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		<title>The Show Must Go On</title>
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When I entered the law school for a five year course all I wanted was to just pass out and get the degree. I didn’t care whether I would be last from my batch; all I wanted was to clear out from the university. I used to think that my school days were great and [...]]]></description>
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<p>When I entered the law school for a five year course all I wanted was to just pass out and get the degree. I didn’t care whether I would be last from my batch; all I wanted was to clear out from the university. I used to think that my school days were great and I would not be able to make as good friends as then. Honestly, my college time was not as great as many; I enjoyed my time but nothing that I could say was amazingly great. But yet when I leave college today, I feel a certain loss within me. I realized that it was not I who survived the whole five years, there were people who pulled me through. How can I thank my roommate without whom I could not have cleared my exams, how can I thank some of my friends who stood by me and helped me come through some difficult time in the university and everyone around me who made me smile and laugh and made it a memorable journey to remember.<br />
The ultimate purpose of all the journeys is to end one day. Everything that starts has to end. Finished or unfinished, desired or undesired every journey will come to an end. But to all the things in this universe there is one certainty that the world will go on. With us or without us, lives will go on. We miss people but we learn to live without them. They may be the closest person in our lives but one day you would have to let go of that person. Nothing starts or ends with any person, in your life it’s only you who has to go on. As quoted in a beautiful poem “<em>For men may come and men may go; but I go on forever.</em>”<br />
But through the whole process I realized one thing that things come to an end so that we could be exposed to further more beautiful things in life. When I think of it, if my school had never ended I would not have met some of the greatest people that I met in college and who make my life complete. Every end of an era marks the beginning of a new era. As my college ends I enter into a world; the real world. I have heard that the real world sucks and one may not find the greatest people around but I have faith; I have faith that even if I am troubled somewhere someone is going to share my grief and make me survive as in the college days.<br />
I will miss all of the people in college and as I enter into this world I shall try to find someone like them out there for me. I will try to find people who would save my ass at the last second, I shall try to find people who would be my confidante, people who would make me laugh and cry. I shall try to find another you but maybe there might not be another you.</p>
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		<title>Journey for the Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
 &#8211; Ben Sweetland
Aakash, a teenager, thought that his time had come when he opted to study for Chartered Accountancy after his school life. His father was a CA practitioner and all his life all he ever wanted to become was a CA. He toiled and slogged for five [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><a href="http://inspirationalpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Journey.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-342" title="Journey" src="http://inspirationalpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Journey.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="243" /></a>“Success is a journey, not a destination.”</strong><br />
<em> &#8211; Ben Sweetland</em></p>
<p>Aakash, a teenager, thought that his time had come when he opted to study for Chartered Accountancy after his school life. His father was a CA practitioner and all his life all he ever wanted to become was a CA. He toiled and slogged for five years to wait for his moment to become what he always wanted and in the process he had to sacrifice quite a lot: he reduced on his socializing with friends, became serious about life and every moment felt and behaved as if it was his destiny to become CA. Although there was nothing within him that made him smarter than others around him but he had this will to be that person and that was what kept him going. The day had arrived when the results were going to be out for the final year. All the batch mates looked forward to the result.<br />
Among the fifteen friends that gathered to watch the results, only six passed. Most of those who passed were the ones likely to pass any exams but then there were some other big time casualties as well. Aakash was one of them. He thought that the world had come to a standstill, that this could not be his fate; he was supposed to be rejoicing this moment of becoming the only thing that he ever dreamt of. But the moment of truth had struck, and he with other eight people had failed the exam and they will not be what they call the CA in first attempt. And then on things changed for Aakash; he studied as if it was a matter of formality and he had to pass it anyhow or else it would be like the end of the world. What happened in the process was that the charm of becoming that one professional he ever wanted to be was lost, he thought that it was just another thing and he had to pass it whether he liked it or not.<br />
He cleared the exam in the second attempt but for him he felt no joy. He thought that it was his destiny to become one and there was no cause for celebration. His one failure made him feel as if he had lost the war and was just merely winning a lesser battle by clearing it in second attempt.<br />
