Musings...

The other day i was chatting with a friend of mine and she sounded quite upset about how her boyfriend was treating her.. and the topic veered to the aspect of the degree of control we have over life. so when i told her that we have no control over at all over life, she said.. so i should just sit and do nothing? if everything is controlled, if every script of my action or happening in my life is pre-written at my birth, why should i even do anything? that set me thinking and i wondered.. how do i resolve this? she was right in her thinking.. if everthing is pre-written, i have no role and i could just keep quite and do nothing.. if however, i have control over my life, i can and must do something that will change my life and hence it is not pre-written... I was quite puzzled about the whole thing till one day when i was driving home, a possible answer struck me... there was a group of vehicles going in front of me... very slowly.. so i could say everything is prewritten and move slo

The other day, I was to travel by bus and saw a bus at the signal; when i asked the conductor if I could get in, he said sure and i got in. After a few minutes, another person got in without asking the conductor; the conductor was furious and shouted at him and told him to get off and go to a bus stop. This set me thinking.. why did the conductor let me in politely and shouted at another person...was it bcoz i respected him... or was i flowing with nature... Chinese use the flow method very effectively in home planning "feng shui"; it is also successfully used in martial arts Akido where one uses the opponent's power against him/her.. and i pondered.. how does this happen, can i make it happen or should i flow with it? Great examples of being with flow is that of great musicians or cricketer .. in fact anyone who excels in what he or she does..all of them mysteriously are in a profession where they are excellent.. probably bcoz they are in flow with nature.. how did it

Most things in life are not like just two sides of a coin, black and white.. firstly when there are two sides to a situation or a coin, it is easy to understand.. but the reality is that there are multiple things to view anything in this world but we see them through our eyes and most troubles in life happen bcoz of this jaundiced view.. we see an event and think we know everything about it...like i was returning from work and saw the car in front of me driving very slowly.. i was very irritated and went on honking... its only when the car in front of me took a right that i realised that there was a small dog in front of the car very scard ..not knowing where to go... we are quick to pass judgements on others without having any clue as to why they behave the way they do..this was well illustrated by a doctor who happened to be a gyanecologist.. i was chatting with him when the topic of Cesarean birth came up.. and i opened my big mouth and said.. these doctors are always like this.. d

I was wondering about war. Why do people fight? what are the benefits? interestingly war has led to lots of development in the world... be it in internet or landing on the moon, sports or martial arts or hacking and when i say war i include competition in that as competition itself in a way is minor form of war..after all i want to be better than someone else..war is a lot more stronger thats all.. and due to war or competition, the world as a whole has benefited... look how instictively we are competitive... i may driving on the road at a sedate speed.. moment there is someone driving faster, i will instinctively drive fast...not only that.. a person cycling will try and beat a car... and that set me thinking .. this kind of competition or sports or war probably happens intensifies within a specie specially when that specie thinks that it is better than any other specie.. like human beings.. a human being wont be as good or as efficient when fighting with lion .. coz the human will