Ever Thankful!

Well, thanks a ton to all of you out there clicking open the links and reading my posts. It's overwhelming response of 2000 hits in the past two months. What more can encourage writers than see evident results. A lot of you comment in these links and most of you write to me and get in touch with me to express your opinion and give valuable feedback and corrective actions.

I'm bound to be thankful to all of you across the world for your time and unending interests in my posts.

I'm soon going to start couple of series on which the title would remain same, however there would be new posts with new experiences, encounters and adventures. First of series would be, "It takes courage to," and more in pipeline that would reach you all.

Expecting your fullest cooperation and request that our journey in De Old Sage continues. Thanks a ton for making me happy!

Love,

Organizational Responsibility

I work in an organization where Team Outings are encouraged and we have a budget allocations for it. The most important clause and my personal favorite is that, reimbursements on liquor and cigarettes will not be encouraged and settled. I strongly believe that such ethical restrictions have an impact on individual behavior too.

I was part of the steering committee for a day's trip for my team and we obliged to the limitations set by my firm, not a penny was spent on alcohol or cigarettes. When one of my friend surveyed couple of my team mates if the outing didn't satisfy them as alcohol was not included, my team mate had replied, "I can access alcohol anywhere and anytime, since this is an official gathering, it's OK that I can sacrifice."

I felt that having such restrictions on organizational policy does in fact has its influence. The morality is instilled and a discipline is driven among employees.

Pity, I hear from my friends from other firms who work in stressful environment that their firms take them to pubs and officially sponsor alcohol. I've known people who've never taken alcohol before are subject to social pressure and influence and start their trials with alcohol and cigarettes.

While work place colleagues or friends can take their time and money out of their own will and go partying is not a matter of concern, organizations sponsoring and encouraging dark activities and late night events and booking rooms in hotel for one night stays for their employees are a major cause of concern.

Man is a social animal who had for a reason institutionalized marriages and practices monogamy. Why are we reversing the situation, and what more can be more toxic than organizations that are turning as brothel houses!

There are ways to deal with stress and organizations need to have stronger morality to drive values, like the first instance where an employee can accommodate the absence of alcohol.

Rules are good, for a reason!

Love,

Be Responsible

Every drop makes up an ocean.

This is probably the worst of summer in all our lives at least for  people born after 1980s. Summers are getting worse every year. And there's more people consuming more electricity and water, of course being a basic necessity.

There's no way we can reduce the consumption, but we sure can do a lot of saving that's not actually being consumed, yes, I mean wastage.

Every tap that leaks when fixed can save tens of litres of water. Imagine the households across the country & the world!? Every drop saved makes a difference.

Same is case with electricity. Turn off every unused appliance in your home and office.

A penny saved is a penny gained. Substitute the penny with water, electric units or whatsoever you want to. But it's high time that we wake up.

Plant trees as many you can, wherever possible. This will make a huge difference to the climate change.

While we are calling it progress and actually deteriorating the lives of all in the Earth, what are we creating and what progress are we making when climate change gets so worse. With water draughts, and food supply that will drastically fall due to water shortage, how long would life be possible on Earth!?

Time to wake up, to be responsible!

Love,

Power of Influence

It was during my late teen years when I happened to see a documentary on Oprah Winfrey. There was this unexplainable feeling that I could resonate to every word that described the life of this Media Mogul. Her past seemed to be similar, her determination seemed to be similar, her achievements seem similar to my aspirations. Going deep dive and trying to know more about this person and her respect for Maya Angelou and their relationship seems similar to what I hold with a mentor of mine. Unknown to her, unmet, Oprah Winfrey has seeded deeply in myself that my aspirations can be tapped with my potential and that they can be crowned as achievements that might instill a similar effect on another person and thus, the cycle continues.

Influence is so powerful that the influencer might not even been alive during the same span of our lives and might have lived hundreds of years back.

Shakespearian words gives me goosebumps like none else. His plays are a great source of influence that inspire several writers as myself. If I read an article about his skull missing in the cemetery, it gives me chills down my spine. Influence is the medium to feel related to someone or their thoughts actions or achievements.

Now think what happens when someone so ignorant chooses a wrong source of influence. Choose wisely.

Love,

Where are we heading?

As I unfolded today's Deccan Chronicle, I had more than one reason to frown. One could resonate with this and agree News these days are not soothing to us any more. More things happen around the world that is changing and challenging the way we live our lives.

The first disturbing piece of information is the trending hashtag, #MalePolish, a new trend where hundreds of men around the world are donning nail polishes and nail art. Well, why is this new trend so important. While things such as these are personal choices, do we have to go all over the Internet and exhibit viral posts?

