Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Moral Of the story

I learnt two things today:

  • One doesn't HAVE to be politically correct to succeed. But failure is guaranteed if you're perceived to be too politically incorrect. Perception is belief!
  • We all derive security from the insecurities of others, especially shared insecurities.

Ah! Human nature is so not-infallible, yet so difficult to completely fathom...
The art of listening is crucial to deciphering human nature, yet so incomplete. Is thinking such a bad thing then?

Ah! Should I even care?
And again, I HATE the word 'should'.

I realise you can find friends and allies in the unlikeliest of places, especially when life disillusions you from the established pillars of strength.
I also know that friends leave me as soon as they get to know me well enough.
Should I keep wandering from pillar to pillar, then, or is there an end?


There's just one truth in life: It never ends, until it does.


I know this post sounds arbit, but cmon, it;s 3:30 in the morning, and I've an exam tomorrow. I'm not expected to be sane, am I?

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey. no reason given for your beliefs. guess you really take your exams seriously. 'friends' never leave, guess depends who you call your friends... and deriving security/inspiration from security of others is better... but we get envious of the security of others so you do derive security from them i guess...btw.. best of luck for your exams...

Anonymous said...

Replace the "should" by "do" and write big NO after every question mark. You will get all the answers. (Do I care? NO. Do I keep.... is there an end? NO) See it is simple. Life is simple, when lived in denial and/or vanity.

@Inhas... if you read closely you will get the reason behind belief. "Perception is belief", this is her perception and thus her belief.
(oye pheonix, sahi bol raha hun na? Haan bol nahi to bahut maar padegi tujhe :P)

PS Tere aur mera koi competition hai kya serious aur geek, respectively, posts likhne ka?

Anonymous said...

ur not supposed to be sane .. but ur supposed to be happy atleast :).

hmm i agree .. there r times when ur own friends .. which u thimk were ur own .. leave u in the midst of life .. at times when u r addicted to them .. and even knowing tht they r ruthless. and dis human nature is so complicated to understand tht i jst freak out when i try to look inside me :D

i hate " should " too .....

best of luk for ur exams .... and keep smilin ;) .. hehe ..

Anonymous said...

@inhas

Is there ever any reaL 'REASON' for one's beliefs and faiths. ustifications perhaps, but no reason. That's what defines belief.
Exams? me? u kiddin.....for the last four days i havent practically touched a book.
and today i ahve a paper in 3 hours. do u think i;m studyin? naaa....
i have too many random things to think abt:P
Besides, during exam times I',m always the most wela jobless person in the insti.

wat u say is partially true, but think abt it, if we are tense, say for example abt exams, and if we find everyone is equally tense, doesnt it lessen a bit. thats the whole point of deriving security from shared insecurities.
anyway thanx a lot.tc:)

@prad
wat an escapist way...
actuallt, how convenient.
but doesnt work with everyone dude!

p.s. ab jo jaisa hoga waisi himm post likhega na..Geek!
waise mera mood kafi kharab hai ajkal to aisi bakwas hi nikal rahi hai, sorry

@anuj
thanx sweety

dont worry i;m happy

and dont freak oput so much prof...abhi exams hain!

Anonymous said...

1.And if you'd only specify what you mean success and failure as related to the perceptions of others Id be able to get some more of you. Btw, Success is inside.

2.Thats sadism. Very prevelant. It is made up of ignorance.

---

if nature is imperfect, why do you even expect it to be fathomable.

And listen to know but you can't fully know. Thinking is not bad.

Ya know it but don't care.
(should is not as bad as you feel)

Everyone is equally befriendable. Equally beautiful. There's nothing unlikely.

As you say it out, it seems as if you try to say you are so imperfect, close friends are repelled by you. You could be wrong for you can never understand anything fully. Human is not a machine. Everything is not causal.(not casual)

You will keep wandering from pillar to pillar until you do reach the end. there is an end.

There's just one truth in life. It can end, before it does.
Difficult to swallow ?? Forget it.... and read 'logic logic' again(if u want 2)

Anonymous said...

