“When you were born, you were the only one crying, and everyone around you were smiling… live your life in such a way that when you die, you’re the only one smiling, and everyone around you is crying…”
I made few changes to the above quote… sounded good to me this way… You may be wondering why I am starting with this… here it goes…
Look on the mirror reminds me of the face who always wished to be some one special but remained to be one among the crowd. I know I am supposed to do many things in this world, that is worth for… but still pertaining with my dreams and no aspirations… I hope when I am ready to act, let it not be too late…
From the time when I had the autonomy to consider independently… The uncertainty, “Am I constrained from doing things I wish to do???” OR “Am I not considering myself to do things, which I really want to do???” has haunted me… Quite strange!!!… pretty contradictory rite?…Hope many of us face this uncertainty… may be fighting it, ignoring or leaving it unnoticed… I shall not speak of “WE” at this point of time, let me spot light myself for the prospect… Blame game has to be stopped; and may this be the first step… having the courage enough to admit ones own mistake…
Even the smallest of things like a misplaced stone on midway to cutting down the trees for widening the roads bothers me… it is not that I keep my eyes wide shut… I know the fact that for road widening there is no need to axe down a life and spill the green blood, we always have the option to built the road on either sides keeping the tree as the divider… Even to put up the best of construction won’t take more than a couple of years, but for a tree to reach its age…., may be a century or more… and the lame excuse “Infrastructure development” and axing them down should be stopped now…
Here goes the real problem, Am I taking the chance to do things that can make me stand apart from the crowd and fight against the odds??? Doing something worth for the world in which I live in or for the future generations coming up??? Have I become that selfish to forget the fact that human race is rushing towards a crisis or to a verge of extinction and act as if nothing is happening around me… It is a fact that there won’t be a chance to turn back if something is not done against Global warming at this point…
It is high time I should consider myself before things go beyond my reach… Let this be the beginning…. when I am in a position to set an example I ll be back for “WE”… Let me guide with an example and not by phony.
“No one can do everything but everyone can do something”. Let me make myself clear of one thing… it is high time to act… if not now, then there will never be a chance again…
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Helium Rod
Hyderabad heat was beating us down mercilessly in ICRISAT, but the enthusiasm in team managed to clinch us all to outdoors letting energy waves dehydrate us to heart… may be our facilitator found it hard at heart or had his plans for indoor games to beat the heat… We were directed in.
306 welcomed us with enough supply for fluid balancing, everyone had their piece and got seated beside respective team directing A/c to chill us down. Listing out enablers and disablers of the previous exercise followed. Facilitator waved his hands guiding us all to the center of the conference room briefing about the Helium Rod exercise… helium rod??? The name kept me guessing and interested me at the same time…
Team was provided with a light weight aluminum rod pretty close to 8Feet in length hollow inside and a simple direction to balance the rod with our index finger --pointing parallel-- to the ground and positioning alternate members opposite to each other… we were to place the rod about the hip high of shortest member of the team and lower it to ground without losing contact by any of the team member… always the rod has to be above our finger, anything other than that was unacceptable…
Team illustrated creativity and positioned ourselves with plan… demo started and we all moved slowly lowering the rod to the ground… our concentration broke with a cry that rod is going up at one end… attempt to correct that never stopped from climbing higher… Blame game followed and no one accepted the mistake… couple of attempts followed but the result was consistent enough, forcing us for an alternative plan… Concentrating at the ends…. Coordinating from the ends…. Plans followed… but the aluminum rod kept on going up… these attempts gave me the clear picture why it is called the Helium Rod…
The real culprit being eagerness, few members taking their eyes off the rod checking how others are performing creating an imbalance… and the attempt to correct the same creating more… one of the alternative was to close our eyes so that we don’t lose our concentration….
306 welcomed us with enough supply for fluid balancing, everyone had their piece and got seated beside respective team directing A/c to chill us down. Listing out enablers and disablers of the previous exercise followed. Facilitator waved his hands guiding us all to the center of the conference room briefing about the Helium Rod exercise… helium rod??? The name kept me guessing and interested me at the same time…
Team was provided with a light weight aluminum rod pretty close to 8Feet in length hollow inside and a simple direction to balance the rod with our index finger --pointing parallel-- to the ground and positioning alternate members opposite to each other… we were to place the rod about the hip high of shortest member of the team and lower it to ground without losing contact by any of the team member… always the rod has to be above our finger, anything other than that was unacceptable…
Team illustrated creativity and positioned ourselves with plan… demo started and we all moved slowly lowering the rod to the ground… our concentration broke with a cry that rod is going up at one end… attempt to correct that never stopped from climbing higher… Blame game followed and no one accepted the mistake… couple of attempts followed but the result was consistent enough, forcing us for an alternative plan… Concentrating at the ends…. Coordinating from the ends…. Plans followed… but the aluminum rod kept on going up… these attempts gave me the clear picture why it is called the Helium Rod…
The real culprit being eagerness, few members taking their eyes off the rod checking how others are performing creating an imbalance… and the attempt to correct the same creating more… one of the alternative was to close our eyes so that we don’t lose our concentration….
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