Well that's almost the title of the main music folder on my laptop. Though I have about 10-12 different music folders on my hard drive...yet another example of me being as unstructured and disorganized as one can be. But this one is not only about me. This one is about music and me! Quite a normal post this one, where I do not plan or wish to wander much and keep this only as a list of my favorite music, favorite songs and whatever I relate to about them or whatever comes to my mind when I heard them. Its only fair that I am writing this one while listening to some of the best music that I talk about in the lines to come! This list is certainly not in any specific order since it is too difficult a task for me choose a few among the tons of them of different varieties that I love...and then to rank them...don't think I can do that.
1) Whole lot of love by led zepplin - Wooooooooh! It is such a liberating experience if you just let yourself go while listening to this one. It is totally tremendous...the song as well that experience. I certainly owe a big thank-you to Arjun Reddy for introducing me to this one, apart ofcourse the band for creating this one. But what I certainly remember the most about this one is the amazing drive on the roads of delhi with asit, pc, gogo and vikrant listening to this one, chewing on the claridges ke paanwale ke amazing paan!
2) The way you make me feel by michael jackson - this one is an all time favorite...and there is just this amazing si happy feeling that I get when I listen to this one. A random thought about the song....It would be just too unfair on this song and on anyone's life and the different people in it to be able to think of only one person when listening to this one.
3) My Sacrifice by Creed - This one hits me in a totally different way. Like totally totally different. So much so that I wouldn't even attempt to articulate it. Took the easier way out, didn't I :-)
4) Sab bhula ke by Call - the band: The band isn't too popular in India and not many people would have heard this song. But listen to it sometime. This is just the most beautiful song ever. EVER. It just been so many times that I turn to this one and play it in a loop to be able to sleep well after one of those stressful days when I have tons on my mind.
5) Abhi nahin aana sajna by Sona: Actually this is the one that confuses me about what I wrote about Sab bhula ke. This one is as beautiful if not more. The lyrics of this one give such a beautiful twist to the ordinary to make the song extraordinary using such beautiful sarcasm!
6) Sabse peeche hum khadhe by Mohit Chauhan - This is the one that I am able to relate to the most. Its a definition of an attitude more than any emotion. And I certainly relate to it quite a lot. And there is this brilliant version of this song that Piyush Wadhera, Ankush's supremely talented brother, has sung! I have heard that a couple of times and its just fantastic!
7) Jimi Hendrix - There's no one particular song of him that I want to talk about but his guitaring in practically all the he played for! He just forces you to do some crazy air-guitaring with him. And he is also the guy who made me feel a bit sorry for being born it the times that I was, as I so wish I was born during his times and could have listened to him live. Anyways!
8) Love is gone by David Guetta - What a song! This one just stays as fresh as ever and is a must have on any of the CDs that I write with some jazzy (not the actually jazz music types but used as an adjective here) music.
I think the explanations are getting a bit boring now and a bit repetitive too. I am getting a bit bored myself writing all this, so I can totally imagine your plight! So, I would just write the songs that I feel are worth this space and an occassional note here and there...
9) Madhushala by Shri Hariwansh Rai Bacchan - ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....ispe kaise na comment karein! oh ho ho ho ho for those lovely Delhi summer afternoons when this one is playing in car-e-julzi with A/C at full blast...the fact that I chose to call Delhi summer afternoons lovely because of this compilation is a strong enough tribute to it. If you are not able to relate to what I described of it, then just imagine an alternate scenario. Delhi summer - you are home - in your room - on a sunday afternoon - where the A/C is pretty effective - you are lying on your arm chair - with your eyes closed - thinking of nothing - lights off, of course! There can be no better cd playing in the background than this one at such a time! Of course the one that was sung by Mr. Bacchan Sr. himself and Manna Dey!
10) Sitting on the dock of the bay by Otis Reading - Again, this is one of those that defines an attitude more than an emotion. Totally relatable.
(I think that not commenting on these songs is a pretty tough task too :-)
11) Iktara by Kavita Sheth from the movie wake up sid - Totally fantastic...and so bloody deep!
12) Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi (Part 1 & 2) by Shubha Mudgal - Seriously, if ever I have even thought of the possibility of existence of god, it has been while listening to either this lady or Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sahab! Need I say more? A few others by her that are worth this space are Piya tora kaisa abhiman, Seekho Na and a few more that I can't really recall right now.
13) Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sahab - kuch bhi suna do yaar inka to...obviously had to mention him seperately after the last comment.
14) Aik Alif recorded at the Coke Studio - This composition is so beautiful and powerful that it really forces me often to think about contemporary issues affecting our world. You must be wondering whats the connection. Its actually just that I find it so dissapointing to imagine that some of the people who follow the religion (in their own way by their own interpretation) that this song sings about, could do what they are doing in the name of this religion! Its a beautiful song about a beautiful religion, performed by people who I am sure would be equally beautiful! There are just so many chains of thoughts that start off like this at so many levels when I listen to this one. It would be quite a significant digression from the purpose of this post to write a bit more about these thoughts that I mentioned.
15) Ambar by Raghu Dixit - Just go to youtube, type this phrase and listen to it for yourself. I would certainly look out for this guy and his music in the future. Most of his other songs that spring up when you search for him on you tube are totally brilliant too. Listen to Hey Bhagwan and No man will ever love you as well if you do decide to go on youtube for this one.
16) Mehfuz by Euphoria - :-)
17) Sexy Chick by Akon and David Guetta - This one is so much fun! A David Guetta classic in classic Akon shallow but ultra fun lyrics! hahahaha...this one is just so funky...the best combination there could be for this genre of music!
18) Armiin Van Buuren - Need I say more? Some totally totally outrageously amazing trance!
19) The amazing trance music that I don't have a clue about but that we got with our hired car on my last goa trip and which we asked Jitesh Shah to copy on his laptop (who else but a BCG guy would take his laptop to Goa on a vacation!) and which I think I would receive from him only after he becomes a partner at BCG!
20) Power mix, lovestoned remix and adagio for strings by Tiesto
21) Seperation theme from the movie Lakshaya - Must thank Amit Kapur for introducing me to this one. It is just a pleasure to put this on a very low volume and just doze off. I invariably wake up totally fresh unlike any other time. I know its wierd to claim that music could have such an effect while am asleep but it does! that's what is the power of music! hahahaha....such a terrible cliche' but true nonetheless!
22) The scaffolder's wife by Mark Knopfler
23) Boulevard of broken dreams by Green Day - Turquoise Cottage!!!!!!
24) Hold me, kiss me, thrill me by U2 - I think i guessed the order of the name of the song correct...didn't remember it but its just a bit intuitive to guess the order..isn't it!
25) Maikade by Hariharan
bas bhai bas....I know I can just go on and on with this list but the beauty of such a list is in the thousands of times I or any of you would say "Oh yaar! yeh song ka bhi mention to banta tha blog pe" while listening to yet another song from my library and that is also the essence of what music means to me or anyone else! There is just so much such beautiful music out there that its totally ridiculous to even try to build such a list. And of course, I had to do the ridiculous :-) But I just can't stop with these 25 and I would continue for a bit longer. I know that this post is becoming a bit boring but what the fuck, i would stil write
26) Symphony 41 by Mozart!
27) When my guitar gently weeps by Jake Shimabukuro: Must thank Prakriti for sending this one through - its such a beautiful and soulful composition.
28) World hold on by Bob Sinclair
29) Woh Lamhe by Atif Aslam / Jal - I think almost everyone would have heard this one a million times on loop when this one was released
30) Bulla Ki Jana by Rabbi Shergill - This song and the way I harrassed Rathi by playing this one over and over again is how I became such great friends with this legend to be (Rathi, i mean!)!
I can't remember the name of the song now but there was another one that I was temporarily in love with in Term 5 at ISB that I played over and over and over again to harrass Grover and Jyotbir while doing an assignment! hahaha...I think the habit of playing songs in loop has served me really well by giving me some absolutely trememndous friends!
31) Gill te Guitar by Rabbi Shergill - This one is the story of all groups of friends anyone has ever had anywhere in this world...its such a globally relevant and relatable song...if only everyone could understand it...its in punjabi and most wouldn't understand what it means!
