2010 Things Which are Changing Me

Well I am bogged down by the year ending or rather decade ending ratings bombarded by the media..Some I care and some I don't. And when the sand drains out of the decade's timer I am thinking why not to summarize some philosophies which are changing my life this year. I am not sure to whom it will make sense but thought of giving it a a try. So here I go

2010 – Things that changed for me


Health is wealth : This idea crept in my mind post monsoon in Pune. Got stuck up in a hell lot of diseases . I was down with viral fever 3 times. My mom got dengue and got hospitalized for first ever time. I almost became a paranoid checking the mirror and well as the web to get to know of the various flues and checking its presence in my body. And I learned even if you have infinite money and knowledge , life is going to get screwed up if your health is not good.

Time the most important thing- Life is too short to waste time travelling to and forth to office and wasting half a day in groceries lines. Give time to you and your family. I shifted my stay and reduced my distance to office by half . Staying in an area where I can get all my stuffs in walking distance. Rent can be compromised if you save your time.

Books! What a wonderful thing – I had revived my long lost reading habit this year. Got to finish almost 12 books in 2 different languages in paper. Also became a voracious reader of news papers ,blogs and new sites and what else. Keeping my eyes and ears opened to the world and getting restless over has became a habit to me.

Keep In Touch with buddies – This year also found me keeping in touch with most of my old buddies. Felt the importance of old friends in difficult times. The thing worth mentioning is a meet-up with an old friend after 3 leap years . We parted our ways before under graduation and our life took different turns (he is major in the Army now ). Thanks to the social networking I could locate him and meet couple of times here in Pune. The pleasure of meeting an old friend or relative and having a chit chat is more intoxicating than alcohol

Web in Mobile! Hats Off – I used to discourage my friends who were buying Iphones or similar gadgets arguing it as a waste of time to browse in the small screen. However when I got a new mobile and changed my plan to a data one I was like jumping in to the rabbit hole to open into a wonder land . The number of apps and the things I could do by remaining connected always is unimaginable. And what more I am feeling a little late to get into this world .Time is not far when I stop by broadband connection

Give your 100 percent in anything – Harsha Bogle said in an video “Talent alone takes your nowhere. It is your continuous efforts that gets you places”. My habit of getting through an audition in any singing event without practice got a major blow when I failed to impress the judges in a singing audition in TechM recently. The lesson learned is that if you don’t invest time in getting a song right you don’t have even the right to participate in an audition. This hold true for anything and everything we do. Give your 100 pc and never care about the results (Same thing Lord Krishna Said centuries ago)

Anger, it is bad thing- This one I am still working on . Perhaps is too personal to even write in a blog. Times are changing you cannot be a cool dude in present world if your temper is like Jai or Veeru or Thakur . Came to realize in the hard way that if we get angry it is our failure to handle difficult situations or people

Procrastination a bug to heal: This has hit me a lot in my life. I keeps on delaying things till the last moment. The worst part is not getting a peace of mind till I completes it. So I have decided rather than falling prey to worries of Procrastination it is better to get things done right first in proper time. Planning and executing for short term tasks in life and relishing in its successful completion is working good for me. A caveat is to stop expecting others to be like that

Last but not the least the philosophy which I hold to my heart and believe won’t get changed even in another decade is

Freedom : If you believe you are right and you know you are not hurting anyone physically or emotionally you are free to do anything in the world.

Ending this monologue with my possible goals and challenges for 2011.Pardon me if it’s too personal

To look at the mirror and say I am healthy (without lying off course)
To solve my religious dilemma ( socialist /agnostic /atheist or theist)
To get rid of my clumsiness
To learn one or more new skills ( guitar, gardening etc sky is the limit)
To learn to say no properly
To keep my house clean
To go to a long trip on my bullet

An the most important

To continue being compassionate to all living things in the galaxy


Can’t stop this scrap without my favorite lines by Robert Frost

“The woods are lovely dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before i sleep"