God

A real good read


The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for GOD to rescue him, but every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. "GOD, how could you do this to me?" he cried. Early the next day he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was here?" Asked the weary man of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied. It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because GOD is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain, and suffering.Remember that .. . . . . . . . . The next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that summons the grace of GOD.

Fear

Fear...
Let me write something on another four letter word.. Fear...It can be of different kinds.. Like some might have a fear for darkness, fear for
heights,fear for failure,etc.I will talk on fear for failure.
I think anybody who has tested a little success in his life suffers from this syndrome. He expects his other activity or other events to be successful.
And he chooses the attitude and the way in which he got his first success..A classsic example will be getting scuccess in HSSC. Student will try and emulate all the tactics that he used to get success in HSSC in the higher field of education in chooses.I think thats where the things start going wrong. As they say, " Success is a lousy teacher ". And indeed it turns out to be true. Every new situation demands new set of skill and new set of attitude to deal with.. But we always choose the path by which we got the success... And that what result in the down fall of an individual and organisations. A very good example of that is IBM.When Bill Gates was still to happen and people were working on developing OS. IBM refused to enter that market. It thought that the future lied in the hardware and not the software. Bill gates took that
opportunity and the rest is the history. Why IBM refused??? It belived in its past success of its the hardware market.

Fear for failure arises when we expect certain things to happen in a certain way.. If they dont turn out to be that way we term that the excerise was a failure..I will talk more of a failure of a planning in life..We plan that at certain point of time we would like ceratin things.. We would like to be in a certain positin. If it happens well and good.. What if it doesnt happen.. What if things doesnt turn out in the way that you wanted to be them.. We have analysed reason why things might have gone wrong in the first place.Now lets talk on if 'they went wrong then
what'..
To start with its a really terrible feeling to be in. You feel the world is against him. Even a reply " I will talk with you later " from a good friend creates thousand questions in the mind.. In short you tend to be a little cynical. The so called "Faith" in yourself,friends, and even God gets shaken.. I think thats where the character of the person
gets tested.. A strong character will get sailed through it. " Tough time never last but tough people do".
One who is able to get the things in his stride and move forwards will definitely make a difference in his and other person lives.

Life Part I

Thank god, this site is not yet blocked by my company.. Every other day we find that the site which we were able to open the other day is now blocked. And with a funny reason giving to it.Anyways will write about it some other day...I think when u have nothing to do or nothing to lose u become or talk like a philosopher. I fall into the previous category...

Lately, I am lot into thinking about a four letter word called life...What i feel about it is: I think you should decide one or two things that u want to accomplish in life..Let them be more of realistic..Say, it might be a billion indian ruppees at the age of 40, or Merc E class.. It need not be always materilistic.. It could be like running the bussiness after a certain age.. But, the thing that you decide should have two qualities: first, it should be quantifialbe and second it should be not be an absurd target. It should be reasonable. It can be an optimistic , but should be reasonable one...Now,the hard work is over...Rest carry on doing what u are doing.. ( like i am writing this blog in office hours )Dont plan for a very distant future..Let ur plans be short..Let those plans be for an immediate hour or for a day..Thats it..i think planning ur life in advance for years together creates an additional pressure and takes out the fun in what u have in hand... NOW....
Anyways will continue it in my next blog...Have to go back to work now...
Manoj