Jul 10
27
Education is Free
Education in the new age is Free for those who are ready to be self driven. I am not talking about Training. Training and Education both have a significant difference according to me
Training helps you being equipped to perform a job better, or may be even landing on a job. Education helps you build your perspective of the world.
The interesting part is that many people as they progress in their career are forced to focus just on training that helps them succeed and move up the ladder and education is pushed back due to lack of time or the absence of an immediately evident need.
Training makes you competitive and it is very important, don’t misunderstand me. It is an integral part of the corporate culture many of us belong to.
But education goes further than that, It does not put a pressure on you and you can choose to get educated in any field of your choice, at your own pace. The result might not be immediate but it will be the most useful and rewarding experience
The first step is always the toughest one.
So Choose a field, anything, don’t worry about how you are going to use it, just start learning.
In a short time you will know that you know much more and there are a good amount of people who would like to share this knowledge with them.
What can be more honorable than being in a position to positively contribute knowledge to the world.
There is a teacher in you, but first you should be ready to be a student.
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Ours is what we should be calling the Floating Generation.
Today as I was chatting with my very close friend Iqbal Mohammed, I told him something that stuck on with me. My damn life is so scattered all around and I can’t seem to get them all together. And I don’t think I will ever be able to.
When I say life is scattered I mean I have pieces of my own life scattered in every nook and corner of this world. My life is a collection of my relationships I have and when I and the people I relate to move apart it is my life that gets torn to pieces.
Sad that often people relate a life to the glories achieved and not the relationships built, no wonder many don’t feel it scattered.
Each and everyone I know takes a piece of my life with them and plants it in the place they are. As my relation with them continues I too grow there, or else that piece of my life gets defunct and lost.
When I look back I see pieces of me in Bangalore where my mom and sister live, in kerala where a majority of my close and loved ones live, Dubai and other gulf regions where so many friends from college live and work. Every single state in US, every single country in Europe, APAC, I might have a piece of me, some growing but some dormant.
It is also sad that I will never ever be able to bring all these scattered pieces of my own life together. Never, Never ever again, these are all just nostalgic memories of what I used to be
So what we claim to be our life might only a piece of it and when you look deep may be what you hold is not even the bigger piece. We die when our relationships die, piece by piece, hour by hour, till you are left with nothing.
So keep connected, for you are doing so for yourself, being connected to people in your life if a way for you to connect with your own.
I strongly believe that in a floating generation as ours where people are always in the move, it is the internet and technology that will give you that much needed environment to bring the pieces of your own scattered life together at least virtually and psychologically.
Jul 10
16
A Letter Poem
Life starts with an ‘L’ and ends with an ‘E’.
End starts with an ‘E’ and ends with a ‘D’
Death starts with a ‘D’ and ends with an ‘H’
Happiness starts with an ‘H’ and ends with an ‘S’
Sorrow starts with an ‘S’ and ends with a ‘W’
Worry starts with a ‘W’ and ends with a ‘Y’
But Yesterday starts and ends with a ‘Y‘
Today is new, everything ended yesterday
The past is past; gone with a faded ‘p’
Today and Tomorrow stand Bold with a ‘T’
You might have tasted all life’s flavors yesterday
But be open to taste new ones Today
