koolhead17
Am I happy with my current job?
Am I happy in my current relationship?
Is this what I wanted in my life?
Am I doing engineering because I have to make parents wish come true?
I am okay about buying a house and paying EMI for the next 20 years?
Opportunity cost is a great tradeoff. What am I missing on account of what I am doing now?
Thinking in terms of opportunity cost keeps life in equilibrium.
There are few days when I don’t feel like writing. There are a few days I end up writing half a dozen post.
Is it because of my mental state? I don’t know.
It is not that I don’t like to write. It is just that I have no clue what to write on. Instead of being annoyed and sad, I have made peace with myself.
I am a human, not a robot. I do need a break once in a while.
We are fighting about creating or being part of a network. Every minute we are weaving a network. We are either lightly or tightly connected to a network. These networks are no less than oxygen.
It can be your running, riding, eating club.
We are slaves to our thoughts. Our past experiences govern many of our actions in the present. We respond and react to a situation according to those experiences. Sometimes this can act in our favor and many times not.
Charlie Munger calls it the man with a hammer syndrome.
This moment is what matters. Time is flying, death is getting closer.
Why do we have to dwell on past, cry on the mistakes? Can’t we like now, this moment? The hope for better tomorrow is upon us, we are disguised.
Everything is in now. What is holding us, why can’t we do now what we have been aspiring since inception?
The world is full of naysayers and the scared souls who have failed to achieve something will tell/scare/stop you from trying.
Make best of now, this moment doesn’t die before death. Make most everything now.
Do we need a teacher?
Can we not acquire wisdom seeking self-learning?
Why do we need bait for our judgments and decisions in our life?
Why do we have to pay in money or surrender for curing our ignorance?
Why can’t we acquire self-knowledge?
Values are the core of any organization. It can make or break them. Same applied to us individuals as well. For some, it is a sermon or principle of life.
It is important to have your value without any fear or pressure. A value should be out of the religious, social or cultural purview. It should be our identity and based on our independent belief.
We take so many things for granted in our life. We forget the fact that we age.
When was the last time you spoke to your grandparents? Do you know they are getting old, their memories are fading with time? This is the moment they need you around them.
The bedtime story, the mangoes, and love they showered at you.
It is the time when you should take some time for them. They are here not for long.
Epictetus wrote Enchoridian centuries ago.
The paragraph where he mentions about what things we have in our control and we don’t have has been a principle for me. Luckily I read the book.
Many things we do in our life with our best efforts. But if we decide the result or expect the outcome in our favor and it goes opposite we get miserable. At times anger, sadness, misery takes over.
Going by Epictetus, I know it is a difficult life to lead. Leaving the outcome aside and focusing on putting the best effort. Life is more contend. We do not regret not trying.
Life with action as prime motivation does more wonders that a goal-driven one.
Why do we have to be perfect? What is this definition of perfection?
Was Mozart a perfectionist? How perfect was Van Gogh?
The perfection evangelists are new-age sophists. Who decides the epitome of perfection? Some czar or uber god, seeking for I am right status?
As long as we are true to ourselves, I don’t see the point of running after perfection.
These perfectionists would have found many faults in Monalisa smile. Leonardo da Vinci would have died making those edits seeking perfection.
I have made peace with my imperfection. It keeps checking on my insanity.