Wednesday, June 18, 2008
What About now?
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!!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Idiosyncrasies of People-Some We Know Some We Don't!!!!
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.
Friday, March 21, 2008
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 ;))
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Retrospection is a beautiful thing!
Turn of a new year, and something that Rahul Dravid said seems so apt for the moment-"Retrospection is a beautiful thing, You can walk down the memory lane with complete information of what needs to be changed to get the best result and do it in your mind."
I think retrospection and introspection go hand in hand especially around this time of the year its like someone once called it as an essential exercise for spiritual growth, I don’t know about the spiritual growth part but definitely believe,is important to refresh our mind+body+soul, the whole works I guess. And right now this is exactly how I feel, like the refresh button of my life has been hit. Maybe blame it on the mood around a new year.
While it’s important that you don’t try to delete history but it’s so important to erase the emotions that didn’t really let you feel good many a times, but never the memory just the feelings.
Going through past things always gives you this different feeling, fulfilling yet a lot more to achieve kinds. Sometimes the memory of things feel so near you could almost touch it but at the same time not that near either, it’s like an illusion, a game that our mind plays.
We play along with the game coz maybe it stems from our desperate wants, things we madly wish to be true but one that in reality might be difficult.
So while we are experiencing the magic of illusion its so important we use the learning to create something beautiful for the future
While you reminiscence the life gone by so far, old thoughts, history, experience and the learning that came out of the experience and how one used the knowledge to develop oneself, it feels like an era gone by.
It’s like coming full on a dotted circle, the spaces which are yet to be completed to make it a full circle.
Let's have a great year ahead of us!!