Does Struggle = Sadness ??

Struggle = Sadness ??

Are struggle or sadness the different sides of a coin? What do you guys think?
Because the people in the world in which we are living, quite often interchange the meanings & thus both words overlap each other in situations.

Yes they are different & only today when I watched a video, I got to know this.
Sadness or sad time is something whose price we can n't fulfill, like an accident happened, or a sudden death, something like this but the struggle is something which is in your hand, which you or others can fulfill.

The harder u hit, the farther the balls go, that's the simple rule.
So never miss to put the efforts, even wen the situation is not according to you.

This is what I learnt after watching a video showcasing the hard journey of a farmer whose son got selected as an IAS officer.

When a father who is not capable of giving his son proper amenities to go ahead in life & achieve what he/she want to achieve, but still took the burden on his shoulder & try to give all that what is needed to achieve that goal & after that when his son/daughter achieved that goal... no one can understand that precious feeling that the person himself who is the father can.
That is his reward, A reward for everyone in his family; A reward for father who gave up everything what is in his hands & a reward for his son as he achieve what he wants to & what his father want to see.
On one hand are the people who loves to buy expensive clothes every weekend, lavish lifestyles, want to go to pubs/clubs every fortnight,engaged in girls; on the other hand there are people who are simple & because of the hard effort from his family side, didn't loose their focus & commitment & hence achieves something extraordinary.

I'm just wishing myself to have same type of zeal & can nurture such type of commitment power inside me so as to achieve what I want to achieve.

 

SUCCESS TO YOU...!!

Hey guys! Been a long time to share something with you. Actually I was not getting any good topic to write but today I’ve something to share with you.

I want to know

what success to you is?

Please express it in the comment section of the blog so that I get to know the views of people with whom I’m sharing this article.
Anyways, as far as I believe different people have different definition of success.
For one it is achieving the set target, or accomplishing a particular or preset goal, for others achieving a status symbol is success for him/her.

You might get around 1.3 trillion definition or more than that about success in India itself, indicating the true knowledge base of world’s largest democratic society.
Well, according to me success is more a broaden term & it has many facets. Just shown a glimpse of it in the above paragraph. But, mind it, these are just the facets of it, not as a whole. These small - small facets together make the true definition of success. Or better is to say meaning of success.

I’ll tell you the actual meaning of success to myself in the end of this article, may be because I want my article to look good! 
Anyways success is interlinked with satisfaction as well. People want to achieve successful career, but success is not limited to this, it is something that could soothe your soul & will take you to the self-actualization state.
So, without making the article heavy & lengthy, I just tell what it means to me:
For me, it is
“Something where your individual growth is connected to the society & thus, for me it is apart from achieving the top position in the field in which you are currently working, something such that with your individual growth, society will also grows. That is the real success” !!

YUG: a Change of an era – good or bad?

We all know that a YUG means a decade.
Today, in era of globalization, a new age of mankind is emerging, calling the end of the old era, which was a little bit weak, poor, techno-free, having limited accessibility, yet was much simpler, relaxing, & most importantly having a proper place of human sentiments.

A era which has seen people way back, starting from Indian Politics & Freedom fighters i.e.. Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra bose, Chandra Shekhar Azaad, Bhagat Singh to Classical Actors like Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Gurudutt, Madhubala, Rajendra Kumar, Dharmendra, Mala Sinha to rural farmers & people of India.
I call it the Golden era

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Because, the life was much simple, easy & beautiful. People were not having Gadgets, Internet, & other technology in their kit to have access to the whole world. No doubt these things are made in order to make our life simpler, better & convenient, but yet if you analyze the whole thing, life became more complex, fast & people are not having the time for their families.
But the most important change comes in Human mindset. From a sensitive kind & simple heart it became shrewd, selfish & demandable heart.

Way back, much earlier than what I have mentioned above, feel very proud to say that we were the first to have the very sacred Guru- Shishya parampara

, where a Guru was someone whose value was considered more than the God. That’s why you might heard of the phrase:

Guru Gobind dono khade, kage lagoon paanv,
Balihaari guru aapki gobind diyo sahaya

Which says that earlier, people used to put Guru in place of God. That was true because at that time Guru’s were not be having their own motive to teach them, they were doing it because it makes them feel happy or because it was there karma to spread the knowledge among masses. But now neither you will find that sort of Guru’s nor the Shishya’s. [like one ideal example of Eklavya & his guru Dronacharya]

Where earlier people want to change India for the betterment of the society & thus wants freedom & civilians were ready for dying for the nation, where people respect the sentiments of other, today, everyone thinks about themselves. People became more career- oriented & so called practical in their life. Here the lines that are coming to my mind are:

Yug badla badla Hindustan,
Kal tak desh pe marta tha jo,
Pyaar desh se karta tha jo,
Apne liye hi jeene laga kyun
Aaj ke yug ka har insaan…
Yug badla badla Hindustan

But, they don’t know, the real fun, happiness & sukoon lies in the old world, which however not going to come back again. That was passé, all credit goes to basic principle of time, which says that time once gone, never comes back, & therefore is precious.

