Its odd...very odd...i have wanted to blog very badly...but i just could not come up with a post!! I mean usually i'm full of ideas....know-how on how i'd like things to be...but when it comes to blogging i've found myself into a spot of hesitation!! It just feels as if i've got nothing to talk..err...write about!...i do....so what is it? Well, its bout the things we do! How 'bout that?
Let me start by what i mean. I mean, daily we encounter so many things; some repetitive in nature, some new, some strange, some un-wanted, some....well you get the idea, right? So why a blog outta this? I think there's a hidden behaviour pattern in the way we do things that we do. A strange behavioural pattern that is a product of us, of which indirectly we are a product ourselves! I mean, if one says that our actions are a display of ourselves, then are we not a product of our actions!? And if we are, as would seem obvious, then whats a function of what? Are we a function of our behaviour?Or our behaviour a function of us?
Its hard to tell really, isnt it? So what would you do if you found out that there was an event aired on TV--one you could not possibly miss--and at the same time you had to go out, say with your friends(who, by the way, were least interested in that!!)? Just what would you do? Would you call them and tell them the actualities of the situation?Or would you fake a reason?Or would you simply just GO? What would you do? It does not matter what you would, cause whatever you choose to do, you have a acted in a certain way.
So, if you choose to tell them then things as they are, then that means you are honest and would refrain from lying, as you've done over here. No easy way-outs for you, you face things! If you fake a reason that would imply that you know just how important the show is to you, also taking into consideration that your actions might be dis-approved of, so you take the easy way out.However, if you decide to go, then that would mean that acknowledging fully how important it is for you to behave the way your friends (people) expect you to, you decide to give up on your likes and go, even if its a first, still you've taken this decision.
So, now is this a behavioural pattern or just a one-off thing? Well chances are this not a one-off thing! You might have done it before without realising it, or you may do it again, even after swearing to not do it again!! The things we do when we have multiple options, are the things we should watch out for. It is in these decisions we take, however small or "one-off", that we christen ourselves. When we take these decisions, like these, for the first time, we become a function of our beahivour, when we have to take decisions like these again, our behaviour becomes a function of us! We try to re-collect, or if we do re-collect, then we do things exactly in the same manner as we have before when faced with similar conditions, so our behaviour then is a result of how we acted "at that time".
Here then our behaviour depends on our actions then, and so our behaviour is not much different than the previous one, and this is how we establish a behavioural pattern. Our behaviours in most cases from here on start becoming a function of us, that is, we do things the way we expect ourselves to do rather than try to do things differently everytime, ofcourse the behaviour will only be similar or "predictable" only in cases of similar events and not otherwise. When faced with a new thing all together, a new behaviour is potrayed and this time we are function of our behaviour i.e. we behave not by instincts or impulse but by thinking & then acting accordingly. Again when this situation is faced later on, or a similar one chances are we would act more or less in the same way as we had "at that time".
To really try and figure out whether we are a function of our behaviour or our behaviour a function of us, we could say, that first time doings are always without histories and experience and in void of that we become a function of our behaviour, i.e. a product of how we've acted and not acted because of who we are, cause we have not faced this thing before at all. When we have, however, faced the circumstances before and we act exactly like the previous time, then it means that we now have behaved like this because of who we are, and this is how we would behave and here then our behaviour becomes a function of us.
There is, however, one assumption in the whole process of identifying the functions and the constants! It has to be assumed that we are ever-defining, evolving,and learning from our past. Wait or is that what mankind has been all-about? Now, its a different thing if you ask those who've been to war, but otherwise, pretty much!!
Let me know what you think, i hope i've not confused you too much!
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
What are you afraid of???!!
FEAR it seems is a word not many like to associate themselves with. It is quite genuine a feeling id like to believe. While it many seem that as we grow up our childhood fears are laid to rest, more fears, newer ones are embedded into us! Ask a child what he is afraid of and he'll say ghosts, darkness, loneliness, etc. All that fairy tale stuff!! It is not always and not necessary that we shed most, let alone all, of our childhood fears as we grow up. We simply cant. Some fears have emotional reasoning behind them, the others continue to exist for lack of opportunity to dispel them, and thus they continue to be a part of life we've always heard but never felt.