I guess this is an appropriate note to stop and sign off on this post since there is nothing special about this note apart from the fact that I am just tired of writing and of not making any sense.
Adios!
-j
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Mard tange wala
Ignore the title of this post...its just a dedication to a very dear friend of mine who is totally crazy about this blog and the ideas that I write here. So much so that he started an online campaign via his and his circle of influence's gtalk status messages to make me write this next post sooner rather than later. Though the campaign was a failure because this is about 2-3 months after he started and ended the campaign that I am writing again, he is still a very dear friend of mine though we speak rarely and I miss speaking to him rarely. (Yes, I know the referencing of the last 'rarely' in this last sentence is ambigous...its for a reason!)
But Oh! my dear blog!!! I have come back to you again on one of those nights when I am finding it so very difficult to sleep for there are so many questions ringing in my head and so few answers. In fact no answers! If I had any answers, I would have certainly be asleep by now.
And its such a random cocktail of questions that some of them deserve a mention here. Partly because I have used the word random in relation to them in the last sentence and I certainly have to live up to the title of my blog. But more importantly, to document some of these questions and help me think through them in the coming days rather than totally forgetting about them given my goldfish memory! Of course, I could have just opened a word file and started typing there, and that was indeed a strong debate that I had within before I ruled in favor of the blog. But just on that point, imagine if the first guy who ever blogged and invented 'blogging' per se had contemplated writing in a word file and had actually decided in favor of it! This world would have been without the more than 112,000,000 million blogs that it currently has. All because of a simple decision of one, then, insignificant man! No wonder Microsoft haters have been the source of some of the best IT and computing innovations in this world!!! (I totally hate these fucking diversions from the main point!!!!!!)
So, some of the questions ringing in my head before I started writing this post were the following: (Waitoooooo!!!!!! They are certainly ringing less loudly then they were when I was trying to sleep so this would just be a list of what I remember and what I would cook up while writing.)
.......................Nope! I don't think I would write them here...wrote them...wrote quite a few, but I guess they got too personal. So not really for this forum. I know...you have all the reasons to suspect that bloody Gulati is not evolved enough to think of anything complex and this was just a gimmick. I guess you are right about this too...hahahahahahaha...wonder who I was talking to while writing the last two sentences...felt like I was chatting on gtalk.
Ok! I guess this post is becoming more of gibberish rather than anything else. However, I frankly think that first three posts could have been classified the same as well, so I am not going too much against the expectations that I have already set for you guys! But seriously, this is my first post from here in London and I am so happy that I didn't do the obvious as yet i.e. I haven't written this post about my experiences of the first two weeks in the foreign land! Isn't that too cool! Whats super cool is that I haven't even taken the option next to obvious i.e. that I haven't announced up front that "I am writing this post sitting here in London and just to be different, I wouldn't write about my experiences here because that would be too obvious!"
But now that I have made that point, maybe I could write a paragraph about the last two weeks here. Franly I can't really think about anything really exciting enough that could match up to the rest of the stuff that I have written in this post. However, what has really stayed with me is that I see construction workers buying lunch from the same restaurants / shops from where most of the management consultants and investment bankers buy their lunch from...McDonalds, Boots, Tesco, Eat...all of them most buy their lunch from the same places on a normal day. Of course the bankers and the consultants often get to go to some of the swanky places as well. But I am talking of most normal days in the lives of these people. Now, what could be more socialistic than this. I do not really have very radical political views on either side but this really has stayed with me and this is something that I would reallylove to hear your comments on.
If you are wondering what happened to me so suddenly that I am talking of socialism and political views, the reason for this is that I am reading this fantastic book "Becoming Che" these days which obviously is about Che Guevara. (Since most of you who are reading this blog would in all likelihood be my very good friends, which would also mean that your IQ level is likely to be not that high, here's the link that introduces this guy in great detail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara). I think the best part about the book is that its a gift that I really liked and value a lot (and of course I wrote this sentence to make a statement..hahaha...). But on a less serious note, what a man! I mean what a guy! I really don't wish I was like him, except for the fact that I wish I had more permanent passions in life but that's really the material for another blog post.
