When I first started blogging, honestly I was not very sure how I will manage to fill page after page with content. It is indeed difficult to keep up with blogging.
Thoughts don't just keep coming to your mind in a sequence nor do good thoughts (which are worth capturing on the blog) happen when I am around a computer!!!
And so I started blogging slowly and a bit nervously. My own estimate was that may be within a couple of months I will run out of content and my blog will fade away...................like we all love starting so many new initiatives and activities but hardly carry them through till the end.
However I was determined. For a long time I had cherished this dream of writing a book. Would keep telling my husband that one that I will publish my own book! So when he introduced me to blogging it felt like a first step towards my dream of writing a book.
My initial posts are quite amateurish! But natural. No one is a born writer. For that matter no on is born anything. We all dream, aspire, learn and succeed at various things.....
The initial response was sort of okkk....nothing earth shattering. but it gave me immense satisfaction. A feeling of having created something....even if what I did was far from perfect or world class.....there was one sense of deep happiness.....I was original.....what I was writing was my own................my blog, its layout and its content everything was original.....
Gradually as comments started flowing in, I was more and more determined to keep writing. My blog which has started as a hobby is now a passion. The content flows out naturally....
And so came in this realization.....it is very easy to be original! All it requires is honesty, determination and passion. All great musicians were original. Beethoven, Mozart, our own Indian music maestro late Naushad. All great painters were original......be it Picasso, Van Gogh or our own M.F. Hussain. All great film maters were/are original....our own example is Shri Satyajit Ray.
It is so easy to be original....it is also effortless to be original.
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Impact of recession on my mind!!!
Some times I feel modern intelligence is such a burden on our brain! Ignorance is bliss, rightfully said by our ancestors. There are days when I want to get rid of this facade of synthetic, acquired intelligence of mine.
Sink myself deep into Spirituality. I feel realization or intelligence which makes it way into our heart through spirituality, is like Ayurveda. Life giving. Natural. Natures nectar to main kind. No lethal side effects.
This so called intelligence acquired after some 20+ years of killing education process is like the Drugs/Modern medicine. Synthetic and harmful with lots of side effects. Totally western.
Some times it feels good to shed this mask of intelligence and look at life innocently. So please bear with me, for this completely unintelligent mindless posting.
My favorite pass time (which I find very soothing) is to aimlessly gaze out of my office window during the day. I do so while I am working on my Laptop. To keep looking at the bright blue sky and think. What's so great about that for it to get a honorary mention on my blog? Everyone does it. So???
Yes everyone does it, but how many of them write about! For me it is important to write about it. Gazing out of the window at the blue sky, my thoughts free me from the confines of the office walls and its school like atmosphere. I am a free bird in my thoughts.
Actually, it is self pity which makes me think about the bright blue sky. Fact is, I envy those people out there in the sun, on the roads moving about. Enjoying and going about something so mundane as sipping tea at a road side stall or just strolling about aimlessly. Simple yes, mundane yes....but I can't do any of that during my week days. Because I am working. As in, I am in the office. Confined to my workstation, meetings and presentations. Modern offices are so restrictive. There are CCTV camera's, IN/OUT swipe machines and god knows what all. All possible devices and gizmos to track your movement. Extremely claustrophobic. They kill an employee's creativity.
I wont be surprised if a day comes when an employer would want to know the whereabouts of each person 24X7. So they will fit a GPS device in the employees body at the time of joining (my understanding is that one large Indian Corporate is already working on a micro chip which can be fitted into human body). They will be able to trace each and every employee by just entering a code in a system and wow!!!! Just like FedEx traces its parcels.
The problem is that we all spend so many hours of each day at work, trying to do something great. But it just does not seem to be taking the organizations anywhere. See what hard working employees like us have done to the world economy. Those working with Lehman too were working hard. But look what its done to their life. And to the rest of the world also.
In my view, modern day organizations are monsters we have created and we fail to understand them. Many of them have no sense of where they are heading, I mean the organizations. Truly! They make over ambitious business plans, hire wrong kind of people to drive the business, to meet these loud business plans they design incorrect processes.......and then everything goes kaput. Give them some years and they have dug their own grave, ready to shut shop. So many of them working in the top positions truly make me sick. They have an IQ no higher than that of a 5th grader. May be that the qualification to make it to the top. The dumber you are, higher you rise. just like a balloon filled with helium!!!!!(Yahhh I am in a foul mood. It was just a bad day at work!)