Well,3-30 in the morning doesnt sound odd to me as i am wide awake and completely sane at that time.
And,why do all of a sudden all ur posts carry a downtrodden note,a sad theme?Is it the effect of the black template or has the phoenix decide not to rise from the ashes.
Time to rise dear friend,rise from all limtations,not by thinking that you or anyone is perfect,but by thinking limitations are a part and parcel of everyones life.And what are these limitations-in my mind the dependence on friends,the need to love and be loved and the desire to be appreciated---chuck them all side and proceed fully armed with what u have and be what u are,and when u do that u will find that all the so called limtations turning to unasked oppurtunities.
and thats when u wud have risen from the ashes,sparkling gold,bathing in the majesty of success and happiness.
whoa,i do get hyper sometimes,and u might feel that the above is another moral sci lesson,but do smile once when u read this post,coz i wnt u 2 be happy....why???,coz its a pleasure to give and happiness is all the more pleasing to give.
Forgive me if have said anything foolish,i know little of this world and what awaits me,yet i see myself smiling everday in the mirror in the hope to succeed.

Anonymous said...

i have posted an article on friends,check it out if u have the time.
ciao

Anonymous said...

@mani
soryr i dotn wanna initiate any more philosophical conversations esp with u.
so i'd bypass som of ur comments.

dont bring perfection imprfecion into eveyrthing
Broaden ur perspective.
Be more flexibl, slightly.

and life DOESNOT end.
u r stupid, too rigid.

@Azeem
I'm awake, but not alwyas sane:P
None of those, it's just that life seems to be ona little downhill these days.
It just, err, reflects.
I understand wat u r saying.
It's just that it's far easier to SAY.
But yes, i'm smiling.
Thank you.
I like ur optimism,

Anonymous said...

and life DOESNOT end.
u r stupid, too rigid.


could be the same with you.
you never know.

Anonymous said...

hej... let me rephrase myself.. 'moral of the story'...only morals.... I am waiting for the story..

Anonymous said...

i do agree .its an insane post ..hahah .

and whats this ??

"I also know that friends leave me as soon as they get to know me well enough."

aisa kyu???

Anonymous said...

Kiddo!

Leave all the coulds and should aside..and replace all of em with "Want"..If you want to ignore you can and if you want to care, you would!
Chal go study for your exam.Sleep on this later on!
Good luck!

Anonymous said...

I don't believe I'm the first to be taken aback at the new template. It's a little too strong at first, but this grey comment box is cool.
Nice post. A lot of what you said was very perceptive.
The first two points are especially apt: perception is indeed belief (kya karen, marketing ka zamana hai!), and the point about insecurities as well.
Don't make excuses about your posts.
And many previous posts are equally arbit, and they weren't all composed a few hours before the majors in the early morning. :)

Anonymous said...

"We all derive security from the insecurities of others, especially shared insecurities"

so true, though i hate to admit it.

friends leave , yes, the moment they think you are different :(

Anonymous said...

@Mani
Perhaps...
But I know one thing.
I'm definitely more flexibe than u.

@inhas
Chuck the story..it's not too good!
But I'll soon come up with better tales:P
Keep watching!

@ghunting
If u know me, then u'd know why, IF u get to know me well enough that is.

@ROS
Cmon..not DESIREa nd want..
That connotes 'evil' and problms at the very mention!!
Thanx:)

Anonymous said...

@FRQ.....
sorry i think ur name got lost:(
but wat u say, is right, though partially perhaps,

@Shalabh

Ah..my blog is honoured...
Ever since I changed my template, this is the first time His Excellence has found anything worth commenting. And that's how, the template itself find a mention!

I know it is strong, though I hope u haven't been taken aback TODAY by this, because it's been so much time, and now I've got used to it.
it's rather sleek I believe, thouhg it's dark.
but then, it is what life is not, BLACK and white..which compliments well with the posts, which keep talking about what life IS.

About the posts, yes a lot of them are arbit...the very recent ones, becausr they reflect phases in my life.
I'm not making excuses about them. The footer was just meant for a frew concerned posts who had previously indicated that they were worried about me because of what I was writing, and thinking.

In any case, thank you.
It's rare that u agree with/like something I say.
i'm honoured.

Anonymous said...


Perhaps...
But I know one thing.
I'm definitely more flexibe than u.


you're stuck dude... ur rigidly thinking ur flexible.

Anonymous said...


Perhaps...
But I know one thing.
I'm definitely more flexibe than u.


you're stuck dude... ur rigidly thinking ur flexible.

Anonymous said...

look who'speaking.



all right, i'm not.

