June 28th-Compassion Day,how quaint!!!

Read in the paper its compassion day today L.O.L!!!!Well maybe I shouldn't be laughing so hard after all coz in today's man eats man/dog/cat/crickets/anything breathing world I guess it takes a whole day to celebrate being compassionate.How else are all these a-z list celebrities going to get their 15 words of media space telling what compassion means to them and how they are doing their 'bit',almost as if its an endangered thing.In retrospect maybe it is endangered, nowadays there is always a hidden agenda behind people's so called 'compassionate' behavior be it for good PR,desperation for some good karma( as BBT's character Raj says its practically Newtonian),vanity or a whole new bunch of reasons I'm yet to realise. Well the reasons might be galore but one thing I guess is that its not a big 'O' to be faked,either you have it or you don't or may have just a sliver of potential to develop it later because of some miraculous constellation rearrangement(here's hoping!!!) but that's the endline of it coz lets be honest 'a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it' is not everyone's fortitude.So just stick to cool statements like Amrita Rao's 'feeding underprivileged kids will be how I show compassion' on compassion day.(*rolling eyes thrice over*)

Cracks in the Already Hazy Crystal Ball

Life has its own sense of humor,more HA HA HA's than hahahahahahahaha.
Firstly it takes you by surprise and secondly it leaves you with various facial contortions resembling the joker from the dark knight (who might seem way too handsome in comparison). So you rant, rave, snivel, shrivel and by the time all the drama settles down you wonder what in the bloody hell was it all about. Flummoxed wouldn’t even begin to describe it, fucked-up wouldn’t even cut the grade,maybe FUBAR would sum it up.
Well shit happens all the time and not just in the pot, and wish getting over with it could be as motivational as it was for the kid in slum-dog millionaire..guess even a hard hitting,multi-award winning movie is just that, a motion picture that plays in air-conditioned multiplexes that people watch while stuffing their faces with pop-corns and trying to have intellectual conversations about the state of the world at the same time. Only if things in real life get sorted within three hours, with a sing-a-song-while-dancing routine and yeah with a credit role in the end mentioning all the people responsible for making it the way it is/was..sigh sigh and another double sigh!!!
We have been learning lessons from the time we were born-louder you cry more attention you get,you stumble before you walk,timeouts the price for having 'fun',getting whacked/reviled for not conforming to set rules/norms some sense and a lot balderdash.Know how to break from the cycle and live happily ever-after???....tell that to yourself and let me know if that 'really' works
“Irony, irony, this hate and love, hate and love
What it does to me? What it's done to me? What is done, done?
…'Bout the cracks in the crystal, the cracks in the crystal ball” goes the song and it makes you wonder after all.

AP State Division- one of the BIGGEST idiocies of 21st century politics!!

A fast unto death that lasted for 10 days, students getting more action out of a campus than in it, absolute disregard and destruction of unrelated public and private property, media coverage sensationalizing it further, a ripple effect throughout the country for more such ridiculous demands, triggering an internet debate ranging from ridiculing the whole thing with every humorous angle possible.
But when the humor leaves and the matter’s still worsening what does one do? When the losses start amounting to crores and the inconvenience caused being priceless what does one do? We are talking about the world’s largest democracy, which a few months ago made history with the General Elections and made the world stand up, take notice and respect India in a completely different light, making the same world look at India now in a profoundly confused manner.
How much harm than good are such demonstrations and political decision making doing? Aren’t such actions regressive to growth?
Are such actions truly for the benefit of the people or is it just plain political greed for economic control and increasing one’s already bulging coffers?
They talk about India’s stand on Global Warming, Nuclear Agreement Deals, Economic Development, China’s land encroachment but where does it leave these things when silly internal policies can create a domino effect throughout the country creating such political instability across regions, with voters questioning themselves over their decisions to bring these very political parties to power!!!
Is secularism just centered to religion and not to culture I wonder? Are these policies based on escapism/hypocrisy/profits for a few or just idiocy I wonder more?

What About now?

"Change the colors of the sky.
And open up to
The ways you made me feel alive,
The ways I loved you.
For all the things that never died,
To make it through the night,
Love will find you.

What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late,
What about now?"

Somethings never turn out to be the way you expect them to,never imagine how ideologies would change to the extent that you hear the rip in relationships and in your heart.The fear grips-the fear of unknown,the fear of losing something dearest to you.
Many a times things don't make any sense, you don't have any constructive explanation to why things happen when they happen but they do and no matter how much we like to live in denial or play down its impact,it still leaves it mark-how big or small depends on how intense you felt for it.
But life and time are the biggest healers as they say and no better meds than that!!

