Quote for a Soul

                                                

Long gone but indeed not separated, I can finally feel my keypad.But guess what, this time it is little different.Relishing yummy food at  RCI hostel with my roomie and other friends and smiling faces all across the mess, breath taking coverage of uttarakhand floods was a bitter taste on sweet platter.

As marked by Niel Armstrong on Moon " A small step for a human but a giant step for the Mankind". Probably quote would apply in every kind noble step which we all tend to initiate. With recent devastating mother nature color seen in Floods and Landslides of Uttarakhand and many innocent souls leaving the world, it definitely sparked a bolt to the human race. With so much of happiness and prosperity around, there is one corner of our country that is stranded with thousands of pilgrims paying devotion to our holy land and generation back culture. With death toll in hundreds and still ticking it is indeed one of the unexpected event that shook us all.

As always we could see the defense force of our country and other volunteers leading from the front to help and find kith and kin of thousands still missing.

 I am sure if you look this from the domain where we all are breathing today it should strike our mind that any activity induced in any system is an input from external environment ( from the society) and outputs the end result  to the external environment(for the  society).In the hoard of being ahead of from each other in this race we all should remember one race that prevails above all and that is human race. I am sure loss occurred in such events is definitely something that cannot be recovered with the power of money. Let’s mark this irrecoverable event by marking out quotes for the souls and may lord rest them all in peace.

Amen.

PRIDE V/S INTELLIGENCE

If asked a soldier to make a sacrifice for the pride of the motherland against saving his life in a War situation, I guess Pride would imprint a tough stand. And if the same element is compared to an individual who desire to buy a posh car against his tough financial stand It will be irrational to  replace Intelligence with pride.

In a nutshell  " Can Pride substitute Intelligence "..???????

Amazingly whole economy revolves  around this fact that in case rational mind constitutes intelligence  as the base then why good  of luxury pulls the concept of demand and supply. Let's take a simple look at this. When luxury is unnecessarily added as pride for one, ignoring intelligence it not  only plague other's finance but also throttle the balance of the economy. Eurozone crisis is nothing but a victim of this Barbarism where they weighted pride heavier then the intelligence. Knowing their inefficient tax collection system yet they promoted high public spending and event like Olympics at high cost budgets. Look at the situation now whole of the west is in financial whirlpool. I guess in these cases Pride was definitely for a shorter run but the pain remained for a longer run.

Not only at macro level to an extent roots of this comparison boils down to individual cases. Every day we  come across so many of them where in a  matter of pride riding in Posh car , dining in luxurious restaurants, branded clothes show off etc. takes a toll over intelligence.I am  definitely not against  the luxury as they are meant to satisfy human wants. But fetching it at the cost of intelligence is a definite irrational concept. Exchange of eye pooping dowries , Traditional animal sacrifices and various other customs like wasting food and other consumable products in water or plants etc. Should be analyzed  from the core of intelligence. Though pride marks its way here still adding little intelligence to it can help us spread more harmony and happiness.

To conclude maturity of prioritizing pride over intelligence is always backed by a noble cause. To quote an example some decision in our freedom struggle were of no brain but indeed they were there to safeguard our traditions, moral values and motherland. Your Pride should be a derivative of your intelligence not unawareness and Ignorance..


Jai Hind..........

Burn Your Boats

Quite a time  I guess , I would have felt my keyboard. Staying away from it has never been so  easy. Daily drama of living moment With unproductive things definitely stales my mind. Anyway did anyone wondered How miracles happen? I guess none of it happens till the time you burn all your Boats. Before I can even connect it to my point lemme tell you all a story.This story is very special to me as well because I have seen the motivation it used to pump in during the last days of my deadlines. My manager Sridhar was the  first one to narrate it to me and I am sure if at all my other colleagues are reading it , they remember our good old days.

Alexander the Great’s powerful army spent years overwhelming Opposing armies in their conquests. His men were fierce and swelled with the The confidence that comes with consistent victory. Yet when Alexander and his men Arrived on the shores of Persia they were visibly outnumbered.  Clearly outmanned, his men pleaded that it would be wise to go back and get more men. Alexander responded by ordering the men to burn their boats. As their only Means of the retreat went up in flames, legend has it that Alexander turned to his Moan and said, “We go home in Persian ships, or we die.”

What I love about this story is that Alexander the Great made one Of the bravest decisions anyone can make by intentionally removing his Options.  His command sent a message to his men, but more importantly it Puts them in a new position: one defined by focus where there is no other Option but to do your absolute best… or be defeated.