The difference between the fears of a child and a grown up adult is that, while the child has no previous experience of trying to squash his fears away, the adult does! This can act in the favour and also against depending upon the success of the adult in trying to get rid of his fears. While the child has only his "ghosts" to deal with the adult has bigger issues. He knows what it is like to fail, he knows the cost of failing whatever he's engaged into currently, the child does not. Then there is constant pressure to succeed at giving a better opportunity to his/her children than what he had. The fear here is of FAILING. Thats perhaps one of the beauty of being a child, they've just no tasted failure, an adult might have over and over again!!
Our greatest fears lie in loosing that thing that we aspire the most. Thats why loosing loved ones is so hard, thats why failing is so hard, its not the fact that we failed, its the fact that we've lost an opportunity to take something we've wanted, something we've always desired the most has slipped out of our hands, something, someone. These things happen to everyone, everyone experiences these fears atleast once a lifetime, its a given.
Then is overcoming these fears our greatest hurdle or is it these fears themselves? For me, our greatest hurdle is neither of them. Our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to rise, not beyond everyone else, but as much as we can. But, how do we know how much we can rise? Simple, keep trying, forever!!Ironically, our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to have faith in ourselves, that we can tackle every obstacle!!Once we are done with a little dose on self-belief then we can try and face the problems, then once we believe that we are self-sufficient then we can bolden up to our greatest fears. Our fears are a manifestation of our beliefs about our abilities. So for me the best way to overcome them is to assess ourselves thoroughly and then gear up!!
Theres no running away from our fears, no hiding either. The only way to escape them is to have them and experience our powers.Lions don't become the king of the jungle unless they've fought another male for a territorial advantage. Someones gotta lose in that fight but the winner knows his ability forever! Thats the beauty of facing our fears, they show us what we are truly made up of. Fears need not end or be finite, and why will they, neither are our abilities nor is our spirit. Even though our greatest fears might lie,besides others, in not being able to unlock our true potential or failing to see that light within us that exemplifies our spirit, our greatest challenge lies in rising up and not in preventing a fall.
This is what i think. Its not all that i think, but pretty much. Please let me know what u think by adding your precious comments!! Thank you!
The difference between the fears of a child and a grown up adult is that, while the child has no previous experience of trying to squash his fears away, the adult does! This can act in the favour and also against depending upon the success of the adult in trying to get rid of his fears. While the child has only his "ghosts" to deal with the adult has bigger issues. He knows what it is like to fail, he knows the cost of failing whatever he's engaged into currently, the child does not. Then there is constant pressure to succeed at giving a better opportunity to his/her children than what he had. The fear here is of FAILING. Thats perhaps one of the beauty of being a child, they've just no tasted failure, an adult might have over and over again!!
Our greatest fears lie in loosing that thing that we aspire the most. Thats why loosing loved ones is so hard, thats why failing is so hard, its not the fact that we failed, its the fact that we've lost an opportunity to take something we've wanted, something we've always desired the most has slipped out of our hands, something, someone. These things happen to everyone, everyone experiences these fears atleast once a lifetime, its a given.
Then is overcoming these fears our greatest hurdle or is it these fears themselves? For me, our greatest hurdle is neither of them. Our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to rise, not beyond everyone else, but as much as we can. But, how do we know how much we can rise? Simple, keep trying, forever!!Ironically, our greatest hurdle lies in our ability to have faith in ourselves, that we can tackle every obstacle!!Once we are done with a little dose on self-belief then we can try and face the problems, then once we believe that we are self-sufficient then we can bolden up to our greatest fears. Our fears are a manifestation of our beliefs about our abilities. So for me the best way to overcome them is to assess ourselves thoroughly and then gear up!!
Theres no running away from our fears, no hiding either. The only way to escape them is to have them and experience our powers.Lions don't become the king of the jungle unless they've fought another male for a territorial advantage. Someones gotta lose in that fight but the winner knows his ability forever! Thats the beauty of facing our fears, they show us what we are truly made up of. Fears need not end or be finite, and why will they, neither are our abilities nor is our spirit. Even though our greatest fears might lie,besides others, in not being able to unlock our true potential or failing to see that light within us that exemplifies our spirit, our greatest challenge lies in rising up and not in preventing a fall.
