And its not just a traffic policeman. Everyday we come across in-numerous set of people who are slogging their lives out only to alleviate the pain of hunger and poverty.What is it that stops them from pursuing their dreams. Is it only we, the lucky ones who have the right to dream and chase them?
That is what we fail to realize. Without any figurative thought in place, without any passion, we like running the race without even knowing what and why are we doing so? Sheer dismay you can call it? That is where it stands justified to make "Why MBA" one of the integral questions to decide selection to the elite institutes of our country. So that one knows what is the passion behind pursuing a profession, because its only the lucky lot who can afford to have a passion for their profession.
This leaves me to ponder on what is my aim for my life. What is driving me to be focused in this field and driving my pursuit for an MBA? and just when i delve deeper I come across all the other options which I have for myself. And then i suddenly start feeling lucky. Yes, that I have the freedom to go for a profession which I want to and not which I am compelled to.
And just when I was reconsidering my thoughts, I see a traffic policeman and a couple of students studying subjects related to forensic science. On one side I see a student who has taken up a very unconventional choice of profession in the field of forensics and on the other hand the traffic personnel is one who has to mess around with the traffic of a city like Bangalore just for his and his family's survival.
And its not just a traffic policeman. Everyday we come across in-numerous set of people who are slogging their lives out only to alleviate the pain of hunger and poverty.What is it that stops them from pursuing their dreams. Is it only we, the lucky ones who have the right to dream and chase them?
That is what we fail to realize. Without any figurative thought in place, without any passion, we like running the race without even knowing what and why are we doing so? Sheer dismay you can call it? That is where it stands justified to make "Why MBA" one of the integral questions to decide selection to the elite institutes of our country. So that one knows what is the passion behind pursuing a profession, because its only the lucky lot who can afford to have a passion for their profession.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Sunken Boat
She moved hand in hand with water
Swayed by the waves around;
Full of enthusiasm and vigor
Leaving her anchor behind.
As time passed by; nothing could stop her
From going beyond and exhibiting her wafture
Ignorant of the storm that might occur
Such was her craziness for the undulated matter!!
Alas the dream turned into a nightmare
Came the turbulence, as part of nature's plan
The free entity smitten in love was unaware
Got absorbed in her love's clutches within a short span.
Betrayal and treachery, is what now she knows more
The sunken boat - deep down, love will she abhor!!
Swayed by the waves around;
Full of enthusiasm and vigor
Leaving her anchor behind.
As time passed by; nothing could stop her
From going beyond and exhibiting her wafture
Ignorant of the storm that might occur
Such was her craziness for the undulated matter!!
Alas the dream turned into a nightmare
Came the turbulence, as part of nature's plan
The free entity smitten in love was unaware
Got absorbed in her love's clutches within a short span.
Betrayal and treachery, is what now she knows more
The sunken boat - deep down, love will she abhor!!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Life is a Celebration!!
You don't need an occasion to make others feel good. Life in itself is a celebration.
Each day is a gift to be fully cherished. If you do not laugh for a day, if you have not made someone's day happier, if you have not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth.
Some amazing piece of lines extracted from Preeti Shenoy's book "Life is What You Make It". I just couldn't resist myself from not expressing myself on the same lines after having gone through the book.
What is happiness to us. When we want to be happy or when situation around us seems happy to us? Why do we rest our case of being happy on an external environment when it's there within. When life in itself comes with a package- a package of live, love and laughter why is the pursuit of happiness lost in the crowd of expectations and ignored feelings.
Define happiness in a way that it is entirely on your stride. Make it happen by spreading smiles around. Let not gloom put an end to your happiness for underlying the gloom is a reason to be happy for. When you lose something it opens up your arms and mind to a newer dimension of life, a fresher perspective to living.
Appreciate the cause of life and not the reason behind living. If everything needed a reason to exist then where lies the uncertainty, and here we have the mystery of happiness. Being happy for definite reasons is limited to the domain of the reason in context. But when you are happy for no reason or rhyme it's your world entirely. Nothing to stop at, nothing to look behind for.
Life is very unpredictable- any change of state, any change of being shouldn't let you step back and recapitulate. Move ahead with the pace and not just keep craving for an element of positiveness.
Give yourself a treat, pamper yourself on your own, keep stretching the smiles across hearts and encourage others to do the same. For happiness should never be limited, never be defined, never to be subdued for any cause of dismay come what may. Don't keep looking for a reason to be happy for it's inside you, a part of you- just let it out and then it's a world of your own!!
Each day is a gift to be fully cherished. If you do not laugh for a day, if you have not made someone's day happier, if you have not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth.
Some amazing piece of lines extracted from Preeti Shenoy's book "Life is What You Make It". I just couldn't resist myself from not expressing myself on the same lines after having gone through the book.
What is happiness to us. When we want to be happy or when situation around us seems happy to us? Why do we rest our case of being happy on an external environment when it's there within. When life in itself comes with a package- a package of live, love and laughter why is the pursuit of happiness lost in the crowd of expectations and ignored feelings.
Define happiness in a way that it is entirely on your stride. Make it happen by spreading smiles around. Let not gloom put an end to your happiness for underlying the gloom is a reason to be happy for. When you lose something it opens up your arms and mind to a newer dimension of life, a fresher perspective to living.
Appreciate the cause of life and not the reason behind living. If everything needed a reason to exist then where lies the uncertainty, and here we have the mystery of happiness. Being happy for definite reasons is limited to the domain of the reason in context. But when you are happy for no reason or rhyme it's your world entirely. Nothing to stop at, nothing to look behind for.
Life is very unpredictable- any change of state, any change of being shouldn't let you step back and recapitulate. Move ahead with the pace and not just keep craving for an element of positiveness.
Give yourself a treat, pamper yourself on your own, keep stretching the smiles across hearts and encourage others to do the same. For happiness should never be limited, never be defined, never to be subdued for any cause of dismay come what may. Don't keep looking for a reason to be happy for it's inside you, a part of you- just let it out and then it's a world of your own!!
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