Aspirations – Contd.

OK! Thanks for all the views and comments guys.
What I really wanted to show here was my predicament a few years back. And of course a few take aways. I wanted to write this sooner, but I ended up being lazy 🙂
So what should be the answer to my question? Well, depending on the person it can be anything (I know a lot of people will argue this, but I still believe that it is ultimately a choice)

If however we decide to pursue our dreams, we have to be prepared for one thing – failure. It is but certain that we will encounter disappointments and failures during our journey towards our dreams. And when it comes to handling failures, I can think of two things which helped me.
The first is the joy of following my heart. Most often I see people aiming for something which they dont understand or which is not theirs. A classical example in the Indian context is a boy or girl wanting to do engineering. The boy or the girl would not know what is engineering or what it is about, but still want to do engineering. Why? Because it is what everybody does. It is a proof that you are intelligent. It is what your parents tell you. So, the first thing I will suggest is follow YOUR heart. Follow YOUR dreams, not somebody elses. The joy of following your heart is one of the few things which can overpower any failure.

The other thing and probably most important thing is that we do not achieve anything individually but as a group. Man is a social animal. When we achieve something, it is not a singular effort, but the result of help of all our friends and family. We need our friends and family to be there for us when we fail. The same way we must help out our friends and kin in distress. A person with very strong relationships can overcome any tragedy. So make sure you have friends and family close to you.

Consider this as my sermon for diwali 🙂
Have a happy diwali with your kith and kin.
Wish you all a happy diwali and eid.

Aspirations

I feel I am at this stage of my life, where aspirations start to reduce and reality starts filling in. It is like I was living a dream so far where things are easy and just require a little patience. What I am now able to see is different. It is not only patience but right direction that is needed to make things work. If in wrong direction, you end up wasting a lot of effort and patience and achieving nothing. To make things worse, you never know what is the right direction till you reach the end, the place where you want to reach. It makes me see why people keep babbling about luck. Is it luck which differentiates the achievers from the failures? Are there aspirations which cannot be achieved? My experience is continuously making me stop trying and accept my condition. But my mind doesnt is not happy with my condition. It wants me to be a very different place. So, do I give up? Or do continue to aspire like a fool?

It is here where I would like to quote Uzumaki Naruto –
“I never go back on my word… that is my way of Ninja”
My logical side continuously shows me that I need a humongous effort to achieve what I want, the kind of effort I might never be able to put. But my other side does not want me to quit. I am now facing a choice – either I reduce my aspirations and make it something more easy and “normal” or I continue with my aspirations but face the fact that I might never succeed. What choice do I make?

Is the future TERMINATORed?

I finally managed to see Terminator salvation (got a cheap morning show ticket 🙂 ). If I had not seen hangover before it, I would have thought that it was the best movie running now :). That aside, the movie was good.

But I couldn’t help but think if our future is going to be a big war with the machines. A lot of movies have shown us battling machines. Infact it seems as though AI is synonymous with ‘destroy all humans and take over the world’. But I really think that might not be the case.

Infact, I think that the future may hold some sort of fusion between carbon based life forms and metal-silicon based ones. Just think, we have perfected nanobots – microscopic machines – which will be injected into our body and cleanup our body. I we get hurt, these nanobots might heal it immediately. If we get infected, these nanobots fight the germs much quicker than our own immune system. These nanobots could also control the brain, changing our moods and feelings to maintain us in an ever happy existence.

Probably, we may develop a new type of tissue, based on some material (probably, non-carbon non-silicon and non-metal) which can easily regenerate unlike metals, which is strong unlike carbon-based tissue, and much more compressed than silicon circuits. We could have a whole new type of body, probably some type of android!

Well, only time will tell, what our future holds for us

My first blog

Till a few days back, I considered blogging as an activity for the times of leasure. But off-late, I have been amazed by the impact that blogging is having.

It all started with zdnet. I dont remember how i registered for it, but then I started getting regular mails updating me of the recent blogs and articles on the zdnet site. For a long time, I ignored these as spam mails. Then, finally I somehow managed to look into these mails (I guess I had a lot of free time 🙂 ) Then I started following these blogs and I actually found myself to be much more upto-date with information (Needless to say, this proves to be useful in my profession)

Seeing the influence that zdnet had on me, I decided to have my own little investigation on blogs. Being the geek that I am (I wouldn’t want to admit it), I first searched about blogs in google, wikipedia and others. Most of these information were technical and did not give me a feel for it. But I did read a few blogs (on varied topics – from Naruto to Philosophy).

For some, blogs seem to be a way to showcase their creativity, while for others, it is just another fad. In my opinion, blogs are a way to influence and get influenced. It seems to the perfect vehicle, to express our ideas, feelings and thoughts.

So here I am, learning about blogs, trying to influence the web and get influenced by it. My english may not be great, my choice of words may not be so good, but I will try to articulate my ideas as well as I can. I will try to present my thinking from time to time. I dont know for how long I would be able to udpate this blog and how much can I frequent this blog, but I am here to try.

So this was my first blog! I am sitting in somewhat an awkward position at an awkward time of night. And I enjoyed it.

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