Little Things in Day-to-Day life......

Little satisfaction in day-to-day life:

1. Reaching the railway station, and finding a SLOW train in the next 2 minutes.
2. Raching the railway station and finding a FAST train in the next 5 minutes.
3. Reaching the station and finding a friend you have been longing to meet and being happy that there is no train leaving the station in the next 10 minutes, so that even the friend cannot leave.
4. Leaving for the station and finding a collegeaue in the elevator to accompany you to the station.
5. Leaving for the station and leaving early :)
6. Asking the rick or cab to take you office from station/station to home and he says a "Yes" in the first few attempts.
7. Coming home and not finding the usual pathetic Mumbai traffic.
8. Coming home in the rick and the rick driver has an urgent work and he drives outstandingly fast but in good control.
9.Coming home in pathetic traffic condition and on the way chatting/talking to friends/relatives.
10.Remembering a friend's birthday I am not in touch with, and wishing her.
11.Going to office and the boss is late.
12.Willing to come home early, and the boss leaves earlier than that.
13.Switching on the FM and finding the recent favourite song being played on it.
14.Getting up and finding a message from an old friend.
15.Receiving unexpected calls on an important ocassions.
16.Just being able to get into the office bus in the morning.
17.Finding my friend and myself being able to manage time to get into the bus at 9:30 am and enjoy that morning half an hour company (cribbing/appreciating boss/work).
18.Preparing some letter and not getting any re-work on it.
19.A nice piece of laughter admist a hectic and busy day with the colleagues around.
20.A call from friend whom I have been thinking of calling for sometime.
21.Preparing meal for others and self, and enjoying dining together.
22. Reaching the station and finding a SLOW train in the next 5 mins on Platform 3 so that I do not need to cross the bridge after reaching Ghatkopar.

And the list goes on....

These are little satisfaction in day-to-day life, which are part and parcel of work/office life.I am wondering the amount of happiness it brings to....leave office early, and get a company of a good friend back home!!!
Extremely delighted :):)

Rich or Poor or Simply Middle class!!!

I had gone to bed after a long day at office. After a similar discussion with a friend a while back, I started wondering why was I sleeping? Was it on account of the ritual that we should sleep every night to go to work in the morning? or Was I tired ? or some other reason? It had been a long day, but, not very tiring physically but I had exhasuted myself mentally with plenty of other thoughts in mind. And just wondering about why am I sleeping.... I could not sleep. So, had got up to finish up the Rich Dad, Poor Dad. which I am just 65 pages short of finishing it up

Just recalled the discussion I was having with a friend the other day. What parameters define one to be rich, poor, wealthy, or middle class? Having a lavish life-style, or owning a car does not show one is rich or wealthy. After a little perspective I got from the book, and with little of my understanding, I feel the conclusion is based on some mathematics and not exactly on the amount of money a person has or the no. of cars or his/her life-style. More often, I feel these words are mis-interpreted/mis-understood by people.

Wealthy as per this book shall be a temporary concept. So, is being broke. If one can maintain the same life-style for x no. of days from their savings and wiith no other source of income, then the person is addressed as wealthy for that period of time. It does not define what "rich" means.

Can one remain rich forever? is the question I had posted to a friend of mine. My friend defined "rich" as the ability to be wealthy for the entire life. Being a CA, and almost a CFA, by his number crunching skills, he made the calculations as: Lets say, I would stay alive for another 40 years (though too long as per life expectancy in India), and I maintain a particular standard of living, and my savings are sufficient to meet those standards for 40 years, then I am rich, whether or not I can afford an expensive car (the ones we see in the parking lot in Maker Tower during lunch hours :P). I asked him what would happen after he is married, he has kids..how can he freeze his standard of living or make computations with varying standards of living? We had no answers.

Hand- to- mouth existence or no troubled existence means one is poor? When one cannot classify oneself in either of the two categories (rich or poor), then they call themselves middle class (inspite of myself being part of middle class, it is a term which I genuinely hate).

Really complicated terminology(ies)!

A busy Saturday!

