Another one of those videos on the tech boom:
Am putting this up here on my blog, cause I kinda felt obliged to do so! ;) The song in the video (tune based on billy Joel's 'We din't start the fire', one of my favourites) has a couple of lines which goes..
"Blog blog blog it all, Blog it if it's big or small"
"Blog even if you are wrong, won't you blog about this song":)
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
A Successful life
Last weekend I was at the Jagjit Singh concert in Bangalore. The indoor stadium was packed. People had driven from all over Bangalore on a Saturday evening (the worst day of the week in terms of traffic) to attend his concert. It took us about an hour in the queue just to enter the stadium. (The smart guys had set up just the one metal detector for thousands of people :-/). After all the confusion and chaos we settled down and the show began. Within a few seconds of hearing his voice the crowd seemed to have forgotten all the hours of frustration and was totally mesmerized by his voice. It was interesting observing people, some of whom really looked intoxicated by his voice. That got me thinking...this man, sitting there on the stage playing a harmonium had engineered a successful life. 'Successful' per the commonly accepted definition of the word. They say, he has had a tough life and really struggled to make his way to the top. His voice might be God gifted, but success wasn't served to him on a platter.
As with many such things, this led me into some introspection. I wondered how I would rate my life when I was a 60 years old. Then again, why should I wait till I am 60 to rate myself? What about my life up until now? Can I rate myself a 'successful'? Shouldn't I be able to extrapolate about the rest of my life on the basis of what I have 'achieved' till now? Am I behind target on my plans towards stamping 'successful' on my life?I realized that my definition of 'successful' for myself has a number of sub-bullets, some of which won't appear in the popularly accepted definition. Infact a lot of my sub-bullets wouldn't even match with those that appear in the lists of people I gel with most in terms of wavelength. I must admit, that there was some discomfort about the possibility of being labelled 'unsuccessful' according to the populary accepted criteria. That was soon replaced by the bigger discomfort of having to change my criteria just for the sake of tallying it with someone elses. After all the thought, I decided to freeze on my very own criteria and chalked out small plans towards achieving my goals, none of which has to do with world hunger or any such thing! (I get goose bumps thinking of me reading this page when am 60! Blogger, please save all this up for me to come back and reminisce!)
To think, Jagjit Singh struggled and worked hard for a life time, got a 100 awards, got himself an entry into wikipedia, came to perform in Bangalore and there I was wondering if he thought of himself as ‘successful’ per his own criteria!
As with many such things, this led me into some introspection. I wondered how I would rate my life when I was a 60 years old. Then again, why should I wait till I am 60 to rate myself? What about my life up until now? Can I rate myself a 'successful'? Shouldn't I be able to extrapolate about the rest of my life on the basis of what I have 'achieved' till now? Am I behind target on my plans towards stamping 'successful' on my life?I realized that my definition of 'successful' for myself has a number of sub-bullets, some of which won't appear in the popularly accepted definition. Infact a lot of my sub-bullets wouldn't even match with those that appear in the lists of people I gel with most in terms of wavelength. I must admit, that there was some discomfort about the possibility of being labelled 'unsuccessful' according to the populary accepted criteria. That was soon replaced by the bigger discomfort of having to change my criteria just for the sake of tallying it with someone elses. After all the thought, I decided to freeze on my very own criteria and chalked out small plans towards achieving my goals, none of which has to do with world hunger or any such thing! (I get goose bumps thinking of me reading this page when am 60! Blogger, please save all this up for me to come back and reminisce!)
To think, Jagjit Singh struggled and worked hard for a life time, got a 100 awards, got himself an entry into wikipedia, came to perform in Bangalore and there I was wondering if he thought of himself as ‘successful’ per his own criteria!
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