Most men wont

Whats free will and freedom to live and express yourself in this country worth? We are constrained, domesticated and made to kneel before the one's with power, long corrupted and devoid of any morals. If only everyone knew the implications, there would be a concerted effort to make a change in the system. Otherwise, we would continue to have guys like Shashank Manohar coming out and openly expressing his thuggery with a contempt and an unparalleled and unchallenged disdain for the system and its people. Is it ok if bad things happen to the ones we dont know? How long before it happens to us? This country runs on low probability of bad things happening to each one of us. We are just too many, a positive thought outnumbered and surrounded by negative ones. Best shared with loved ones. We bite the social communication pill for relief everyday, though short-lived it serves its purpose and makes it easier to ignore the negative energy. Battles are for warriors. I met a goon in the lift of my apartment today. He lives a couple of floors above me. He threw open and left the doors open when he left the lift.

Stop, take a moment to reflect

When was the last time you stopped to reflect on your life? Most people go through life on auto-pilot. There are people around them all the time and life becomes this string of conversations and events that these people who surround you trigger in your life. To these lot, reflection does not hold much value. Reflections of your choices, events and conversations help you improve how you face the world. Life without improvements will be like doing the same mistakes again and again. Whenever I meet people who dont seem to have even a single moment of reflection, I just think what is the point of developing a relationship with them? It will just be dominated by a series of conversations and choices which are fundamentally ill-thought out, impatient and lacking any real wisdom and primarily dominated by them. This phenomemon of a lack of reflecting capability is closely linked to a lack of listening skills. People who dont have the capacity to reflect should listen to others and thereby learn something new and/or learn a new way of looking at things. The world is full of people who dont stop, who dont relfect. Not that there is anything wrong with it, like gay people, just a bit worse.

Turn for the worst

This blog, after 984 posts related to IT, and some creative copy-pasting, will turn its attention to me, the person copy-pasting. The man behind the keyboard of plagiarism. No this is not to raise awareness on media issues in India and how TOI have in the past stolen many a pics from innocent geek photographers,equipped with blogs and twitter accounts, and used them on their paper without paying or giving due credit. No this is not a fight for your rights, or mine. This is a beginning of something beautiful. What, you may ask? I've got nothing. You have wasted your time and my time by asking that question. Indians never learn but thankfully have a short memory, thanks to state sponsored costly booze, particularly in hard-working, low-earning southern states like TN and Kerala. My heart goes out to those people, the ones with short memory. I remember watching Memento and thinking wow, what a genius, no not the guy who finds the killer using his notes despite bad memory, but the director of the movie - Nolan. Years later he made a masterpiece named Dark Knight, poetry on screen, too bad the movie was not recognized by critics, as I thought he had got movie making down to a manual. As for guys with short memory, god bless, its fantastic to go through life without remembering anything - the people you met and the conversations you had. Life without memory begins with accepting the present.