Time to Pause, Review

In pursuit of achieving perfection, we have been running the rat race but the irony is that its the race which is running us down. Check out the article below which explains this further:

http://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/30761-why-we-are-not-happy-despite-our-well-paying-jobs-and-happening-social-lives.html

Fortune Favours the Brave

Recently came across this inspiring article on Youstory. Hats off to Srikanth. Really Hope India has many more like you.

In case you are reading this please click the link below and read the article.

http://yourstory.com/2015/12/srikanth-bolla-bollant-industries/

Your Time Shall Come..

Kenya is two hours ahead of Nigeria, but it does not mean that Nigeria is slow, and it does not mean that Kenya is faster than Nigeria. Both countries are working based on their own "Time Zone."

Someone got married as a virgin and 'waited' ten years before having a child, yet there is another who had had series of abortions before marriage, yet had a baby within one year after marriage.

Someone graduated at the age of 22, yet waited 5 years before securing a job; and there is another who graduated at the age of 27 and secured employment just after national service.

Someone became CEO at the age of 25 and died at the age of 50 while another became a CEO at the age of 50 and lived to 90 years.

Everyone worked based on their 'Time Zone'..

Some people have everything that work fast for them. Work in your “time zone”.

Colleagues, friends, associates, younger one(s) might "seem" to go ahead of you. Don't envy them, it's their 'Time Zone.'. Yours is coming soon. Hold on, be strong, and stay true to yourself. All things shall work together for your good. You’re not late… you’re on time!

Revenge

Revenge can be bitter sweet,but if you sit back and watch, KARMA can be pure entertainment

A Short Story

Solomon the powerful and wealthy king chooses to test his most loyal and trusted minister, Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, by asking of him an impossible task.

The king asks Benaiah to find for him a ring, knowing full well that the ring does not exist, which has magic powers. “If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy,” he tells him. He expresses his desire to wear the ring for Sukkot, which is six months away.

After months of searching, Benaiah finds himself, the night before Sukkot, walking through the poorest neighborhood of Jerusalem. He happens upon a jeweler, who, when asked if he’s heard of such a ring, produces from his pocket a plain gold ring, to which he adds an engravement. Benaiah returns just in time on the eve of Sukkot to give the king the ring he has requested. When the king looks at the engraving, he reads four words:  “This too shall pass” . At that moment, Solomon realizes that his wisdom, tremendous wealth, and power are fleeting things, for one day he will be nothing but dust.”

I...I...I

As rightly said by someone "It's during the worst time of your life that you will get to see the true colors of people who say they care about you". I also got to experiencing similar thing when i decided to quit my job and look out for something interesting. 

For the past few years i have been trying to change my existing job but, was unable to do so. During this time, i approached many people, including my college seniors, Friends, Extended Friends, relatives etc but all i got was hollow assurances. This made me realize couple of things:

• 80% of people don't actually care about helping others, 10% do lip service and rest 10% do not exist
• One has to find his own path
• 99% of the organization are hypocrites, who proudly display their non discrimination policy on their career sections and still apply various discriminatory criteria in actual recruitment
• Recruitment still happens the old way through referral, so focus on building an effective network

So based on the lessons learnt, i have stopped expecting any help from anyone and embarked on my journey all by myself. Hope i am able to reach my destination. 

God Speed..

Middle Class

For a long time I had been wondering why it so happens that amongst all the classes it always the middle class which gets fucked?

For example, in case of increase in prices of the goods, the lower class is unaffected as anyways they are not able to buy those things and in some cases govt gives them free on the other hand it does matter to the upper class as they already have the resources with them. So ultimately it’s the middle class which suffers.  Let’s take another example to further emphasize the point. A normal child from middle class fights to complete the education (from school till Graduation), gets some good job and then gets married. Even in this case the middle class is the one who is fucked. The upper class already has the resources and means to get admission at good colleges and then most of them join their family businesses. As far as lower class is considered they don’t waste their time in all these trivial things and they directly get down to business to earn money.

Right from the young age, children are taught the importance of obeying the rules and being a good citizen but what’s the net result? When these people grow up, they get used to obeying the rules that they don’t even bother to check whether whatever rules which are imposed on them are just or not? Even in this case the upper class gets away through sheer power of money and connection and as far as lower class is considered, they anyways are not concerned about the consequences and hence it doesn’t matter to them.

It’s a natural Human tendency to look up to someone who is ahead of you in terms of money, power, and stature. This same characteristic is reflected in the behavior of middle class. They always aspire to reach the upper class but given the constraints it’s not possible for them to do so resulting in frustration. But the lower class which has already realized its limitations is successful in avoiding such trap.

Even the risk taking ability is highly diminished in the middle class. Their first instinct is to take path of least resistance. Hence seldom we see successful entrepreneurs from the middle class. In case of upper class they have the financial to venture into uncharted territories if they choose to do so. It is the lower class which has the maximum risk taking ability and someone from them intelligent enough to identify and seize correct opportunities we see the people of likes of Dhirubhai Ambani.         

 

For the above things, one thing can be safely concluded that the society as a whole always tries to maintain the social pyramid so that the equilibrium in the system is maintained. The society will always make sure that middle class confirms to the societal norms. Nobody’s bothered about the lower class as they are too insignificant to make any difference.

Last but not the least have been thinking about for some time and wanted to share the same. God created everybody same, it is the humans who divided themselves and formed different groups in order to differentiate themselves from other. The decision to allow selected people in the group led to a rat race where everybody is competing with each other to enter the group which in turn created a divide between those who are part of the group and the others. When will we realize that it is man himself who creates this divisions and then cries about them.