I still used to watch old hindi films, which gave me immense pleasure & soothe my nerves. All I used to think is people at that time were so simple, beautiful & genuine that you will not going to find now very frequently today. Therefore, we need to capture every single moment if possible, of our life, because what is new for you today will be the thing of past in future. So live your life to the fullest & make it memorable. Because “Old is still Gold”.

THE ART OF BEING “HAPPY”

I came across the thought of writing on this topic rather than much usual topics of Business because of one short incident of which I was an important part of.
But before sharing that incident with you, let me ask one question:
HOW WILL YOU MAKE & KEEP YOURSELF HAPPY IN TODAY’S HECTIC, TECHNOSAVVY & SHOWY LIFESTYLE?OR Let me put it this way:
What actually happiness is for you??
With the number of diverse & different people that our country has, the answers to these questions also will be too different & unique.
I do not know what others think, but for me, it has a simple relationship with the way you live i.e..
“More simple you live, more happy you will be”.
That absolutely not means that people who have enormous amount of money & lavish lifestyle are not happy. Like in Business, here also the concepts of Long term happiness & Short term happiness exist.

Drinks, partying with friends, having stylish cell phones or having latest gadgets are all the things & means to be happy but they are of Short term. On the other hand, happiness that you get via spending beautiful moments with family, helping needy people, & living a life smoothly (without having a guilt inside you of doing something which you shouldn’t do), is the real happiness (Long term).

I believe the moment of true happiness can only be one that exist for long term –
When you help either directly or indirectly the "needy" people.
I surely can say that you will get the opportunity to practice it in bulk in the country like India. It will give you that much of satisfaction that you surely cann’t get via all other things.

Now coming back to the incident that I was earlier talking of:
Actually, a week ago I came back to my hometown via Delhi, where I had a brief halt at ISBT. A person, seems to be an old one, came towards me & started talking to me informally. Later on, he said that he want some money to purchase a bus ticket to go to Chandigarh because someone had stolen his purse & he need to go urgently as he had a court “peshi” [court’s summon to be present there]. Later on, via having a talk more, he said he had his relatives in Panchkula, & at this time no other option is available for him. He also has some problem in his legs & could not be able to walk properly.
I once thought whether the case is a genuine one? So I think not to give money but to go with him & purchase the ticket to Chandigarh & give it to him. I had given it to him & not the money & later saw from behind a sense of relief on his face after getting the ticket.

I felt so obliged that I got a wonderful opportunity to help that person, thanks to God.
I felt so satisfied & that is the real happiness for me.

INDIAN VALUE SYSTEM: Still Sustainable?

I still feels a little bizzare when I saw people moving very fastly towards the life of Western world. Sometimes, also it turns out into a smile on my face when at the same time I think of the people living abroad, although slowly , but started moving towards the Indian traditions, cultures & some precious things given by Ancient India iteself to the whole world. A good example here is 'Yoga'. At that time a question arises in my mind, that "Where are we going towards?" or more specifically "Is the Indian Value system still strong enough & not becomes dead in the minds of so called generation "Y" ?

India, is symbolically a synonym of Tradition, Culture & Indian Values. These are the few attributes that came into one’s mind while thinking of INDIA. The tradition rich country have people who inherit these values & culture from their ancestors, which is why we become successful in keeping these precious things with us till today.

But Now, it seems like these things are losing their identity. With the ‘rampant change’ we found everywhere now-a-days, whether economic, political, social, environmental or in Corporate sector, their perception, mindset & values are also changing.

Be it the case of Nuclear family or live-in relationship, or the latest one “Homosexuality”, all these things signifies that we are moving towards Western Culture or somehow wants to incorporate their culture into ourselves, & that’s why we found this as “overlapping of Cultures”.

What all we can say that no. of cases of divorces get increased to over 20-25000, according to research that have been done by HT media. This is the thing that we normally can see in foreign countries where marriage is more like a contract, but we should not forget that in India it is a “sacred relationship” that runs successfully because it is built on ‘mutual trust’ & ‘adjustment factor’ And this is just the beginning. Over the period of time, we have also witnessed that the “sensitivity” factors also tends to decrease among Indians at a rapid rate.

On the other hand, if we look upon the western countries, they are moving towards us. Like, they have started seeing these things very fascinatingly. For example, take ‘Yoga’, which is offered to the world by India, and if you look at the overall trend, you will find that people in abroad are crazy about such things & learning it with full dedication. Madona, Angelina Jolie, Richard Gere, are some of the Hollywood personalities who are practicing it & the followers like them are in numbers. They had started understanding & believing these things because before this no one there knew about such things. This is natural because we always value those things which we don’t have.

Change is good but at the cost of your core competence, definitely not. Thus, need of the hour is to preserve these traditions, values which are like ‘USP’ for India via which we have built our image on the globe. This is like the base of India & if the base shakes, the building will not survive for a longer period.

What you guys say??