Will we see this anytime soon again?

So after 3 years away from the sport, the legend Michael Schumacher is all set to return as Massa’s replacement at the European Grand Prix at Valencia, Spain during the 21-23rd August race weekend. If you’re still in shock and don’t believe the story read up here, here or here. According to his official website, Michael is “happy to help” Ferrari in this difficult time.

So what does this mean for Ferrari and F1? Quite a lot it seems! All hopes will be riding on Schumi making a sensational comeback with Ferrari and with it bringing the once-unbeatable team back to the forefront again. F1 also lost a lot of followers after Schumi quit F1. And especially with F1 going through a rough patch with it’s fair share of controversies, this move is perfectly timed in a PR sense to bring much needed enthusiasm back into the sport. The recession has hit the sport majorly since the end of last season and it has already claimed 2 victims – the latest being BMW who have announced that they will be withdrawing from the sport end of this season.

Also, extremely interesting will be how Michael will adjust with the new F1 rules, many of which never existed when he raced. Also, best buddies and former partners Ross Brawn and Schumi will now not be together with Brawn leading his own team. I’m running out of breath with excitement as I write this and cannot wait for 3 weeks to go by as quickly as possible!

Follow developments on this story on twitter here.

EDIT: That was one of the biggest cuckoos of the year. Reminds me of the joke with the bucket and the hot water. Ch*&$#a Cuts!

My good friend Rohonesh and I were recently talking about how to approach implementing an idea that we believe would work. With whatever small experience I have with startups (read: locomi) and all the knowledge I’ve gained by reading blogs about entrepreneurship on the internet and talking about it, this is what in my opinion would work in our country. One thing is for sure, you need to be convinced yourself that your idea, however wild or simple it may be, will work (read: make money). Unless you are a philanthropic personality, or a social worker, most ideas involve making money out of making other people’s lives better.

The bootstrapped approach:

Whatever idea you have, if you plan to implement it yourself, you need time. Not to say that you cannot moonlight for a couple of months before you dive into the deep end. It’s just that things will be easier and take less time if you’re giving it your full attention. This is obviously assuming that your idea does not require a large sum of money to get things off the ground (read: capital investment).

Here’s how to bootstrap

• Quit your day job, get a small garage or a room as office space, get an internet connection and start implementing (my thoughts here are heavily biased towards internet startups and related products).
• No matter how convinced you are about your idea, write a business plan and think about all possible revenue models. Remember, if your idea isn’t making money then it simply won’t work. There has to be a sustainable revenue model for any idea to be successful.
• Keep your core idea close to your chest, yet talk to as many people as you can to gauge how your product/service shall be received in the market.
• Reserve namespace. If you have already thought of a name for your idea, then reserve the hell out of that name. Reserve domains, reserve twitter handles, facebook pages. They will come in use later when you are promoting.
• Find a mentor – everyone usually has a relative who has his/her own business and have been running it for a while. Advice from experienced people is unmeasurable.
• Recruit known people if you have to, ask friends to help out. Find a good designer or coder who is relatively new to the field and will freelance for a lot less money than people who are experienced. You will need to guide them at every step, but eventually it will be a worthy investment.
• Very importantly, implement as quickly as you possibly can, and release a prototype in 3 months. I remember reading about the Urbanspoon story and it said the very same thing – if you don’t ship quickly, you will not make it.
• Find partners. If there are people you know who are working in a similar field, partner with them. The value of finding the right partners is again unmeasurable. It will save you a lot of time, and help you get your idea implemented quicker.
• Borrow money if required, but only from close relatives and friends as opposed to banks (who may harass you later if you screw up).
• Once you’re implementation is complete, sell sell sell! Wear your brand. Be your brand. Promote the hell out of it! Tell your friends about it, tell your friends to tell theirs. Tell your parents to tell their friends about it. Keep pestering people to spread the word. Remember, word of mouth marketing still requires the right mouth! If you know journos, call them and tell them your story.
• Don’t waste money attending startup conferences and traveling unnecessarily initially. Save all that for later.

Once you do all these things (and do them well) then you may be assured that your product/service is doing well (assuming the idea was solid in the first place!). If you start making money within the first year – awesome! If you don’t – no worries, keep persisting. In the mean time, make sure you have completed all the formalities pertaining to legal activities. Register your company, apply for a patent, copyright your name, register your logo, make sure your financials are in place, repay loans.