This is what i think. Its not all that i think, but pretty much. Please let me know what u think by adding your precious comments!! Thank you!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The plight of being us!!
There is a problem with the State machinery and that should not be an iota of surprise to anyone. The state im talking of is my own state wherein i reside...Maharashtra...the state is in huge debt...then there is the pathetic condition the railway--the most extensively used means of transport in Mumbai--the state electricity board is in total disruption(mirroring the state)...desperate for power but haplessly inefficient!!...
In the sub-urbs of Mumbai the load-shedding is perhaps most evident..ive heard there are also regions where the load shedding is around 15-16 hrs a day...here it stands at a "moderate"7 1/2 hrs a day!!...
There is a total shortfall of around 5700 Mw of power in the State..n Andhra Pradesh is trying to cash in on it by selling its excess to us at around Rs 8.3/unit. We would have bought that but the state just does not have enough funds to do that as well. And all this...i know...but still, its difficult to understand how the state officials could not have estimated such an increased demand in advance...sure it is tough!..but then so what?..those guys are appointed at those posts only because they are expected to be fully able to calculate and plan for the best interests of the people in the state!...
Another quite startling thing is that while the MSEB has been constantly increasing the hrs under load-shedding, there have been very frequent protests....i mean, yes, i did hear bout the blocking of the Mumbai-Agra highway by the businessmen...angry protesters in other parts of Maharashtra but a very few from the district where i live in!!...its like...i can now think of that one line that Mr Mohan Bhargav said in Swades..the people here have just got so used to living in darkness that it seems but normal to them..the load-shedding, that is. I know perhaps its wrong to blame the people...but then how do let the Govt know of this unacceptable behaviour?...how?..angry protesters beat up those MSEB officials forgetting that they live in the same vicinity where these angry men come from!!
It is about time something legislative happened...the Supreme Court with its recent judgements has boosted the public confidence to a large extent...it wont be incorrect to assume that the public rests more hope.
This problem that has gripped the state will perhaps not go away until the end of the decade..we can only hope for a faster solution....and oh yes...about the farmer suicides...in-efficiency of the state to zero-in on the July 11 blasts i think ill write next time....
This is the part where i expect you to leave a comment...a counter argument...anything you would like to...thank you for the patience exhibited...he he..but we need to now start making a sound!!
In the sub-urbs of Mumbai the load-shedding is perhaps most evident..ive heard there are also regions where the load shedding is around 15-16 hrs a day...here it stands at a "moderate"7 1/2 hrs a day!!...
There is a total shortfall of around 5700 Mw of power in the State..n Andhra Pradesh is trying to cash in on it by selling its excess to us at around Rs 8.3/unit. We would have bought that but the state just does not have enough funds to do that as well. And all this...i know...but still, its difficult to understand how the state officials could not have estimated such an increased demand in advance...sure it is tough!..but then so what?..those guys are appointed at those posts only because they are expected to be fully able to calculate and plan for the best interests of the people in the state!...
Another quite startling thing is that while the MSEB has been constantly increasing the hrs under load-shedding, there have been very frequent protests....i mean, yes, i did hear bout the blocking of the Mumbai-Agra highway by the businessmen...angry protesters in other parts of Maharashtra but a very few from the district where i live in!!...its like...i can now think of that one line that Mr Mohan Bhargav said in Swades..the people here have just got so used to living in darkness that it seems but normal to them..the load-shedding, that is. I know perhaps its wrong to blame the people...but then how do let the Govt know of this unacceptable behaviour?...how?..angry protesters beat up those MSEB officials forgetting that they live in the same vicinity where these angry men come from!!
It is about time something legislative happened...the Supreme Court with its recent judgements has boosted the public confidence to a large extent...it wont be incorrect to assume that the public rests more hope.
This problem that has gripped the state will perhaps not go away until the end of the decade..we can only hope for a faster solution....and oh yes...about the farmer suicides...in-efficiency of the state to zero-in on the July 11 blasts i think ill write next time....
This is the part where i expect you to leave a comment...a counter argument...anything you would like to...thank you for the patience exhibited...he he..but we need to now start making a sound!!
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