Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Taliban



Taliban.Whatever the meaning of that term, their ideas are wrong. To create a "society" where girls are denied access to education by force, where men are slaves to the edicts of the leader-that is not a dream but a nightmare. I am fortunate I am nowhere near where they are.



Such a "society" will have illiterate men and women. They will exist for some years and die, their only function in life being to obey, reproduce and die. The term "human" cannot be applied to such savages. Every "citizen" in such a land will have just one constant emotion, that of fear. The pursuit of happiness? LOL. It is the pursuit of unhappiness. And to say that one will reach happiness pursuing unhappiness is a contradiction.



There will be a few good men among these hordes, but such men will not survive for long amidst such mindlessness. Sadness is the only emotion I can feel for any such person who is unfortunate to be born amongst the Taliban.

It is of no use talking with them. They have lost the capacity of human communication. Their values are not of this world. And there is no other world. When faced with such a mindset, one should do one of two things-run or destroy them.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Friendship

Friends. What does it take to have or make a friend? A friend is an individual whose thinking "matches" ones own. Whose basic values and all the consequences of those values are similar to ones own. Ideas and preferences on a wide array of issues and objects. The nitty-gritty may differ, but the essence-the fundamental values are similar. Its not for help that one requires friends.Its not for charity or any such thing. It is for mutual happiness in communicating ideas, thoughts and opinions.






It is not an obligation. One is free to choose one's friends. And free not to make friends with those whose fundamental ideas are the opposite of ones own. I think one has to have made a character based on the right values, to find a similar-minded individual.Respect is important in friendship. Just as one expects and knows that his position will be considered, due consideration has to be granted to ones friend.
Simply put, one is happy knowing and having a friend. And that is reason enough to make one.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Time. Speed at work

Is there a substitute for work? No. There are persons who work, some fast and som not so fast. What I have to try and be is fast at work. I visualise the accelerator pedal in my Alto car when I touch 110km/h. Any work gets done faster when one does t at a brisk pace. Saving time equals making more time to do more productive things.

The only alternative to fast work is slow work! And seeing 70 plus patients in less than 7 hours on a PC based system requires of me to be fast at what I do.

Even household chores, if done fast is of value as that makes more time. A faster internet speed speeds up information transfer and thus, one's knowledge on whatever one is reading up on.

We will live just once. And this is true, the faster we think and act, the more we get done in this lifetime.Time is money and saving it means you have more of it to spend on.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Self-control,Happiness and frustration.

What is self-control? How and why should one control one's self. I think it means essentially to direct one's thoughts and thus, one's actions. In essence it means to not follow the whim of any particular moment. It means to act on one's rational thoughts and ideas-what many term "common sense". And not on one's whims and fancies. It is easy and difficult together. Easy when one is doing the right things, difficult when the urge to act on impulse recurs. What, then, is the genesis of this impulse, this whim? Its one's own life and the choices one has made that serves as a reference point at this crossroad.

When one has, even by default, always acted on common sense and reason, it is easy to guide one's thoughts and actions. If, on the other hand, one has failed to do that-it becomes increasingly difficult to act on one's logic.

Happiness lies in "self-control"-many say. What I think they mean is happiness results from acting on one's logic and reason. Frustration is the result of acting on whims and impulses. How many times have I felt both these emotions and I know which is the right emotion to have experienced. When happy, I feel nothing is impossible to try and do. When frustrated by unreasonable thoughts and actions, self-doubt slowly but surely creeps in. Then, existence becomes a dreary affair, devoid of the gaeity one has known in times when one was true to reality and to one's own rational standards.