Sunday, April 6, 2008

Don't cheat yourself!

Last night, I was sitting in the stairs, staring at the starry sky and enjoying the cool wind. Everything was usual until this thought struck to my mind. All of a sudden, so many such instances popped up in my mind and I was blank. Instances related to myself or anyone whom I have known!

Why do we prefer to be dishonest to ourselves while making few decisions?
Why do we create the useless debate between heart and mind in the discussions where heart should always be given priority?
Whom do we want to prove that we are correct with our decision?
Why can't we just go out and pursue our interests?
Why is it so tough? Why do we cheat ourselves???

Our heart is always clear enough about our interests but somehow, if it looks tough to pursue them, we will go with what our mind says "To pursue the easier/well-tried options and attempting to convert them into our new interests." For the moment, it looks such a great decision but later in our life, we will realize how wrong it was and how much adverse impact it had caused to our lives!

We will find ourselves at a point from where we just don't want to move ahead because the journey becomes so tiring; there won't be a sense of satisfaction/motivation. Moreover, the path which we want to take from there would have been left far behind and we will be left with no option other than regretting as we will be a failure to ourselves. Then, it just doesn't matter whether people treat you as a success or not, you know the reality better than anyone else!

The key is to make the right choices at the various junctures of life. Don't think of bypassing the challenges and don't take a path just because it is more challenging too. Don't think about people around as in what they will think about your decision. It's your life and you better know how to live it. People's thoughts keep on changing but you may not have an option to change your decision later. Be honest to yourself.

Remember, these are the decisions which may make you a success, a satisfied person, a winner, a legend!
The sooner you realize it, the better it is.

8 comments:

Arpit said...

This is what I think......although cant justify them due to lack of proof and Research ;-)

Answers inline:


Why do we prefer to be dishonest to ourselves while making few decisions? We are never dishonest ...its just that we are programmed to behave that way, its for some purpose but alas we often dont know that.

Why do we create the useless debate between heart and mind in the discussions where heart should always be given priority? It has no specific answer... my frnd doing MBA says that they are daily thaught on how to cope up with these situations, however they are never given a clear cut method to follow, and no answer is correct or wrong. Heart tells u nothing but the course of action which if u follow it will result in progressive evolution of humans, this is how it is programmed, whereas mind does the same not for entire human community but for u as an individual. Both are necessary, both have to be taken care while taking a decision, although one of them needs to be dominant. They act just like positive and negative feedbacks in a loop.

Whom do we want to prove that we are correct with our decision? Everyone and everything including ourselves

Why can't we just go out and pursue our interests? Risk of getting out of phase with the signal flowing in the system, hence chances of heavy attenuation. Unless u r too important the system always has a redundant path through which it can route the signal.Hence functioning of system remains unaffected but urs is highly attenuated.

Why is it so tough? Why do we cheat ourselves??? Ref to Answer of Ques 1

Madhusudan Sarda said...

Dude!
I loved what you said. Too nice! You serve the purpose of my blogging ;-)

But you just dont say that we are programmed to be that way n stuff like that. We are not a goddamn stupid system which has no option other than behaving the way its programmer wants it to do. We are knowledgable enough to hack anything of that sort.

And I am highly convinced with what you said regarding other things.

Please dont think about getting attenuated. Who knows, you might also recover from that attenuation from the later logic on that path. You dont know it until you choose it. Lets do it.

Arpit said...

u are looking at it from the perspective of a digital designer, and hence ur idea of recovering the attenuated signal is absolutely correct.

first of all u have noise margins there, and then even if ur signal attenuates u can inccrease the resolution and recover the signal using advanced algorithms later in the logic.... BUT ... as an analog and mixed signal guy.....i have to incorporate the effects of noise, here assumed to be additive white gaussian noise for simplicty. This makes the signal unrecoverable after spending some time in attenuated state due to magnitude of noise power becoming comparable to signal.

.... Two different schools of thoughts .... isnt it .... both seem to be correct.

However, the pertinent question is, as i have always said, "How to model the system?.... this way or that way ??"

Madhusudan Sarda said...

And the answer to you pertinent question, as I always said, is, "Model it in the way which looks positive!"
Believe me, the signal won't remain in attenuated state for that long to be unrecoverable.
Well, I don't have points to prove that but I do have such feeling.

Arpit said...

"Hope! ... It is the quintessential of all human emotions simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and greatest weakness" :-)
... Matrix 2

"I am afraid hope is an indulgence I dont have time for." :-(
... Matrix 3

Arpit said...

@Winona .... but this comment is for whom ?? ;-)
he he

Madhusudan Sarda said...

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
- The Shawshank Redemption

Arpit said...

its really a very very interesting word/concept