There are pros and cons to this method as you may imagine. The biggest pro is that this is a very hands on approach and you will thoroughly enjoy it every step of the way. You will love what you are doing and you will never regret anything (again, assuming the idea is solid in the first place!). On the other hand, the cons are the risk involved. If your idea isn’t as solid as you initially thought it was then you’re in a big mess and you’ve lost 2 years of your life. Hence the importance to write your business plan to iron out all wrinkles relating to revenue at the very outset.

The formal approach:

Onto the second approach. I call this the formal approach because it is not as informal and loose as the first approach. They are differentiated purely at what stage you would approach investors. If you’re bootstrapping, you would convince investors by showing them a prototype in action and in the formal approach, you will try to make an investor look at your idea how you see it. Here’s how:

• Get a mentor to guide you on all the following steps.
• Write a business plan.
• Write an executive summary in one page. Say what pain points your idea solves and how.
• Document your ideas about revenue sources and support it with relevant research.
• Make revenue projections and expenditure forecasts. Calculate how much money you will be making in 3 years or even 5 years if you can think that far ahead. Take everything into consideration when you’re making expenditure forecasts. Keep a 50% margin even if you think you have it all measured out.
• Do some market research. Identify your target audience. Talk to as many family and friends about the idea as you possibly can. Prepare a questionnaire and get random people to fill them. Make online surveys, put out polls, email all your friends. Get as much data as you possibly can.
• Identify your competition. Think about competition in unconventional ways (a newspaper can be a competitor to an online local search engine).
• Analyze your competition. Talk to your competitors if possible, send out emails to their CEOs. Find out how they go about things.
• Compile, document and format. Make a presentation or write a whitepaper.
• Prepare an elevator pitch. If your pitch cannot grab an investor’s attention in the first 10 seconds then there’s no way he’ll pay attention to the rest. Pitch your pitch to as many people as you can before approaching an investor. Constantly keep improving and practising your pitch. Find catchlines and tag phrases that will help push your idea in a more catchy way. Record yourself on your webcam and observe where you can improve yourself. Upload it to youtube to send it to friends who are not nearby.
• And finally, when you’re going in for an investor meeting dress confidently and comfortably. Don’t unnecessarily wear a suit or a tie if you’re not comfortable in it. It’s not going to help you convince the investor any better than your words, actions and documents can.

That’s about it. The second approach requires you to have done your homework.

In this post I will not talk about how to find investors because that is simply out of the scope of this article. Maybe I will write about it when I do discover their secret hiding places. In this day and age there are a lot more people willing to take a detour from the beaten path and do something different. I hope this information will help people who are just entering the pool by themselves and give them a float so that they may learn to swim. Do add your own experiences in the comments. I am @sidv on twitter in case you want to start a conversation with me there.

NOTE: The thoughts above are purely my learnings over the last few years with regard to entrepreneurship. These learnings are put down here merely to help people starting out on their own.

This post is a direct consequence of the ridiculous drama that has been going on in the Parliament regarding a not so innocuous TV show which has taken the country by storm. The show in question here is called “Sach Ka Samna”, an Indian version of the American reality show, A Moment Of Truth. The Show is unique in its format, as it tests neither your intelligence nor your physical prowess, but your mental fabric and the ability to speak the truth, come what may. The game poses a series of questions ranging from personal to highly intimate, some of which might actually end up breaking relationships, for these questions are asked in  front of the very people you love, and the truth has to be spoken right on their faces, irrespective of the consequence. So, the format is simple, you answer 21 difficult questions, and if you speak the truth (the answers are verified by a Polygraph test), you win a handsome amount (1 crore Indian rupees in this case).

Now, rarely has a TV show generated as much interest among the common mass, as this one. And this is because people get to see someone from among them, come up on stage and blurt out their feelings on various topics which are considered taboo in our highly-vexed society.  Since few of the questions were a little uncomfortable, keeping in mind that even kids might watch it, the show was given a late-night slot by Star, so that only the adults in the house could watch it, without having to worry  about their kids, who would be in their dreamlands by that time.  Now the entire furore started when a moron, whom we hand-picked to represent us in the Parliament, raised his eye-brows regarding this non-controversial show. According to him, the show was destroying the moral fibre of the society. Strike one. He pointed out that since, there was a big difference in the cultures of India and United States of America, something that works in America might not work here. Strike two. He also went on to suggest that there should regulation of the content that goes up on the television. Strike three.