The question here is <strong>&#8220;why is the moment bigger than the journey?&#8221;</strong> why is it that when the person fails at the final hurdle he seems to believe that he has been a loser through the whole journey. It is true that the moments make our life and that is what remains when we look back at our lives in a nutshell. All we remember is what we scored in the exams; whether we won or not and so on. But we don’t remember how much fun it was studying or how we hated to study that subject; how one practiced to win a particular thing – all that remains is result. Then the question is &#8211; whether the life that you have had in journey bigger or that moment that changes your life itself more important? It is only those three hours that matter doesn’t it. You write your paper and boom! – you have your result; all the hard work of years is put down in those three hours; three hours to destiny. But are these three hours all that matters?<br />
Not only students but every person fails somewhere; fails at the last step and then there it is – work of years goes down and everyone moves on forgetting you and remembering the successful ones. How can you measure the effort that a runner puts in for four years to get to the Olympics and run that race and eventually it ends in less than ten seconds. Your moment of glory has gone down in less than ten seconds and you don’t even realize it as you came in last. The fair answer is that it is true that moment is bigger than the journey for it all comes down to that moment where you win or lose it all. No one remembers the hard work or pain you put in; all others remember is the result and it is you who has to face the music.<br />
But then all I want to argue is isn’t that journey equally beautiful. All others remember is the result but what would you remember – I remember the long night calls with friends before the board exams, I remember studying subjects all night long which I hadn’t touched round the year to pass my college exams, the tireless practice that we did to play in football matches. What do you remember – do you only remember that you either failed or passed in your exams; whether you were able to get a better result than you mate.<br />
<strong>Yes life is made of the moments in which you pass or fail but what life really is, is the journey to make those moments. Fight for the moment but don’t let the moment go by for what you really letting go &#8211; is life.</strong><br />
<em>P.S. – to all those who attempt suicide, there is just this one thing, no moment or event is bigger than one’s life. Life is a beautiful journey made of failures; please don’t waste it. </em></p>
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		<title>Paradise Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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He who thinks, he can be good to all, is the biggest fool.
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<p><em>He who thinks, he can be good to all, is the biggest fool.</em><br />
<strong>Not even God was spared of the feeling of hatred</strong>. Satan hated God because he did not believe in what God told or made them believe. He fought against him for he believed he was no less than God; he was thrown out of heaven and sent to hell when he failed in the battle against God and that is where he built his own kingdom. The emotion of hatred pre-existed men; it pre-existed life and to be fair it shall be there till the world ends or till there is only vacuum.<br />
<strong>Who says that one needs to be loved by all</strong>; one can only live by his beliefs and if the man does not then he is nothing but a puppet to the world. What matters is not that people hate you, what matters is what is right. Great men never thought that what they were doing might offend others; they thought of what is right. The path of truth and righteousness is not the easiest to walk on they say and it has never been; when a person does good, does the right thing there would be people who would obstruct; who would create problems because that is what they think is not right in their sense but then what matters is whether your conscious is clear and that what you think will not let you feel guilty later.<br />
<strong>Its not that the path of hatred is lonely</strong> – no, there also you will find followers who share the same belief but then it never means what you do is right. Satan was sent to hell with four other angels because they did not believe in the supremacy of God but whether what they did was right or wrong would be a matter of debate. But what matters is that the emotion of hate did exist everywhere. Jesus was crucified for some people were not happy with his beliefs and thought that he would take over their reign but that did not make Jesus wrong. We all wish to be as good as we can, we don’t wish that someone would be offended by us but in this whole journey of life, no one really made it without facing this feeling and surely more than a few times would he have faced this feeling.<br />
<em> The first reaction to truth is hatred.</em><br />
It is not of only religious or mythical people that have been punished and hated for saying the truth. Many scientists like Galileo and other have been punished for they gave theories which were not acceptable to the orthodox but what came of them is history now. They became some of the greatest people because they were not afraid of truth, they were ready to pursue their beliefs and sure they did. It does not matter whether you are hated or not <strong>because someone will always be there to hate you</strong> be it because you are so good that others like you better or because they envy the greatness of others; there are enough people to hate you for reasons more unbelievable than any.<br />
<strong>But why fear being hated</strong>. Which person has not been hated &#8211; from Jesus to President Bush, from Galileo to the guy next door, but that cannot be a reason not to do the right thing or the thing that you believe is required to do. Hatred develops within a person because he hates something from within himself. Something he thinks should not be done whether right or wrong. Hatred develops because of the hate within. It is only when the thing that affects us do we care to hate; for the thing that we don’t care we have no feelings. It is something which affects us that creates this feeling and all we need to do is feel detached and at least you can be free of this emotion.<br />