What I really wish for, though, is that I could have that vision or that talent to recognize a man like that easily and be great friends with him. Quite an escapist wish, I must confess but different at the same time. But here is the exercise that I want you to do right now, on this note. Close your eyes and think of 5 people that you know on whom you would bet a million dollars that they would become really big some day. It'll give you a great perspective on those people, your friends and yourself. Just that you must concentrate hard enough and long enough to think of everyone that you know.
On that note, I am all set to say adios except for another parting thought and this is in the form of one of the questions that was ringing in my head!
What is it that sets one apart from the other that he could say to himself, in all honesty without cheating himself or fooling himself, that "Yes, I am better than him...much better...much much much better"?
-j
But Oh! my dear blog!!! I have come back to you again on one of those nights when I am finding it so very difficult to sleep for there are so many questions ringing in my head and so few answers. In fact no answers! If I had any answers, I would have certainly be asleep by now.
And its such a random cocktail of questions that some of them deserve a mention here. Partly because I have used the word random in relation to them in the last sentence and I certainly have to live up to the title of my blog. But more importantly, to document some of these questions and help me think through them in the coming days rather than totally forgetting about them given my goldfish memory! Of course, I could have just opened a word file and started typing there, and that was indeed a strong debate that I had within before I ruled in favor of the blog. But just on that point, imagine if the first guy who ever blogged and invented 'blogging' per se had contemplated writing in a word file and had actually decided in favor of it! This world would have been without the more than 112,000,000 million blogs that it currently has. All because of a simple decision of one, then, insignificant man! No wonder Microsoft haters have been the source of some of the best IT and computing innovations in this world!!! (I totally hate these fucking diversions from the main point!!!!!!)
So, some of the questions ringing in my head before I started writing this post were the following: (Waitoooooo!!!!!! They are certainly ringing less loudly then they were when I was trying to sleep so this would just be a list of what I remember and what I would cook up while writing.)
.......................Nope! I don't think I would write them here...wrote them...wrote quite a few, but I guess they got too personal. So not really for this forum. I know...you have all the reasons to suspect that bloody Gulati is not evolved enough to think of anything complex and this was just a gimmick. I guess you are right about this too...hahahahahahaha...wonder who I was talking to while writing the last two sentences...felt like I was chatting on gtalk.
Ok! I guess this post is becoming more of gibberish rather than anything else. However, I frankly think that first three posts could have been classified the same as well, so I am not going too much against the expectations that I have already set for you guys! But seriously, this is my first post from here in London and I am so happy that I didn't do the obvious as yet i.e. I haven't written this post about my experiences of the first two weeks in the foreign land! Isn't that too cool! Whats super cool is that I haven't even taken the option next to obvious i.e. that I haven't announced up front that "I am writing this post sitting here in London and just to be different, I wouldn't write about my experiences here because that would be too obvious!"
But now that I have made that point, maybe I could write a paragraph about the last two weeks here. Franly I can't really think about anything really exciting enough that could match up to the rest of the stuff that I have written in this post. However, what has really stayed with me is that I see construction workers buying lunch from the same restaurants / shops from where most of the management consultants and investment bankers buy their lunch from...McDonalds, Boots, Tesco, Eat...all of them most buy their lunch from the same places on a normal day. Of course the bankers and the consultants often get to go to some of the swanky places as well. But I am talking of most normal days in the lives of these people. Now, what could be more socialistic than this. I do not really have very radical political views on either side but this really has stayed with me and this is something that I would reallylove to hear your comments on.
If you are wondering what happened to me so suddenly that I am talking of socialism and political views, the reason for this is that I am reading this fantastic book "Becoming Che" these days which obviously is about Che Guevara. (Since most of you who are reading this blog would in all likelihood be my very good friends, which would also mean that your IQ level is likely to be not that high, here's the link that introduces this guy in great detail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara). I think the best part about the book is that its a gift that I really liked and value a lot (and of course I wrote this sentence to make a statement..hahaha...). But on a less serious note, what a man! I mean what a guy! I really don't wish I was like him, except for the fact that I wish I had more permanent passions in life but that's really the material for another blog post.
