Saturday, January 30, 2016
MEMO FROM NARA
Everyone knows that Birth is the beginning of Life and Death
is the end of it. In between the Birth and Death we live happy and healthy or
unhappy and unhealthy Life. Some are lucky to live full life of 100 years, and
others end their life at different intervals. So the end of Life is Death. No
one knows for sure when one dies – what year, month, week, day or hour? Death
occurs at anytime, anywhere, and in any form. If it happens, it happens. No one
can prevent or postpone it. Therefore it is better not to think too much of it.
However we all want to live as long as possible at any cost. Thus life appears
to be very important and precious for all of us. We like to live and we like to
see our family and our friends and friends’ family to live for a long time in
comfort. For that we greet them every birthday and New Year for a long
prosperous and healthy Life.
There are people who want to exploit this desire of living
long by suggesting some unreasonable and unscientific ideas. Since people want
to live – nothing but living – fall prey to those ideas and make fool of
themselves. The ideas may be religious, mystic, spiritual or simple advices.
People, who like to live long, develop a belief on these stupid ideas and try
to follow blindly. Even the educated intelligentsia are trying to follow such
ideas to live and not to die. In fact, we all know for sure, Death is the end
of Life. When we breathe, we live, once we stop breathing we die. That is the law
of nature. It is as simple as that!
Trying to avoid Death is human and animal instinct. All
living organisms want to live, not to die. So they try to protect themselves against
all adversaries. Safety and security to life are essential for all. Hence,
human beings individually and also collectively try to make arrangements for
living safely. In spite of all safety measures we do fall prey to Death and the
precious Life ends. It is an everyday happening.
In fact, civilians as well as the security forces are living
in risk every day. Accidents occur everywhere in spite of all our efforts to
satisfy Gods by prayer and other means. The question is whether one can avoid
such unavoidable accidents? I don’t think so. All of us know very well that
thousands die every day by accidents, by natural disasters, by due to hatred
and illness. Therefore live a Life with care and precautions as much as
possible by not thinking in advance what is going to happen the next hour.
Either things may go on smoothly or it may enter a hard court. So let us learn
to live in this world without fear of Death. Free from fear gives us a long
Life!
CONFIDENCE BUILDERS
1.
Wash your
hands and face, and brush your teeth.
2.
Look at any
diploma or certificate of achievement.
3.
Remember your
last (or greatest) success and think about it for 60 sec.
4.
Give
yourself a good shave.
5.
Know you are
the person your kids or other loved ones think you are.
6.
Wash your
car, inside and out.
7.
Put on clean
socks and shoes you haven’t worn in a few days.
8.
Organize
your closet and get rid of anything that no longer fits.
9.
Cook a
lovely mean.
10.
Look around
you, remember that you started with nothing, and know that everything you see,
you created.
PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is the act of claiming to be the author of
material that someone else actually wrote. Students have plagiarized book
reports, term papers, essays, projects, and graduate-degree theses. Teachers
plagiarised journal articles, course materials, and text books. Researchers
have plagiarised reports, articles, and book chapters. Although academic
plagiarism is not new, what is new since the latter years of the 20th
century is the ease with which writings on virtually any topic can be
misappropriated with little risk of detection. The principal instrument
responsible for the recent rapid rise in academic plagiarism has been the
Internet, which John Barrie, a developer of software for detecting Web
Plagiarism, called ‘a 1.5 billion-page searchable, cut and pasteable
encyclopaedia.’
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Have a sense
of gratitude.
2. Compliment.
3. Forgive
others.
4. Give other
people credit for their victories.
5. Read every
day.
6. Talk about
ideas.
7. Share
information and data.
8. Exude joy.
9. Embrace
change.
10. Keep a
‘to-do-project’
11. Accept
responsibility for their failures.
12. Keep a
journal.
13. Want others
to succeed.
14. Keep a
‘to-be’ list.
15. Set goals
and develop life plans.
16. Continuously
learn.
JUST TO LAUGH
A famous Kittu’s declaration to the media: "I will never marry
in my life. And I will advise the same to my children too"
Teacher: Oxygen is very essential to life. It was discovered in 1773.
Teacher: Oxygen is very essential to life. It was discovered in 1773.
Kittu: Thank
God!! I was born after 1773. Had I born earlier, I would have died...
Interviewer: What is a skeleton?
Kittu: Sir, skeleton is a person who started dieting, but forgot to stop it!!
Interviewer: What is a skeleton?
Kittu: Sir, skeleton is a person who started dieting, but forgot to stop it!!
LIFE IS...
·
Life is an
opportunity, benefit from it.
·
Life is in
beauty, admire it.
·
Life is a
dream, realize it.
·
Life is a
challenge, meet it.
·
Life is a
duty, complete it.
·
Life is a
game, play it.
·
Life is a
promise, fulfil it.
·
Life is a
sorrow, overcome it.
·
Life is a
song, sing it.
·
Life is an
adventure, dare it.
·
Life is
luck, make it.
·
Life is
life, fight for it.
-
Mother
Teresa
LINES I LIKED
Ø If you have
to be corrupt, be honest about it.
Ø If you keep
your eyes and ears open, you can learn a lot from the way people handle things.
Ø If you lack
passion, then develop it because success never comes till you are passionate
about it.
Ø If you live
at the foothills of the Himalayas, you would never realize its grandeur.
Open to new ideas and people!
Meet you next month – March 2016
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
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