“<em>If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn&#8217;t part of ourselves doesn&#8217;t disturb us</em>” &#8211; Hermann Hesse</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth” &#8211; Leo Tolstoy
Roger Federer, the greatest tennis player on record today first entered the tennis court as a ball boy in Basel Open (his home court) as a young kid. He had one great desire to win that tournament after becoming a tennis [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth”</em> &#8211; <strong>Leo Tolstoy</strong><br />
<strong>Roger Federer</strong>, the greatest tennis player on record today first entered the tennis court as a ball boy in Basel Open (his home court) as a young kid. He had one great desire to win that tournament after becoming a tennis professional. He entered the final twice but did not win it both times. Finally, the third time he reached the finals; he was able to win the tournament and showed high emotions on grabbing the title in front of his family and friends. But the story does not end there. When he came to receive the award, he said that he had been a ball boy here once and to that respect he will treat every boy after the presentation for a pizza and hence asked none to leave after the ceremony.<br />
<em>“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”</em><br />
These lines by Leonardo Da Vinci is a point of view which most may say is a golden phrase but more than that its a way of living. No one earned anything by saying that he will be great; he sat, thought and worked silently in the night. Its not wrong to have high ambitions, what’s wrong is to do nothing about it then. <strong>If one did not think of being great, then he would never become one.</strong> When Federer decided to treat the kids it was his humility and simplicity that was portrayed to the millions who watched him. There is nothing great in telling people they are inferior; the greatness lies in letting people know that no matter what I achieve, I will always be that simple man.<br />
<strong>Michael Phelps</strong> once quoted after winning seven gold medals in Beijing Olympics <em>“I&#8217;m the same kind of guy before all this happened.”</em><br />
Merely by winning anything, you don’t achieve greatness. And even if you may world may not always remember you for the right reason. Greats like Mike Tyson, John McEnroe and many more will always be remembered for their short tempers rather than their so many great achievements. Even the greatest of his time Zidane left his last mark on the football field with violence. But to his credit he was one of the finest guys in the game and will always be remembered for his genuineness. But the point is like Phelps said even after winning so much he still is the same guy. He still has those friends who irrespective of his status go out with him. He has his family to whom he is still their little boy, no matter how much gold medals he wins or how much money he earns.<br />
<strong>It is said it is simple to be happy, but difficult to be simple.</strong> We all have our own egos to satisfy; yes we may boast about our few achievements but then it should be just to our own happiness. To show superiority over others achieves no greatness. If we let our egos rise to our minds than all one achieved in one’s lifetime does not take long to perish.<br />
<strong>Henry David Thoreau</strong> once said <em>As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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“Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she&#8217;ll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I&#8217;ve got no one left to blame”
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<p><em>“Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she&#8217;ll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I&#8217;ve got no one left to blame”</em><br />
<strong>Aditya</strong> was a shy kid who hardly used to talk to girls and had never thought he would have a girlfriend. Although rich and smart, he never tried to get along with girls but then he always was a decent guy and respected woman. But at the end of his school days, he had a liking for a girl and for the first time, he thought he wanted a girlfriend. He did all he could to be friends with that girl and did all to impress the girl. Pretty soon they were more than just friends and Aditya <strong>thought he might have found the one girl he wanted forever</strong>. But though they had a strong bond, Aditya never managed to tell that girl how much he loved her and wanted to do so much for her.<br />
<strong> One day suddenly, the girl decided never to talk with him and asked him never to call again</strong> and although he tried as much to persuade the girl, she never came back. Aditya felt the world around him fall. He never ever got over her. He did try to build a relation with other girls during his college days but he never found the innocence he once felt. <strong>He had just lost the one thing he wanted most in the world.</strong> And whenever he thought about it, he wished he could do all those things he desired to do once for her. He wished if only he had a second chance would he make up for it, but he always knew that he would never get back to her. And he just wished that maybe he could have just told her what he really thought.<br />
<em> If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.</em><br />
<strong>We always wish that we could have let something not happen and always wish if could get another chance, but what use is it?!</strong> There have been so many relations where a person has never expressed his love to his loved ones and when they really want to let them know it has been too late. Let alone love relations, how many times have we seen ourselves not able to tell our parents or siblings how much we care. Why cant we understand that if there is a moment in this world its just now; its today! Why should we wait for ‘the right moment’ to express our love? What harm is it if we just say it regularly that I Love You.<br />
