with no brakes….. Growing up we used to read ideals handed down to humanity by thought leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, some of the doyens of human civilisation….. prominent amongst them were the ideas of equality, freedom, restraint, team work, living within means, elimination of greed, focus on intellectual growth rather than materialism and more such…. all important ingredients to a stable, peaceful co-existence with our fellow human beings. For decades these ideals, these ideas have served humanity well. They have helped keep us all together and helped us stay, broadly speaking, peacefully sane. These ideals somehow are […]
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Thoughts become things think about what you want and not about what you do not want in your life say yes to what you want If you do not like something don’t say “no” to it instead think of what you want instead and say yes to that. For instance if you do not want poverty do not say you do not want poverty instead say I want plentifullness. Focus on what is good in your life and appreciate it everyday do not let a situation anger you or disturb you as all that is achieved by being disturbed/angered by […]
One of my very frequently revisited tenet of life is “if you want it done right do it yourself”. Today we want perfection in everything however are we doing our bit to make it a perfect world for ourselves? The thought was triggered by a recent tirade by a dear friend. He was worried about the mushrooming slums in the vicinity. This is Mumbai here slums rub shoulders with 40+ storey buildings… slums that house the huge support staff. Our maids, drivers, painters, plumbers, security guards, dry cleaners, istree waala… everyone who makes sure we are able to live comfortably […]
I posted this to parents at my kids school today…. sounded like it should feature here as well”. So I got scolded at school today…. had to happen I was misbehaving. As we were inching our way to the gate I asked my daughter to hop onto the front passenger seat (the rear ones we have child lock enabled on to prevent any accident), put her bag on her shoulders put the bottle in the pocket (you know how kids are sometimes even the shoes come off in the journey from home to school)…. all this while waiting for the […]
A recurrent theme in my life has been the constant and ever present choice I’ve had to make between fight and flight. Mark it up to excess adrenaline, excess testosterone or whatever the science nuts will have you believe but it’s always been the central fight of my life. I would like to believe there are a lot more like me, like 100% of humanity has to make these choices on a daily basis type more. So essentially this is not something unique to me it’s an everyday choice that everybody needs to make, some do it faster almost imperceptibly […]
For forever now I’ve been meaning to write a book. Everyone who’s ever read my stuff wants me to write a book. So why have I never written a book? Today I think is a good day to start writing a book. A dear friend suggested that I could always write the book later on but for now maybe the better thing to do would be to put together a collection of my notes, the ones I keep publishing to Facebook, and putting that out. Build the audience. So that’s part of the plan. The other part is to start […]
So we walk a bit… the three girls and I…. 31st evening we figured lets go get some gifts for friends…. so we walked to a nearby mall. Ira loves this particular stretch of walking as it involves crossing the nearby Vashi railway station and she gets to see a lot of trains. Once at the mall she insisted on making a grab for the car keys which I was carrying just in case the girls felt too tired and I had to come fetch the car to ferry them back (it’s 1.5km so could have happened)…. after a lot […]
What is it about our nation that has the whole world salivating over it? I was thinking about something else in the shower when this question came to me…. the answer is pretty obvious, in fact if I were to open the window to let in some air it’d be staring me in my face…. numbers…. we are a nation that has so much population that it has become the root cause of all problems….. infrastructure is clogged even before you can get to the drafting table with up-gradation plans leave alone actually upgrading it to take on the volumes….. […]