Pushing your limits

One reaches success only when you push your limits and perform beyond the regular. These days I see so many youngsters giving up even before they start, and this starts from student’s requests coming in for changing a sport to an activity, because they find it boring, hard, no friends, to endless reasons. This generation doesnt realise the meaning of consistency and gathering strength in staying put where they are for a while. It is indeed true that ‘rolling stone gathers no moss’, interestingly this proverb has two interpretations- people who keep switching and aren’t consistent never go deeper in their roots and never get a sound holding of anything and the other interpretation can be that people who keep moving are always fresh with ideas and dont stagnate. Now both meanings are so diverse in their interpretation, yet one thing is common to them, in both cases one needs to continue to push themselves, to roll or not to roll.

So you may be of any school of thought- rolling stone or stationary stone you must remember to push yourself hard and work towards success in each case. Hard work is a must, only know when to loosen the grip for a little break and then get back to the hard work regime again.

Thinking about life

I wrote this piece nearly a year ago…while sitting by my mother in law’s bed side..may her soul rest in peace, lost her a month later that year

Sitting in the hospital ward, with nothing to do, no internet works, nor did I pick something to read as well. There is no chance of sleep, well I know about survival of the fittest, but this is not a survival situation in terms of physical strength but yes it is about mental survival indeed.  As I sit on this hard stool, I have all the time of the world to think about anything and everything. The challenge is what do I think? Has Digital age stopped us from thinking I have started to wonder? Have we become puppets in the hands of machines? Or have we become machines ourselves? That our brain needs continuous stimulus to function well. This hospital ICU ward No. 1, bed no.4 makes me wonder what life is really about  and yet we love the materials and want them and run after them. As I sit on this wooden stool, I try and think of the worst things people may have done for survival and then I consider myself very fortunate, that my situation is much better.

First blog post

My inspiration for starting this blog is a budding young blogger, who is just about 8 years old. His confidence through the blogs and otherwise speaking to him, encouraged me as well to take to Blogging. Generally I am not much of a blogger, in the past also I have tried to put together my thoughts often. This time, my inspiration may lead me longer and I may be able to sustain my interest in writing the blogs. Well if an eight year old can, sure I too can try. Sometimes in life you meet people who make such a difference to you, and they are not only known personalities, they are people whom you meet around the corner or on a bright sunny morning.

I must also mention another aspect to this story of my blogging, I am the Principal of the school where my 8 year old inspiration is a student, interesting aint it? There is so much to learn from these young minds everyday, who says one has to only read Freud, Plato, Aristotle or Karl Marx to gain knowledge and talk philosophical in child’s language ‘talk big’.- Think big, Dream big, Believe big, Act big and the results will be big…… some unknown philosopher, but says it so simply.