What I really wish for, though, is that I could have that vision or that talent to recognize a man like that easily and be great friends with him. Quite an escapist wish, I must confess but different at the same time. But here is the exercise that I want you to do right now, on this note. Close your eyes and think of 5 people that you know on whom you would bet a million dollars that they would become really big some day. It'll give you a great perspective on those people, your friends and yourself. Just that you must concentrate hard enough and long enough to think of everyone that you know.
On that note, I am all set to say adios except for another parting thought and this is in the form of one of the questions that was ringing in my head!
What is it that sets one apart from the other that he could say to himself, in all honesty without cheating himself or fooling himself, that "Yes, I am better than him...much better...much much much better"?
-j
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Three thoughts
I have been thinking about this blogging thing the whole of past week. I don't know why. Just some random thoughts around why I have taken this strange liking to it, trying to articulate what exactly is it about this as a medium of expression, that I really enjoy. I have certainly resisted the temptation to google up a few theories on this one so that I could figure out for myself, the answer to this question.
While I have certainly not found the answer, I certainly have one thought about google and the impact of google on our times. I think google is for sure going to impact the number of new things / concepts / or any other new stuff of any kind that we create and it would certainly have an impact on our creativity. I mean imagine that maverick scientist who invented that bouyancy concept I think it was, in his bath tub and then ran naked on the streets shouting "Eureka Eureka". He certainly had been thinking of and struggling with some important questions at that time, of whom he had no clue. Imagine if he had google in those times to help out and what would his reaction be at that time in the bath tub - "Wtf! I am sure someone must have done some research on these questions sometime. Afterall, there are so many smart asses on this planet. I think i'll google the answers when I get out of the bath. I guess I must relax and enjoy my bath a bit now". Yeah exactly...wtf google!!! But this is just a silly strange thought that I don't agree with totally since there are some loose ends to the argument that I just made but its an interesting thought anyhow...atleast I think its interesting. And it could be proved to be true even if there was even one guy who had, at some time in his life been thinking of a novel thought but didnt believe it to be novel enough and thought of googling for it. And after googling for it, couldn't really be sure if he couldn't find anything on it because there is nothing available about it or if there is nothing available on google about it or if its just his search string that is the problem. You know, even if he were to rule out any possibility of making a type I error, he wouldn't still be sure if he made a type II error. Oversimplified but interesting thought...at least I think its interesting. In case even you do, leave a comment.
While writing this post, I can certainly say one thing that I like about blogging and that is that since I am speaking to only myself while writing, I can take the liberty of totally ignoring what I had planned to write (or speak) about and start writing (or speak) about something totally random. For example, for this post I had planned to write about what I am going to write about next but ended up writing about some random thought on the impact of google. This probably explains the title of my blog as well.
Anyhow, coming to what I had originially planned to write about. So, this was last week I think when I was in Mumbai for work. After office, I was going to Mahim to meet up with my friends and took an auto from Vikhroli. I don't know much about the routes in Mumbai but like to pretend in front of the Autowalas that I do. Of course, the objective of this to save myself from being duped even though most of the guys there are pretty honest in my experience. So, when I got into the auto I told the guy that "Mujhe Mahim jaana hai, but aap to bas Bandra tak hi jayenge na to mujhe waheen tak le jaiye aur main taxi kar lunga aagey se". He had a smile on his face when I said this. A little ahead, he told me "Sir, main aapko Sion tak le jaunga. Aap wahaan se taxi kar lena...Bandra tak jaane ka fayda nahin hai...yahaan andar se raasta hoga". I thanked him and told him that he was part of the reason that I like Mumbai a lot, that the people here are very nice. I know some of you would like to argue against it but I would stick with my opinion on Mumbai even though its not even the point that I am making here. This incident made me think a bit about the way we are. That guy was good to me because he wasn't bad to me. Simple. Only becase he was a stranger. Net net, its so easy for a stranger to be good to us. They just don't have to be bad to us. It could be any other gesture from anyone else like letting my car pass them on the toll gate in Gurgaon where invariably two parallel lines need to merge at the barricade to get to the toll booth. Or for that matter it could be anything else where someone you don't know was not bad to you or was not indifferent to you. By simply ruling out those two possibilities, they were so good to you that they earned good wishes and a smile (those, mind you are rare commodities in Delhi for sure it seems) from a total stranger. Now, contrast this with the situation with people that we know. They can only be good to us when they are good to us! They must pay attention to us, care about us, do us favors, not get in our ways any which way, love us back or at times may be even go out of their way to help us. If they don't or fail even once out of a number of times, they would have been bad to us. We would react in several differnt ways - crib, complain, bad mouth, be disappointed, lower our expectations from them or even if we don't express it in any such way, then by at least feeling bad about this somewhere deep inside our heart. I am sure none of us could help this last bit. The real question is why are we so demanding by nature? Why are we like this? If you compare the two situations "A stranger can be good to you by not being bad to you but a known person can be good to you only by being good to you". Maybe, this thought doesn't hit you the way it hits me (in which case why are you still reading this dude!) but I find this funny.
