Random stuff

I was reading news on TOI and saw the picture of Vin Diesel with our acclaimed glamorous glorious Deepika Padukone. The news elaborated on how Vin Diesel was received with great fanfare in India. News channels were also going gaga over his promotional visit. I felt some sort of bewilderment on the news. Hardly anyone in India knows who Vin Diesel is? But people are so excited to see him perform lungi dance. Probably the same mentality of receiving foreigners and people from other culture with gratitude and generous heart had led us to make space for Britishers in India.

This habit of treating guest as a god, We Indians have it in us. Vin Diesel comes to romance with Deepika and we are getting excited about it. The amazing site of the Indian girl squeezed in the burly arms of muscular Diesel pleases us. We feel happy telling ourselves aawww what a lovely couple. We are the perfect Abdullah in that Begani Shadi of which we have the maxim "Begani Shadi mein Abdullah Deewana".

Being Abdullah is a good thing in a perfect loving world but a dangerous weakness in a predatory world. This is where we are different from the west and I must say better than them. The westerners are people with inherently xenophobic mentality. Look at the H1-b visa issue. Or look at Brexit. The great Britain which encroached in every possible part of the world grew fearful of some skillful immigrants who threatened the job prospects of locals.

Anyway, I was watching a short video on Ratan Tata. He said a good line, Life should be a sinusoidal wave. The moment it becomes flat, it will be death just like a flat line on ECG. Nowadays, I am struggling with maintaining self-discipline. It is not easy. It is like overcoming yourself and beating yourself with no audience around. Most of the time I fail but somewhere I am growing in the process.

I have quit the job. It was a classic case of negotiations going wrong because of confusion, miscommunication, ego and job politics. Sometimes, I question myself that how can it happen? I always thought of myself as a good communicator and a balanced sort of person. But anyway it has happened. It helped me understanding the psyche of an unemployed and jobless person. It must be a decimating experience for people especially for those who are unskilled as well. It also helped me understand that why unemployment and job loss has been the biggest cause of revolutions in the human history. It reminded me of one of the psychology experiment where a toy is taken away from the kids. The experiment showed the destructive effect of taking the toy away over the psyche of the person. Hunger and starvation go one step beyond. Ancel kay's Minnesota hunger experiment showed the impact of hunger over person's mind and personality. Hunger has the power of turning even the sanest person into an evil. It fragments the psyche, makes us aloof from the world and goes to the extent of bringing the animal instincts out of we civilized humans.

Anyway, In my case, there is not much problem given the skillset and my history of moving into unsettled from the settled spheres. Somehow I feel it is a nudge of destiny to achieve my dream. I feel the world is conspiring for me. Little narcissistic thought but that's the true feeling.

Anyway, read a couple of Mark Twain's famous quotes. Summing up with two of them.
We are all in the gutter but some look at the stars.
To succeed in life you need only two things. Ignorance and Confidence.