NARA'S NOTEPAD
VOLUME 11
APRIL 2015
NUMBER 4
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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LINES I LIKED PART II
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MEMO FROM NARA...
The knowledge we need or we do not need is available today in print and
electronic media including the internet. Knowledge of everything is open, not
hidden. People say knowledge explosion is on. Yes, when population explodes,
knowledge has to explode! That is what happens today. Most of us make use of this
available knowledge for our survival and work.
Recently my ayurvedic
doctor prescribed medicines for my illness after examining me. I bought them
and came home to see what those medicines are? Simply I googled the names of
those medicines. Oh, they were there! Not only they were there, it indicated
the use of those medicines and their side effects. Even the comments by those
who used these medicines were also given. It was amazing.
Thus anyone can click the internet and get what he or
she wants. All are available – whether it is science, spirituality, self-help,
medicine, engineering, law, literature, music and what not? All are available
on line. Books, newspapers, magazines and newsletters are on-lined.
Communicating knowledge to others and sharing written materials
including photographs and videos are all possible through internet. One can
meet thousands of people in social media like facebook, twitter etc. Getting new friends from all over the world,
and renewing contacts of old friends are easy nowadays.
So it is the choice that makes us to enjoy the whole
world of knowledge. Indeed what to choose and what not, has become a problem.
Everything is available in internet. Who has made it? It is none other than our
own kith and kin. Their ability and thinking power have made the world of
internet. It is the storehouse of knowledge to provide us all kinds of
knowledge.
Teachers and professors were considered to the
storehouse of knowledge in olden times. They were highly respected for it. But
today even they depend on internet to gather knowledge. Internet is accessible
to all – teachers, students, and men and women. Dictionary used to be our
reference for words. Every house used to have a bulky dictionary to look into
the meaning of difficult words. Dictionary contains needed and unneeded words.
It is our choice to pick the needed ones as we do it with internet for
knowledge.
Choose what you want, there is the internet.
Interestingly internet is available in our smart phones also. They are always
with us either in our pockets or inside the lady’s handbag, but most of the
time the gadget is held in the hand especially by celebrities like politicians,
business people and cine actors. Such phones are available with everyone. So
knowledge is everyone’s hands. No need to depend on someone else. We have the
knowledge in our hands and we have to make use of it for our life.
TO QUOTE...
The highest type of efficiency is
that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. – Jawaharlal Nehru
JUST TO LAUGH...
A young man looking to
get married asked his friend. “Every woman I bring home to meet my parents,
mother doesn’t like.” Friend: “Oh, that’s easy” replied. “All you have to do is
find someone who’s just like your mother”. Young man: “I did that already, and
that one my father didn’t like.”
A guy asked a
beautiful lady standing next to him. ‘Nice perfume…which one is it?... I want
to gift it to my wife…!! Lady: Don’t give her…some idiot will find an excuse to
talk to her.
Mohan: My
grandfather lived for 96 years and he never used
glasses… Ravi: Yes, I know,
some people in my family also drink
directly from the bottle.
CARE FOR ENVIRONMENT...
It is our responsibility to take good care of our
planet’s health. We, people, have already made so much damage to our world that
pollution has become one of the major problems of today’s society. A variety of
animal and plant species have become extinct and others are endangered. The air
we breathe is becoming more and more harmful to our health. Junk is cluttering
our oceans and threatening ecosystems. We all want to live in a beautiful
environment but few of us are taking action to preserve its purity and health.
The simplest thing we all can do in order to take care of our planet is to
recycle. It reduces the amount of waste which is being sent to landfills, saves
energy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate anomalies
and it helps sustain the environment for the future generations. These are just
a few of the benefits of recycling which can change the world we live in for
the better. Another practicable thing we can do is to take care of our planet’s
natural resources. Renewable energy sources are a great way to make a positive
change in the world and preserve our environment.
THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS...
1.
Problems are just unresolved opportunities.
2.
Live within your budget. Better yet, live beneath your means.
3.
Happy people are focused more on you-you-you than me-me-me.
4.
Don't sell out your integrity because it's almost impossible to buy
back.
5.
Trust is a must or the relationship will bust.
6.
Be willing to ask others for help. It will divide your problem and
double your joy.
7.
Forgive. Forgiveness is not saying what the other person did was right.
It's not about letting them off the hook but letting yourself off the hook.
8.
Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully.
9.
Be who you are and stand by your beliefs. Those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
10. Make the other
person feel important. Compliment often. Don't make someone feel smaller than
he is; he will make up for it by behaving like a "big shot."
TIPS TO FOLLOW...
1.
The single most important
thing is non-judgmental validation. Seek someone else’s thoughts and opinions
without judging them.
2.
Suspend your ego. Focus
on them.
3.
Really listen, don’t just
wait to talk. Ask them questions; don’t try to come up with stories to impress.
4.
Ask people about what’s
been challenging them.
5.
Establishing a time
constraint early in the conversation can put strangers at ease.
6.
Smile, chin down, blade
your body, palms up, open and upward non-verbal.
7. If you think someone is trying to manipulate you, clarify goals. Don’t be
hostile or aggressive, but ask them to be straight about what they want.
WRITING AND READING...
Writing and reading
decrease our sense of isolation.
They deepen and widen and expand our sense of
life: they feed the soul.
When writers make us shake our heads with the
exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about
ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.
We are given a shot at dancing
with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being
squashed by it over and over again.
It’s like singing on a boat during a
terrible storm at sea.
You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change
the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.
LINES I LIKED...
Ø Believe it
or not, you are extraordinary.
Ø Stop
expecting people to know what you are thinking.
Ø Don’t expect
people to be fine all the time.
Ø Expectations
are difficult to deal with.
Ø Stop relying
on others for your own well-being.
No one is problem free!
Meet you next month – May, 2015
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
Ph : 0422 2423017
Mobile : 098422 42301
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