Before beginning my refutations, I would like to point out that I am not a big fan of the TV show either, but our revered MP was suggesting was absurd, bordering more on the ridiculous than anything  else.  Let me first provide a snapshot of some of the questions that were asked on the show.

• This was asked to a woman. “Would you like to sleep with another man, if you knew that your husband wouldn’t ever find out about it?”
• Urvashi Dholakia, a popular TV-artist, was asked, “Were you asked to drop out from college because of you became pregnant while still in college?”
• Another popular TV artist, who apparently had 3 wives, was asked, “Have you ever visited a prostitute?”

Now these are few of the more personal questions that were asked on the show. Now going back to the refutations.

1. The producers of the TV show or the Channel itself has not forced anyone to watch the show. They have not used any sort of the vulgar tactics that the politicians use to win seats in elections, like paying money in order to buy seats, in order to increase the TRP ratings of the show.  The show is not aired at the prime time slot (it is aired at 10:30 in the night). Now it is but common sense to avoid watching things that might not suit your palate, like a lot of people do not watch horror movies because they get scared after watching it and cannot even visit the loo to answer their nature’s call at night. But if you still insist on watching it, nobody is responsible for the consequences. So where does the question of destroying the culture come in here. If people are watching what they want to, and are mature enough to digest it, where is the bloody problem? And exactly what is it about the show that is destroying the fragile culture, which came into being much before you or I even existed. Is it the question regarding cheating on your partner, or is it about teen-pregnancy or something as basic an emotion as greed.  All this is very common in our day-to-day society, so why approach it with a closed mind still? And even if you do insist on approaching it with a pea-sized brain (as one of my friends would say) why emphasize and force your judgements on others, or worse an entire culture itself. This is all so relative for something which might disgust me, might actually appear interesting to someone else. So how does anyone decide, that this particular thing is vulgar and is breaking the moral code of the society. I say, blatant irrationalism.
2. Agreed, that there is a big difference in the cultures of India and America. But are we trying to say that infidelity, teen-pregnancy, adultery exist only in America and not in India, and that they are not a part of our day-to-day society. I would only be kidding myself if I said yes to this superficial question. With changing times, the trends and patterns in our society have changed.  Adultery was looked down upon long back, but now a section of the society indulges in it. I’m not saying that it is the right thing to do, but then it is something that we have to learn to deal with and not shy away from.  Frequenting sex workers is something that is in a way Omni-present, for the Zamindars made it so famous and generations have continued it. So why raise a hue and cry if a person reveals that he did indeed visit a prostitute.  What is the big deal about satisfying your carnal needs (ironically the person in question already had enough resources to satiate his needs, but who am I to question). Without nit-picking too much, what I am trying to say here, is that there a lot of things that happen in today’s society that did not happen back in lets say the 60s or the 50s. So why cringe if people come out and talk about it. What is exactly the harm in talking about it? If talking about such things, breaks relationships, then it is the person
3. Why should there be a regulation on anything that is not under the control of the Babus. Regulate content of Television, Media, and Films. Why?? Why regulate? Why not give the freedom to the masses to watch what they want to watch, to read what they want to read, to listen to what they want to listen. Why not ensure that the common masses have the means to these ends so that they can grow with the rest of the world, rather than being an end to these means itself. If someone needs regulations, it is these babus who make a mockery of our culture, who make a joke of our governing systems and who make a joke of the country itself. Every year, we see at least one video making it to BBC where they show the members of the House going on rampage, hitting each other with chappals, tearing each other apart, in short, making a fool of themselves and the people they represent. We need regulations for the self-anointed Moral Police which beat up women just because they dared to venture some god-forsaken pub. We should have regulations for these stupid political bodies that incite people to fight against their own kin only to fatten their vote-base.  Even if I were to be pragmatic here, how can there ever be regulations on TV, when there are already 400 channels that air shows 24*7. And even if there were a body to regulate all this still, it would have to be autonomous, for corruption has its roots spread out far and wide, which means an additional expense on the government again.