Interestingly, even this thought can be looked in context of the two types of errors. A stranger just needs to avoid a type I error in order to be good to you, but anyone you know (as in know well) must avoid making type II errors to be good to you! Of course, I have provided a link that explains the type I and type II errors at the end of this post but this has also led me to the third thought for this post.
Can every situation in our lives be seen as a tradeoff between type I errors or type II errors? It would be interesting to think about this. I am certainly not writing about it in this post so relax, this one is ending soon. Maybe, I could think about this for the next post. But I certainly wouldn't google for answers!
PS: for details of type I and type II errors visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Surprise surprise surprise...
...here i come with the second one already!!!! and that is because I can't sleep and my mind is full of random thoughts and heart full of the urge to post these.
Firstly, I just thought of counting the number of people around me, the people who I know well, who are happy with most things happening in their life. I wonder why this one came but I find my result of this analysis very intriguing. I know 1 (yes, only one) person who I am sure as hell that they are happy with their life right now. Now, there could be a few caveats I want to acknowledge that I am aware of, before I start reading too much into that number. Firstly, maybe I am not really in sync with most of my friends because of various reasons that I think are irrelevant to the point that I am making here. Secondly, I might not be the best judge of people and not really able to understand or be sensitive to their feelings or for that matter might not have the ability to build an accurate understanding of whats on their mind. Finally, you might argue that I do not know enough people to have a large enought sample set to base any inference on. On the last one, I would argue back asking you to go and check out the number of people on my friends list on facebook (hahaha...this one is such a fraud argument since I am hardly in touch with like 5% of that number on a reasonably regular basis...but still I am a management consultant by profession (right now) and I love to support my arguments with facts and numbers).
Anyhow, coming back to the number of 1 that I mentioned. No, I am not lying about it and neither do I think it necessary to name this person. For sure, I have grown quite fond of this person of late and that is also besides the point of this post. Also, I do not want to take anything away from the rest of the people and apologise to anyone who thinks they are not that 1 person and might choose to be offended at being categorised as being unhappy in life. But the fact that they chose to assume that I categorised them in the unhappy category, could arguably be a supporting argument to the fact that they indeed belong to that category.
Now, after all that BS (and I want to state that I have been in top form in BSing of late), I would come to the point or the questions that this analysis forces me to think of. Why are we not happy? Is it something about the age or the age group that I am part of? What would it take for one to be happy or for that matter for us as a group of people to be happy? How does it feel to be happy???? Alright, before I sound too unhappy with life or negative or give you a reason to speculate on the reasons as to what prompted me to ask such heavy questions about happiness, I would stop here with the questions. But I am sure you get the drift, don't you? (If you don't, then dude please surf away from this one and get a life and a brain and a heart probably...)
Aa couple of weeks back, I would have claimed that there were two such people that I knew of but I have recently been apprised of the developments in the life of this erstwhile member of this elite club and I feel sad for how things changed for this one. The even more sad part is that this person couldn't help it. And maybe, most of us can't. Which is something that makes these questions all the more relevant.