The second one is about a case in SC where there are petitions about women to be allowed entry at Sabarimala temple, very soon after a ruling about entry to Shani temple.

These have been practices for some reasons and have to be adhered to. I hope fighting for equality won't go beyond this. There's a practice at Guruvayur temple where men should wear dhoti and be bare above waist. Practice is backed up with fact, that men need to absorb the rays from sanctum which have vibrations received via the pillars connecting to the top of the structure. Women need not do this because, they carry within themselves the garbha graha, the uterus which symbolises the presence of God in women.

Such are reasons behind why certain practices are held. Pray God there's no fight for equality that pushes boundaries beyond its limit.

Where are we heading to?

Love,

A Happy Ending

It's beyond hope as far as the phrase goes, an happy ending. It is prevalent only in fiction and movies.

How many of us have lost our dear ones and parted ways with our close kith and kin that has destroyed our peace of minds.

Endings have always been sorrowful and merciless. Parting ways as friends from college, and staying in touch with each other, regular weekend night parties doesn't actually fit in to "endings."

We spend so much time by prioritizing wrong people in our lives and then wake up one day and no longer want to be that person who's just being used and left behind. We take charge with a new determined grit that certain relationships are just filthy and poisoning our minds. We rebel and let the other know that we are not available and for granted.

This is the stage when the other person in relationship feels no more use, and we gradually end the relationship.

Endings are always sorrowful, and can never be happy, unless it's a fiction.

Love,

Childhood Memoirs

Reaching out to all of you out there, through my various posts on behaviors, psychology & relationships has been a pleasant journey. A lot of you have agreed on while the other lot has agreed to disagree with me. Well, that's the balance of life, one needs to adjust to live. I receive more personal mails and messages than comments on the blog.

One friend of mine, pointed out "superiority complex" portrayed in my posts, while I had to defend myself for the limitless levels of inferiority complex I've had to deal with and learn a hard way to cope up with people and life.

Below is one such memory of my childhood in a residential school where I was initially lost in trying to stabilize with the changes in the environment. This was the first school I went to that had a library,   a place that mostly resembled a museum, largely due to the silence associated with it, like the ones that I've visited from my previous schools as a one day trip.

While trying to adapt about being on my own was itself a huge complexity, academics was another area that I had to fight with. Thanks to the excellent food there that puts me to sleep in the morning hours. While I'm active out of my slumber, it's time for lunch and again I go back on a slumber for the afternoon sessions.

Once a week there is an hour at the library, where we pick up a new book in exchange for the old book we had taken in the past week. I never knew why I picked those books in the first place, forget about reading them. In few weeks a slip was handed over where all of us had to summarize the contents of the book and submit at the time of returning the book. Wait, I've never read them ever! I simply copied the back cover blurb of the book and returned the book to the librarian.

I had no clue he was so jobless to sit and read the summary of all submissions. Or may be that was his key responsibility, who cares!? He called me forward and asked me to extend my arm, and there he struck my arm with a yellow wooden scale. I'm not sure if those wooden rulers still around in the market here!

While adapting to the environment, academics being complex enough at a very young age, with no support on how to adapt to a new life, forcing things down is a pain that's hard to explain. And what more can be painful when you realize you're the source for your fellow mates to laugh at!?

Now, who was the one who sent me that text on "Superiority Complex?"

Things have changed far for good and I've published my first book at the age of 26, an age half of it at which the Academic Head of the same school published his first.

Now, that's not Superiority Complex, rather I'd call it, living well. What else could be the best revenge?

Love,

Cloud Gazing

I write this post as I lie down on the terrace of a 5 storey apartment flat I currently reside. I see those tiny dots twinkle on a dark background sky. The clouds move past me as though milk boils down from a vessel.

It's been ages since I got myself to connect with nature and forget this man made life. Thoughts get so vivid and imagination rises to its peak as I lay here and watch the clouds moving past me.

In the evenings, as I take a stroll around my office, I see a lot of heron and strokes walking on the grass and catching their prey and running around cheerfully. A lot of other birds are constantly wading around the marsh fields near by.

They do their duty and nothing else. To live, feed, keep the food chain active, breed and beget, die and decompose. It makes me feel, why did humans evolve and build so many sky scrapers and get too stranded away from nature?

May be, humans are doing our duty bestowed upon us, to bring destruction to earth, and thereby reset the cycles.

When was the last time you tried star gazing?! It's not too late! Go right now!

Love,