The other day me and one of my friends were having this discussion on who will win the champions league this year.While i strongly supported Barca,he was very quick to point out that the Gunners are destined to win.On asking further,he explained to me that everything is simply the same as it was with Liverpool and Chelsea last season,Liverpool were 5th in the table and Chelsea were 1st,just as it is with Arsenal and Barcalona.Chelsea were by far the best team atleast in the competition,just as Barcelona have proven to be this year.Last year Owen was mulling over his transfer,this year it is Vierra.He pointed out some other not so obvious details too,but the point was,he believes that Arsenal will win come what may.
I often meet such people who keep telling me that destiny cant be beaten,it cant be changed,everything is decided etcetra etcetra.This concept has always fascinated yet baffled me.I mean,if destiny is fixed...why bother to do anything at all?Pat comes the reply,i am destined to do what i do,and will be forced to do it by the circumstances.For instance,if i decide not to eat,i will be forced to eat by my hunger,eating is my destiny.Plausible i'd say,but still somehow i am not able to buy it.
Assuming that the theory is true,and we all have our lives fully sketched out and kept in some file stored in a great great drawer somewhere,shouldn't everything be perfect?If someone does write our destinies,why does he not write it perfectly so that everyone is happy.But i find a very nice answer to this question,there is an underlying perfectness is the seemingly random imperfectness around us,and it makes sense when one considers that the world is doing great since such a long time despite the imperfectness and flaws inherent in all beings and things in it.Afterall,you can't be happy unless you know what unhappiness is,isnt it?
But if my destiny is predetermined,then i fail to see the whole point in bringing me to life at all.This theory reduces life,with all its pleasures and hassles,to a mere game some guy named god is playing sitting on a giant table.How does it matter if i do anything,good or bad,great or small,it is not me who is actually doing it,its him.Now if we assume the theory of theisism to be true,then god should have all the sense of the universe,and i cant see why he would run a world just for the heck of it!
But still,i have never come across any strong evidence or even a totally convincing theory in support of or against the theory,the puzzle still remains as it,unsolved,baffling,confusing.....basically it remains the way it was since the world itself was made.While serendepitists(as i like to call them) may say that the puzzle is destined to be unsolved,others simply interpret the absence of a solution as the absence of the puzzle itself.
But heck,I still support Barca,go Ronaldihno!
Saturday, April 29, 2006
jack of all trades,master of none
hi...this is my first blog,hope you like it
Well...there is this thought which keeps coming to my mind....is hardwork the most important key to success?I personally have never believed in working hard especially if i am not enjoying the work at hand,i try to do what i like the most,ie,i go by the want and not by the need as much as possible,and it even works for me.For instance,i am not saying that i dont study for exams at all and stuff like that,but i do feel i get away by studying much less than most others do.
Now,what puzzles me is that can i do better if i work really hard?Though my parents may feel otherwise,but i have tried this many times and in the end i find the result to be no better than what i would have achieved otherwise.Its like a certain level of work is set as my optimum level,if i try harder its no use at all.
So another theory which i once believed in is that of smart work.I believed i work in a much more efficient way than the normal ghodagiri way.But now i realise the fallacy of the theory,i do not do anything special,i just go through stuff without paying much attention and time to the small details,infact some of my friends have even tried my weird ways of studying,and have only managed to fail badly.
But lets take another example,i love playing sports.I started playing basketball when i was little less than 16,initially i learned really fast and found myself to be much above my friends,but as time passed on,no matter how hard i tried,i just couldn't raise my game at that rate.I loved playing,i worked hard on my game,but i felt that i was at the same level at which i would be even if i didn't try that hard.Ultimately,i shifted to football,and now i find myself going through the same story here also,i love playing,but i think i am not improving.
But saying all this,i think it would be wrong to say i put in my best,i may say i try hard at sports,but in my heart,i know i just dont try hard enough.Many a times,i think of trying new things,say a new dribbling move i saw onTV,but i simply forget about it whenever i play.There is a small flaw in my kicking with my boots on,i always think about correcting it,but whenever i go out to play,i simply forget about it.Is there a lack of seriousness in me?
Whatever it is,here i stay,without exception,in each and everything i try,as only amongst the good,never the best.Be it sports,JEE,singing,school exams,college quizzes......i always perform well,much above average,but i am never quite the best,there is always a level above me.....and i cannot get on to it,for what reasons this happens,i still dont know.
Well...there is this thought which keeps coming to my mind....is hardwork the most important key to success?I personally have never believed in working hard especially if i am not enjoying the work at hand,i try to do what i like the most,ie,i go by the want and not by the need as much as possible,and it even works for me.For instance,i am not saying that i dont study for exams at all and stuff like that,but i do feel i get away by studying much less than most others do.
Now,what puzzles me is that can i do better if i work really hard?Though my parents may feel otherwise,but i have tried this many times and in the end i find the result to be no better than what i would have achieved otherwise.Its like a certain level of work is set as my optimum level,if i try harder its no use at all.
So another theory which i once believed in is that of smart work.I believed i work in a much more efficient way than the normal ghodagiri way.But now i realise the fallacy of the theory,i do not do anything special,i just go through stuff without paying much attention and time to the small details,infact some of my friends have even tried my weird ways of studying,and have only managed to fail badly.
But lets take another example,i love playing sports.I started playing basketball when i was little less than 16,initially i learned really fast and found myself to be much above my friends,but as time passed on,no matter how hard i tried,i just couldn't raise my game at that rate.I loved playing,i worked hard on my game,but i felt that i was at the same level at which i would be even if i didn't try that hard.Ultimately,i shifted to football,and now i find myself going through the same story here also,i love playing,but i think i am not improving.
But saying all this,i think it would be wrong to say i put in my best,i may say i try hard at sports,but in my heart,i know i just dont try hard enough.Many a times,i think of trying new things,say a new dribbling move i saw onTV,but i simply forget about it whenever i play.There is a small flaw in my kicking with my boots on,i always think about correcting it,but whenever i go out to play,i simply forget about it.Is there a lack of seriousness in me?
Whatever it is,here i stay,without exception,in each and everything i try,as only amongst the good,never the best.Be it sports,JEE,singing,school exams,college quizzes......i always perform well,much above average,but i am never quite the best,there is always a level above me.....and i cannot get on to it,for what reasons this happens,i still dont know.
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