Hi-Tech fury

During my visit to Swiss, the best thing I liked about the country was the public transportation facilities. You can travel for hours in them without getting tired. I always wondered when we are going to get such hi-tech and clean buses running in our country?We didn't have to wait for long because BMTC did introduce hi-tech Volvo buses, similar to the one I had traveled in Swiss, in an effort to improve public transportation in Bangalore. These air conditioned Volvo buses have very comfortable seats, they play FM music , have uniformed staff and hence obviously come with high price. Price is almost double the regular fares. What I really like about them is the large clean windows and watching through them is a pleasure. They have been a fair success since number of office going people would prefer traveling to their office sitting peacefully in the bus rather than driving their cars in the peak hour traffic.

The Other side of the picture is that they come as an evidence to existing large income gap. For the people who can't afford these price , its a mobile statement of their comparative poverty. One can see looks of envy when they see people traveling in such buses. Clearly this explains why mob set a Volvo bus on fire when it was involved in an accident on airport road last week. When I saw a news channel interviewing the people near the accident spot , I saw couple of them making this statement on the TV- "Just because the driver had an hi-tech bus how can he be so careless while driving and neglect the common people on the road?". Agree the bus driver was at fault, but was there a need to set the bus on fire? Would the people have reacted similalry if the accident involved a regular BMTC bus? I don't think so.

We have seen a similar mob fury on the hi-tech buildings across our city during Dr.Rajkumar's death. They start throwing stones whenever they come across a glass building. Clearly it shows that people are trying to take out their frustrations on these so called hi-tech buildings, buses, cars whenever they get an opportunity.

I do sympathize with these people since they dont have access to these buses, but its no way right on their part to attack public property either in mob or in isolation. I wish more action was taken on the people who are involved in such incidents.

Gossiping

Telling that we don't gossip is a farce. Is it true that always women gossip ? No its not true. Are men also guilty of gossiping ? Hell its true. So lets not get into details like who gossip more? men or women .
You might think why this post? But the conversations that I have overheard in the recent past has triggered to me to write this post and the question is whether gossiping ever justified? .

In the times when things are not going as expected in the organization, everybody thinks someone else is the cause for the problem. They start gossiping , hurting people's reputation behind their back. Okay I understand everyone is human and prone to make such comments (which again is not justified) during such crisis time, but I have seen people who rant even otherwise.

I have seen people who try to satisfy their ego in pointing out mistakes of others, laughing behind their back. They try to blow their own trumpet and use their knowledge to intimidate people. They even go to the extent of saying that they don't do mistakes in whatever work they do. They start believing that they know everything and stop being students. According me to people of this kind are damn pshyced up and are big loosers in their life. They think they are trying to win respect from others by intimidating them but its rather and sadly otherwise. They will fall under the eyes of other people, they are ignored, they are isolated, they will hate them. When people dont even smile at you when they pass by, that can be the biggest insult to anyone. Infact that's an indicator that you belong to the above category.

People who are knowledgeable are always humble. They don't indulge in loose talk, they are not rude to others, they don't try to show off, they don't hurt people,they don't laugh at others mistakes,they don't raise their eyebrows and say " Gosh u don't know this much? how did they hire you? " , rather they are always their on ur side -ready to help you, to teach you . You don't have to practice to be humble rather it comes with knowledge and maturity.

I am guilty of gossiping at times and I promise myself not indulge in such loose talks anymore.I have no right to preach others and also I cant stop others from gossiping but would like to end this post with some quotes which will make people think twice before gossiping.

"Words and actions of anger are like stones thrown at vessel, they leave a dent."

"Before treating a person in some way think what if you were treated the same way."

"Ego of knowledge is most destructive."

"Man is like a fraction, NUMERATOR being what he is and DENOMINATOR being what he thinks of himself. Higher the DENOMINATOR lower the fraction.

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

"A person learns by his mistakes, if he hasn't learnt something, its not his mistake."

Where's that burning desire?

I am going through a phase of low self confidence..... How does it matter that you had the best results in past ? No.. It doesn't help... all that it matters is how you perform now. I have lost the burning desire to win, to conquer. I think I have become complacent with the little success I had so far in my life. Its time for a reality check, for me to stop fooling around with myself and come out of this dream world .I still have lots of things to achieve and I don't want to end up leading a normal life .There is no point being nobody.Days are passing by , I need to come out of this hibernation and I need to motivate myself to work hard, that will again spark the deep burning desire in me. I know its kinda late to realize this , but its better late than never. Watch out for that huge explosion of enthusiasm and energy!!!!