A closed space with a bunch of people , not too overcrowded. A tutor or trainer who is as energetic as the storm and then a light musical environment. Being in this kind of exercise feels like day out and makes your day. Recently I experienced that light music during exercise can calm your mind a lot. Nothing beats still the energy of dance in an exercise and if you have people along its more fun. I am zero or negative in dancing but when it comes to groups who can encourage, then any step is dance right 😝😁
What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
If this same prompt I would have answered a few months back then it would be lying in bed and assuming some pains in my body just to misguide my brain to take a sick leave. I was the lazy bum who will move only until there is some external force 😁. So spend an hour scrolling , overthinking and frowning over the work to do after waking up.
And the current is completely opposite of it. I am still a lazy bum and need some external force to move me out but that force now is meditation or yoga. Slowly the force is becoming a routine and waking up without the alarm shouting on to my ears. No more scrolling , instead will be scribbling on some prompts 😃. So this external force has turned me to a level of obedience but some days I roll over back to that lazy bum.
Things are not same anymore. It was 2019. That was the year I switched my job. I started to understand what my role and work were about. And then boom 9 months I have work friends, I start to get adjusted to the new office. There comes a surprise, media is fully covered with some random new virus in 2020 February month. I had no idea that was the last month I would be going to the office that year. I didn’t know how many more years it would be at all.
I have been lucky compared to all those who had struggled during Covid. Many lost their loved ones. Others lost their own life in this battle. Have we adapted to the changes ?? More precise question would be , are we the same people ?? We had no choice but to adapt in the hustle world. People keep on running to the other end seeking happiness. We were locked for like what 3 to 4 years and we had forgotten how to communicate itself !! Things are turning to normal in many places, but somehow I am stuck in 2019. 2019 to 2024, it feels like it snapped off like nothing happened. I would like to assume we also lost our 5 years in a blip. It is like the blip in the Avengers movie. Ironically the years mentioned in Avengers and reality somehow collide.
One biggest change or adaption it brought in us is the important of health and survival instincts. People who saw death in front of their eyes can answer better. There comes a lot of time question about which year you would like time travel if given a chance. I always got confused about the answer. Now I feel that if time travel exists, I would never want to go back. Not if I do not know where this covid originated from !!!
If you start picking certain aspects to tie with a person uniqueness, it is a never ending list. Each person has their own way to react, respond from the time of birth and in different stages of life. Uniqueness is a myth. Internally, everyone is the same. People strive to succeed in life. They earn to make the day better and their future better.
If I link a person’s characteristics with their uniqueness, I bet someone else in the world has the same traits. In every stage of life, we meet people who made an impact on our lives. We justify this impact as the uniqueness in them. We fail to understand it is us who are evolving and changing. This indirectly makes us find the different traits as unique features in them.
We want to be unique from others to step ahead. If we continue with that mindset, no one will match your level of mentality. No one will share your traits. You would feel that all others are just wasting their life. You have this special power which makes you so unique from others.
Each person has their own evils within. They paint themselves as someone different in front of others just to be unique. Why do we have to do this :
“Your family does not support you, ah may be I have some problem let me re-adjust myself to be unique and better to them”
“I have no friends, ah let me try to fit into a group by a make over to attract some”.
If we really want to be unique, we should acknowledge that we are complex humans. Treat ourselves the same way as a growing plant. A plant needs continuous nurturing. Its traits change and adapt according to the weather to become a strong flourishing tree. It is hard to acknowledge this but as I say in all of my writings, one day at a time. Give ourselves a 5 minute and just be us.
To me, not to be unique is blessing in disguise. No one to poke or no one to compete with, you are just competing with yourself.
What makes me laugh !!. This made me to think over. It is very easy for someone to make me laugh. But, is it a wholehearted laugh or a fake one? It’s hard to solve that puzzle.
There is always a smile on my face greeting who ever comes on the way. My face is very much expressive, its like my whole face dances with the expressions along. So if some one does make me laugh , it is going to get contagious and spread across. From what I can think over, the best laugh you can get out of me is when I am angry. If you succeed in making me laugh when I am angry, it will be a true laugh. That is the only real laugh I would have. With tears coming out of my eyes, nose vibrating and light noise turning to wider one slowly.
