This is one of the posts where I have really no idea what should the title be, well its going to be a mix of lot of thoughts coming to my mind because of various things happening in my life. One of the things which comes to my mind is, what is the point of anything? I was watching India South Africa final one day tonight, well as anticipated Indian top order had collapsed again, I was biting my nails, saying WTH to myself. Then suddenly I thought, wait a minute, this is not right, what would have happened if India had crushed South Africa by 10 wickets. How would my life have been different? How would anyone's life in our country would get better? Well, thats true that if India won I would feel good for few minutes, read some stats online, try to find some nice blogs on internet praising our cricket starts and Indian team. Probably tomorrow I would go to office, tell people that India rocked, they would nod their heads in affirmation, but then what? After all, what am I getting out of this? No matter what happens in cricket, I am going to end up a significant amount of time thinking about it, watching it, discussing it with people. So then I said to my self "Thats is, no more cricket".
But again, hold on, then I thought, if we go by this philosophy, how does anything matter? Before continuing on this, lets go two days back. We had our appraisals, I got promoted to this designation called Manager, I used to be called Senior Associate. Just to clarify, I am still doing the work which I used to do, I am going to do the same work also in next week, next month, probably next few years if I continue working in the same company. Then how does this promotion make things better for me? Some might say, if you have to on next floor you need to climb each stairs one by one, each stair doesn't matter individually, but when you reach the last stair and you really climb on next floor you achieve something meaningful. So practically each stair has equal importance, however we might fail to realize that (wow, I came up with a nice metaphor :). ) Anyways thats right, this promotion does matter as it is one of the stairs I have to climb to reach some place meaningful. But again, wait a minute, how does it matter? How will that be beneficial to me? That's when I start thinking about peace in life, after all that is the most important asset you can ever achieve in life? Do you disagree? Climbing stairs in a corporate world one by one, probably might not leave you time to look at the things which you might want to see, when you reach the the very top, you find that you are too old to enjoy anything, to appreciate anything.
But again, wait a minute, we were talking about peace in life, I hope we agree that success in your professional life cant alone give you peace. What can give you peace then? Is it the imbalance of chemicals in human body which naive people call love a thing which might give you peace? Well, I wont argue with people who agree/disagree with this statement as no matter what your take is, you probably are right, and even if I think you are wrong, I can never prove to you, nor convince you.
Anyways, lets come back to important thing, what matters and what does not, if we combine our cricket theory with thoughts above, we can say that nothing really matters, you might argue that even life doesn't matter itself. Then why do we even live? Is it just because everybody around us is trying to survive? Definitely, whatever we do in life doesn't matter after we die, at least to the person who dies, off course this theory applies when you discard possibility of reincarnation, possibility of heaven, hell all. It doesn't matter if you were a billionaire or a software engineer like me.
With all these thoughts, I would say the ultimate pleasure in life can be peace and peace only, you can never achieve peace when you are bound to human desires like money, wealth, etc etc. Some people might think that human relations can help you achieve peace, but thats something which is debatable, human relations themselves come up with a lots of conditions, lots of give and takes, lots of bonds, which might just steal your peace. So what is the way to forward to peace?
But again, hold on, then I thought, if we go by this philosophy, how does anything matter? Before continuing on this, lets go two days back. We had our appraisals, I got promoted to this designation called Manager, I used to be called Senior Associate. Just to clarify, I am still doing the work which I used to do, I am going to do the same work also in next week, next month, probably next few years if I continue working in the same company. Then how does this promotion make things better for me? Some might say, if you have to on next floor you need to climb each stairs one by one, each stair doesn't matter individually, but when you reach the last stair and you really climb on next floor you achieve something meaningful. So practically each stair has equal importance, however we might fail to realize that (wow, I came up with a nice metaphor :). ) Anyways thats right, this promotion does matter as it is one of the stairs I have to climb to reach some place meaningful. But again, wait a minute, how does it matter? How will that be beneficial to me? That's when I start thinking about peace in life, after all that is the most important asset you can ever achieve in life? Do you disagree? Climbing stairs in a corporate world one by one, probably might not leave you time to look at the things which you might want to see, when you reach the the very top, you find that you are too old to enjoy anything, to appreciate anything.
But again, wait a minute, we were talking about peace in life, I hope we agree that success in your professional life cant alone give you peace. What can give you peace then? Is it the imbalance of chemicals in human body which naive people call love a thing which might give you peace? Well, I wont argue with people who agree/disagree with this statement as no matter what your take is, you probably are right, and even if I think you are wrong, I can never prove to you, nor convince you.
Anyways, lets come back to important thing, what matters and what does not, if we combine our cricket theory with thoughts above, we can say that nothing really matters, you might argue that even life doesn't matter itself. Then why do we even live? Is it just because everybody around us is trying to survive? Definitely, whatever we do in life doesn't matter after we die, at least to the person who dies, off course this theory applies when you discard possibility of reincarnation, possibility of heaven, hell all. It doesn't matter if you were a billionaire or a software engineer like me.
With all these thoughts, I would say the ultimate pleasure in life can be peace and peace only, you can never achieve peace when you are bound to human desires like money, wealth, etc etc. Some people might think that human relations can help you achieve peace, but thats something which is debatable, human relations themselves come up with a lots of conditions, lots of give and takes, lots of bonds, which might just steal your peace. So what is the way to forward to peace?