This debate can go on and on and even then there would be a lot of people who blessed with gift of the gab and the pen would write out suitable arguments to each of my points. But that is not my intention. What I intend to say here is, that the Parliament has bigger issues facing it than fighting over a stupid TV show.  Politicians have bigger tasks on their hands, like solving the drought and rain-crisis and deflation and what not than deciding what destroys our indestructible culture.  How can culture be destroyed, if it is we who form the basis of the culture?  As far as I know, I haven’t come across a book where-in the rules and various interpretations of Indian culture have been laid down, and as long as I am in my senses, I wouldn’t come across one in the future too.  So let us all urge our revered Babus to stop fretting over something which changes as we change(Read: Culture) and focus on important, difficult tasks on hand which might change the face of the nation in the years to come.

This is a letter written to the Prime Minister of India by the editor of the ‘Times of India’

posting this here cuz I cunt have written any better…

Dear Mr. Prime minister,

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has
capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak
but we don’t even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said ‘NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED’. I
would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb
blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he
is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets
him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your
ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him
everybody will be exposed. Your statement ‘NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED’ is
nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India.

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about
a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away
when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there
will be one more Hiroshima.

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You
promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out
this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to
Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn’t it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me
corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the
politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray ,
Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money.
Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen.. His only
business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to
Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way
and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right
on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house ,
enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders.
Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and
with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not
aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn’t it? Our
politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself
was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you
everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to
write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching
moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has
converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim,
Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy
Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every
part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person,
such a fine human being. You politician didn’t even spare him..  Your party
along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are
supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most
learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose
all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account
holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among
us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of
death which we are witnessing every day.  Just give us ambient where we can
work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else
will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or
you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

India is well on its way to throw a metal cage buzzing with armoured circuitry and its own complete electronic ecosystem, into orbit around the moon. A place were barely a few people have walked, barren, stark, harsh and unforgiving. One mistake could mean crores of rupee in waste.

And yet, till now, we’ve kept it going. Faced with adversities, trade blockades, technology transfer held back, our country has actually gone ahead and taken a giant step. Putting a satellite around the moon requires great coordination and planning, after all!

But why do it? Thats actually my main question – was it really worth all that “Indian pride” that we get? Yet another statistic that would only land up as email forwards, just about bat a few eyelids before this great fact disappears into the vast pages of history? Or just simple, great, smart and effective business sense? The fact that India has geo-stationary payload delivery vehicles that have proved their worth twice than others and at half the price, is good enough. But its the key driver in earning money for ISRO, and in turn, the Indian government. So the PSLV and the GSLV are easily understandable as great investments by the government.

But a trip to the moon?

We get a few rock samples, great, then what? We discover what was already discovered earlier? Get a man on the moon, then what? Gain knowledge about space flights thats already known by the space-faring few? That actually brings us to the bigger question – who invests in scientific research? (Atleast scientific research that doesn’t directly mean huge amounts of savings for some business). Who invests in spending all those crores building that satellite to only get back some rock samples from the moon? The government, sure, pumps in the money – but you really need to have strong lobbies to be able to make the government machinery disperse large sums of money!

The museum? It would still take a few centuries of visitors paying the entry fee for that museum to get back its investment!

The underground mafia? So that finally that rock lands up at some uber-rich idiot’s house, so that he can show off to his friends that he actually got some moon-rock?

National Geographic? Yup, they’ve got money, but is there enough interest in moon-rock amongst the public that has been over-exposed to it during the Cold War proxy-fighting?

Certainly the moon-trip isnt a real instant RoI for the government. They’re thinking about the future – a future when this early headstart could make the difference between big or bust. No matter what you think is wrong with this nation – I somehow feel this was a timely investment, but a lock-in period of around a century or so!

After all, if you want some moon-rock, we’ve got it at half-price for you!

EDIT: I found this on their website: “This will lay the foundation for bigger missions and also open up new possibilities of international networking and support for planetary programmes … It would actually spur the Indian scientific community with the presence of India’s own moon-rock.”

Right …

Dear Mr. Teenage Dirtbag,

Due to some unknown reason, I actually sat down and decided to read through your post. Maybe I wanted to feel fuller and happier and more content in having read even a wee little bit more. Maybe I was feeling sad, and was itching to do anything, anything, to get out of that zone. Or most probably, I was just plain bored, and took up the great task of reading your post.

And you’ve had the most profound effect.

Your interpretation of what’s around you, your diagnosis of the problems you feel, your need to still exist does indeed fascinate me. First, I would like to understand your true argument. Then I’ll try and make peace with it.

