Nothing much to share today.. jus been a busy day and yet a happy day. I like days like these.. hehe. Day started off with the curiosity coupled with optimism from last night ended on a good note. Making lots more plans to travel back home- its been a while!! And then met a friend in the evening.. sharing cultures and learning/discussing about different ways people across the world do things.. played hard for a good game of squash (the exercise bit of the day) and then a sumptuous dinner at a friends place to wrap things for the day again with sharing of memories from yester-years. In short, everything but the work on my dissertation (the most important bit in my life right now!) happened, and yet I am a happy man!!
Not that other things are write are any better :-), but nothing wise to share today, just a feeling of happiness from the present and optimism for the future..
Hope all goes well..
K
Thursday 12 July 2007
Wednesday 11 July 2007
Three things that make life so interesting..
In continuation with my thoughts on trying to "stay in the hunt" yesterday, I am experiencing a closely related feeling.. I ll use the word curiosity instead of impatience, for two reasons. One it sounds more appropriate to the range of word usability and situation dependence and Secondly, coz it sounds better :-).
Like most of my thoughts, its again very simplistic and yet interesting. How many times have you and I thought over an action that we didnt know the result of with a certain hope for a positive outcome or simply put with a curiosity to what will happen? I know I have and I do that in almost everything that I do. When I am playing golf, for example, after reading the grain and lining up my putt and agonizing over it for 2 seconds, when I finally hit - then conciously or sub-conciously (or both) I want it to end up in the hole. Thats the hope for the positive outcome bit. Additionally and more interestingly, if I have hit it well (and sometimes even if I haven't..) I am curious to know how it ll end up.. will it get in the hole? will it lip out? will it stop short? will it go long? how long or how short? There are a zillion thoughts that cross my mind in short span of at best 1 second.
If you arent too bored with this, extrapolate this to other scenarios e.g. You write an exam, you have prepared hard and studied for hours; in the exam written a lot of words, answered a lot of questions and when you walk out.. you immediately start thinking, I wonder how I did or more likely to say, I wonder what I'll score on that one. Most of us would say, I ll atleast score X or Y, and yet that inner feeling of hope for a positive outcome and curiosity of the actual result is there. Job interviews, Meeting somebody new, meeting an old friend.. and lots more.
An adjoining thought to this is the role of uncertainty in our lives. I thought over it a bit (trust me.. not by choice- Its a piece of my dissertation). Our lives are so uncertain! Just pause for a second and you could find there is practically uncertainty in everything - our next year, to our next month to our next day, next hour and for some people next minute. And for as much as you dont like the idea.. I think that's what complicates our lives, but at the same time makes them interesting as well. In every step and every move, we are trying to reduce or resolve or sometimes just best manage the uncertainty in our lives.
And I think these three things make our lives very interesting.. to not only think about but to live as well. Curiosity, Optimism and Uncertainty.. What are you curious about today? What are you hoping goes right for you next? What uncertainty are you trying to take out of you life now? Hope you can see the triangle of love between the three..
Have to admit, not academically brilliant, but mentally stimulating..hehe.What say you??
Cheers,
K
Like most of my thoughts, its again very simplistic and yet interesting. How many times have you and I thought over an action that we didnt know the result of with a certain hope for a positive outcome or simply put with a curiosity to what will happen? I know I have and I do that in almost everything that I do. When I am playing golf, for example, after reading the grain and lining up my putt and agonizing over it for 2 seconds, when I finally hit - then conciously or sub-conciously (or both) I want it to end up in the hole. Thats the hope for the positive outcome bit. Additionally and more interestingly, if I have hit it well (and sometimes even if I haven't..) I am curious to know how it ll end up.. will it get in the hole? will it lip out? will it stop short? will it go long? how long or how short? There are a zillion thoughts that cross my mind in short span of at best 1 second.
If you arent too bored with this, extrapolate this to other scenarios e.g. You write an exam, you have prepared hard and studied for hours; in the exam written a lot of words, answered a lot of questions and when you walk out.. you immediately start thinking, I wonder how I did or more likely to say, I wonder what I'll score on that one. Most of us would say, I ll atleast score X or Y, and yet that inner feeling of hope for a positive outcome and curiosity of the actual result is there. Job interviews, Meeting somebody new, meeting an old friend.. and lots more.
An adjoining thought to this is the role of uncertainty in our lives. I thought over it a bit (trust me.. not by choice- Its a piece of my dissertation). Our lives are so uncertain! Just pause for a second and you could find there is practically uncertainty in everything - our next year, to our next month to our next day, next hour and for some people next minute. And for as much as you dont like the idea.. I think that's what complicates our lives, but at the same time makes them interesting as well. In every step and every move, we are trying to reduce or resolve or sometimes just best manage the uncertainty in our lives.
And I think these three things make our lives very interesting.. to not only think about but to live as well. Curiosity, Optimism and Uncertainty.. What are you curious about today? What are you hoping goes right for you next? What uncertainty are you trying to take out of you life now? Hope you can see the triangle of love between the three..
Have to admit, not academically brilliant, but mentally stimulating..hehe.What say you??
Cheers,
K
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Time...
