WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW

What if you knew the future, what would you do ?

the first thing that comes to mind is excitement, and the power of information. But its easier said then done, you see the problem with knowing stuff isn’t all that appealing. you must all think I'm crazy to say this. well i do have a good reason for stating this. knowing he future but not having the power to change it is a far worse scenario then being completely ignorant of what is to come.

like that saying :  

        “What you don’t know cant hurt you”

i belonged to that school of though where it was necessary to know things. any kind of information. i use to think if i could some how quantify things like feelings ,relations etc into logical reason then life would become easier for me. Man was i wrong. Finding reasons for everything still doesn't bring one satisfaction. Similarly Knowing the truth or the future for that matter also doesn't really help the situation. Because things are destined to be the way they are whether your willfully participating or unwillingly participating in the events of your life. Here by willingly i meant some one who has no knowledge of the future and is going about his life, business as usual. while unwilling is that person who has knowledge of the future. events will always happen the way they are suppose to happen. and the knowledge of these near future events is irrelevant. No one can ever control their life nor can they think or believe that they are free to live their life as they please. there is always some sort of restriction. we all have to live by certain rules and set norms. which we must not, can not and probably never be able to change alter or completely eliminate. Knowledge is power they say. but simply this knowledge without the free will to do as one pleases is more like a form of self inflicted mental abuse. the future is in itself a very tricky concept. in our efforts of making a bright future for ourselves we tend to over look the small things that matter most in life. While people who don't work to the future tend to miss out on the bigger picture.   

Subha hoti hai, Sham hoti hai, Zindagi Yun hi Tamam hoti hai !

Another day has ended… this reminds me of a beautiful saying

“Subha hoti hai sham hoti hai Zindagi yun hi tamam hoti hai”

This saying is so true. You wake up each day, go about your business and before you know its lunch time already. Half the day is already gone. The remaining time just flies by the same way. You think that  people would take out time to experience and savor each moment in the company of their dear ones but its quiet the opposite. As time passes we tend to miss the people we love the most and ask for more time with them and by then its to late. We are in a rat race for God knows what. Nothing is enough. Money, clothes, cars. cell phones, status, popularity, friends etc. tragic that people don't understand that all this is pointless.Real happiness and fulfillment comes only from within and not from materialistic things. its sad to see people wanting such things that aren’t going to complete them. People become fake just so that they can fit it with the crowd, just so that they can make friends with the rich or popular kids. They fail to understand that this will only last till the act does. once they stop pretending the whole world comes crashing down. But i realize its not that easy to withstand the insistent urge to “fit in” Everyone wants to fit in, to belong to, to be accepted but we all know that doesn’t always happen the way we want it. People can be to judgmental and cruel. It’s truly a jungle out there. But this is exactly why it has to be understood that to waste time in trying to be someone else is pointless because in the end the only one that loses is you. Time is not going to wait for anyone. With each passing day we take more and more things for granted. And before you know it you have grown old and life has passed you by just because you were to busy to notice it.

6 years and Nothing

It is that time of year when everything is about to end, well everything that has been a commonality in my life for 6 years that is. to put it simply college is ending. graduation is near, and the end of an epic journey on the academic road is at its end. the final countdown begins the last semester. the relentless pressure of the thesis, the CGPA, the admissions to other universities, the friends lost and found, the hangouts, the college functions, the council, the management and last but not the least the college politics… Oh how i dread my time in college…. always wanting it to end but now that i see the end is near. why doesn’t it feel nice. after all this was what i wanted is it. Like what Amartya Sen says its not necessary that we find happiness, in what we think we want. Instead happiness can be found in the strangest of ways….don’t get me wrong now.

also the fact that human nature is never satisfied or content with what one has until its gone. but this is not the main point that i wanted to put out there. Seeing that graduation is near i but cant help thinking the Big - Ultimate question What have i achieved so far in life, What do i have to show for it. After all  I’m graduating. Its over my time to actually accomplish something in life is over.. now you all must be thinking I’m out of my mind considering college life to be the end of achieving something in life well 75% the achievements one makes starts from school continues in college and carries on in later life. After al its college where we are given the opportunity to experiment with all fields study and life itself. there is another scenario here even if a person doesn’t get to a lot in college they still get a sense of direction of what they want to be or do when they are out of college but for me that doesn’t  apply either. I’m still clue less as to my future. As to my true calling is there is such a thing. I wont be so naive to say that 6 years of college education was a total waste for me. I did in fact learn. I learnt about people, about relationships about human behavior in various aspects and conditions and about work. But what do I have to show for all this. i mean these aren't the kind of things one can put on paper and show the world. After graduation there is no turning back all the time that was given is gone now i can only hope and pray. Even when you start working you don't really achieve anything as such, you just become a slave of the system, a system that was hidden from you or should i say a system you were protected from because of an excuse named College. once that excuse is gone your exposed to something that is the same as college but the experience is on a much grander scale. the things in “real life” are multiplied 100x in magnitude. all you can do is keep dodging all the blows and wait for the opportune moment to make your move. but that is a story for another time. for now the idea of all the time lost or wasted put either way is daunting enough. 6 years and nothing more than the sands of grain slipping from my fingers. All i could do was watch in vein.