Perhaps this is what we call living on the edge. Be it your  Personal desire, your business or anything which you dream , till the time we  Have options it might turn out to be  a failure too. To get it I guess its time for us to burn all our boats and live the day To achieve it thinking it is the last day of our life.

Time to get the shop to the customer .. No more customers to the shop

"Mexican Passion and American Heat " we ordered ..the only 2 foreign names we can see in the long list of pizza's while sitting in Air Conditioned Sam's Pizza  Restaurant. Wednesday evening turned out to be a pizza night for me and my friend Savi (also an B School Aspirant).Still way too long for these stuff to out beat the Indian junkies like kulcha chhola. tiki chat etc. We still declared Mexican as the winner when compared to the American one.Best thing that could  ever occur to any Indian is the least possible bill for the best possible food in any restaurant.And  that's exactly me and my friend witnessed as we were carrying free coupons of the same with an offer of buy 1 and get one free.And then a thought prevailed .....

WAS IT ME WHO WANTED TO COME DOWN TO THE SHOP OR WAS IT THE SHOP WHO CAME TO ME ....?????????

Yes I guess this is what we all should analyse that we are no longer in the era where we need to run our brain to think where we need to go.There is so much of competition out there, that every new entrants would need to come out with something innovative and eye catching for the customer  in their kitty if in case they want  to establish their empire of good mouth of words.It  might be in the form of Free Coupons, Free movie tickets , great deal discounts and may be eye catching online deals.Let me quote an example here. I am regular MC Donald customer and a prepaid mobile phone user too.Now how does this fusion generate bucks and give the end customer a benefit is mystery.Whenever  I need to top up my phone I get it  through -www.freerecharge.in. Reason being amount I recharge my phone with , I get the coupons of various other fast food and retail store of the same amount. In layman language I recharged my phone and also relished a MC D's burger with ice tea  free.Well even before I could run my brain  as to exactly where I have to shop on my weekends , I can already see few shops at my doorstep.

You name a product and I am sure there are many in lines to cut throat  others prices to mark their brand in your heart. Some achieve it by  drooling offers , some by making you see the best in you with their product and some by making it look like never say never to it.Bring it to the facts from eyes (www.lenskart.com) to your feet (www.shoebuy.com) not even leaving old stuff go waste in your garage room (www.olx.in) , every damn thing is sitting right there with you to be sold or to be bought.

I am sure nothing is for free in this world.Everything has its own price, sometime visible and sometime not.Technically if asked a corporate giant , it conveyed one meaning; Either you give a billion rupee to a star to endorse the brand or you  give free deals and coupons to customer to get  direct benefit, What matters at the end of the day is making good and loyal customer base.

So lets not waste the fuel and be Eco friendly as you know now that  the Shop Will Come To U. So lets not waste the big bucks and make our wallets house of every store.

Yippe!! its Sunday

What don't tell me there is no car noise, No school bus , Not even factory siren that  I can hear right in the morning  with my blankets off from my face ....Oooooh its Sunday ....
" Sunday",  the word itself leave some positive signal to your mind.And thus the supercomputer right on the top of your head release some active hormones which remains deactivated on the other days , specially when its Monday.To connect it to something really interesting , I Still remember my good childhood days when gorgeous Hema Ji used to be the sunday morning face to every indian on RANGOLI show in Doordarshan TV.And then followed by some kids cricket on the ground , excitement of what is going to happen in next episode of Shaktiman and then finally Sunday lunch with some interesting movie of usually sunny paji or dharmendar on DD.Sunday were quite simple and jovial as one tends to enjoy with what ever you have in kitty.

Compared to good old days Sunday today has turned out to more of a planned day where most of the youth would be busy planning for it on Monday itself.With wide variety of hotels chain , Malls , Cinema Halls and Nite Discs  available  I guess it really turns out to be very brain storming session among them.To an extent most of the people I have spend my sunday, they just want to live their whole life in that one day.If asked from the responsible family member his mind for sure will be running in completing long pending house works which may include (taking out kids,House grocery & if possible sunday office @home )....

I am guilty to admit that I had previously allowed others to structure my Sundays, because most people I knew didn't want to do anything (aside from grabbing Sunday brunch). I could be wrong, and I am sure there are individuals who disagree; however, I am making bold conclusions based on my own personal experience of Sundays throughout my entire life. Sundays can be the most important day of the week, it all depends on how your spend it. If you find each week a bore, and you cringe at the thought of Monday, then all you might need to do is spice up your Sundays.

Have a good one friends..