Random Thoughts

      “Oh dear, don’t bother, just ignore!” Hold on, I am not telling you to ignore what I wrote here, please read it completely. “Just ignore”, is a commonly used phrase by many of our family members, friends, colleagues and well-wishers. We are often advised in this way if we have a tendency to react little more than how others react to certain situations. Assume you are in a public place, let us consider a railway station, you are waiting with your luggage for the train to arrive. In the same place, assume that you noticed a family of 3 or 4 persons (husband, wife and kids) have come there and there are many other people around. You might be seeing the husband being very dominant and using abusive words in public just to make his wife follow the instructions for every simple thing. It would be very much embarrassing for that lady to get such instructions in a public place. However, she realizes the situation and may not be reluctant to obey the instructions. As...

Hey, you are really a lucky person!!!! How many times did u hear this by referring you as lucky by your friends or relatives? I guess everyone would have faced such situation in their life. We may appear as lucky to others based on some situations because we were good in some art or game or some work which others couldn’t do in an easy way like how we did. But tell yourself, can you be considered yourself as lucky just because you have some special art in you? Can you be considered as Lucky because you look beautiful? Can you be considered as Lucky because you play some musical instrument in an exceptional way? There are many such questions depending on the person in which he or she is specialized with. I am trying my bit to figure out what is being lucky. Here it is, Case-1: Let us consider some examples, if you say that Sachin Tendulkar is Lucky? Does everyone agree that it is purely luck based success? What about the efforts he applied towards his targets?   Is Ami...

                                                       According to material science, Toughness is an ability of a material to absorb energy before it breaks or fails. Considering that into our day to day life, let us talk about being tough. How does a person become tough? May be he\she had gone through lot of pain in his\her life but still they behave in a calm and composed way in their daily life, as if nothing adverse had happened in the past. Some people are seen with a beaming face all the time and with full of energy when they are around us. But do you think that internally they are very calm? Are they smiling really from their heart? Are they really happy for what they have gone through?   It is very difficult for anyone to forget their past. Can you forget your past? Especially for a person who had gone through severe agony in their...