Why we think we become increasingly useless

As time progresses, people become more and more useless as opposed to being anything useful. If you differ with this perception saying that people grow wise I agree, but only as an exception.

You may attribute it to ageing or energy levels going down etc. While I may agree partially here, I would say there are several people who are very meticulous about regular physical activity to keep them charged. But they dont do anything that is useful.

By useful, I mean, being creative.


When you were in college and later you work for someone especially the initial years the creativity is at its best. As you cross the 10th year, you start travelling the curve of sheer mundaneness.

How did you lose your charm? This question may fetch different answers with each one of them. For some it could be the marriage. For some it could be the constant quest for money. For others it could be some power or position they were seeking in their work or elsewhere.

You just get sucked by your greed for more and more.

Rather than just being that fellow who was open to learn the first day in office.

Unlearning is a great tool. I feel unlearning is not something similar to the way computers erase their data in memory. It is about attaching the importance to new things or things which can open your vision to another world which never existed within you.

For example, if some one has been mad after making money all his life, to unlearn that habit, he may start playing golf which may open up new experiences for him. While playing golf dont make new friends with the intention of making more money..thats all. If it comes your way, take it. But dont go for what you have been always going for.

Change the gears!

It may sound hard because of the comfort zone you rest on. But you will not discover the other side of you if you dont move out.

E-merging india ,Edward Tufte and Upanishad

I had recently ordered a book on FlipKart.com. It is like a breeze I would say.

They said 3 days and there it was. "Cash on delivery" was so easy that avoids all the fear of releasing your credit card into the sea of data in the internet.

Delivered at your doorstep. How amazing it is and avoided me a trip to the book store, traffic, waste of petrol and above all time!

Very well packaged.

By the way the book I bought was "Envisioning Information" by Edward Tufte. Seriously doubt I would have landed on it in any of the Bangalore bookshops.

Reading the book now. The nature of such original and pure thinking about how multidimensional information can be represented in pictures is expanding before me.

I wonder why Indians never venture into such unchartered waters.

Nowadays I dont tend to read things fast. Iam quite slow, try to absorb and digest what is being told as if Iam sitting beside the author and listening in his own voice similar to Upanishad.

Talking of Upanishad, I had read a interpretation of some "Upanishad"s by Osho and in that I remember he saying that the word "Upanishad" means "Beside the teacher".

I imagine the vedic civilization, the serene environment, a mighty but silent saraswathi river flowing and a long bearded sage under a peepul tree surrounded by students and I being one of them. Would he have talked of Envisioning Information?

May be...in some other sense. He indeed would have spoken of how to "Not have information" from within. I mean how to "stop having questions" and be a witness to show the inner transformation.

May be this answers probably my question of why Indians never venture into such things.?

Now...back to my world of reading Tufte.

Fear, Anna and my wish

Birds are still chirping and flying

Nothing has happened to the sun, trust me, it was there in the morning to greet me

Trees are also standing there only wherever they were

I saw a dog jogging along with me in the morning and it seem to be not worried

The TV channels seem to go on showing the Anna Hazare and the Politicians and the public

Corruption comes because of greediness. Greediness is there in everyone of us.

Greediness in a way arises out of fear! The fear of tomorrow.

Only humans live in fear. Other living beings dont. They exhibit fear only when they are confronted with a life threat.

Fear arises out of imagining and that comes out of the mind.

Obviously we have a large enough mind to accomodate all sort of things and thinking which mostly don't happen on the ground.

And the only way you can let go off fear is to reason it out. And that's what seem to be happening on this latest fear of "corruption" everywhere in the country.

I hope peace and calm prevails on this country men and women and they reason out the right things for themselves.

On a ending note, I hate the reaction of the government people - Manmohan, Kapil Sibal and Chidambaram who seem to be repeating like a parrot on the supremacy of parliament to enact laws for the people when they forget to realize that they are also one among them in a democracy.

So why dont they want a strong lok pal bill? Obviously I feel they would have drafted anything that would not be voted down in the parliament. If there is a bill that puts majority of the ruling folks behind bars why would even BJP will do it?

My thinking is the government will withdraw its bill for now and let discussions continue and die on its own .....without a Lokpal bill getting passed ever (as before)

I wish Anna wins in the end and we have a strong lok pal. More than that, I wish each one of us vows not to Bribe which can automatically bring in the bill in action!