The Human Group

Some days ago I was very perturbed with various incidents happening in the world. Right from racist attacks, communal violence to civil wars - everything possibly disgusting was happening in the world.

I had then decided to form a group for like-minded people on facebook who take humans and humans and are not prejudiced with anything.

URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=104113353823&ref=ts

I gave the description of the group as below:

Those Human beings who don't believe in nationalities, races, colour, religions, castes, genders etc. are welcome to be the part of this group.

The group stems from sadness and frustration on the physical and mental violence being inflicted the world over for any of the above reasons or some other reason.

I don't know at this point of time what will be the purpose of the group and what will we achieve right now I just want humans to join in for what they were. Just Humans.
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I then sent invite to about 100 people randomly to join the group and guess what only four of my friends have joined this group. I had also thought that maybe people would search for such a group and join.

The idea for me was not to do anything with the group (maybe that will follow later) but be reassured myself and also assure others in the group that there are others who share their beliefs.

While its comforting that there are four humans in the world I am worried that there are 96 others who are prejudiced.

Is it really that difficult to leave our prejudices? Have we been too conditioned so as to not change?

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I would again request for feedback.

Happiness or Contentment

I reckon that people all over the world are craving happiness and we often hear the words "yaar - pata nahin kyon but main khush nahin hoon, kuch mazaa nahin aa raha life mein." I really don't understand what happiness are they talking about. Do we even understand what happiness is?

As in my previous post the problem with happiness is that there are no clear parameters to it. Our benchmarks of happiness keep changing with circumstances.

In this scenario I think its important to begin by understanding what really makes us happy and what does happiness mean to us? Is it being together with family? Is it reaching the top position in an organisation or is it giving joy to others? Whats that one thing that will make us happy.

Once we have understod that one factor, we should be focused on achieveing just that. We have to properly plan and be relentless in our approach once we are set on something. Write it down in front of you, break it into various milestones but work towards it.

I firmly believe that to achieve great happiness you have to under go great hard work and sadness too.

Please don't change the yardstick once you have achieved something. At the end of the day I beleive its not happiness but contentment that matters.

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In this post I have tried to debate this lack of happiness syndrome and debate how we can go ahead pursuing happiness. Your comments will be enlightening. Please let me know how you would measure happiness and your approach to happiness.

Haazaron kwaashen aisi

"Haazaron kwaashen aisi ke har khwaish pe dam nikle, Bahut nikle mere armaan, lekin phir bhi dam nikle"

This line from Ghalib more or less sums up my own perspective on life and from here I start my blogging journey.

When I was in school I desired passing out from the school quickly and getting into the college life. During college I wanted to get over with it quickly and get into a job and start earning money. Once I joined a job I started dreaming about opening my own company. Having done that today I feel like going back to the school again. I want to lead that innocent and tension-free life again when the only hassles in life used to be the Unit-Tests, Half-Yearly and Annual exams. When I didn't know what was recession or the great depression.

I want to run away from the internet and look forward to receive that cute little 25 paise postcard. I feel like swtiching off my mobile and waiting for the good old MTNL phone to ring. I then want to take the receiver off and forget about anyone disturbing me. I would love to throw away my ATM card and wait in the banks with the token number in my hand.

Ofcourse Ghalib Sahab, the problem with Khwaeeshen are that they are ever-changing. How I wish that I didn't know the meaning of Khwaeeshen at all.

To conclude I would like to quote a line from another famous poet and lyricist - Shailendra. "Koi Lauta De mere Beete Hue Din."
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P.S: Please do give your feedback.