In Life one must take Risks; but don't Risk Life - Jodson

Sorrow is multiplied when you show it - Jodson

We need not help, but we should not hurt - Jodson

NOTES FROM MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK

23-12-06 SATURDAY 9.37Pm
LISTENING TO - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - FEEL
LOCATION - IN THE SKIES IN IC-595

Look at what time has done for me; all well and good. On my way to enjoy a few days; 11 days to be exact. Not much, but you have to learn to take life as it comes. And when it gives reasons to smile, why bother about sorrow.

Life is pretty nasty and fairly good. It gives you reason's to smile and those reasons to cry.

One year of realization, it has been. All of us have been blessed with more things than we ever want that we do not realize what we are blessed with. Instead we wander after things we don’t have and eventually lose all that we had. I know that it is easy to preach, but the thing is that I’m preaching to myself. I wonder how many people do that. Surely less, cause if it were on the high, this world would have been a lot better. The problem is that everyone tries to attain happiness which is more or less centered on them.

Thinking is good, because you find the way to solve problems. But if you think of it, life is not about finding ways to solve problems. It’s about solving them.

According to me, this can be achieved in two ways

1: Put a lot of thought to it and find a solution theoretically and solve it practically. If you can’t find a solution leave it, because you only waste time worrying about it.
2: The second one is a lot easier. Think that there is no problem. Problem solved. [I’m trying to be funny, he..he..]

There are infinite ways of solving a problem. The problem now is, which do we choose. So I guess it’s easier or rather better to stop thinking when you have one solution. Nothing to decide then – easy, isn’t it??

We’re all humans and by being so we take pride that we can err. Everybody makes mistakes so why can’t we? - Jodson

Chaper 1 : Decisions

RIGHT or WRONG?

GOOD or BAD?

It’s just an opinion expressing the view of a particular person. So, how is it that a person decides, what is good or bad, right or wrong? The opinion of a particular person depends on what (s)he is, where (s)he is from, what (s)he has been taught and so on.

So how can one decide if (s)he is good or bad, whether his/her choice is right or wrong? What is good for him/her might not be good for someone else.

There arises a big question as to how authority, rules, etc. are put forth. Is it the decision of a group? If so, doesn’t majority play a big rule? Or is it power that rules? What if the majority is wrong?

Doesn’t that make the wrong, right? I think that this is what is happening to the world now. If you are able to convince a majority that an opinion is right, even a wrong opinion can be deemed right. Its all around us, advertising is also one of these majorities. I guess the sole purpose of advertising is to support to the particular idea/object/etc. But the decision still remains with us.

So ultimately right and wrong is a matter of where you view it from and there is just an invisible line between them.

I like the Ying-Yang concept. I feel it is true that all of us are balanced. There is good in bad and bad in good. It’s just how your mind is set to different things and I guess you’re conscious much or less decides things for you based on the environment around you, the troubles you’ve faced, the things you’ve been through and things that you often hear. At times we are torn in the middle of the two. Those are the hardest times.

At times we are forced to take something’s as right even if we do not believe in them, so as to lead a life that a majority considers is right. So even if the world is considered a free place, and even if our country is deemed a democratic, we are mostly caged from doing what we truly wish to in order to live a normal life. Normal in the eyes of others!

Do people with power have an easier go at things? I think not because just taking an immediate action is not enough, the right action is evidently important. This might explain the American president’s actions, RIGHT OR WRONG? He’s got power and he’s got a majority so they must be right from their viewpoint. But resistance developing within the system only shows that another viewpoint exists and now it all depends on the majority.

I guess there is a lot more to this but, this is all for now. Post your coments.

Jodson Joly Joseph