Certain factions of the blog-world, I see, have reached viagra-like heights in their diligently stupid(or stupidly diligent?another philosophical question……double sigh..) endeavour to decimate all the wannabe Voltaires and rousseaus of blogdom!!
As if broadcasting SRISTI TV or PEACE channel was not enough food for indigestible thoughts; we now have to deal with the sri sri ravi shankar’s of blogosphere,trying to explain the (F)art-of-living! Golly geeee that’s gotta be a pain to many!
Chauvinism of sadistic mono-maniacs possessed with the sense of the self, I have come to believe, can never be a latent entity. It is bound to break all shackles and show itself. It is comparable to the “virtues” of Pamela Anderson(that “generous” lady who is the b(r)est metaphor in this situation), that can never be kept hidden for long; it is bound to come out as an in-your-face element(pun very much intended), unaware all the while of it’s own nakedness in front of others.
I just wasted 173 words over a pointless and purposeless post. I must be suffering from intellectual dementia…I don’t even know why I am writing such stuff…..is this post real? It is?
Really??
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
WTF is success?
The only reason I sat down for some “intellectual/philosophical masturbation” is because of this: http://theplaceanindyo.blogspot.com/2008/12/whos-right.html
A throat-infection which refuses to subside, weather which is as fickle as an Indian spinning-track, an important entrance exam in less than 45hrs, yet another unimportant but cruelly compulsory college exam( for which I am unprepared ), and YET one more exam in a weeks time, the thoughts of which I have shifted to the recycle bin in my brain ( which I notice is rather overflowing with garbage)…..all of these and many more issues could not stop me this time from penning down a few lines in response to what my friend has written. I must say though, that I have interpreted his post in my own way so….
Anyways , this excerpt is what made me unthink a few things:
“Some people are inately born with this desire to succeed ...no matter what it takes.Others prefer to live in the comfort zone and not strive for it and appease themselveswith the false consolation that in the larger scheme of things nothing matters ..success is relative and one only needs to be contended with themselves because man'sdesire for greater things will never stop . Who is right ?”
Hmm… serious words them… but it makes me wonder at what I was doing in my life for the past few weeks. Furiously surfing the net , solving useless stuff like LR..
So what am I working my derriere off for??
Success ??
And what does success essentially translate to? It all boils down to one thing… money.
If there are people who think success should not be equated with money; then here’s a thought…..how many want to be a successful friend,son,daughter or likewise??
I can almost see the smirk on the faces of hundreds of software professionals who would probably laugh their chips off (!!) at this schmaltzy opinion/question!!! ……..[ Some people are inately born with this desire to succeed ...no matter what it takes ]
Let me assume that I crack my entrance exam and clear the other rounds…I get admission into a really good postgrad college..get a fancy degree and an even fancier paypacket…( that is one BIG assumption dudes!!)..
Ten years down the line, if I have to live in a swanky apartment(alone) somewhere abroad, will that qualify me as a success,if I don’t have someone beside me?? Will my paypacket be able to buy me friends? Will I ever be successuful enough,have money enough to buy my childhood? Or to change my past mistakes/ imperfections? My prof once observed “ no man is rich enough to buy his past”( was this originally by confucious?!!)
Does , then, conventional constructs of “success” really matter?
The smirk is back, I presume, on some faces.
Many would be rolling on the floor by now at my “compromised” definition of success….[ in the larger scheme of things nothing matters ..success is relative and one only needs to be contended with themselves because man'sdesire for greater things will never stop . Who is right ? ]
I guess it is a matter of perspective. I cant say who is right therefore…but neither are wrong !!!
A throat-infection which refuses to subside, weather which is as fickle as an Indian spinning-track, an important entrance exam in less than 45hrs, yet another unimportant but cruelly compulsory college exam( for which I am unprepared ), and YET one more exam in a weeks time, the thoughts of which I have shifted to the recycle bin in my brain ( which I notice is rather overflowing with garbage)…..all of these and many more issues could not stop me this time from penning down a few lines in response to what my friend has written. I must say though, that I have interpreted his post in my own way so….
Anyways , this excerpt is what made me unthink a few things:
“Some people are inately born with this desire to succeed ...no matter what it takes.Others prefer to live in the comfort zone and not strive for it and appease themselveswith the false consolation that in the larger scheme of things nothing matters ..success is relative and one only needs to be contended with themselves because man'sdesire for greater things will never stop . Who is right ?”
Hmm… serious words them… but it makes me wonder at what I was doing in my life for the past few weeks. Furiously surfing the net , solving useless stuff like LR..
So what am I working my derriere off for??
Success ??
And what does success essentially translate to? It all boils down to one thing… money.
If there are people who think success should not be equated with money; then here’s a thought…..how many want to be a successful friend,son,daughter or likewise??
I can almost see the smirk on the faces of hundreds of software professionals who would probably laugh their chips off (!!) at this schmaltzy opinion/question!!! ……..[ Some people are inately born with this desire to succeed ...no matter what it takes ]
Let me assume that I crack my entrance exam and clear the other rounds…I get admission into a really good postgrad college..get a fancy degree and an even fancier paypacket…( that is one BIG assumption dudes!!)..
Ten years down the line, if I have to live in a swanky apartment(alone) somewhere abroad, will that qualify me as a success,if I don’t have someone beside me?? Will my paypacket be able to buy me friends? Will I ever be successuful enough,have money enough to buy my childhood? Or to change my past mistakes/ imperfections? My prof once observed “ no man is rich enough to buy his past”( was this originally by confucious?!!)
Does , then, conventional constructs of “success” really matter?
The smirk is back, I presume, on some faces.
Many would be rolling on the floor by now at my “compromised” definition of success….[ in the larger scheme of things nothing matters ..success is relative and one only needs to be contended with themselves because man'sdesire for greater things will never stop . Who is right ? ]
I guess it is a matter of perspective. I cant say who is right therefore…but neither are wrong !!!
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