mind September 29, 2008
Posted by rizwan adil in life, science.Tags: art, butterfly effect, chaos theory, fibonacci, human mind, life, mathematics, mind, number theory, order, philosophy, psychology, science
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i look at myself, at my room, at the world around, its people, its cultures, its systems , everything. i feel disturbed. i am in bad shape, my rooms a mess, the world seems to be crazy, nothings in place, the people are bad etc etc.
i wanted to put things in order, why ? i think, and then, i think again.
order is a creation of the mind. the obsession with order is hardwired into our psyche. we like arranging things, giving ranks to people, arranged books, neat ipods, decent hair, perfect clothes.
and then, i remember robert frost !
i have two roads,
1. fight the system, struggle hard and change things. try to bring ‘order’ in the nature around you.
2. accpet stuff the way it is, see ‘order’ in nature around you.
you have been reading philosphical, unrealistic stuff all your life, so you’ll probably expect that the first option will be chosen. wrong. lets be real, life is too precious to be spent for things like these.
instead of trying to arrange things in the way you see fit and bringing about some order and sequence and saying ‘wow’ , now this feels good !
why cant u simply change your ‘ordering’ and ’sequencing’ in your head and then say ‘wow’, now this feels good !
instead of changing the world, change your mind, its lot more simpler, lot more effective. also, the mind is much closer to you than your hands.
talking about the mind; well,you see understanding the mind is something science has been struggling for quite sometime now. to me it appears weird. a mind trying to understand another.
reminds me of m.c. escher.
have a look !
life September 13, 2008
Posted by rizwan adil in humour, life, random.Tags: character, culture, environment, ethics, humor, life, money, personality, philosophy, psychology, religion, spirituality, values, writing
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few things about life i’ve found to be true :
- character building is important.
- money is not everything, but it is a very big thing.
- character, culture, ethics and values are important, but if you expect people to love you, like you, respect you for these, then its lame.
- credentials carry more weightage than the ‘person’.
- every secret keeper has a secret keeper.
- when you feel like shouting, you must.
- constipation is bad.
- moderate continuous efforts generate better results than a one time fiesta.
- the more you work harder, the luckier you get; not necessarily.
- you are in full control of your life- untrue, true only when taken in an empirical sense.
- philosohphy and psychology are modern man’s voodoo.
- you cant always be positive, sometimes be real, run !
- theory very rarely is same as practice; not rarely- never.
- people stink, dont poke your nose everywhere and dont be disappointed.
- everyone thinks everyone else is a fool.
- in his mind, he is never wrong.
- the road to everyones good books often leads to the making of a loser.
- personality is a direct function of confidence is a direct function of knowledge.
- if everything is good about somebody, he is faking it.
- know your flaws, dont accept them, never.
- people love being miserable, there is nothing you can do about it.
- when advised, follow.
- you are too insignificant to claim honour, dignity and self respect, let go off it.
- very soon you’ll die and your friends will forget you before they get their next toothbrush, stop gving a damn about self respect, ego and your fashion statement.
- be selfish, stay that way, smile at others.
- save the environment, not the cheerleaders.
