Everyday battles

I think I know why Pokemon is so popular, even more so among adults. It's the innocence, complexity, working together with the team to strategically win a battle.

Best part is the other team's Pokemon just faint, and are fine after healed in Pokemon center.

But I am not really talking about Pokemon all of a sudden. It's about using nostalgia to distract and soothing the mind. Things happen to everyone on a daily basis. You win and you lose. Problem is we don't really remember the wins as we take them for granted.

Every day is a battle, every strategy is important, every word is important, the tone, context, and especially empathy, listening and silence. Everyday is not a battle we can win with shooting word bullets. Some matters don't need strategy as well. The more you think, the more arrogant and self obsessed you appear.

Sometimes we just to need to listen and smile, and just pour all efforts in getting it reciprocated.

Approaching?

My Bus is on route, so is someday. Smiling and frowning at the same time, I am sitting in my sleeper seat as the AC duct above is a bit broken and my legs are getting cold.

I am on route to return to office as well as to make the approach. I spent a good amount of (what would've been) my nap time thinking about questions I would answer. However, I could not think more than a few questions I would like to ask. 

I don't know what the reaction or the response would be, or what would be the followup questions, but I know one thing; I have to keep this legit from the get go. Without legitimacy,  approaching is meaningless.

The thinking made me realize more about what I actually want, what I was losing by not trying to extend wfh.

I know I have been selfish the good part of my life, always giving my ideas the zenith position, but I figured out one important factor to understand what do you love the most. 

So, what do you love the most?

What you cannot bear to let go of, or forget.

How to examine, observe and judge accurately

From a high horse it is very easy to see things in black and white, but you have to understand from the ground up how is a decision going to affect the weakest of the weak.

Think outside the box, don't throw suggestions roughly but draft them properly and make an honest effort for it to be discussion-worthy.

Break things down to bullet points, tackle them one by one. If you are using data then add a source, if you are examining someone's results then look at the references they have, see if that indeed happened, and if it could be avoided. Don't just throw comments vaguely in the air just because you feel a sense of authority.

When you are wise, the weight on your shoulders to make a wise decision becomes very heavy. If it's not then you got to rethink if you're thinking it through.

Country

What is a Country? Is it the land within the borders? Is it the citizens? Is it the economy? No, a country is a piece of land a citizen can call its own, and can feel belongingness.

What is Economy? A country's treasury is NOT the country's economy. The market in a country is its economy i.e. buyers and sellers.

Do you feel a country is rich if the government has enough funds? Has good exports? Higher GDP? If these do not improve the quality of life of its citizens then none of these are quality of a rich country. Purchasing Power Parity is close but that too is more of an average. Averages never work where satisfaction is involved.

We have to think are taxes really working. Don't glorify taxes, you are not contributing to your country, you are just paying taxes to the Government. Government is not country, it serves the country.

"Mantri" term is not needed anymore, we are not subjects of a king and this is not a Kingdom. "Rajneeti" is also not needed anymore, it is the tactics to rule, and what we need is "Lokneeti". If a country is a sports team, and President/prime minister is the captain then the captain must play on the ground as well, and not be a selector.

Exports

How to improve exports?

1. We need the relevant policies in place to assist National and local producers to do so.

2. We need to have clear definition of export quality for each opportunistic product;

  a) who can measure it,

  b) how to achieve,

  c) how does that quality guideline rank in the world,

  d) what is the break even expected when adding infrastructure to achieve the quality,

  e) and finally help the manufacturers sustain till they break-even after the infrastructure transition (both financially and technologically).

Universe

I recently read an article entertaining the thought if the universe is infinite, what is beyond the outer space.

I think currently we may lack the knowledge to answer this, but what we can do is propose theories based on facts and calculations.

Once we exhaust ourselves and no new theories arrive, we can move on to deduction approach, and tackle each theory.

In future we might get the capability to be able to measure curvature in outer space. (Maybe with bright lasers, and multiple capture points to see it)

Also with our increasing understanding of black holes, we'll close the gap between fiction and science.

Another thing I see is understanding the "micro". If we're able to find how "small" is the universe, we might find some clues about how "big" it is as well.

Feeling the pulse

Dear Reader,

It has come to my senses that I'm far more than a machine programmed to work five days a week, and resting the other two.

I noticed something I thought was long lost, I can still feel and smile thinking about something.

I wanted to listen to same old songs I used to lose myself into everyday. But I now know that if I give in to it, it might bounce back and hit me in the face.

I want nothing more than playing the same chord progression in guitar or hum a single tune the whole night. But it just might take me back to the time I felt so free and normal, I don't want to go there, not anymore.

It's a weekend tomorrow, so I'll try my best to travel and TV out these 0s and 1s which people call "feelings", to again become a glorious cog in the system.

But until then, for this short while, and maybe this half night, I'm more alive than a whole planet full of life.

Maybe if next time someone asks me what would I change, if I could go back in time, I might have something to say.