In All fairness

“If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair with them, it is like expecting a lion not to eat you because you don't eat lion...” - unknown

We need to think of a strategy to deal with the world. Expectations are boundless.. keep expecting without doing and you are in for failures. Its actually and mostly YOU that make things happen for you.  

Birthday puzzle solved

O thats why! The loads off today. I feel much lighter.

uff!! what a relief yesterday is done. gosh!! human mind! we unintentionally think so much so so much. On the actual birthday  you expect a wish from almost everyone who comes to talk to you, at least I do. I am almost a tad snappy that day, guess thats happening more often with passing years. Its as if everyone is getting another year to wish me. It really sounds funny when I put it this way. Your expectation, more or less is that, they know its your bday and they should wish you. I was so tense all day yesterday, lest anyone didnt wish me. I felt mad and sad. I felt unimportant if the person talking to me didnt wish me(particularly if by intuition I knew he/she knew it and forgot to mention). I consider birthdays are special where a new star is added to your life. Its a celebration of life itself. That ultimate factor that makes us human. The heart within us that continues beating, that breath of life, the senses, the perception, the emotions, the thing they call love and of course at times the glorious feeling of adding another year to the thing they call your life.

ufff! glad yesterday is done. By the end of the day, if I didnt get a wish, I kinda coaxed the person to wish me or extracted a hug if I had to. Now I am smiling and laughing to my silly endeavors all through yesterday. But to tell you the truth, I feel much lighter and relieved that the day is done. From childhood I carried the feeling you have to really be gracious about this particular day and to the birthday person. Noone can scold you, noone can say bad things to you, etc and such stuff. Its a free pass to happy living that day. You get gifts and everyone appreciates you for who you are, at least that day. Its one day a year thats yours. Why not make the best of it!!!

Typicality at its utmost

Why is it that the same community you expect to be your support system does everything to pull you down!!!

Why is it that while you are building your dream these same folks do everything to bring the walls of your dream down!!!

Your imagination, your creativity gives birth to a mirror of ideas and when that idea is finally taking a form, shape and spreading cheer and inspiration and joy abound, a stray pebble whizzes thru and tends to shatter it.

Its so hard to build something and so easy break it. Why then those destroying hands dont help with building!!

This is for a friend and her struggle with her uniqueness and her intent to make a mark and to raise awareness for a special gift and her ultimate passion.

Information overload

haha!! While I begin to write this I am ending up posting a blog for people to read(yet again). While I am happy to be a part of this day and age where all information is at your fingertip, I feel frustrated that you do not have a one-stop-shop for any information on anything anymore. Few years back you bought a piece of equipment and a user manual came with it for you to understand the workings of that equipment. So you read that, figured it out and you were good to go.

This past week I got my new kindle(not kindle fire). Its nothing hi-fi. Simple device to download books and read. Really want to give myself another chance to get back to my avid reader self. I miss that. It bothers me. But they redirected me to amazon site to find information on workings of the kindle. Great! Maybe no problem for people who love browsing any time of the day. I am the one who loves succinct information. For the past hour I have'nt been able to locate just one info I need. Please do not mind my ignorance regarding this, readers, but I have read up some free ebooks online and I thought kindle would be my best bet to readup whenever, wherever. Now its taking me time to research the workings of the kindle. When I brought this up with my kiddo, she goes like - 'kindle fire is user friendlier'. Really? What happened to technology at your fingertip with devices which where just released maybe say a couple of years back?  Now they have better devices where consumers have to spend a lot more to get user-friendlier devices. Am bummed!!! Ya Ya!! I know! I know!! technology changes every second these days. I know there are quick user-guides for equipments, too. But still, its a concern. Its really getting tougher to catch up. Am sad about how much I dont know.

Am I that old already? Do I sound exactly like my own parents now? I keep questioning myself. I am an IT pro and yet small print is what I am trying to drive away from? I remember my dad said long ago - 'always answer your exam questions in bullet-points, clear and concise' and thats how I like expressing myself. Not just a jumble of words.

Thats yet another story - the lack of proper communication that I faced during my hospital visit last week. Its the best children's hospital to be at, for care and treatment, when your child needs immediate care. But like my friend put it - there is a lot of administrative chaos. As a parent it was difficult to cut through this chaos and understand the way things work. Anyways - will probably take up another page to share my frustration about that later.

leaving you with this thought - How much information do you think is enough to wade through OR to get a grip on anything?