<strong> Life never gives people many chances; you have to make most of what you got just now. </strong>The story of Aditya is the story of so many youth who were never ever able to express their love and when they said the time had gone by. It is one thing, that the person whom you tell I Love You, does not appreciate, but then if you never tell, the regret is far worse. You may never know what the other person feels and you may lose that person for good later. The fear to lose a person, may ultimately lead to losing that person if you never let that person know your feelings.<br />
<strong> If there is a moment to live its now; if there is a moment to love its now; if there is a moment to express love its now.</strong> <em>Don’t wait for the right moment for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing. </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Aryan was one person whom you would love to have as a friend.</strong> He was one of those guys who was always <strong>jovial </strong>and <strong>happy </strong>and would always try to make people around him feel the same. He was always cool about what he did and he <strong>never let anyone else take up control of his life</strong>. Being in school with him, he seemed to be average intelligent guy and always used to manage his studies somehow. But slowly in the last two years of his schooling did he lose control of his life a bit.</p>
<p>By the time he reached college he had lost almost all control of his life and had <strong>entered into quite a lot of bad company</strong>. He did not change from being a jovial character but he <strong>started taking his life too lightly</strong>. Someone who once used to be a parent’s good child slowly started considering himself smarter and many a times despised his parents for being <strong>ignorant of the college system</strong> and started living his life without control. With his company ruining, he started playing around with his career in the first year of college. His friends used to encourage him to <strong>bunk college and loiter around</strong> saying that the system is too easy and he will clear it without doing any work and in his own high, he accepted the fact and went completely wayward. But his ultimate shock came at the end of his first year which changed his life completely.</p>
<p>Fooling around the whole year, when the time came for filling up the forms for the university exams, he was told that the<strong> college authorities have withdrawn his name from appearing in the examinations </strong>due to lack of attendance and other university rules. When he came to know about this, <strong>the world around him came to a standstill</strong>. He realized that the barring a couple of people like him, all his other friends were being allowed to sit in the exams and he was the only one left to repeat the whole year. Trying all he could to get the college authorities to pass his form, they didn’t allow him to appear in the exams. <strong>That is when he learned his biggest lesson.</strong></p>
<p>Talking with one of his close friends he said that the journey of <strong>life is like a journey in a car</strong>, where there come many potholes. He realized that, where<strong> some of these potholes are small</strong>, <strong>some are really big which really affect our journey and can stop us from reaching our destination</strong>. And being in this journey, it is our company in the car which also matter, for some may put us in that shit without us even realizing it and in the process ruining us with hardly any problem to them. He realized that when his parents were advising him to go to college, they were his true well wishers and were the ones who really tried to get him out of the hole, whereas the friends who made him loiter and waste time were the ones who actually spoiled him and put him in a bigger mess than he ever was.</p>
<p>Today coping up with his studies and leaving the bad company he had around him, he feels the mistake he did in that period. He had lost one important year of his life and career and all the people around whom he was, had started their professional lives and he being alone making up realized his biggest folly. Being the good ol’ Aryan, he found the company of some of his true old friends and realized what mistake he had done when he lost touch with them. Feeling the change within him, <strong>he started accepting the advice given to him by his parents and friends who would push him more towards his career path</strong>.</p>
<p>Over the period of time he gained back his parent’s confidence which went crumbling down after the first year fiasco. Seeing the change around him he realized what he had lost and in the process realized how bad things could have gone had he not realized the trouble.<strong> Today he relishes being the person he is and wishes he never gets back to the path he once was on.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dalai Lama</strong> once said <em>when you lose, don&#8217;t lose the lesson.</em></p>
<p>Just like Aryan, <strong>its important for us to learn and grow from our experiences.</strong> We shall always continue our battle in life and we will have many fights in our future. Its not important that we win or lose but what matters is whether we learn from our mistakes or not. Aryan realized that he had made a blunder but because of his conscious realization and the company around him he was able to recover in time. But then, haven’t we seen many a people like Aryan lose track of their life and are never able to recover?! The positive for Aryan was that he learnt his lesson in time but all of us may not be so fortunate. Its important for everyone of us to understand when we make mistakes in the present time or else we may not be so fortunate.</p>
<p><em>Our chief wisdom consists in knowing our follies and faults, so that we may correct them.</em></p>
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		<title>The Real End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Everything ends bad&#8230; otherwise it would not end.