No, I would not attempt to take a shot at any of those questions. If could have the answers that number would have gone back to 2! And anyways, I think its more hepp to ask good questions and provide good answers.
Alright, I could go on and on with this one since its so philosophical and I am in that sort of a mood where I am just thinking but I want you to stop reading now and maybe think about this a bit. Maybe...just maybe, that might help that number that I am talking about...hopefully!
I know...this post was unsurprisingly random...
Firstly, I just thought of counting the number of people around me, the people who I know well, who are happy with most things happening in their life. I wonder why this one came but I find my result of this analysis very intriguing. I know 1 (yes, only one) person who I am sure as hell that they are happy with their life right now. Now, there could be a few caveats I want to acknowledge that I am aware of, before I start reading too much into that number. Firstly, maybe I am not really in sync with most of my friends because of various reasons that I think are irrelevant to the point that I am making here. Secondly, I might not be the best judge of people and not really able to understand or be sensitive to their feelings or for that matter might not have the ability to build an accurate understanding of whats on their mind. Finally, you might argue that I do not know enough people to have a large enought sample set to base any inference on. On the last one, I would argue back asking you to go and check out the number of people on my friends list on facebook (hahaha...this one is such a fraud argument since I am hardly in touch with like 5% of that number on a reasonably regular basis...but still I am a management consultant by profession (right now) and I love to support my arguments with facts and numbers).
Anyhow, coming back to the number of 1 that I mentioned. No, I am not lying about it and neither do I think it necessary to name this person. For sure, I have grown quite fond of this person of late and that is also besides the point of this post. Also, I do not want to take anything away from the rest of the people and apologise to anyone who thinks they are not that 1 person and might choose to be offended at being categorised as being unhappy in life. But the fact that they chose to assume that I categorised them in the unhappy category, could arguably be a supporting argument to the fact that they indeed belong to that category.
Now, after all that BS (and I want to state that I have been in top form in BSing of late), I would come to the point or the questions that this analysis forces me to think of. Why are we not happy? Is it something about the age or the age group that I am part of? What would it take for one to be happy or for that matter for us as a group of people to be happy? How does it feel to be happy???? Alright, before I sound too unhappy with life or negative or give you a reason to speculate on the reasons as to what prompted me to ask such heavy questions about happiness, I would stop here with the questions. But I am sure you get the drift, don't you? (If you don't, then dude please surf away from this one and get a life and a brain and a heart probably...)
Aa couple of weeks back, I would have claimed that there were two such people that I knew of but I have recently been apprised of the developments in the life of this erstwhile member of this elite club and I feel sad for how things changed for this one. The even more sad part is that this person couldn't help it. And maybe, most of us can't. Which is something that makes these questions all the more relevant.
No, I would not attempt to take a shot at any of those questions. If could have the answers that number would have gone back to 2! And anyways, I think its more hepp to ask good questions and provide good answers.
Alright, I could go on and on with this one since its so philosophical and I am in that sort of a mood where I am just thinking but I want you to stop reading now and maybe think about this a bit. Maybe...just maybe, that might help that number that I am talking about...hopefully!
I know...this post was unsurprisingly random...
The First One
If you are reading this blog, it is quite likely that you know me. And if you know me, chances are that you would also know that I am not too ingenious or brilliant or a revolutionary thinker who would come up with a whacky, witty, out of the box idea for a first ever blog post. So, quite obviously, this one is going to be about why I started this blog.
I guess the name of the blog says it all. I decided to start this blog at a totally random moment with a totally random thought in a totally random mood. I decided to start this blog jlt about 10 minutes back just because I had put up a status update on facebook some couple of hours back and felt like putting up another update with another thought that was on my mind. With the goldfish memory* that I have, I of course don't remember now what it was but trust me i had a thought i wanted to share on facebook. Just that, I hate putting up status updates by the hour and flooding people's home pages with random updates that makes no sense to them or which I think most people would find irritatingly useless and arbit. So, courtesy of a totally random thought that I could express what I want to express through a blog, in a totally random context that I described above, I have decided to start writing my own blog. Having said that, I would of course put up the link to this blog as my facebook status update right away and I can not help that!!!
