Myopic....are we?

This is for the "y" generation.......that is 'us'.....generation with loads of questions...and less answers......so unlike our parents who were rather happy taking life the way it was, accepting the rituals and measures to be followed.......sure we are not the same.....we dont take life and rituals the way they are coming to us or should i say, way they are imposed on us.....we question them @ every step.....sometimes right....sometimes just for our comfort to not follow them....but we are a little wacky n smart if one can say that....whether we should the blame the world wide web or the increasing GDP of our economy letting us more avenues, that is anybody's guess.....

Being from this so named 'y' generation, i sure get many questions in ma mind  about the way we live, why we survive, our aspirations, our lifestyle, the circle of life and vagerah vagerah......well!!! i dont want to get into philosophy here but cant help my writing letting me into it......its her fault, not mine...lolzz!!!

So, what should i talk about here, purpose of life, nah!!...how am i supposed to know that at 25, i will only have questions about it ''oh! didnt realise i just declared my age....nevermind'' .... then, lets talk about myopic sense of stuff.......long ago we did an assignment on marketing myopia dealing with myopic view of a business that one is into and its competitors.....well !! i feel the same applies to a lot of people in varied forms specially in a country like india filled with notions and poverty....few of them are quoted here....


* Small town boy changing his name from Amit to Sumit  in class second bcoz son of the tea shop vendor in front his house was also named Amit......oh boy!! how does it matter dude....newz myopic...
* Farmer giving away his crop to the local vendor at throw away prices until ITC e-choupal made them realise about the prices in the city n real worth of their stuff......again, so myopic!!
* Changing jobs for a meagre hike, myopic view towards career....we all know it still fall prey to it, take care!!!
* Not sure should we call this myopic, agreeing to marry a women after 2 meetings, y?, stuff is gud if u know wot i mean...newz myopic...
* Taking every advice right from career to laptop model to marriage from the same uncle whom your father thinks is the smartest uncle on planet earth..... so myopic...!!!

there can be a lot more to it....but i would like to get into our life n career n aspirations n comparisons made, not only by our respective mothers but we too......

At twenty five, we are bound to make comparisons about our professional growth....trying really hard to justify designation with age.....it is like one of those Speed Time and Distance problems....i have covered this much distance @ this speed in this less time to reach a senior Professional in this big firm....how about you??...awwww....!!!

I wonder if it is ok if we do that but why dont we continue doing this.......we dont compare an uncle aged 48 to an uncle aged 52 and their respective growth patterns...coz they fall under senior citizens now and done with everthing.....we rather presume it doesnt matter anymore without realising whether it should actually matter or not.....!!

At 25, i do have a plan that where i would want myself to be at 30.....and am also pretty sure that i aint goin to be there......coz i didnt have a shit idea 5 years ago about where i actually am today.....so the same shall continue....let life take charge of things.....

So my point is pretty simple that somewhere we do start taking life too myopically.....lyk it is gonna end @ 35 and we got 10 odd years to prove ourselves.....well!!! for sure, these are really important years shaping the career and all....but in the midst of this struggle......all that we plan goes some thing lyk this :::

" I plan to retire around 40 n then i will live in a small quiet place reading, playing and no stress in lyf " in different forms offcourse...

To me too, it is a perfect plan and have nothing against it......

but i would like to just keep it more simple n hopefully more effective which will be something like this:::

 "" i wont and should not be the same person that i am today one year down the line......even @ 59 if i know such and such stuff...@ 60.... i should posses more as a person....offcourse, at that age....personal growth will take charge and matter more.....but there should be growth all the more.....n all fields are open to me...from cooking to travelling to women to gardening to photography to astrology to sketching to music to yoga to.....innumerable stuff...!!!!""

This step by step approach and goals may take away the myopic sense that we tend to get into without realization of it.......i find this should work....but if somebody has a better idea....am open and all ears......

Here it is.....

Oh! here i am sitting in my room after receiving the best mail in 2-3 years or may be 'ever' received.......

No! it is not about george bush or pamela anderson or stock market mantras.....it is about me...!!!!!

Cant disclose what is it exactly about coz am not blogging to tell everyone whats happening in ma life but for the expression of my feelings, my thoughts.....

This feeling, that i have right now is of success, is of getting what i really wanted for a long time, a feeling of achievement, a sense of satisfaction and excitement about what follows next......

I see a life filled with light ahead....a journey just made more interesting, more adventurous, more uncertain but revealing......I am loving this moment.....i hope and pray, future is better than what i can envisage right now.....

I can go on and on about the moment..............but will thank you for now!!!......

Sometime there isnt anythin.....

I, as a small kidi blogger keep thinking about stuff that i can write about, loads of thoughts would knock the mind....sayin " yah!! this can be written about "...for example " if i see my massi/mami/similar creatures after a long gap, a new sense of aura would set around and i feel that, n then i would think of expressin it here OR if i see a family of 5 on one scooter under scorching delhi heat at a red light, i feel lyk writing about it "......

Having said all that, at times, i just do not feel the writing or the thoughts around are not enough to blog about.....but more than anything else, there should be stuff happening in life....something new...something to look forward to.....guess there is not much right now.....other than the ones already written about...!!!

Rush for office early morning....an eager wait for the evenings to arrive.....plans of reading the book lyin on the bed side for days now.....weekends are zoom in and zoom out.....boy!!!!....somebody should do something about it....n it can only be me.....lemme work on it n I WILL GET BACK TO YOU ASAP..."awwwwwww...they steal our lives...."!!!!

Fight to Stand Out.....

