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Women
I remember once at work, there was a Business Analyst. Once there was some issue in the project and she kind of sighed, “Ah this project sucks! Of course, other than the fact that being born a woman suck. I felt bad, it’s alright to not like what’s going on in life but disliking the birth itself… that’s hard. When I got somewhat matured, in my mid 20’s, I started noticing my mother closely and understood the subtle sacrifices a woman has to always make in her everyday life. My mother is well educated in economics, but she had lost jobs just for the fact that she’s a woman. I…
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New York… people watching
The stress in this world is at an all-time high. And nobody seems to do anything about this. Everybody is interested in making more money… all for what? Few pieces of shining metals? It’s okay! But we must take care of our health too! The origin of yoga is from India several thousand years ago. But that doesn’t matter. It’s like the air we breathe. It’s universal for everyone. But at the same time, it’s very disheartening to see how it’s been so commercialized. People are conducting aerobic classes and call it “Yoga for weight loss”. There are Jacuzzi hot tub spas and they call it, “Hot tub yoga”! It’s…
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Being Indian…
Nevertheless, I realized the Indian spinal cord – that makes people adapt to any condition in any country. That’s “Being liquid”. Pour me anywhere, I will fill right in no matter what the shape of the vessel is. People from other countries wonder how Indians live in a country with so much population and corruption. Because we are liquid! If we were solid and rigid, India would have become like some parts of Africa ruled by mafias and warlords. As one of the rarest, quiet, and nice autorickshaw drivers once told me in Bhubaneshwar Orissa, “Sab khaaney ka chakkar hai saab” (it’s all a play for one-course meal). Some pictures…
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Alaska
Alaska!! A magnificent place to travel!
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Idiocracy… comedy or documentary?
When I was studying at University, I remember watching this movie “Idiocracy”. It’s a hilarious movie about a future generation that actually “devolves” to a generation of morons, rather than “evolve”. The guy in that movie is a mediocre librarian in an army base, he does nothing but swats flies. His boss signs him up for a secret army experiment, where he was supposed to sleep for 1 year. Meanwhile, the army base somehow gets embroiled in scandals and shuts down. Everyone eventually forgets about this guy sleeping in a closed box. Slowly centuries would pass when smart people in the world stop reproducing, but drug addicts and bullies reproduce…
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Self Help
“Mind” – the entity that fears insecurity. That always looks for security, perpetuating the survival. That complicates everything, from studies to career to relationship to money. That deludes rope to a snake, and snake to a rope. Mind, the sole reason for existence, the protector of the body; that generates adrenalin in times of peril, to make us more alert; that generates serotonin for happiness, to give us enthusiasm and smiles; that generates gastrin for digestion, to digest food at the right time, and not secrete acids at the wrong times as to digesting our own stomach; that generates hormones to sustain creation, the hormones that make us look for…
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Life… flowing in and out… Sedona, Arizona
I was struggling to breathe looking at the scorching 110-degrees Sun right above my head in the Sedona, Arizona desert. I had to conserve the last sip of water, I had 30 more minutes to hike to reach my car. The problem was, I could feel my heart struggling to pump with every step I took. If I faint, there probably wouldn’t be anyone to notice for a few days unless some hiker shows up. I have never hiked in hot dry desert weather before, I underestimated the heat. I sat under a tree and closed my eyes. I could rest, but every minute I delayed, I would soon need…
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Man came from Monkey? Dude… seriously?
I remember during 7th grade or so, my history teacher talked about Australopithecus, Zinjanthropus, Pithecanthropus, and Neanderthal men. I am surprised I still remember these terms because it was a “very important question” for the final exam. But there was one thing I didn’t quite understand. The concept of, “Man came from monkey” sounded utterly stupid to me. I asked my mom if it was true. And she said yes. Because, of course, she learned that when she was in high school as well. I walked on the road carrying my school bag looking at buffaloes and goats. I asked my friends, “Why aren’t buffaloes and goats intelligent? Why did…
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Internet – the intra-terrestrial world
Whenever I have a question, I google them. It didn’t work that way years before. People had to go to libraries and refer to pages. Now, it’s like having a library at home that gives us the exact book we need, with the exact page to read. It’s like a genie in the lamp, I rub the lamp, and lo and behold, the genie answers my question. But what I see is how I see it. I type in, “Proof that God exists”, I get a million hits. I type in, “Proof that God doesn’t exist”, I get a million hits for that too. I type in, “World’s going to end”,…