What makes me laugh when I’m angry is unclear to me. Sometimes it is just the prediction of what I would say next. Other times, it is just the mimic of what I look like. From the people I have been friends with, one thing am sure , am a fan of sarcastic jokes. So anything which is sarcastic and if it gets clicked, you can see a wide smile on my face.
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
As fake as it sounds, I wanted to work with computers 😁😁😁. The usual question any teacher would ask was what do you want to be!! And my answer varied as I grew up but the one particular when i was less than 10 yrs was to work with computers in an office type set up.
And why ?? My dad worked as a BSNL telecom assistant and his work started from the morse code era of typewriters to windows xp computers. Since my parents were both working, after school the routine was to send me to one of their working places. So it was a habit of sitting beside dad who used to keep on typing in computers and be busy. And am there sitting like I want to do this when I grow up. Sit inside the AC chamber , keep on typing something and people will come to you for the work you do.
I did not know that it was called a software engineer at that time, trust me 😁. Now I am in that dream job where everybody hates to sit in that AC room.
Funny story aside , I had to become a scientist , doctor and many others as i grew further but landed to that little girls fantasy job at the end which is not at all fantasy 🤪
Have you been in a situation where with all of your ego you say I do not need anyone for this , I can do it myself. I have been, trust me its hard , its a mental suicide if you are saying just for your ego.
I think what people do not understand is , when you are in deep shit your mind just does not know how to come out of it. Do the incredible pep talk or engage your mind with some other bullshit, nothing helps at all. But lets say you randomly call that one friend and express, no matter the solution or reasoning the person gives be dumb but to even think that it is dumb your mind needs to relax 😃.
The 8 minute theory is so true. When you are in deepest trouble and in a rat hole where you feel I am done, the best thing is to give a call to someone you trust. It can be anyone, you may not have friends but trust me you will be surprised to see there will always be one person who will be there. So the 8 minute theory states that whenever you need help, just say that you need 8 minutes of their time or anything that suits your situation. You just need 8 minutes to be in a safe position, there is no promise that you will come out of the situation but you will do alright and that itself is a blessing.
That one call where you feel a regret with happiness. You know what I mean, that one decision where you took which did not turn out as you expected but the outcome gave you happiness. Sometime regrets are beautiful. You get to know what was supposed to happen in delayed mode but when it happens , you kind of feel the regret but with the happiness. Regrets are always attached to a negative meaning but why does it always have to be negative !!
Life is so dramatic, it gives you happiness when you least look for it and it throws you challenges when you are not at all ready for it. Inbetween of these are those cute happy moments where you love the decisions taken with a bit of regret but with more happiness on why you did what you did!!!
Days can feel heavier or harder but finding these little happy moments between these days, is what we are living for right? ❤️
I am part of the generation who had no mobile phones until school ended. We then received keypad mobiles with just a few features. These included snake games, a calculator, and the ability to make calls. Now here we are with a 6 to 7 inch screen mobile. This device almost does the work that a laptop or computer would have done at those times.
Crazy right how technology shifts !!. I joined the software or the IT club of the millennial generation. The concept of technology in jobs was simple. It involved some manual work. There were also prestigious developers coding all the time. Unfortunately I was into manual work which then at that time was a great work to sustain in the industry. And then fast forward two years , manual work comes to a halt and people move towards automation. I moved along with it !!! Then all of a sudden there is data everywhere and you land to big data job. When I got the big data job, I thought I could turn anything I touch to gold. I was crazily optimistic.
Again here we are talking , eating and writing AI AI AI and AI. People are getting laid off left and right in the name of AI. Over time, I might also shift in that direction. There is a saying: “Change is the only Constant.” I need to have another choice in mind if I become rigid and stick to what I do. This is important if I get kicked out for not staying in current. It’s like how Nokia lost in the game of Android.
So until I know what lies in future, I am happily enjoying the work. I am also reading upon the hype of AI to catch up whenever needed.
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