At the halfway stage of this post, I want to thank you for your best wishes for this blog and also for just in case you have decided to come back to this blog regularly in the future. I decided to write in this note of thanks at the half way stage since I was reasonably sure that unless you really like me, you would have decided to surf away from this post by now and I wanted to thank you for spending 5 useless minutes on this post, before you go away.
I want to add a comment or two about the intention of this blog. Quite clearly, this blog would be totally random. Being a management consultant by profession (right now), my default approach to anything is to outline an approach upfront (which is what I am doing right now with this sentence) and then solve for issues along the way - like I had this huge urge of describing the intended structure of this post right upfront and then dedicate a paragraph each to it. But, for some reason I want to keep myself from doing that intentionally. I don't know why. As for the topics that I would expect to cover on this blog - I don't know. I know that I am not someone who is intellectually super charged and highly opinionated, so do not expect any of those posts. Though I do hope to put up a few interesting ideas on this space soon. I remember that in the past couple of weeks I did have a couple of ideas that I found quite interesting and unique myself and think that they are worthy of this space. However, given the glodfish memory that I have, I really don't remember any of them right now. But I do hope that I would put them up.
Ok, now I know that there are two words / phrases that I have killed on this one through their frequent use - random and glodfish memory. I know, but I couldn't help it - those two are totally ringing in my head right now and I am trying hard to not use them again through the rest of this one.
Finally, I want to acknoweldge the fact that I am feeling a strange sense of happiness and relief after writing this post. I want to articulate why but I am afraid that I would kill the feeling If I do, so I wouldn't. At this point, I want to thank my bro for suggesting, for some random reason that I don't know of as yet, that I start writing a blog. So, here I am!!!!!
I guess the name of the blog says it all. I decided to start this blog at a totally random moment with a totally random thought in a totally random mood. I decided to start this blog jlt about 10 minutes back just because I had put up a status update on facebook some couple of hours back and felt like putting up another update with another thought that was on my mind. With the goldfish memory* that I have, I of course don't remember now what it was but trust me i had a thought i wanted to share on facebook. Just that, I hate putting up status updates by the hour and flooding people's home pages with random updates that makes no sense to them or which I think most people would find irritatingly useless and arbit. So, courtesy of a totally random thought that I could express what I want to express through a blog, in a totally random context that I described above, I have decided to start writing my own blog. Having said that, I would of course put up the link to this blog as my facebook status update right away and I can not help that!!!
At the halfway stage of this post, I want to thank you for your best wishes for this blog and also for just in case you have decided to come back to this blog regularly in the future. I decided to write in this note of thanks at the half way stage since I was reasonably sure that unless you really like me, you would have decided to surf away from this post by now and I wanted to thank you for spending 5 useless minutes on this post, before you go away.
I want to add a comment or two about the intention of this blog. Quite clearly, this blog would be totally random. Being a management consultant by profession (right now), my default approach to anything is to outline an approach upfront (which is what I am doing right now with this sentence) and then solve for issues along the way - like I had this huge urge of describing the intended structure of this post right upfront and then dedicate a paragraph each to it. But, for some reason I want to keep myself from doing that intentionally. I don't know why. As for the topics that I would expect to cover on this blog - I don't know. I know that I am not someone who is intellectually super charged and highly opinionated, so do not expect any of those posts. Though I do hope to put up a few interesting ideas on this space soon. I remember that in the past couple of weeks I did have a couple of ideas that I found quite interesting and unique myself and think that they are worthy of this space. However, given the glodfish memory that I have, I really don't remember any of them right now. But I do hope that I would put them up.
Ok, now I know that there are two words / phrases that I have killed on this one through their frequent use - random and glodfish memory. I know, but I couldn't help it - those two are totally ringing in my head right now and I am trying hard to not use them again through the rest of this one.
Finally, I want to acknoweldge the fact that I am feeling a strange sense of happiness and relief after writing this post. I want to articulate why but I am afraid that I would kill the feeling If I do, so I wouldn't. At this point, I want to thank my bro for suggesting, for some random reason that I don't know of as yet, that I start writing a blog. So, here I am!!!!!
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