Anyways coming back to my thoughts...sitting in my office, I often wonder what's happening to the world out.
People are going about routine chores.
Mothers dragging kids to the school, house wives bargaining with the vegetable vendors, teenagers/youth sitting in their college or generally hanging about in the canteen. Men rushing past in their vehicles to work, crowded buses. People leisurely shopping in malls.
So many people, so many lives and so many ways of living and spending the day.
Actually I am slightly more troubled today because it is a holiday for most people. And I am working. Wrong! My office is open.
So what am I cribbing about???Why not just walk out of the office into the bright blue sunshine and freedom.....
Well.....jobs are difficult to come through. Recession time.
"Having a Job is more important than job satisfcation" a colleagues wife (actually a housewife) pointed out to him!
Commonsense observation.
Sink myself deep into Spirituality. I feel realization or intelligence which makes it way into our heart through spirituality, is like Ayurveda. Life giving. Natural. Natures nectar to main kind. No lethal side effects.
This so called intelligence acquired after some 20+ years of killing education process is like the Drugs/Modern medicine. Synthetic and harmful with lots of side effects. Totally western.
Some times it feels good to shed this mask of intelligence and look at life innocently. So please bear with me, for this completely unintelligent mindless posting.
My favorite pass time (which I find very soothing) is to aimlessly gaze out of my office window during the day. I do so while I am working on my Laptop. To keep looking at the bright blue sky and think. What's so great about that for it to get a honorary mention on my blog? Everyone does it. So???
Yes everyone does it, but how many of them write about! For me it is important to write about it. Gazing out of the window at the blue sky, my thoughts free me from the confines of the office walls and its school like atmosphere. I am a free bird in my thoughts.
Actually, it is self pity which makes me think about the bright blue sky. Fact is, I envy those people out there in the sun, on the roads moving about. Enjoying and going about something so mundane as sipping tea at a road side stall or just strolling about aimlessly. Simple yes, mundane yes....but I can't do any of that during my week days. Because I am working. As in, I am in the office. Confined to my workstation, meetings and presentations. Modern offices are so restrictive. There are CCTV camera's, IN/OUT swipe machines and god knows what all. All possible devices and gizmos to track your movement. Extremely claustrophobic. They kill an employee's creativity.
I wont be surprised if a day comes when an employer would want to know the whereabouts of each person 24X7. So they will fit a GPS device in the employees body at the time of joining (my understanding is that one large Indian Corporate is already working on a micro chip which can be fitted into human body). They will be able to trace each and every employee by just entering a code in a system and wow!!!! Just like FedEx traces its parcels.
The problem is that we all spend so many hours of each day at work, trying to do something great. But it just does not seem to be taking the organizations anywhere. See what hard working employees like us have done to the world economy. Those working with Lehman too were working hard. But look what its done to their life. And to the rest of the world also.
In my view, modern day organizations are monsters we have created and we fail to understand them. Many of them have no sense of where they are heading, I mean the organizations. Truly! They make over ambitious business plans, hire wrong kind of people to drive the business, to meet these loud business plans they design incorrect processes.......and then everything goes kaput. Give them some years and they have dug their own grave, ready to shut shop. So many of them working in the top positions truly make me sick. They have an IQ no higher than that of a 5th grader. May be that the qualification to make it to the top. The dumber you are, higher you rise. just like a balloon filled with helium!!!!!(Yahhh I am in a foul mood. It was just a bad day at work!)
Anyways coming back to my thoughts...sitting in my office, I often wonder what's happening to the world out.
People are going about routine chores.
Mothers dragging kids to the school, house wives bargaining with the vegetable vendors, teenagers/youth sitting in their college or generally hanging about in the canteen. Men rushing past in their vehicles to work, crowded buses. People leisurely shopping in malls.
So many people, so many lives and so many ways of living and spending the day.
Actually I am slightly more troubled today because it is a holiday for most people. And I am working. Wrong! My office is open.
So what am I cribbing about???Why not just walk out of the office into the bright blue sunshine and freedom.....
Well.....jobs are difficult to come through. Recession time.
"Having a Job is more important than job satisfcation" a colleagues wife (actually a housewife) pointed out to him!
Commonsense observation.
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