Monday, June 11, 2012

Prevalence

  1. Once you know you actually want something badly, you'll eventually get it; if you have the patience to learn to live without yearning for it. The only caveat being - time.
  2. As a species, having developed a level of understanding nature/environment better than other creatures, we do not tend to be any bit more forgiving or tolerant of weakness than what our wild and savage cohabitants on earth are. That means there's no mercy when it comes to survival.
  3. Too often we end up being blinded because of our expectations. It'll serve us well to actually be cautious of what we want from those who are closest and matter the most. Others will come and go.
  4. Good and bad are contextual. Do not go about thinking they are fixed things to be sworn by and sacrificed for - its what will lead to fanaticism.
  5. Develop some ideas on the basis of personal ideology and socially acceptable morals to guide your - thoughts, responses & behavior - simply by 'agreeing in principle' to have them.
  6. Don't panic if you have't thought about this ever before, most people spend their lifetimes without realizing its missing.
  7. If you feel like someone is just coaxing you to do something you don't want to do, just say so! Its alright to be rude once than to hold a grudge for a lifetime.
  8. The more reasoning you give describing a problem, the higher the number of solutions people will return!
  9. The more reasoning you give for your argument, the lesser the probability of convincing.
  10. A familiar character who has achieved a 'perceived success,' either by living in a particular manner or simply by daring to have a means to an end - will most certainly be unacceptable, for no discernible reason, other than some unknown person, who's achieved a greater amount of similar success.
  11. Give others a chance to speak and voice their opinion, just like you expect yourself to be heard. As simple and doable as it may seem, very often, we do not even realize how we end up defending a point of view, just for the sake of having said so!
  12. There are always, at the very least, two ways of doing. Simple and complex. They are not right or wrong, but are just the way it was meant to be. One is 'get to the point' while the other includes 'how to.'
  13. If you ever get thinking about "simple v/s complex" - know for sure that precision and details are inclusive of each other in order to be complete, and are not mutually exclusive.
  14. No professional manuals are ever concise. A book of law or medical operational procedure for instance.
  15. Always know one thing for certain - its more and then even more! Being satisfied with nothing and feeling empty with everything is simply a matter of choice.
  16. There are never any compulsions in life except the ones you create.
  17. Superstition is only a manner in which weakness manifests itself in the form of saving grace. It's like an oxymoron - hope against hope, shattering silence etcetera.
  18. Superstition is also another one of those tricks designed to maintain differentiation and to enforce limits - without being questioned.
  19. If in case there ever exists an entity called God, all powerful, all mighty, all forgiving and what not, he/she/it is certain to have a lot better things to think of and create, than to keep a count of everything everyone does. Certainly not as much and in the manner as the pundits have us believing.
  20. In the world of tiny ants, if they could imagine and communicate like we do, would they think of humans as humans think of Gods?
  21. In the unlikely event of really getting questioned about the (mis)deeds of having lived in a certain way, how would the decision be made and the judgement passed in an unbiased way, when one man's fight for freedom is another man's terror?
  22. Its certainly more fulfilling to ask for forgiveness than to request for a permission.

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