It feels quite strange to be writing on this page again.. but a nice kind of strange.
On this Saturday, 25th October, we changed our time to fall back one hour and go back to GMT time. And for a logically unjustified reason, I feel like I have gained an hour of sleep. Or so I would like to think. Slept till about 10:30 am on the Sunday morning despite of the extra hour in bed. The weekend has been quite good, they do seem to be really really short thought. You do something on Friday night, Driving/Golf on Saturday, some tv, some cooking etc etc. and it's already sunday then and you start thinking about going back to work. This is a topic that maybe i'll keep for another post, but going back to the daylight savings time change.
And unlike you would have guessed this post is about the last word in the sentence, CHANGE. What do I mean? Well, the shift in time is a change right? And some people are glad about it, some unhappy (like me) that its gonna get darker soon [no more of those long summer days, even if they were not sunny always].. but most of us indifferent to the change. What difference should it bring in our lifestyle? Nothing probably, even though if you think of it the activity in its context, we are getting up a different time, sleeping at a different time, eating at a different time etc.. and all this we accept so normally with a mere change of the hands on the clock!!!
Gives rise to two questions that made scribble this post - What makes some changes like this so easy to accept? and whatever the reason with an accepting change, we just think (if we do!) and move on with it, should that always be so? So if it doesnt impact us financially, and if everybody else does it - we just don't care about it that much..
Maybe somethings for one to think about...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Aspirations and Inspirations...
Well, the new year is in.. and first week has nearly come to a close.. And once again I find myself, scribbling down some new year resolutions, things I want to do, things I want to learn, and things I want to get better at [you might think writing these entries is one of them.. :-)].
This makes me think.. what are my aspirations for this year. For some reason I like the word aspirations, better than resolutions. A part of me suggests thats because of the motivational dimension associated to an aspiration as compared to displinary effect assumed by the word resolution, and another part of me offers a different view - you break resolutions, but you strive for aspirations. I think both the arguments convey my perspective.. Moving on, Inspirations are the other thoughts that I closely relate and associate to aspirations. They are like fuel to fire.. aspirations come true when you have the inspiring inspirations.
So, I am thinking what are my Inspirations and Aspirations for this year?? Are they simple and pragmatic? Or are they bold and adventurous? Am I willing to spread my wings or Am I happy in my nest? This only gets more and more complicated. Using the concepts of associative maps (something I remember from a boring class on Artificial Intelligence), I quickly jump on to think - what makes my face glow? What makes me truly happy? Are they right reasons? What is right? .... Too many questions, too few answers.
I remember my Dad saying, the first step is to ask the questions.. by that logic.. hopefully thats the right start to the new year !! With some thoughts and some resolutions, and lots of aspirations and new found inspirations, I welcome this New Year and hope that it brings joy, happiness and prosperity to us all...
p.s. Oh ya, my final take on this..
This makes me think.. what are my aspirations for this year. For some reason I like the word aspirations, better than resolutions. A part of me suggests thats because of the motivational dimension associated to an aspiration as compared to displinary effect assumed by the word resolution, and another part of me offers a different view - you break resolutions, but you strive for aspirations. I think both the arguments convey my perspective.. Moving on, Inspirations are the other thoughts that I closely relate and associate to aspirations. They are like fuel to fire.. aspirations come true when you have the inspiring inspirations.
So, I am thinking what are my Inspirations and Aspirations for this year?? Are they simple and pragmatic? Or are they bold and adventurous? Am I willing to spread my wings or Am I happy in my nest? This only gets more and more complicated. Using the concepts of associative maps (something I remember from a boring class on Artificial Intelligence), I quickly jump on to think - what makes my face glow? What makes me truly happy? Are they right reasons? What is right? .... Too many questions, too few answers.
I remember my Dad saying, the first step is to ask the questions.. by that logic.. hopefully thats the right start to the new year !! With some thoughts and some resolutions, and lots of aspirations and new found inspirations, I welcome this New Year and hope that it brings joy, happiness and prosperity to us all...
p.s. Oh ya, my final take on this..
"Simple and inescapable in the new year..
yet hardest to discipline and perisist through...."
yet hardest to discipline and perisist through...."
Friday, January 4, 2008
Celebrations!!
Aloha!!
Well, here I am again.. writing a few thoughts and emotions that have crossed my mind and heart. Must at the outset thank a friend, who has inspired me to write again.. continue a simple life story which would otherwise be lost in the big nothings of living this life..
Its funny.. how I used to scribble my thoughts every now and then earlier, when there wasnt much to talk about, just some random thoughts that the mind had wandered to. And since I stopped writing, as if my life has just picked up some pace.. finished my dissertation, met love of my life, started a new job, celebrated christmas after 7 years with reunited family and have now already entered a brand new 2008. But admist all of this, I have just not expressed through this medium all that has been experienced, all that I felt and maybe didnt feel.. Anyways, we are back on track now.. hopefully it ll make up for it this time around..
Well, here I am again.. writing a few thoughts and emotions that have crossed my mind and heart. Must at the outset thank a friend, who has inspired me to write again.. continue a simple life story which would otherwise be lost in the big nothings of living this life..
Its funny.. how I used to scribble my thoughts every now and then earlier, when there wasnt much to talk about, just some random thoughts that the mind had wandered to. And since I stopped writing, as if my life has just picked up some pace.. finished my dissertation, met love of my life, started a new job, celebrated christmas after 7 years with reunited family and have now already entered a brand new 2008. But admist all of this, I have just not expressed through this medium all that has been experienced, all that I felt and maybe didnt feel.. Anyways, we are back on track now.. hopefully it ll make up for it this time around..
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