Addition

Forgot to mention about sibling love .
Many people have siblings, many don't, many have 2 , many have 3 and many have more. But none of these are due to doings of our own.

Coefficient of Happiness

What do all Men/Women strive for ?
- The Answer probably will be "Happiness" across all generations and ages.

As someone pointed out - Happiness or unhappiness are just emotions and one of them is as important as the other one. I will disagree, if such that been the case then we will all have also strived for unhappiness. They are both emotions - true. But then again it is also very true we enjoy happiness irrespective of unhappiness. The only thing that can come to one's mind is that one can realise the imprtance and value of happiness once one gets unhappiness as well.

Now coming to the main context of this passage. I will try to find out what in life actually gets us happiness in the universal way.
Firstly, being happy has nothing to do with being rich or poor.
Having said so, it must also be recognised that money to a certain extent does make life simpler in some respects.
The other aspect most often cited by humans is "Love". It is said that love in one's life is the co-efficient of happiness. Now if we are to really understand it, it is very unfortunate that "Love" as such is something one gets not much due to their own doings. Firstly when one is a child, it is the love of the parents what matters. But then, parents are what we get without any doing of ours. there are many in this world who are deprived of that love and hence the attached happiness without any wrong or right doing on their part. Gradually people grow up and make friends and associations. Now for friends, inspite of one loving his/her friends dearly and honestly, it may just be the case the his/her friends may not love him/her or may just be using him/her for their own reasons. Again as one sees, effort, honesty or goodwill has very little to do anything with this and hence happiness. Now, one come to the aspect of Love for the opposite sex. There are numerous failed love stories and most of them do depict that it had little to do with the doings of the person involved. There is unrequited love, there is forsaken love, there is deceptive love and there is infidel love. There again, many a times it does not point back to the doings of the person who does love the other one honestly, unconditionally and fully. yet he suffers. Now if we take children, there has been many examples in which children leave their parents in their old age to feed for themselves. It is not that children have to take care of them but they should at least show their endless love as that is what the parents need so much. Parents are left to rot in old-age homes or they are required to shift between homes of their many children almost living a life of a vagabond. The parents have loved their children all their life and have given their love and care fully to their children, yet many a children behave in this fashion. Again, it potrays how it has very liitle context on the doings of the parents.
Now there is again a notion, that if you spread love you will get love back. That is what tried to say is not entirely accurate. Mother Teresa (the noble prize winner) is said to have loved many people, but was she loved back. I doubt, she was revered, respected but then how many did really love her as they would love someone extremely dear to her. One must not confuse love with respect and reverence or admiration.
So, end of the day, is it all about chance ? Is it all about FATE ?
The Co-efficient of happiness is not Love, Hate, Money or Effort or honesty, goodwill and many such good qualities. It is all about fate and chance and fortune. Isn't it so ???
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And if youre taking a walk through the garden of life
What do you think youd expect you would see?
Just like a mirror reflecting the moves of your life
And in the river reflections of me

Just for a second a glimpse of my father I see
And in a movement he beckons to me
And in a moment the memories are all that remain
And all the wounds are reopening again

And as you look all around at the world in dismay
What do you see, do you think we have learned
Not if youre taking a look at the war-torn affray
Out in the streets where the babies are burned

There are times when I feel I am afraid for the world
There are times I am ashamed of us all
When you're floating on all the emotion you feel
And reflecting the good and the bad

Will we ever know what the answer to life really is?
Can you really tell me what life is?
Maybe all the things that you know that are precious to you
Could be swept away by fates own hand

When you think that weve used all our chances
And the chance to make everything right
Keep on making the same old mistakes
Makes untipping the balance so easy
When we are living our lives on the edge
Say a prayer on the book of the dead

We are blood brothers, we are blood brothers.

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A $300,000 job !!!! - The evolution of Civilization

The world is running after money. From businesses to individuals everyone in this world is running a rat-race for money. Of-course money has become important for any individual's life but there will still be as much as one needs and can spend.
I was having a chat with the VP of our company that day. I know his primary job involves money for the company but he was talking about i-banking and possibly everything that involves massive money. Anyone around the world who is making money seemed to be of interest to him irrepective of which field, domain, technology they are in. It was surprise for me because i always felt playing to one's strengths and vision is essential to any successful business. No company ever starts with the intention of becoming a behemoth like Microsoft. Even Google did not start with the idea of becoming a microsoft like money making unit. It played to its strengths & visions and earned money in the process. If it is just like that, tommorrow one can even opena grocery store or a Super-Mall and start making money.
People to whom I come across as a money-hater, let me be clear, I am no money-hater, and why should I be ? Eevryone wants to make money, so am I. But, I have my principles and visions about doing things and i believe money will come in the process. Money is not the end nor the beginning for me inspite of it being a important thing. I realise that money is probably more important as the world around me values money more than myself, people make and break relationships, friendships based on how successful you are and also the yardstick of success is primarily on how much money you are earning or making.
Today, everyone wants to do an MBA or a business degree with no notion whatsoever as what is actually management all about. It is all about what is the fat salary one will draw after graduation. It is the lure of $300000 salary which lure people. It is all numbers all around. My basic question lies on : how much does a person need to live a lavish life ? and even more so when people do i-banking jobs which even those few who work on that so accept that it is probably one of the most boring jobs, crunching numbers. Yet, there is always a bee-line for those jobs. And after spending16-18 hours on the job, how much time does one have to spend all that money, except for an expensive cruise holiday to the Bahamas onec in a while !!!
It is said that with time, i.e over the ages, humans have evolved, their civilizations have evolved, technology has marched forward. Has it really or even if it has in certain pockets, the basic tenets of a human pyschology has hardly changed. There was that old adage that all fights of humankind are over land, money and women. It is still the same, it has hardly changed and yet we call ourselves as evolved or advanced civilizations.

