fallen heroes?
Sometimes we really look up to people and hold them in high esteem. And then they make a mistake, atleast in our perception. Then we feel so terribly let down – that we may end up dismissing everything they ever said as false.
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the truth is out where?
Following a post by Gangadhar – Truth, where does it lead to? I had these comments…
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simplification by travel
Due to my job, I occasionally end up living in different countries for short periods (maybe a few months or so). During these times, I’ve been put up in a hotel or apartment room and lived off a suitcase. That was it – my entire lifetime of belongings which occupies an entire house back in…
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a spoon of oil
This is a sub-story from Paulo Coelho‘s book Alchemist: [img source: gimped from here.] ———– A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for forty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain.
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some ideas about the Mahabharatha
I’m no authority on all this, I’m just summarising what I’ve so far learnt and understood from various sources. I think the Mahabharatha can be seen at many different levels. At one level, its a story – someone kills someone, someone takes an oath to not do that, someone plots against someone, someone else sticks…
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demanding what one deserves
Its common among software engineers and I’ve been no major exception as well – to be perpetually pissed off for not having got a well-deserved hike or a promotion, esp as much as someone else got. Once in a way, we go beyond mere bickering and nagging to really trying to demand what we deserve.
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quote: benefits of philosophy
A philosopher knows exactly what to do in any situation, until it happens to him. I guess this rather stunning quote conveys more or less the same point as this story from the Mahabharata 🙂
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life's maxim upgraded | ಜೀವನದ ತತà³à²µ
When someone is reading a book, I’ve this habit of borrowing for a second and flipping through it and returning it. In one such instance a few years ago, I’d come across a “serene prayer” of three lines. I was so impressed that I later on googled for the exact words and put them down…
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creative way of representing creativity
There are a lot of nice things out here on this site which I get regularly from their mailing list. But this particular one on creativity really got to me. (It includes music as well).
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been there done that | ಯೆಲà³à²²à²¾ ಮಾಡಿ ಬಿಟà³à²Ÿà²¿à²°à³‹à²¦à³
This is something some people seem to be prone to saying a lot of the time. When somebody’s enthusiastic about something, they may comment smugly along the lines of “you’re seeing these things only now, I’ve done all that years ago…” or “I know everything that’s to be known about it” or “ok good you…