1. You prove a point that we human beings always enter this world of pity and pain, since we cry the moment we’re born. Medically, there are some answers. Try here or even here. Trying to dumb things down, its essentially one of the most important ways a baby communicates to others. The mind is stimulated with new sights, sounds, senses never received before. Controlling one’s reaction is slightly more difficult than just receiving stimuli.

My point: Whether they were born in hell, in a dungeon, or fluffy white clouds in heaven, babies would cry too.

2. You also talk of peer pressure, competition, and parent’s expectations. True, you cant deny it, but thats pretty much how nature and evolution planned it out. An interesting read, out here. Anyways, it boils down to this – you should be happy that the human race has developed socially to actually have pity on the lower-rung (which should have died). You should also be happy that by enforcing a systematic plan of learning over generations and generations, we are building a stronger and smarter breed of humans. Even if, originally, you were not really cut out to survive more than 5 years of your life.

My point: The drop-rate/dead-rate amongst humans is significantly lower as compared to other animals. We’ve evolved.

3. You also talk of failure as the main reason for man’s “unhappiness”. You reasoned that failure arises from the anomaly that only one man wins a race amongst 10. True, but the remaining 9 generally go and win other races. Life doesn’t define only one end to win. Life doesn’t specify only one job description that can be truly attributed to a “winner.” It’s full of parallel opportunities, of parallel expression and of parallel sensation. Many people have different opinions over different goals in life. You should too.

My point: Laugh at Wall Street all you want, investment banking is THE worst job as of now!

To summarize, I feel that you need a little bit of Software Engineering in your life. By this I mean-

1. Dont club everything and anything and call it “Life.” Break it down to smaller, and easily handlable modules.
2. Follow a simple waterfall cycle for each of these modules – feasibility study, design, code, test, and finally maintain. [no seriously im not kidding]
3. Write a book about it! And call yourself Rajib Mall.

Once again, I would like to thank you very much, for giving me a great stimuli that I just itched me to respond!

Regards,

Me.

Part 1 : (scroll down for part 2)

Gruezi Mittanand,

I have to interrupt my tales of mirth, making merry and the occasional cheating Death escapades for a very important announcement. I just got the following mail and being the philanthropist the letter claims I am, I have generously decided to share half my fortune, which comes to around 3 million dollars with all of you, my faithful blog addicts. All you have to do is tell me what I should do. Choose wisely, your life may depend upon it. And maybe your fortune too.. Ha ha ha ha….(sinister laugh, yes?)

FROM THE DESK OF MOHAMMED BIN
LAW CHAMBERS LEGAL
SOLICITORS/PRIVATE LAW
23 JIN JANG KEPONG FADASON
KUALA LUMPUR
MALAYSIA
PHONE : +60146394724


ASSALAMUALAIKUM:…….

Your e-mail address came up in a random draw conducted by our law firm,MOHAMMED BIN Law Chambers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia My name is MOHAMMED BIN (esq). A personal attorney to our late client Mr.ABDUL SAAZ who worked for an oil firm in Malaysia, Mr.ABDUL SAAZ a well known Philanthropist,before he died, he made a Will in our law firm stating that $6M (six million U.S. dollars only) should be donated to any Philanthropist of our choice overseas. We have made a random draw and your name and e-mail address was picked as the beneficiary to this Will. I am particularly interested in securing this money from the Bank, because they have issued a notice instructing us to produce the beneficiary of this Will within two weeks which happens to be you or else the money will be credited to the Government treasury as per law here. It is my utmost desire to execute the Will of our late client. You are required to contact me immediately to start the process of transfering this money to any of your designated official account. I urge you to contact me immediately for further details bearing in mind that the Bank has given us a date limit. Please contact me urgently via my personal email address as follows:xxx@yahoo.com. (of course it’s not xxx@yahoo.com. I just don’t want you stealing the fortune that is rightfully mine…hehe)

CONGRATULATIONS
Regards

BARRISTER, MOHAMMED BIN [Esq].
ENDEAVOUR TO USE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEDGED.


So peeps, what do you propose I do ??

since none of you gave any entertaining suggestions…

It’s amazing how stupid some people think the rest of the world is. If there are people out there who will just give out his personal details to a random guy who promises six million dollars, then those people should be first publicly ridiculed and then shot, or at least neutered. Anyway, a little googling told me that our dearly departed Mr. Saaz, who wants to bequeath his millions away (to me!!) , worked not only for an oil firm in Malaysia, but also for one in London, Dubai and California. What is truly amazing is he has millions stashed away in each of these places which are being given away by his lawyer, known in various places as Barrister Mohammed Bin, Barrister Lawrence Chiong , and Barrister Parker Williams. Not only does he have three names (of three different cultural backgrounds) , but he is also an esquire! Now, how cool is that ?!