Anonymous said...

i can be anyone.u dont need to worry on that.as for the post, why is life so complicated when it can be so simple? Why are friends the one u dread wen they are so precious and so important?
Life gives u sad memories, it also gives you accidents, but it also gives you fun, smiles and cheerful days. Why are we always thinnking abt the disasters rather than the bouquets we get from life?
The shell you have is one to protect you, not to hold you.Break free and face the world nad ull find a flock awaits you, to hold you and care for you wen u r down and out, and also to pat ur back wen u succeed.Give ur friends a chance to show how much they care and if they are really ur friends, u wont need to be scared evr again. Let them share urs as u share their lives and be equal so that they can justify their friendship as much as you do urs.Juss dont hate being loved coz ull get love as much as u deserve and not as much as u want.So juss accept the goods this world gives you with the bads. Do it for ur friends if not for urself, coz they would equally be grateful to u as u wld be to them if not more
keep smilin and hatch out, this world awits you with open arms.Rise, and this world will give u wings.

Anonymous said...

Sometimes u are so true, that I fall doubly as much in love with you.

Anonymous said...

You've embarassed me so much by your reply. I can't deny I'm flattered though. :)
I'd comment more often if your posts were smaller. However, keep writing the way you do, and I'll keep dropping in.

Anonymous said...

@someone

huh?


@ANY

I think I know who u r.
nd i unerstand wat u say...wat u always say. and u know wat i always tell u, right?:p

but not all whys are so simple to answer.
even if they r, i have already complicated things so much that...

i think it's more fun to think about the disasters..esp because I love pain.

baki sab , i dont think, this is the right place to discuss that.
thanx, for being urself!:)

I will rise, dont worry, afterall i'm phoenix,a nd afterall, i'm very optimistic at times:D

life doesnt end, until it does.

Anonymous said...

@Shalabh

:D
I think two people can play this game of "oblique references" right!

Yeah, I'll try and right smaller, though I cant promise:))

And y havent u given me the new URL still..

I take this to mean u dont WANT me reading ur new blog...
OK. if thats wat u want, I'm fine with it.
Though I regret it.

Anonymous said...

u got me right, as much as i refuse to it.Told u na life is too small to keep apologising n thanking.And also, u love pain but ur friends dont, so why invite pain to urselves and pain them too.they dont deserve it and neither do u.By the way, who's the some1???;)
rest i think i will tell later, wen u let the floodgates open.
keep smilin
live life dont spend it

Anonymous said...

gloomy ....

Anonymous said...

@voice

:|

@ANY

I knew it dear.
And I dont know who 'someone' is!!
Rest later:)

Anonymous said...

Amazing how I start recognizing the real worth of things in my life only during exams. And the ideas are all dissolved once exams get over.

Anonymous said...

Nahi baba, there's nothing on the new blog. I just have the url, that's all. As soon as I write something, I'll put up a link from my old blog.
You are my most dedicated commenter, I wouldn't dream of annoying you.

Anonymous said...

@The Anonymous
Well, that''s life right!!
Happens with me too..
I have the max wela time during exams myself(no studying, and nothing extra happening, nobody even to talk much to:()
And that''s why I think a lot, and think good, during exams.
Though it doesnt get totally dissolved, thankfully:D
Ur comment reminded me of m last majors, when I wrote this

@shalabh
I''ll wait.
;)

Anonymous said...

No studying during majors! Well, actually not for me. For someone academically challenged like me, majors are a time for intense activity, and it is stress, instead of free time, that drives me to thinking. And that is why most of it gets dissolved, because the cause - stress, goes away.

Anyway, still I would say, life ka asli mazaa majors mein hi hai.

Anonymous said...

Haan yar, halat to meri bhi kafi buri hai is sem...esp in the three exams that remaoin, but i just cantr study more than 2-3 hours a day, which is the max, to be reached only in exams like the remaining.
inborn manufacturing defect hai
n thats hw i ruin my papers and cg.

anyway, best of luck

Anonymous said...

Sorry Taru!!!

Anonymous said...

r u really going insane ??..heheh..meri tarah mat baniyo ;P
"We all derive security from the insecurities of others, especially shared insecurities"..so very true and so sad
friends dont leave..depends on whom u consider as friends.
human nature is THE most complex thing on earth..and thinking is NOT a bad thing for sure..or else...

Anonymous said...

Aapki tarah ban jaoon to fight kya hai.

insanity is also bliss:D

Anonymous said...

dat means nahi bani..ban gayi to fight hi fight ho jaayegi life !!...but very true its so nice to be insane...u have the world at ur disposal.

Anonymous said...

:D

yes, and no accountability to anyone.
logic destroys.