A theory many may believe in and many may not. A lost lover or a betrayed one may feel that this is one of the truest sentences while an optimistic guy would not accept this phrase at all. Whether its true or not is not for me to [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-236" title="The End" src="http://inspirationalpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/The_End.jpg" alt="The End" width="224" height="175" />Everything ends bad&#8230; otherwise it would not end.</em><br />
A theory many may believe in and many may not. A lost lover or a betrayed one may feel that this is one of the truest sentences while an optimistic guy would not accept this phrase at all. Whether its true or not is not for me to decide but there is one thing for sure without any doubt&#8230; that <strong>there always is an end – a happy or sad, good or bad is for us to make up.</strong><br />
In this journey of life, we pass through many experiences, take up many ventures, have various experiences and they all come to an end some day. Even all the relations that we have in this world finish when we die. Whether you did a good or a bad job on it is on you to decide. The point we are discussing is <strong>the relations we have in our lives; some which end before we desire.</strong><br />
The lost lovers or the betrayed one or the let down ones would always say that we did as much as we could to get the person, what was it that I didn’t do? But the answer here is simple – it was not meant to be. Most relations end with people fighting and shouting over one another and that probably remain the last signs of your time together, but is it worth it? The fact that the end of a relation does not end your life and maybe you have to face that person somewhere down the line cannot be a burden you want to have yourself with. All you have to do first is to accept that it is over and move on. <strong>This life is to small for us to stop at a moment&#8230; if you don’t look around you might just miss something.</strong><br />
A Hindi song by Pakistani singer <strong>Atif Aslam</strong> ends in this manner “<em>&#8230;.. ab agar tum mile toh, itna yakeen hai, has denge hum toh, rona nahi hai” (Now if we ever meet again, am sure about the fact that I will not cry&#8230; but smile through)</em><br />
This also needs to be the end of our stories. Yes there would have been fights, yes there would have been differences and something may never leave you for the rest of your lives but if we never let it go it can do nothing but harm us. The reality of life is that it always gives you an opportunity to make up at least with people and we must take it as soon as we can or you never know you may not get that opportunity later and may have to regret it some day. <strong>If we try to make things normal from one end, if we are good from our side it is difficult to get a continuous onslaught from the other side.</strong><br />
<strong> We may not always get the desired end, the desired result, the ultimate price but then who said you will always get one.</strong> Everyone says that I did all I can to get it whether it be a work or a relation but the question is didn’t the other person also do enough to deserve it. We, always like the famous fable, try to make the grapes sour when unable to achieve the goal but the fact is that some things are just not meant to be and if you keep it within yourself forever and never face the reality it can do nothing but make you unhappy.</p>
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Once you accept the fact, once you let the pain pass through and accept the fact that the person is gone and remember the old times, it would only make you remember the good ones because that is what it was all about.</strong> Everything and everyone in our life is a learning experience and we have to keep learning the lesson whether good or bad. Remember never regret a thing that once made you smile. Its worth it!!<br />
<em> Forgive, forget and move on&#8230; only thing it could affect is your attitude&#8230; it makes you light and happy!!</em></p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s What You Do That Defines You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Wayne : ‘This is not who I am, beneath me there is more.’ 
Rachel: ‘Bruce deep down you may still be that great kid you used to be, but its not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.’
