Challenge your abilities

I have been pondering for so long why people are not taking career seriously. For them career is just “making money” way.

Imagine the last time you have bought a durable, can you count on the options available? Can you remember the companies available? The shops? The offers? It did take so much of your time and energy to buy the best isn�t it? But just think back when you just took up your first job, whether off or on campus. It was just weighed by the numbers(salary) right ? Career is the only option to really challenge ones ability. Only when your abilities are challenged you grow to the next level.

The moment you stop challenging your abilities, you become blunt. Don�t believe this? Avail some leave and sit @ home for two days. Get disconnected from this world. You will then start believing this. Biological researches say that average life, average height, and our body conditions all are improving day by day. for decades we have been improving. How and why do you think we are improving?
Because, our abilities are challenged and thus resulting in growth. The more you work out in gym the more your muscles tighten and grow. That is challenging your abilities. When you challenge it, it grows. Take a Pen and write down few exercises in life that are challenging your abilities. You can, but not greater than 10 right? Above all that you have written down the top most is CAREER. Because you spend 50% of your life here. This is the ground that challenges you the max. If you succeed in this ground, life flourishes. But ask most of the software engineers sitting in the Silicon Valley, if they are flourishing?

I have even heard one of my friends out there saying “I want to do organic farming” Instead of matching your abilities with that of the available options(I even recommend to create one of your own) we are weighing against money. Thus leading to personal dissatisfaction and growing a materialistic world. Can you imagine Sachin, A R Rahman, Anil Ambani, Dhoni, Shahrukh all sitting in a software company and breaking their heads in ASP and .Net ?

Well then the world is “The return of the machines”

Individuality Vs Communal harmony

Yesterday I was about to go to lunch, while my friend wanted to join me. “Friends are always welcome but don’t forget to take your plastic cards” I replied. He is one of the best friend of mine that he did bring it. Now its time to decide on the food we liked to have and the hotel. I was so hungry that I thought an Andhra mess would serve that purpose.

My friend stared at me like an alien. ‘What nonsense its either pizza hut or the domino’s”. I worried why had I been with him. After all I was not in a mood to argue. Alas I was there @ pizza hut. We spent a little less than a thousand. Friend with a triumphant smile lighted a cigarette. I was so curious to know if he was really content with the pizza’s. I told him “that’s really great to have those pizza’s isn’t it?” . For the reply he has said, I heard my heart broke in to pieces. “I don’t like to have pizza’s but still pizza’s are the fancied food for lunch” Fancy- in food I exclaimed.

I wondered for sometime “fancy and food” do they really go with each other? This is a stimulated world. We are forced to do those not which we really like but what others have rated as the modern society likes .I call this as communal harmony. This society led by charismatic advertisement has formed a set of rules for the so called hi-fi people.

These rules are blindly followed by the society. If I don’t eat pizza’s I am left out from this fast moving society. It is not only about foods, take dresses, vehicles, mobiles, education or even your career. Buddy you are unique. You are eating pizza’s for the society instead of your stomach.

Your personal interests are over ridden by the society’s unwritten rules. All the world is a stage and every human is acting like somebody else. And a day will come where everybody in this world will start wearing a jean, a Reebok tshirt, an N series mobile(I pray nokia will not introduce o,p,q,r…z series mobiles), a pizza for lunch, weekends at pubs,…….

World lives in the differences. And imagine if differences vanish. Every human being in India will follow that communal harmony to change his child’s genes to look like “sharrukh khan” with the brains of “Abdul kalam”.

In ancient days every human being is treated unique. Kurukulam taught, beema about being strong, arjuna about throwing arrows. But all those Arjunas, Krishnas and Dhuiriodhanas are software engineers now.

Let uniqueness die and the world flourish.
Long live the economy boom.