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Money, Health, and Character

 'If wealth is lost, nothing is lost, If health is lost, something is lost, If the character is lost, everything is lost,' - Swami Vivekanand THE PIECE OF PAPER Money can't buy you happiness. There is this weird trend going on the internet to prove this proverb wrong, for no reason. What they do is, display images of some big tycoons or CEOs and comment sarcastically to see, how sad they are. They are usually Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, and many others, but mostly these, and the irony is that all of them have been through a divorce. Their wives have left them, we never know for what really, but we are still busy considering them happy, because of their money. Most of them have had a severe divorce, and just think about how harsh the reality could have been if they are all divorced. Imagine the depth of all those years of trauma and pain Steve Job's wife would have gone through before taking this decision and that too so many years later. We still do not know w...

Treat People, like People-Part 1

 On a usual day at my college, I got free early when I got a message from one of the juniors whom I was guiding through for a year. I finally got a chance to meet him in real life, and I was somewhat curious about how this person might act in real life because a matter of fact that people are sometimes pretending to be someone else on the internet. But to my surprise, this dude was genuinely the same. We talked about our professional life for quiet some time and I also illustrated some of my communication skills after talking to a random couple and asking about their love life. That is hard for most people, to talk to some random person, but this I believe surely gave him a boost in talking to people confidently. We talked for quiet some time more when he finally came to his final question which fascinated me somewhat. Let me state the question here- "I am in a group of friends, and we usually operate together. We have lunch together, we play together, and we sit together in class...