So I thought I’d explore things a little further by actually replying to the mail. Bear in mind, it may sound a little daft because I had to lower my intelligence level to that of an imbecile (which isn’t really much of a drop for me, because as I have said many times before, God has endowed me with an unbelievably LARGE {I know when you put endowed and large in the same sentence we are usually talking about something else, so get your minds out of the gutter } amount of stupidity)

FROM THE TABLE OF DEEPAK PADMAKUMAR

WA ALAYKUMASALAM

I am being greatly happy in reading your e-mail . I am a hardly working engineer , and very religiously praying to God to make my life easy. Today He is blessing me for long years of praying. It is a miracle you chose me.

I am also greatly thanking Abdul Saaz Sir for he be such a great man, and helping needy man like myself. I also deeply thanking you Sir, for you being kind like this. Instead of taking money yourself, you are giving people like us chance to make it come up in life. May God bless you!

Like you, I am also desiring you to execute will before you becomes late (like Abdul Saaz..hehe ) and as you are urging, I contacting immediately for giving of the further details. I am also wanting to save the money from the government.

Thanking once again with Regards this time,

Let’s hope he replies…..

Ok now this is just to elucidate on my previous blog. A friend called and asked me to write exactly what I wanted to say or want the world to know or in the friends words ‘what I want the world to feel’

So here goes….

You are born and what the first thing you do? For the first you make your mom cry in pain and the next you cry. The very first thing you do when you feel life is cry.. what is crying? It’s an expression or a response given by our body to anything is bad. Now why would an infant at that very stage of its life cry? Easy it is cuz of pain huh? Think about it what else can it be? Can it its very birth? Can it be the very repentance of being sent to this palace? It is! It is said that the infant years are the most soulful years in a man’s life. Now why would a living person say so, considering that he has his whole life ahead of him.

What happens after birth? The first phase of remorse is over. And now come the never ending remorse.

Starts with going to school learning how to live and the very competition to stay alive. If you have parents you have to live to their expectations. If you have peers you have their self thought expectations in your mind. What do you have to fulfill all that? You have to find ways to achieve it all. What about your expectations? Well, its safe to say you expect from yourself what you see around you it all comes from the peer group and it has been there for forever.

Do you get every thing that you want? Can it be so? All your life you are told that you can get every thing that you want you have to be pragmatic about your needs and desires or you have to work really hard for IT ALL. All next is that you have to chase this dream of getting IT ALL. What all do you do and the success? Once or twice. The time that went by? The days of long stress full planning when you are up and not to mention the night dreaming. The anxiety, the wait the dependence on everyone involved and the uncertainty, cuz life is uncertain RIGHT? And so you got what you were after life is sorted huh? No way!! You still dint get everything. Another dream is conjured or maybe it was in parallel processing. Even so if you managed multitasking and got what you know you wanted then what? You still want more. But the process that got you that? Was it easy? Did it involve sitting on your bed or rather resting when everything was done. Was it so well planned? Were there no failures or re-planning required? And if you dint know that it wont be easy you worse than the infant that cries, knowing only pain.

From the time you were born to the time of death all you are involved in is trying to recreate your life according to your wants and whims and even considering metamorphosis of what you did on your own. Sometimes even blaming your peers and parents for what you are and then again are involved in the constant change. Thereby accepting that what ever you wanted for yourself was not exactly what you wanted. Consoling your self by saying that a lot was learnt from the experience. So now you know exactly what you want? Then that means that it might have the end written on it. Is there?

Now this was the phase of what you wanted for your self. But you are not alone here are you? you have people living with you. You have to consider their life too. So you are also involved in moulding their life too. And that is also not as simple as it is written. Right? It so happens that moulding their life moulds yours too. And considering that you were involved in this process thought about how many others were involved in changing your life, which you were so laboriously working on yourself.

But being an human is not that simple even. We have emotions. What do emotions do?

They determine the state you are in. You feel happy, sad or whatever. You feel so when you get what you want, when you don’t, you even have them for others you know and for those you don’t know. Strange it is but it is so. Right? And as a matter of fact all these emotions add up to what you want which might not really be what you get.

