Salute the institution called the indian army

As I was driving down to the office today. Just a few blocks away I noticed two of my collegues walking on the other side of the road. So I thought I'll pick them up and we can all go to office in my car. As I crossed the road they vanished somewhere in the crowd. My eyes searching for them, and not realising that I was turning without looking and then came a bang. I had crashed my car into someones side. The bumper of the other car came out slightly from one end. And then I thought that probably I was doomed.

It was yesterday only that I was reading about cases how such accidents lead to cases of road rash and probably even hospitalisation. The driver came out of the car to look at the damages. He was actually smiling. I realised why he was smiling, he was not the owner, the owner came out now as well. Since my car was stranded right in the middle of the road, I gestured to the owner that I am gonna park my car and then we can talk. Oh boy i thought....the owner came towards me and asked me if I was new to driving and then I apologised. After that all he asked was where do I stay and what was my father's name. On replying the questions he told me his name and that he too was a Brig. in the army just like my father. I enquired about the damages but he said it was okay and asked me to be more careful in the future, as i may get hurt.

I was like wow what happened back there. As I was driving to my office then I began thinking why in this money hungry world would a person become generous enough to let a young boy like me walk away like this. I came up with two explanations. One, probably he was in the later years of his life and money was not all that important to him or probably he was just in a very genereous mood. Two, it was probably because of the ARMY sticker at the back of my car. And then I thought the second reason sounded more reasonable. Man, this really showcases one characterisitics of the officers of the Indian Army, they really treat each other as a family. They love and respect the rests of its members. I am not sure if such a kind of relationship will ever exist in any other organisation.

I SALUTE THE INDIAN ARMY.

Friends??

Here's a situation:-

You have passed out from college about 10 months back and then one day you get a call from one of your old batchmates(who by the way flunked an year and is still in college). And what does he say? "Hey i will be coming back from my home and am planning to stop over at your town for about a couple of days and we'll do party."

Sounds great, old friends meeting and having a good time. Now there's another side to it. He also says that since he's not informing his parents about his stopover at my place, so i would have to get him a ticket. I buy a ticket for him. He stays over at my place, eats and drinks merrily at my expense. And guess what he ain;t that good a friend of mine either. Was one of the first ones to mock me during my stay in college. Always tryin to dupe people by taking loans from them and having no intention of returning them. And the way he expects me to "buy" him a ticket as if I owe him something. Wooooh.... some guys sure have balls. He expects me to do all this stuff, reason: he flunked an year and now I am earning and have a bank account that will make a native of a third world african country laugh with misery.

How am I supposed to respond to such guys....the world is full of such bastards...Balls to you dude you can suck my balls.

Grab what's yours!!!

Well don't you think I am right in this aspect. Am I being too selfish here?? Thw world will snath you whatever you got if you don't keep a grip on it. Take for example, the project i am working on, there are about three of us out of eleven who have worked their asses off. And one of them was not quite a worker in the eyes of our team leader hance he got fairly lesser grading then the two of us. My theory is whenever I do work I make it a point that I get the result. No use of doing work that will not lead to any outcome, wherther profit or loss is a different question all together.



That's why I say take grab what you deserve rather than watching people walk away with your prize. You may call it being selfish i call it being smart. The world will not keep things in front of you in a platter....you have to grab a plate and serve it yourselves.

Is it worth it??

I ask you the question in the title....is it worth it??? All the running around all the chasing success thing....??
What is in us that makes us run in the rat race?? Why do we run after success.....is it as Bhagvada Gita puts it our attachment to Maya (worldly things)...or is it something else..... Why do we run and waste all the time behind this.....Is it worth anything?? What remains with us when we leave this world?? Then again if it is not worth anything then why are we put on this earth.....there has to be a reason behind it.....
As my analytical and scientific side (not much of it actually if you read the jist of the whole blog) puts it there is a reason behind everything.....so as Gita puts it...the soul purpose of life is Karma. All is based on ones doings and Karma that one goes through life......Then my question is are we a leading a life inside a life?? Is the aggregation of Good Karma and Bad Karma part of a greater form of life.....As Gita puts it the soul passes through different lives...then as the ordinary life are the different lives that the soul passes through part of as I put it earlier a bigger or better form of life??

The question still rings Is It Worth It??

Master of Puppets??

Well as the Metallica song goes....I ask myself why the master or rather is there a master?? The question always cropping up in my mind is whether I am just a puppet in the hands of fate or do I have a will that can take me places......There are incidents that support both the thoughts...., then why is that even if I put energy of my maximum capabliity into one thing, I still stand a chance of loosing in it.I am gonna provide the arguments of both the sides in me, ever in conflict..

Soldier of Fortune......it may be better soundin title but the truth is that I am probably just a puppet in this world, nothin is in my hand......just another role in this never ending play....it may all sound to be too philosophical......but I ask you, have you ever been down to such point when you feel nothin is in your hands.....I have seen the most strong people, people with probably the strongest back bones bend down at the hands of fate.......Is it the "Master's"(God) ever-hungry ego that tries to keep even the most hardworking, most brilliant people at a check....Does he fear that probably they may turn out to be better than him.....sounds too fictious ..eh.



But then why this struggle, the struggle is there mind you. I keep askin myself is it a struggle between me and him or a struggle within.......Whatever it may be...all these thoughts lead to a lot of energy which when utilised properly lead me into this vicious circle...where i keep fightin fate and it keeps tryin to beat me.......But is this of any worth....will someone ever be an accountant to this struggle.......They will only remember the results and never the struggle.....

Well the other part of me says....man is a maker of ones own destiny........all these struggles are a part of the game....they help to choose the meanest of them all....It keeps on insisting to work hard and things will fall in their place.....There is never any end.......even if you go away your results will always be remembered......n mind you never your struggle......The pressure is there but then the race is always hot.........

Sometimes i think that probably i should retire and seek reclusion...........