Idiosyncrasies of People-Some We Know Some We Don't!!!!

Well some things in life happen when you least expect it and it turns out to be the biggest blessing in disguise no matter what your religion is and no matter how it happens!

It might take you by shock, surprise, anger, bewilderment, and whatever gamut of emotions you can identify and feel around the time but when you survive through this emotional hurricane you realize there's actually pretty clear sky around you u however difficult the thought of it might have been at the time.

We live in a world where there are all sorts of people-the wannabes, the has-beens,'the' ones,the wud be's,and what makes them the kind of people they are or becoming or trying hard to be? Is it peer pressure or immaturity or desperation to fit in or plain idiocy that makes one exhibit the said behaviors? One can answer many depending were the team answering lies on!!

Whatever the course of behavior has been all that is finally felt is elation, the freedom from the shackles memory had tied you to. And this very feeling resultant from any suppressed, insufferable behavior of, what a lay man would call as 'jerks' is the very blessing in disguises which opens you to a whole new perspective and takes on things, people. And how ever the experience it is the person who you come out being, is what really counts and the only thing that truly matters.

Cascades of feelings and trillion little things!

Sitting out on the stairs looking towards the bluish black clouds moving beyond forever with the breeze lifting the cascade of hair toward its direction as if urging me to fly away with it to all the different lands it goes, brining these feelings of absolute joy, peace, spirituality, being one with yourself and being blissfully happy with who you are.
One of the purest forms of feeling that is diluted neither by people nor our mind.
Does experiencing nature in such purest forms get one to feel that?

Being closed doors, working on your desk, being part of a monotonous struggle of competeting with ourself, the world, working so hard in building our very own castle of dreams, of fantasy, of ambition; of our identity,does this make us loose ‘I’-who we really are and actually meant to be!!

Sitting here amidst concrete constructions, landscaped to perfection, experiencing the most natural form of nature and eyes looking farther into the distance not really seeing the artificial perfection but the imperfect, naturally formed rocks which are yet to be untouched by the artificial human hand in search of a superficial perfection. And no sight can be more beautiful like the casually thrown together rocks,the result of thousands of years of formation, the shadow of the sunset creating a perfect picture for an artist’s canvas.

With the only manmade technology that has enabled me to express the same, playing some of my favorite tracks being my lappy!!!

People talk about moments-perfect moments, this moment rates right on top, way high on the order -me, my laptop ,my songs, my weather=my perfect moment!!! One I wouldn’t trade for anything (at least now ;))

Leadership-an action not a position!!!!!

"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and if you have what it takes, you are rare and wondrous, and if you don’t, it can’t be faked no matter how hard you try.”
I read this above line somewhere and somehow feel it fits in how exactly things are, I was at this leadership conference, with almost every main guy who runs this company I work with, and it brought back a lot of old memories of similar conferences, with similar objectives and, to a large extent, people with similar personalities and the only difference with my past and this present was the age differences.
It struck to me that as leaders the styles they lead their teams with is not very different from the styles I know people who have lead their teams.
Experience-wise things might have been added-deleted-multiplied-divided from their personality traits but I don't know if this very experience, no. of years of being 'leaders', 'bosses', 'managers' has ACTUALLY made them better people or rather better 'leaders'. That's one question I ask myself, did they choose to be the kind of people, atleast, professionally? Well I saw them work as a team, manipulate others, genuinely appreciate others, be dominating, be dominated, also saw them get high and sing all night long as people, just as people with no one playing the role of a president, director, unit head blah blah.

Well here they were an entire range of people and I there was just this thought,

Does being part of a “leadership” team make you a “leader”??

Is one confusing their arrogance and aggressiveness as assertiveness?

Can all leaders be inspirational?

I have noticed that when one is younger with less experience, work-wise, with the will to learn, some change & some don’t and as one grows older the changes happen less and I guess one just becomes less receptive

Is the whole basic management principles lost in translation?

I was having this conversation with my cuz and he says a leader is like a mother to the children, a wife to a husband, a friend to a friend and I guess he hit a jackpot unknowingly-women make great leaders or atleast these qualities that are in born in women do!!;) Well atleast a whole lot of permutations and combinations and not one particular style and I guess that's one BIGG difference between a manager and a leader!!

Leadership is a dynamic learning process, one that should remain flexible with a good dash of optimism no matter what position one is in. And I can say this from my past and present experiences that good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

And it’s so essential for one to understand this and adopt and adapt methodologies to help them achieve that.