Sand Hour Glass

Opportunities are like stop watches . There is a  basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior. A warrior is always watchful, waits with a patient yet vigilant eye for opportunity-intrudes and grasps them not even missing a nano second. Once the stop watch of opportunity stops one has to wait patiently for the next cycle to arrive. Loss of an opportunity is analogous to a treason, a feeling of some of the more serious acts of betrayal. Wait is also a pain that does not subside but increases. 

Life passes by thus looking at the sand hour glass run. This is what I felt the last two weeks. My active wait was over when doors of opportunities opened simultaneously and I was limited by the time dimension to pass through each one of them, equally important. Some people asked me why I rewrite so infrequently, they will know the reason once this blog is published.


Sometimes one feels that 24 hours , 1440 Minutes ,  86400 seconds is way too much to manage one's daily chores. Sometimes he feels that 24 hours is just enough for him to conquer the world. Opportunity is the differentiator and the lever. 


I do not know what I'm aiming to conclude by writing this blog, but it aptly describes my state of mind now - fast, reactive, proactive,  and pulsating with thoughts, options and visualizations. At the moment I just feel that life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see and pursuing that vision.

Hibernation to awakening

Procrastination!!! Wikipedia states," In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time." That was what I was doing all these days. I remember my old boss -who looked exactly like a Laughing Buddha, especially after he shaved his head. He would have easily drilled three holes on his skull and used it as a bowling ball - had imparted me this attribute. We started things with utmost interest, raised expectations and then declined . So analogous to the Product Life Cycle Model rising and declining at a faster slope, with almost no maturity stage. 

I started blogging with utmost interest, and then what, procrastinated. But last week brought a sudden change in me and the entire nation. An awakening to excel, thrive to excellence, prove our metal, awaken our consciousness. India won the ICC World Cup 2011. A feeling which cannot be described in words. A moment where exuberance, pride, happiness, relief, surprise and many other feelings flowed simultaneously among millions of hearts in nano seconds of time. That was when we awoke from hibernation. Twenty eight years is a long time dude. This moment proved many critics, including me wrong, but indeed it was a moment when I definitely not regretted accepting my mistake with pride. Thousands of heart beats thumped together crying Jai Hind. That moment had united 1 billion people.

This is definitely not the end. Anna Hazare carried this awakening baton forward when he carried this united movement against Corruption. Thousands of people without food in Jantar Mantar, A few million online and rest in respective cities united against Corruption. This was the major movement seen after Independence !!! 2011 has been a wonderful year indeed when the mindsets of people phased from hibernation to awakening drifting away from procrastination stated in Wikipedia. A practical example of the sloka in Sanskrit, " Tamso ma Jyotirgamaya", Move me from darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge. Go on India and Mr Hazare , I am with you.

Jai Hind!!!