Stage gets set when we are laid down by the nurse on the hospital bed.......boy or a girl....fair or dark....fat or slim....how much does he/she weight....what were the expectations....are they being matched...acheived.....oh!!! "how cute n sweet" is one comment for sure....but the facts discussed before would decide how actually it is, according to them...!!!!

Brutal comparisons and fact finding aunties are all around a child life for all his heavenly child hood....i fail to understand what is there to fight for...so much competition when most of us end up cribbing about the work we get to do n find peace in another beer bottle....lyk i said in my last post " Our education hardly teaches us anything about the work we do, but our work does coz we practice it day in and day out"....thus, unnecessary burden is so unasked for....

So, what should one do....fight all his life to meet what is expected out of him/her....fire all what he got to stand out in the crowd......but does this thing end at any point when one can say that job is now completely done....AM FREE.....its lyk one of those bosses who is never satisfied......"Follow your passion" is a superb statement to make but does not come as easy as it sounds......
 
This is what i believe and hope ::: that all of us should be able to stand out or make a difference now that we have come to the party on earth......this can be in anything that one knows for oneself, in any damn field, be it an NGO, be it a preacher, be it a musician, be it a person who inspire others by his actions or style of living, be it by working for a social cause, be it a standup comedian who help people intake 3 but not 4 beer bottles, be it a yoga teacher who is being followed n liked by many senior citizens of a society.......stand out n make some difference some place that each one of us know that we can.....!!!!

How about a Professional Plumber, Gardener, Electrician....

This is about the professional lyf and the work that we do....i cant talk about everyone but about myself n things that i observe @ work.....I did computer science engineering, mba in marketing/finance....landed up in a bank...started working...started learning stuff.....after nearly 2 years...i now know what and how am i supposed to do my work....but before 2 years, did i know it....the answer is obviously ::: No, i didnt....so how do i know now....because i practiced it in these two years and would continue to do so.....!!!

My education didnt teach me much about my work but my work did....education taught me or may be just made a try of computer languages....greek finance jargons " even greece didnt understand them, i guess "...which i rumped up n vomited on the exam answer sheets.....this doesnt mean that education is useless....but yes! measures should be altered with....thus, i agree with tareen zameen par as most of us do....

Again, i am not totally talkin abt education practices in our country, but as i got in banking, others went into diverse fields including manufacturing, consultancy " oh! the consultancy " , retail, pharma, research n so on......learned their domains n after few years...they know their specific jobs n how to perform it....now, they are the respected educated lot (albeit, education didnt give them much).....

Now, how about an electrician or a plumber or a gardener who directly started working and knows his work very well, but he doesnt seem to get the respect that we guys get.... i also learned stuff from work n him too....neither am i making any changes in the present structure of work in this world nor does he....so why do i get more respect than him....bcoz i have a supporting degree and a formal shirt!!! well! give him a professional electrician degree....he already knows how to do it and probably more than an electrical engineer from one of the thousands engineering institutes.....n yah! a lil more respect....

My Guitar....Aim for the Year 2010....

Am sitting in my lobby...have my semester engineering exam lined up in a few days.....suddenly a divine idea comes to ma mind that i should learn guitar and infact, a feeling of restlessness dropped in....what have i been doing all these years.....why cant i start it right now....!!!

Next day, from a small music shop @ Rohtak, i buy the first Gibson guitar....now where do i go to learn......search for the teacher begins....manage to find a surd who hardly knew any chords and still told me that i will be an expert in 3 months.....so basically, 3 months i wasted with him....another 6 i wasted with myself practicing whatever he taught me..!!!

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By good god's grace, i came to delhi for doing my MBA and started playing with chords G, D, E, F.....went to few places to learn....performed with singers @ college and @ other b-schools....dont as k for results yet...

then came the job n the corporate shit....barely managed to keep up with whatever i had learned in college, leave aside improving it.....but there always has been a sense of incompleteness while playing this instrument.....a feeling that i need to be a lot more good.... i need to feel the music.....feel each note.....know and understand whatever i am playin.... and should be competent enough to have that adrenaline rush.....!!!

So, finally after graduatin to a decent level in rhythm playing, i plan to move to acoustic solos n do all the major techniques that are crucial to play solos effectively....also, to ensure that i am aware technically of whatever am playing.... i plan to do Rock School of Music thing...clear the exam for grade 4 this november .....

So...i look forward to have the grade 4 certification in my hand by this year end,....there is not much else that am aiming by the end year...Person, Sumit Anand, may not change much by december end but his fingers n music sense ideally should....

I wish myself best of luck for this small but really crucial endeavor....muahhh...!!!!

Want to be a billionaire....where should i invest...

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Stocks, Mutual Funds, IPOs, Private Equity, PMS, Fixed Deposits, KVPs, Post Office Instruments, Corporate deposits, PPF.....sound like a plethora of options available in the market and naive investor would feel obliged to get "Wealth Management Services" from bank, a broker "sounds funny", financial institutions . However, as the quote says " Simplicity is the inherent strength of every big idea ", same principle applies to investing - Keep it simple.

Taking the case of a young investor aged 27-32, all set to step the paddle for a home, a big car, high flying lifestyle, kids education, n still left with enough for the good old days.....some task to perform!!!!....Thus, following questions should be answered :::

Where should one start from, what instruments should one get into....arent stock really risky, isnt property the best and the safest bet....there are so many mutual funds, what the hell are ULIPs, think i should have one because they offer guaranteed returns these days.......what do i do??

Would take up individual instruments and situations to make it simple n understandable....for now....do 2 things...:: START AN SIP IN AN DIVERSIFIED EQUITY FUND AND BUY YOUR FIRST LARGE CAP STOCK.....