The Chequered Flag

With the end of last season's F1, I thought i will gradually lose interest in F1 because the great Schumi has retired. I definitely miss the dog-fights of Schumacher when he will bull-dodge his way past cars starting from the last. A typical Schumacher who never gave up and inspite of having a good or bad car he will drive to teh fullest and will also time his accelration and strategy to perfection always. He will save his tyres at times and then will go for the kill at times. Infact in one race he overtook his brother Ralph Schumacher danegerously and Ralph did not mince words in criticising his brother. So all that will be absent from this season onwards.
But I will have another favourite of mine hogging the limelight this time around and that will be Kimi. This driver truly deserves more than what he has achieved till date. all along his driving screamed only of one thing - "Give me a reliable fast car which does not break down and I will drive to pole position." He is one guy who knows nothing but speed. He does not seem to care much about startegy, trickss etc, to him speed has always been the key. It is the driver who is the fastest who will win a race. Simple basic theory of a race. Probably I will miss the fight of strategies between Alonso and Schumi, but then I hope Ferrari will teach Kimi a few tricks here and there and both him and Massa will have a great season.

Mel Gibson - The King of Gore

To start with, I have not seen Apocalypto. But the reviews I have heard from people around only leads me to believe that Mel Gibson has a big-time fetish with blood and gore. It is as if "Passion of the Christ" was not enough. Cutting men into pieces with blood sparying all around plus i hear there is a sequence of a human heart being taken out from a living person. What is this, is this movie in any sense or is this just some perverted soul's obsession with gore and blood.
Someone give Mel a piece of mind please !!!!

I don't know I probably should not be commenting without watching it, yet I will also not be able to go and watch it after what I have heard.

The universe and me

Take yourself to a far-away star and look at the earth we inhabit. One will see billions of small tiny beings crawling and jostling for space and supremacy in different aspects. There are just so many of us. Doesn't that reflect the same way if you would be looking at an ant-hill. How insignificant is one of those billions of ants, isn't it ? Yet each one fulfills some function of their own.
Similarly for humans, seen from distance, each of us seem to be so insignificant yet all our life we harp on our own selves. We are always concerned about myself and what matters to me . Fine, but does that matter in any way, will that cause any difference to anybody else or to the universe ?
I may be hell-bent on being covered with issues that I create for myself or have for myself but end of the day none of those really have any significance. The universe will continue to run and go on irrespective of me, myself and yourself. So why all the fuss around myself ? Questions galore.

To Err is Divine

In our school days, we used to have a sort of an assignment which was called "explain with reference to the context".
In those few paragraphs we use dto let our minds meander amongst self-created stories, lessons and drew conclusions on the referenced line provided.
Now there is this saying - "To Err is Human" with a small twist to the tail (pun intended) if I say "To Err is Divine" - is that wrong.
Let me begin by saying what is divine. It is still a concept created, propagated and preached by humans. So it can safely be presumed that whatever is divine must be inherently human is some way or the other. Taking for example : all human qualities are good things and are divine in that manner. Honesty is divine, truthfulness is and so on and so forth. But if we err, do we have to get a punishment for that matter or can we carry on with the notion that "Erring is Human and Divine".
To me it seems to err is human but to realise it, accept it and ready to make amends for them is divine. If we can stand up to our own faults and try and make ourselves better in those aspects, probably it will be divine.
However, if I am to ask the question : what drives us in this pursuit for divine-ness ?
do we have an answer ? We can see so many of the people pursuing divine-ness by killing others, many pursue notoriety, so isnt divine-ness also a matter of perspective ?

Why do I wish to CRY

I am feeling like crying.
Why ? - I don't really know.
I just wish I can cry a lot.
People say crying is a sign of weakness. Am I weak ? maybe I am, maybe I am not, who cares but something within me is giving up, it wants to cry profusely. Something inside me is getting tired. Is it just an outlet or is this pain ? I don't know again.
If crying is a sign of weakness, isnt smiling a sign of strength. Well, then I presume I had been strong all along with smiles always but then is crying to myself a sign of weakness. Why do we not want to be weak.
What can I achieve if I am not weak ?
But inspite fo wanting to cry why is it so difficult to cry. Why am I trying to find the corner of the room and not finding it when I need it the most.
Why ..... everything starts and ends with Why for me .. Why is it so like this always ??