Geeta saar

Following are some of the age old wisdom found in Indian mythology. When I was young, in teen I remember, I used to buy a brand of notebook for school which always carried same back cover. I read that over several times and it stayed in my top rack for some reason. Now that I look back I believe it did shape me in some ways, the way I think or things I believe. Consciously or subconsciously, I don't know. Here is what back cover read like:

Translated in English, in the same order, it goes like:

• WHATEVER HAPPENED WAS GOOD
• WHATEVER IS HAPPENING IS GOOD
• WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN WILL ALSO BE GOOD
• WHAT HAVE YOU PARTED WITH THAT MAKES YOU CRY ?
• WHAT DID YOU BRING WITH YOU THAT YOU HAVE LOST ?
• WHAT DID YOU CREATE WHICH IS NOW DESTROYED ?
• WHAT YOU HAVE TAKEN, YOU HAVE TAKEN ONLY FROM HERE.
• WHAT WAS GIVEN WAS GIVEN ONLY FROM HERE.
• WHAT IS YOURS TODAY, WAS SOMEONE ELSE'S YESTERDAY, WILL BE SOMEONE ELSE'S TOMORROW.

CHANGE IS THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE

Image and translation adapted from someone else's personal page here.

Good night!

20s

Twenties is the decade of your life when

-You will be who you have wanted to be and who you will be for the most of your remaining life.

-You will sort out the mess generally known as quarter-life crisis.

-You will find answer to most puzzling questions about life. You will give-up on on the ones unanswered.

-You will  hangout most with the person you go everywhere with. Yourself.

-You will come face-to-face with your loneliness and maybe learn to embrace it. Is duniyan me akele hi aae the aur akele hi jana hai. Said so Lord Krishna.


(Disclaimer: Above applies for the central band of people distribution curve. Extrema may be safely excluded. Views are based on authors personal experience, observations and readings. The list is not exaustive.)

Man in black

I've been introduced to more artists lately by pandora. Johnny Cash's is a story which follows a tipsy turvy road. It's almost like a good drama movie. There is this song that hits me most in which he explains why he wears what he wears. He had this outlaw bad boy kind of image but he also stands up for the 'poor and the beaten down'. He would always wear black in public because as he explains:

"We're doing mighty fine I do suppose
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there ought to be a man in black."

When you see all this war and suffering in the world you wonder where are those men who stand up front? As if the two deadly wars (Afghan and Iraq) were not enough killing for those-responsible-for-starting-war, there are innumerable suffering in Syria. While a lot of us in better doing part of world will never know what it is to be like in conflict zone, there is a whole generation learning survival skills in refugee homes. We can bask in glory of economic boom and scientific development but for many the achievements of the day are still primitive in nature. Getting food for today.

Well I don't want to sound like socio-path. It just happens sometimes when certain things happen in certain order to lead me to this point. But amid all this darkness there are things that are bright too! Scrambling through the world news sometimes there are things which restore the positive belief. Like this one. Why do women outnumber men in technology in the Gulf? Compare this against Why are there so few female scientists? 
Percent of women in all tech entrepreneurs in Arab world is 35% compared to corresponding global of 10%. Not many would have predicted that. That's why I love technology. It stands fair. Unbiased

Cheer up, because tomorrow will to be worse

Optimism for pessimists:

Cheer up, because tomorrow will to be worse.