Chilling out my way

Its been a while since I had explored into the happening place in bangalore. Today I set aside to put my foot on the happening place as I dont want to be left behind the happening place. Well its a lazy saturday noon, blue skies, white clouds, nascent cool breeze, most vehicles are off the road due to cricket, the side walks on MG Rd almost haunted, unheard rattling of the autos. Its totally silent apart from people around talking & laughing loudly. It just cannot be prefect than this.
On the far end of mg road at cofy day on the warm granite slab & table with a hot cuppa with cookies. All my tech. stuff ipod, laptop & the data card are making it more groovy. As 'am blogging this post people around giving a confusing stare at my table, definitely its a geeky thing. But for me its a well deserved lazy saturday noon to chill out a geeky way :D

Journey of another kind !!!

Theme of the journey - Pilgrimage & Spirituality
Place of the journey - 4 of the most sacred Hindu temples in Kerala & a mosque
Reason for the journey - Experience of a different kind
Expectation from the journey - No expectation

All these years all my travels & outings were 99% of the times centered around Nature & Wilderness. Last week for the first in 12 years I went on a journey of a different kind...

The group of 36 with whom I went was very much different. Most of them were in 45yrs ~ 62yrs . I almost felt like a kid in the lot. The whole group were in a thought that was in unison with the journey. At the beginning even before boarding the bus itself I could easily make out that I was very much immature or really not ready for such a journey, but still i hanged on till the end.

The journey began with the thoughts in my mind about my life "I dont need anything & I'm self sufficient & satisfied" was shattered towards the end of the journey. "my wants" started to increase at a steady pace. I probably could not till now had the clarity as to what I really wanted . This was something an eye opener.

Due to my partially broken left leg at the beginning I thought I couldn't complete the 3hrs trek and the long hours of waiting in the line. but without any hazels I was able to make it, given the situation I consider this to be a bigger boost of my self-confidence.

Overall the journey was good in a different aspects of experience which 'am not able to clearly express in this post :(

When the fuse blow !!!

Inspired by articles that I read few days back on newspaper. This is somewhat in similar lines to few of my older posts. Also the motivation to pen this post came after I saw few of the coolest guys blowing out their fuses lately. More than everything I myself losing my cool very often these days.

A matchstick has a head made from powdered chemical. Just strike it against the side of the box and the stick bursts into flame. Aren’t we, at times, behaving in a similar fashion? Let a small thing go against our wishes and see what happens!
Anger is sorta brief madness.

Can one deter anger ??
Many a time, we allow things of little importance to overpower us. We very easily lose our temper over insignificant matters. The food tastes awful, your comrade at work doesn't listen or do what you wanted him/her to do, the guy driving in front of you in the traffic is awfully slow and not giving you way ( the list is endless )... don’t lose your cool. Patience and prudence will help deal with the situation in a constructive manner.
Whenever something angers sit by yourself and contemplate. Introspect, find out what made to lose the temper. Pythagoras commented, “Anger starts from stupidity and ends at repentance”.
Try to stretch, to the extent possible, the time gap before you react. Whenever you get a feeling that the other person’s behaviour could ignite anger in you, immediately back out of that place. If that is not possible, then try changing the topic of discussion. Never commit the blunder of reacting immediately.
After some time, when anger subsides, then respond to the situation. You would then be able to pick apt words to express yourself thereby behaving in a wise manner. Aristotle says: “It is very easy for anybody to get angry. But getting angry at the right time, in right degree, at the right person, for the right reason, and in the right manner is neither easy nor is it in everyone’s scope or frame of capabilities”.

[ few pieces of the post sourced from last monday's TOI ]

Fade Away

For past month 'am literally struggling everyday to keep up my interests/motivation alive & fresh. Its only a lick of time that 'am able to hold my interest and fizzles out in few hours. What used to be busy weekends dotted with activities has now been reduced to no-activities and complete idleness. Drowning myself in activities of interest are I felt that keeps my motivation high. As a cause & effect, slowing interests are causing a degraded motivation. I believed that taking a break would improve the situation but this time around no break has helped yet to get me that break-through.
'am not the best of me I used to be anymore.

I can classify that interests are fading & time is running out...

Its a phase in my life that I'm going through right now