Just Move On...!!!

I got this as a forward, and wanted to share the same...

Must read..
A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy.

After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time.

He cracked the same joke again & again, When there was no laughter in the crowd,he smiled and said,

"When u can't laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again.'Forget the past & move on'…"

social nOtworking

It was few days back, when someone buzzed me on one of the social networking sites.
I was struggling hard to identify the person with the name; yes… his name was very much there in his profile. Still couldn’t recognize.

By this time, the conversation had already begun and I replied as if I knew him well. Still, I was yet to know who that person was!!!

Then I surfed his profile for his photo realizing he was my colleague in the previous organization I was working with

How lame I thought to myself…
A person on my friend list and I don’t know him.

There are many more such friends on my list and I aint in talks with them.
So... This is the case with most of the social networking sites now.
People add them onto their list but don’t even have the time to share a ‘hi’!!

They are used to update the cookery for the day and climate rather!!
So does this solve the purpose!

The other extreme to this; people start the “keep in touch” via these sites and they actually lose the precious moments they spend talking with their near and dear ones face to face.

The emotional touch to the friendship is lost coz of all these is my opinion.

However, for the loners, this is the best way to keep them busy and happy!
Social networking is indeed the thing now and we being social animals cant live without it!

FlashBack2010

Another year has passed by… 2010!!
A new decade is born… time flies off!

Every time a new year is born, we are not used to the change in the year.
As simple that we don’t get used to writing the New Year date 

So how was 2010 for me?
It was one with all happenings just as another year….

Though the happenings were only then and there, I did cross a few milestones!

Career wise, I had a big break.
I have switched over to a new organization with a new work profile which means more challenges and new work style. This is huge organization and I just hope my career is in the right path now!
How much we are resistant to change is so evident even in the change that we have decided to go for…

I’m yet to get accustomed to this new working environment and a thought comes in sometimes as to if I was more comfortable in my previous encounter!
Still, I’m learning to enjoy this change and face the challenges…

Personally, there were a few changes too.
We have moved into another apartment and change of place is always refreshing!
And 2011 has a change in our home!

A lot of my friends have moved into their next phase of marriage life!
It was indeed lovely and a wonderful year on that aspect….
To name a few-- Lavanya, Sneha, Shanthi, Deepthimai, Vijay – Vaishnavi.
The weddings were grand and of course happy 

Health wise – I had a lot of changes!
From wisdom tooth removal to my clip! The surgical process was a huge achievement and the success story of this seemed… indeed finally!!!

Having set some goals for 2010, I guess I achieved most of it… 
I’m happy with the way 2010 progressed.

There were other ups and downs in 2010, be with family or friends, but they are always lessons to be learnt and 2010 in that way has taught me a lot!!

Now its time to move on with the New Year with new goals and new challenges!
May this year also be wonderful as ever!

Happy New Year! Happy 2011!!!!

Memories

OK.. now I was just surfing to get some definitions of it(memory) before I get started with what I want to convey. Some of them are:
1)The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience
2)The act or an instance of remembering; recollection
3)All that a person can remember / Something remembered
4)On computer terms -- a) A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval
b) Capacity for storing information

So be it for the humans or the computer, its something to do with the past. That is, some information which is already known or completed.

We always call it memories only when its good. Phrases used “recall the wonderful memories”, “memories to be cherished” . However, memories are not just about the good ones.
It includes all our past....

So the good and bad in it is decided by you!
The bad ones can be called as an experience. A lesson!
We all face tough times in our life, and will want to forget them!
I.e. the memories which we do not want to carry along with us.
How wonderful it would be if we could “shift+delete” them... and get it out of the trash only!

Imagine a human system where, when memory gets out of control or overloaded, we can delete them and refresh it to continue the normal process. Wow!
Sounds great and easy!

So do we need a separate system to get this done... ?
Can't we just do this our self with what we have... either taught or imbibed!

Yes there's a saying – Forgive and Forget!
Its such a simple thing which can easily manage our memory as far this thought is concerned.
To erase our “bad memories”, all we need to go is forgive the person/reason for it and to forget !

Forgetting is not hard at all... it's an excuse we always give...
when we don't call our near and dear ones, when we forget their birthday, when we miss to call back or meet someone waiting for us, when we forget to buy the grocery mommy asked us to
and the list goes on....

Use the same here and I'm sure it would help us a lot!
There's a movie on the same lines, on erasing memory...
wow it seemed to the character undergoing that, in the movie, but when he wanted to prove his love, all he wanted was just the memory of the love he had for her!
Wonderful isn't it!!!
That's the beauty of memory... so just relish and cherish your memories...
For only you can feel it ...

Special people

Yesterday, I met this person at the cafeteria who has inspired me to write this.
Let me describe him first which would give an idea as to why I chose this title!
A man who must be in his 30s, height of a dwarf with some ailments. He wasn't able to stand straight. Weak legs and damaged back. My description could be a little hard, but that's how he was.

My God, the first impression I got on seeing him, what confidence and perseverance he must be having. Working in an IT field, a job which is not just highly paid but also the most wanted. The crowd here is massive and he dint really care about it. Walked in with a pride and helped himself get onto the chair. I was surprised!

You don't even have to interact with achievers to gain motivation, on just seeing such “special people” with special qualities, you can feel there's a lot more in our life to achieve.
The positive energy that they bring in is more. Their simple presence helps us!

Its not that they should be some kind of a statue to give their presence but a motivation in disguise!
We must realize how blessed we are to have everything fine(not just physically) but still we complain on our small failures and rejections.

I had visited this hospital once where people had come to get some certificate from the doctor on their ailment. I can still feel them in my eyes, their difficultly only to commute. Still determined to get their life going!

Now, all this shows how blessed we are. And lets stop complaining on the little things around and learn from the people around us!

Live and let live!

Time flies off!

Its three weeks since I joined the new organization (TCS) and I’m just getting used to things here. I haven’t settled well here though. New environment and people, a different working style!

I still feel as if I’m just out of college and looks like its more than 3 years past that!

Time just flies off!

A new experience always brings in a change and something to learn…

I couldn’t ask for more now, as I have a new start and every new beginning brings in a new challenge and we just gotta get going….

Hope things go well as ever for its just not destiny, we choose our path to get there!

The spirit of my birthdays is coming down…. May be because I’m getting older by a year!

I felt it the most this b’day (yesterday).

 However, to get my spirits back, I always have a bunch of friends :)

Went for lunch with some of my friends since college… had a great time there!

Then in the evening to Skywalk with my other set of friends!

I had a wonderful time with them… seemed more like a reunion after a long time!

We spent sometime at McDonalds… and then shopped around.

A fresh bday once again :)