Our tenants vacated yesterday and i was lending my mom a helping hand in cleaning our new house. Soon there was the entry of neighbor kid, about 5 years of age and was very accustomed to our old tenants and asked about the "Tamil aunt"(They were from Madurai) who had just left.
I don't know how and why the "story telling" began but my mom and kid were talking about a story of dumb idiotic guy.
The story was somewhat like - The mother of that idiot asks him to get butter from a shop. but he puts it in his pockets to bring it back home. Later when asked to get it in a ice pack so that it doesn't melt he does it same for bringing salt! Ah.. this poor fellow then makes the princess laugh who had not even laughed in her lifetime... and so king makes him marry to her because of his utter sense of humor(so called).
I hated this kind of stories as they made no sense to practical world but there was something more interesting than this.
After telling complete story, the kid asked a very surprising question (which i overheard) for which even my mom was awestruck!
She had asked - "why didn't the princess divorce that idiot and marry another prince?"
I couldn't believe that young kid of this age could pronounce any word like D_I_V_O_R_C_E.
The time is getting from bad to worse for the next generation.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Success in my vision
What's the secret of success in your life?
Have you ever realized how hard it is to answer such a difficult question. It's just like one of those job interview questions that i have faced in recent days.
I have been asked this question several times by my friend. At first, I didn't understand what makes him ask it over and over again, but later I got a good reason - It's a must to ask oneself at all times to lead your own life in a proper direction. I think that his success lies in the fact that this same question always lingers in his mind.
I know that strengths like Hard work, Attitude, Persistence, Confidence can make a person succeed in life. But thats not completely true with me. As these virtues are obtained by necessary opportunities and exposure.
Personally i would say that my secret of success is my fear of failure! Yes, its true. The society is making our lives so competitive.
Well, I feared that i may fail as a student, as a teenager, as a responsible adult, as a good human being. The consciousness of this fear led me into a path that I'm right now in. I had seen some part of the suffering in my family. My efforts to minimize their problem was to get into good college, get good education, build my own career and lessen the burden of donations. Being a part of typical middle class family, understanding my family needs was one of most important thing in my life as a youngster. I do regret for all the things that i missed during my childhood days. But everything comes at a price of something else. But now things have changed a lot in these 20 years, We are now one happy, contended family.
Its not only about the "monetary stuff" but also as a person, I got to know more about responsibility. We have the opportunity to be strong when we are given difficulties. With more opportunity comes great exposure, with correct usage of exposure comes great power, with great power comes great responsibility.
According to me - Success is driven by failure and necessity is its motivator.
Have you ever realized how hard it is to answer such a difficult question. It's just like one of those job interview questions that i have faced in recent days.
I have been asked this question several times by my friend. At first, I didn't understand what makes him ask it over and over again, but later I got a good reason - It's a must to ask oneself at all times to lead your own life in a proper direction. I think that his success lies in the fact that this same question always lingers in his mind.
I know that strengths like Hard work, Attitude, Persistence, Confidence can make a person succeed in life. But thats not completely true with me. As these virtues are obtained by necessary opportunities and exposure.
Personally i would say that my secret of success is my fear of failure! Yes, its true. The society is making our lives so competitive.
Well, I feared that i may fail as a student, as a teenager, as a responsible adult, as a good human being. The consciousness of this fear led me into a path that I'm right now in. I had seen some part of the suffering in my family. My efforts to minimize their problem was to get into good college, get good education, build my own career and lessen the burden of donations. Being a part of typical middle class family, understanding my family needs was one of most important thing in my life as a youngster. I do regret for all the things that i missed during my childhood days. But everything comes at a price of something else. But now things have changed a lot in these 20 years, We are now one happy, contended family.
Its not only about the "monetary stuff" but also as a person, I got to know more about responsibility. We have the opportunity to be strong when we are given difficulties. With more opportunity comes great exposure, with correct usage of exposure comes great power, with great power comes great responsibility.
According to me - Success is driven by failure and necessity is its motivator.
Kick off!!!
I do enjoy writing. Do visit my poem blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/karthikhb . (i didn't want to mess up with the nice yahoo360 blog). All I want to do is to communicate some of my experience via writing and also learn to improve my communication skills at the same time (forgive my grammatical mistakes, if any). I am not very much disciplined to write regularly but i aim that sooner or later i can spare time to write daily(i guess its sooner). All sorts of critics are welcome. I'm putting myself out there to learn something new. I know that i am not alone in having experienced the same as someone before. Yet, there is a sense of adventure, a feel of being alive and getting noticed. The entries here will be my fighting random thoughts that keeps me busy all day long and makes me have some sleepless nights like today.
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