Of money and life

Is it ironic that one fights hard to earn a living but is worth more dead than alive.

God and logic

I am not a religious person i.e. go to hanuman temple on tuesday kind (dunno if that is the right day).

But the thought that making an offering to the lord to appease him be it the orientation of stars or some other plausible reason..... it seems outrageous.

God is all knowing entity. If we try to appease him he knows it. How do you please someone who is all knowing, he is aware (God could be female but that is another discussion) of everything.

Here's my prayer:
It is not a coincidence or randomness that I was born , that I was born to certain parents. It was a privilege and has given me a head start. Oh lord give me the strength to achieve all that I can, help my fellow beings to achieve their potential. I am motivated help me be motivating.

Your truly.
You know who it is.

I am grateful for who I am and consider it blasphemy not to reach the true potential of my god given abilities. There seems to be a conflict of objectivity and a supreme being. If I set my ego aside I know I could have been somebody else but I also think (faith ) that it is not a chance/randomness of who I am.

Perspectives/interpretation

So three couples (X Y Z for convenience and mathematical habit)meet over for dinner on a saturday. Their age is past the phase where pubs don't hold any cool factor and drinking is limited due to doctors orders.

X asks Y - what was your most memorable moment when you were dating?

There was a significant pause, where Z was thinking - Man that took a while, that is sad if one does not have any incident on the tip of their tongue.

X smiled and said - Darn it Y pick one if you have so many to choose from.

mathematical relationships

A rel B
B rel C
then A rel C

rel could be equality or greater than or less than
The first two sentences are true then the third is true

However if rel = like or get along then third sentence is not true e.g.

A get along with B (great friends)
B gets along with C (BFF)

This does not mean A and C will be friends or will get along well.

So much for relational mechanics

I am going to library

My friend declared.

Now this was a little off, because for all the time he claimed to have spent in the library his grades did not somehow reflect it.

This was in my undergrad, the secret was out when we accedentally walked past the swimming pool when the library bound friend was walking in arms with a carbon based female life form. His sheepish grin and our dropped jaws and the shocking expression on the lady's face remained imprinted in my memory for a few turns of the calendar till now.

Fast forward half a decade or more during my masters, my neighbour claimed he was going to the library. Not paying much attention I just nodded and asked him if he could return a few books. His eyes grew about 200% which again went unnoticed because I was preoccupied with saving a trip and avoiding late fees.

A few days later I recieve an email asking me to return the books which should have raised a ochre flag, assuming the incompetence of the spectacled book wormy librarian I let it slide.

When my neighbour claimed to visit the abode of books I merely mentioned I was headed there as well adn he immediately changed his mind to catch a later bus. Hmmm went a light bulb in my head which was extinguished right away with some random thought of curry.

Later he was found in the arms of a giggly senior in the back of the international society of some sort. The same story repeated during my visit to a friend in Portland Oregon where my room mates friend was going to the library. The fact that he was dressed well with perfume and had no books or even a hint of a pencil went over our dim witted heads.

On our way to get some refreshments we met him on the sidewalk hand in hand with an asian woman in tow. Our eyes popped out like Jim carey in the mask specially when a usually dabur oiled hair now sports a slick gelled spikes.

There are quite a few other verifiable incidents along with the above which lead me to giving a curled eye look to any one claiming to go to the library.

Grand plans, planning and execution (or lack of)

Every now and then (almost weekly) grandiose plans are made, be it in form of post its or excel spreadsheets. Then the most important ones get taken care of i.e. food and clothing. More mundane not to necessary but still important tasks get handed make their way to the next weeks plan i.e. cleaning garage etc.

I think Pink Floyd captured it perfectly in their song time:

"Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say"

Aint that the whole truth.

Is it waiting for inspiration or laziness depends on whose side you are on.

There is magic remedy to laziness, problem is that it cannot be wrapped and sold in the store.
Discipline and get off your behind from the couch cream ought to do it.

Are there limitless thoughts or the same thoughts get reformulated i.e. "new and improved".

Constraints

As I walked into the little boys room a couple of days ago, I saw a co-worker of mine going about his business. I have seen him around on his wheelchair many a times never giving more than a ounce of thought. The struggle he put just to take a leak was phenomenal.

It has made me think of all the things that we take for granted i.e walking playing toodling around.
I really need a Jeeves to fill me in