Now what is common to all this life changing experience?

Two things success and failure. And this experience teaches you that success equals happiness and failure sadness. Now count the number of times of each. What do you know that if you are an optimist the number of happy times is more than the ones you felt sad. Otherwise you are classified as a pessimist. Which is BAD. But considering that your wants or needs were only limited to a countable number of life phases the stats might differ if you are an optimist.

Leave your feeling aside what about the work that you had to put in, the constant toiling and the thought process? Was that good? Must be a good experience huh? Would you exchange it for everything minus the work? Surely you will. Cuz you worked so much that you can live it better/easy.

But you don’t believe/understand me right. Now consider this. You remember the stories your granny told you about saints going to the Himalayas for search of the truth. The answer to life. They stayed there for so long mediating searching for god and the answer. But all they came back with were powers to cure people or power to kill all. Now what does it have to do with this piece of crap you are reading? See the thing was that even they realized that there is no answer to life and that death is certain. They realized that life had nothing to offer but was a phase in which you have pass to feel a certain intermittent strokes of happiness. Which you get when you have already have passed the period of the longer lasting sadness or toil. The ones (saints) you praise were the ones that had the cures for disease and all. Why did they do this? Cuz they only could find the ways to make life better out of their sacrifice up in the Himalayas. Also they also realized that the people who not find it pleasant if they told them their true findings. So it was best if they just helped them live easy. The other saints ( will killer powers; the Rakshasas) were bold enough and knew the real way of helping the people out of their misery called life was to end it. And they did so. But people hated them cuz they could never interview the dead. And it always happens you feel bad when you lose something even if it is life. Right?

Even after knowing so much about the labor you would have to go through not to mention the side effects( sadness anxiety etc etc) and the other pains of disease which I did not mention, you still chose to live it for the complete term. And even when you don’t know what a lifetime or your lifetime is. When all you had to do is die. Kill your self and leave it all. But there was a fear a constant a fear that your peers would call you a loser or think of you as person who could not handle, wasn’t brave enough. But GUESS what, you don’t get a medal for living either, no one does, all you get is death. And just to remind you, you won’t be here to feel the wrath of your peer group looking down at you for killing your self. But consider what suicide gives you. It relieves you of the constant pain and suffering you have to go through and you determine your lifetime. Then everything is constant and you are in control even for a small period though but you are. But you are just like any person you call a junkie. You do (live) it feel bad about what you have done (sadness of failure) promise your self that you will never do it again (the experience) and are at it again (in search of the better). So you are an addict. Yes you just are another addict like everyone alive living this, living for just one dream to be better and happy ever after. And after what? Is there another phase after it? You can only get there when you have freed yourself from this addiction. But the question is can you? Are you strong enough to do it? Do you have the will power to quit? No!! Cuz you are still reading. Cuz you are addicted to the thing called life.

We all are.

( and ya i know its long but who asked you to ask me to explain.. fuckers)

Festooned by the sigh, crumbled by the lie. Tied down by whatever you don’t like living for the dream that keeps on changing. And the vexed phase of it all don’t have. Placed in a loop having deep regret and sadness, for the major part and for the commensurate and yet so friable happiness. And the contemplation about the phase and how long will it last.

The myriad stress. Embalming yourself by preparing for the better phase of the loop. How long does this phase last? What all did you do to make it happen and what all can you do to sustain it? And was it certain? The ‘happiness’ only to cauterize the phase that went by. The façade that is conjured to prepare you for the very next.

Is this loop malleable?

Can you hammer it into a straight line that will have more of what you want and less of the unwanted?

Can you?

Can you just walk away from it all? Leave behind all you don’t like? Even so leave the skimpy forms of what you like and bore it all for?

You cant!!!

Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. Cuz yes you are just another addict like everyone alive living this  for just one dream… to be better and happy ever after.And after what? Is there another phase after it?

Yes there is. There is another one but it is not a loop. You can only get there when you have freed yourself from this addiction.

But the question is can you?

Are you strong enough to do it?

Do you have the will power to quit?

No!!

Cuz you are still reading.

Cuz you are addicted to the thing called life.

We all are…

Here’s something I found on the bus I was traveling on today.

Not sure whether this is original or not, but it was quite good! More of these when I find them, or if you do, post it in the comments and I’ll add them here.