A long time back, I had read somewhere - "Time and Tide wait for none..". Today years gone by and gained wisdom (hopefully!) concur to this thought.. and as I start to think more on this. It has been a while, since I wrote on my page..and yet it seems like yesterday when I was writing almost daily.. almost yesterday when I had come from a exciting day trip to Bournemouth. To tell you a fact, it was exactly a month ago.
As I start digging up my past, a common theme cuts across - It seems like the last week, had just started and now I am already into the middle of this week.. It was only a few weeks before that I was working on some assignments day in and day out.. and that was 2 months ago. And those days when it was snowing and everything covered in white.. for a change, Warwick seemed a different land- was not so long ago.. and I keep backtracking.. It was not so long ago that I came to Warwick - with dreams in my eyes and inspiration in my heart, only to realize that it was nearly 1o months ago. I think of my first job and those long nights working as a software engineer, struggling to make our first project delivery.. about 2 years ago. And friends, those endless nights in university- first degree, friends I havent seen for ages and yet it feels not so long ago. What I am realizing is that how quickly things have moved on in my life.. and I doubt that its the age..
However, there is an antithesis to it as well.. There are times that things have happened rather recently, and then I wonder.. that it seemed like a long long time back. For example, I had my final interview for a job in mid april - now thats only 3 months back.. but again seems like it was long long back. In the same vein, as I typed above, I saw my family 10 months ago, but i am understating this when I say it seems longer than 1o years. I have not spoken to my family on web-cam chat for 2 days, and I feel its been ages..
So what am I saying? the conclusion maybe is (thats my caveat!) that things you cherish, you like, occasional occurrences ranging from once to something that happen less frequently than daily from your past seem to stay with you longer and even though time keeps rolling forward, they stay fresh in your ming and you look back at them with a smile on your face and fondness in your heart. But things that are integral to your daily life, something that you dearly close - you think that you cant live without, seems like it happened only like yesterday.
Having attempted to draw this entry to a close, and yet been unsuccessful in coming to a reasonable conclusion - although it seems like an interesting topic to pursue a Psychology PhD in, I am reminded that I have been lagging on my disseration, which seems like I started only yesterday, but has been 7 months since I gathered my articles for it.. hehe. I guess this is another aspect, sometimes you want the time to stop, so you can catch up with all those things that you should have done, but you havent for one reason or the other (like I desperately did for the assignment I submitted this monday!) OR turn back so you can redo a thing better.. (like today's golf round I played)
A harsh but important lesson to learn has been that you gotta stay up to speed with time.. It will keep moving, and one has to make sure that they do the things they need to do when its time to do them.. Coz as much as you may wish, neither can you turn back time nor will it wait for you!!
Written and articulated in memories of a loved one.. whom I haven't thought about in decades, haven't spoken to in centuries, haven't met in more than a millenium and haven't hugged & kissed in only God knows how long.. you know my time frames now!!
As I start digging up my past, a common theme cuts across - It seems like the last week, had just started and now I am already into the middle of this week.. It was only a few weeks before that I was working on some assignments day in and day out.. and that was 2 months ago. And those days when it was snowing and everything covered in white.. for a change, Warwick seemed a different land- was not so long ago.. and I keep backtracking.. It was not so long ago that I came to Warwick - with dreams in my eyes and inspiration in my heart, only to realize that it was nearly 1o months ago. I think of my first job and those long nights working as a software engineer, struggling to make our first project delivery.. about 2 years ago. And friends, those endless nights in university- first degree, friends I havent seen for ages and yet it feels not so long ago. What I am realizing is that how quickly things have moved on in my life.. and I doubt that its the age..
However, there is an antithesis to it as well.. There are times that things have happened rather recently, and then I wonder.. that it seemed like a long long time back. For example, I had my final interview for a job in mid april - now thats only 3 months back.. but again seems like it was long long back. In the same vein, as I typed above, I saw my family 10 months ago, but i am understating this when I say it seems longer than 1o years. I have not spoken to my family on web-cam chat for 2 days, and I feel its been ages..
So what am I saying? the conclusion maybe is (thats my caveat!) that things you cherish, you like, occasional occurrences ranging from once to something that happen less frequently than daily from your past seem to stay with you longer and even though time keeps rolling forward, they stay fresh in your ming and you look back at them with a smile on your face and fondness in your heart. But things that are integral to your daily life, something that you dearly close - you think that you cant live without, seems like it happened only like yesterday.
Having attempted to draw this entry to a close, and yet been unsuccessful in coming to a reasonable conclusion - although it seems like an interesting topic to pursue a Psychology PhD in, I am reminded that I have been lagging on my disseration, which seems like I started only yesterday, but has been 7 months since I gathered my articles for it.. hehe. I guess this is another aspect, sometimes you want the time to stop, so you can catch up with all those things that you should have done, but you havent for one reason or the other (like I desperately did for the assignment I submitted this monday!) OR turn back so you can redo a thing better.. (like today's golf round I played)
A harsh but important lesson to learn has been that you gotta stay up to speed with time.. It will keep moving, and one has to make sure that they do the things they need to do when its time to do them.. Coz as much as you may wish, neither can you turn back time nor will it wait for you!!
Written and articulated in memories of a loved one.. whom I haven't thought about in decades, haven't spoken to in centuries, haven't met in more than a millenium and haven't hugged & kissed in only God knows how long.. you know my time frames now!!
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