These words always inspired Bruce Wayne, the Batman, to work for others and for the larger good.]]></description>
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<p>When <strong>Bruce Wayne</strong> passed by his old girlfriend <strong>Rachel </strong>in a hotel, he was with a couple of other girls but he tried to make her understand that telling ‘<em>this is not who I am, beneath me there is more</em>.’ Hearing this Rachel said ‘<em>Bruce deep down you may still be that great kid you used to be, but its not who you are underneath, <strong>its what you do that defines you</strong>.</em>’ These words always inspired Bruce Wayne, the <strong>Batman</strong>, to work for others and for the larger good.</p>
<p>Though the words were in a movie, it was a message to all of us, all of us who merely think to do good but never initiate it. What harm will it be to do good to someone, to help someone? We merely watch the world unfold while we pass by never making an attempt to change it that one bit. The old clichéd dialogue that actions speak louder than words still is the ultimate truth of this world. We all make promises, we all promise a better world but very few work to fulfil that promise. Why not do good rather than criticise, why not be good rather than being as rude or bad as the other person.</p>
<p><strong>The fact is that every person on planet earth wants to be good</strong>, and I would not be afraid of saying that even Osama Bin Laden wishes to be good, he believes that what he did was for the good but the fact is that its his action, the fact that he killed so many innocent people makes him the biggest criminal on the face of the earth today. Everyone aspires to be good, but what good is it if it is more harmful than helpful. Even a small step for the good can start a large movement for the same cause. And the history has left us many examples of people who worked silently and in turn became true greats. Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela etc are some of the prime examples of people who believed in action, an action for the good. Yes they faced personal problems, yes they were not the idealistic persons in their personal life but when it came to doing good, they never went back on their path. Besides history, in practical world of today too, haven’t we seen that people who work, who do good to others regardless of the outcome have turn out to be heroes. Barrack Obama, Mother Teresa and many others have shown kindness, have shown the world that good still exists we just need to stand up for it.</p>
<p>We see so much hatred in today’s world, people fighting over smallest of matters and amidst all these don’t we love that one moment in a day when a person says some kind word or passes a warm smile. How much does it take to pass a smile or just say a few kind words? We all are running an unknown path today where we forget that there still exists an innocent world for whom there is so much to be done. We may not like all the people but it does us no harm to work for them if that results in the larger good. Why not bring out what’s within all of us and use it to at least a minimal part of our resources to give people what they want. People build orphanages, old age homes, temples as a small token to the society. Maybe they aren’t the best people in the world but by doing some stuff for the society they get that one bit satisfaction that they have done some good, at least a start.</p>
<p><strong>Remember if you think wrong but don’t do it, you are good; on the other hand if you try to do good and are not successful in completing it you are still good.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 06:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two goals after 90 minutes of the football game to win the biggest trophy of the year.
A three pointer in 0.4 seconds to win a playoff game in the NBA.
A target of 434 against the top Australian Cricket team to win the series.
Never let go of any of your faiths.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Two goals after 90 minutes of the football game to win the biggest trophy of the year</strong>&#8230;  Come on you must be joking.</p>
<p><strong>A three pointer in 0.4 seconds to win a playoff game in the NBA</strong>&#8230;. That is not humanly possible.</p>
<p><strong>A target of 434 against the top Australian Cricket team to win the series</strong>, Ha!<br />
<strong> Patrick Overton</strong> once beautifully quoted <em>When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly.</em></p>
<p>Ask a Manchester United fan who saw the whole UEFA Champions League final in 1999, if he believed it was over before the final whistle of the game. Ask a LA Laker fan if he thought that whosoever took the buzzer beater was not going to make it. Ask a South African supporter if he thought that the batsmen could not score the runs required to win the match against the almighty Australians. The answer is they believed it could be done; they had faith that their team could do it and so they delivered. Considered some of the greatest games ever, they make people believe in what they follow.</p>
<p><strong>George Seaton</strong> once quoted <em>Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.</em></p>
<p>Faith is believing, hoping against hope, hoping for miracles. Faith is what keeps all of us going. The truth of the matter is without faith we are hollow. Faith is believing in ourselves, believing in others, believing in things which sometimes has no answer. What is a religion – a faith in unknown power, what is being a fan of a sports team and expect them to win no matter what&#8230; its faith. Without faith, miracles are not possible. Yes, there is a rationale behind all we do but sometimes it is better to believe in a miracle than the logic. There are always answer in the root but the fact is that if we always try to go to the root, the essence and beauty of believing the world to be a spectacle goes away.</p>
<p>Why say that because these teams were technically right and did it the right way was because they won. We must believe that there is something within us which made it happen. The power of having faith is that it can deliver miracles. The sad part of technicality is that it questions the most beautiful of moments. Or else how would you describe a three pointer in 0.4 second by Derek Fisher&#8230; a miracle or technically right shot!? Having faith makes you stronger and a true person, but reasoning drifts you from the things you believed your whole life time.</p>
<p><strong>Jacques Kallis</strong>, a senior member in the South African Cricket team, when South Africa was going to go out to bat for chasing the target said to the team – <em>hey guys, this is a 450 run wicket, they are 15 runs short, we could make it! </em>This is the faith Kallis had in his team, the ultimate example.</p>
<p><strong>The point is not that reasoning is bad but the fact that having faith and having hope for a thing one believes in, is the ultimate human development key.</strong> Or else person having no faith in some kind of super power ends up being person believing in no miracles and trust me everyone on earth needs a miracle somewhere, sometime.</p>
<p><strong>Never let go of any of your faiths</strong> – be it religion, be it the sports team or be it your work, always have a belief that it will work out. We all are creatures independent of having our own beliefs and asking anyone to follow anything else or believe otherwise is trying to deprive the person of his right to belief which is a crime – legally and morally.</p>
<p><em>Treat the other man&#8217;s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.</em></p>
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		<title>Inspirational Speech from Narayana Murthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This an Inspirational Speech by Narayana Murthy, Infosys' Chairman and Chief Mentor Officer (CMO)
He speaks beautifully about how to escape the current world of Cat and Mouse race.
"LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY"
(Because you never know when it stops loving you)]]></description>
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<p><strong>Infosys</strong>&#8216; Chairman and Chief Mentor Officer (CMO) &#8211; <strong>Mr.Narayana Murthy</strong>&#8217;s Speech on Late sitting:</p>
<p>I know people who work 12 hours a day, six days a week, or more. Some people do so because of a work emergency where the long hours are only temporary. Other people I know have put in these hours for years. I don&#8217;t know if they are working all these hours, but I do know they are in the office this long. Others put in long office hours because they are addicted to the workplace. Whatever the reason for putting in overtime, working long hours over the long term is harmful to the person and to the organization.</p>
<p>There are things managers can do to change this for everyone&#8217;s benefit. Being in the office long hours, over long periods of time, makes way for potential errors. My colleagues who are in the office long hours frequently make mistakes caused by fatigue. Correcting these mistakes requires their time as well as the time and energy of others. I have seen people work Tuesday through Friday to correct mistakes made after 5 PM on Monday.</p>
<p>Another problem is that people who are in the office for long hours are not pleasant company. They often complain about other people (who aren&#8217;t working as hard); they are irritable, or cranky, or even angry. Other people avoid them. Such behaviour poses problems, where work goes much better when people work together instead of avoiding one another.</p>
<p>As Managers, there are things we can do to help people leave the office.</p>
<p>First and foremost is to set the example and <strong>go home ourselves</strong>. I work with a manager who chides people for working long hours. His words quickly lose their meaning when he sends these chiding group e-mails with a time-stamp of 2 AM, Sunday.</p>
<p>Second is to encourage people to <strong>put some balance in their lives</strong>. For instance, here is a guideline I find helpful:</p>
<p>1) Wake up, eat a good breakfast, and go to work.<br />
2) Work hard and smart for eight or nine hours.<br />
3) Go home.<br />
4) Read the comics, watch a funny movie, dig in the dirt, play with your kids, etc.<br />
5) Eat well and sleep well.</p>
<p>This is called recreating. Doing steps 1, 3, 4, and 5 enable step 2. Working regular hours and recreating daily are simple concepts. They are hard for some of us because that requires personal change. They are possible since we all have the power to choose to do them.</p>
<p>In considering the issue of overtime, I am reminded of my eldest son.</p>
<p>When he was a toddler, If people were visiting the apartment, he would not fall asleep no matter how long the visit, and no matter what time of day it was. He would fight off sleep until the visitors left.. It was as if he was afraid that he would miss something. Once our visitors&#8217; left, he would go to sleep. By this time, however, he was over tired and would scream through half the night with nightmares. He, my wife, and I, all paid the price for his fear of missing out.</p>
<p>Perhaps some people put in such long hours because they don&#8217;t want to miss anything when they leave the office. The trouble with this is that events will never stop happening. That is life! Things happen 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>Allowing for little rest is not ultimately practical. So, take a nap. Things will happen while you&#8217;re asleep, but you will have the energy to catch up when you wake.</p>
<p>Hence <strong>&#8220;LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY&#8221;</strong><br />
(Because you never know when it stops loving you)<br />
<strong>- Narayana Murthy</strong></p>
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