Had a real bad week and loads of work which I have been deferring. Had decided to wind-up most of it on Saturday. I had got myself involved quite a bit, until it was almost 5:30 pm-a full day. I had been quite reserved during lunch hours and my bad mood was so evident. Thanks to my office friends, who deferred their pending personal work to take time out for a movie just to cheer me up. But, almost in vain. :(

We watched the movie-Ajab..Kajab...and a thought which I had been trying to restrain came back to me, and with even wilder imagination. Katrina had asked Ranbir to define how much he loved/liked her.... and I wonder, if there is any unit which can be used to define and compare feeling--in kgs, joules, kms, kcal/kg, litres.....

A useless story-line, and slapstick comedy which I find hard to laugh at. (May be, my little bro would enjoy it). My friends liked the comedy, and infact, one of them felt that he had laughed so much last when he had seen Golmal. May be, the intent behind watching the movie was to keep myself occupied, and the concentration was missing. The second part was still better because I was making efforts to enjoy the movie and laugh as the silly things. No favourite songs from the movie or may be, too early to say (I am yet to listen to them on FM). A usual predictable Hindi movie with a happy ending!

Reached home after 10:30 pm and prepared dinner, and its time to relax a bit.

Believe in Self!

I came across this nice quote from the book-"How to get from where you are to Where you want to be" by Jack Canfield-

" You were not an accident. You were not mass produced. You are not an assembly-line production. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman"-Max Lucado
Well said!

Positives of Negative Thinking :P

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091102/lf_nm_life/us_mood_memory
Source: Reuters

Honesty is the worst policy!

Why have we been taught -" Honesty is the best policy" phrase in kindergarden school without even explaining the meaning of the word "Honesty"? Wiki defines Honesty as speaking the truth and creating trust in the mind of the others. And for the word "truth", there is no clear cut defintion. Infact, there are several theories on it, which I would wish to read sometime at leisure.I remember, during the GDPI training session also, we were asked to rate ourselves on a scale of 1-10 on honesty, and our trainer had the logic that it has to be either 0 or 10. I did not even question his logic then. :(

I had always believed that - "Saying I trust you would always be a better compliment than saying I love you". I have realised that saying truth (stating the exact facts) is not the best policy (be it ur parents, siblings, boss, collegueas, friends), because I have faced its repercussions as well. I wonder, saying which form of truth is best policy? ?

But,(un)fortunately so, I remember nobody telling me- "I do not trust you!"

Random Thoughts

In our everyday life, we meet many people. Each one unique in most respects. I have always found myself little unacceptable to people in general, and get annoyed with their behaviour (finding it to be little weird, illogical,etc). I have always heard that when we keep meeting such people, we become more and more acceptable to them.

I was a little surprised when something similar happened the other day.

• In our organisation, we have a general trend of working in teams, atleast 2-3 people on a project. Since, I am quite new to the place, and had worked alone on my first project for almost 5 months, each of the team mates are new to me (in their work behaviour, atleast!). The other time, when this collegeaue had left the papers unfiled on my desk, I was extremely annoyed. This time, my desk was in a worse condition than the earlier instance. And when I reached offfice in the morning, my desk was all messed up and I knew who it was! Suprisingly, I was not annoyed this time. I just smiled.

I am still wondering what could be the reason for this? May be, I figured out the reason behind this behaviour of his (unacceptable, as I call it), and I did not get annoyed anymore.

• A similar instance happened when I was travelling in the locals with my friend, and someone just rushed in front of us, hurting slightly on my shoulder with his bag. I had the usual annoyed look. I watched him run even faster till he got on to the train. I told my friend that we are always so wrong in getting annoyed at such similar behaviour. He could have got something really important, and getting on to this train could have been really essential for him. Thinking about all this, the annoyance vanished.

Probably, I have always been too opinionated about people. May be, too early to judge them.

And as my friend and I reiterate after every such discussion to remind us not to forms opinions about people without complete information, we end up saying:

" IF WE JUDGE PEOPLE, WE HAVE NO TIME TO LOVE THEM". So true.