NARA’S NOTEPAD
VOLUME
13
APRIL,
2017
NUMBER
4
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BY READERS
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
MEMO FROM NARA
VIP...
VVIP... Very Important Person... Very Very Important Person... Often we hear these words in our daily life. These classes
of people are very special, not like common people. They enjoy special
treatments such as securities around them. These people are in large numbers in
India as compared to other countries of the world. Recent statistics showed
that Britain has a total of 84 VIPs, France has 109, Japan 125, Germany 142,
Australia 205, USA 252, Russia 312 and China 435 only. At the same time if we
look at India, the figure is 5,79,092!
Thus we are unique in the Universe.
All public personalities belong to the categories of VIPs
and VVIPs. President of India, Prime Minister, Ministers, Members of
Parliament, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, Celebrities, District level
officials are VIPs and VVIPs. Everyone enjoys the comfortable life with
securities offered by the government. They are the privileged class of people
occupying high offices. They live a secret life and no one knows about their
secrecy in life!
Most of these VIPs and VVIPs travel in executive class of
aeroplanes, accompanied by a set of subordinates to assist them. The assistance
may vary from helping their work and also physical wellbeing. Whatever these
persons utter is taken as God’s words. In fact, they used to order things. Some
of them consider their associates as slaves and treat them badly. However,
everyone is expected to respect these persons. Intelligent or not, VIPs and
VVIPs project themselves as the superior beings in human society.
Being an Indian I feel proud that India has the maximum number
of VIPs and VVIPs. But at the same time, I feel ashamed to see the behaviour of
these persons. In the finer analysis, I wish to ask a silly question: who is not important in a country? I
think everyone born on Earth is as important as anyone else. Then, why is this
difference?
Every one of us carries out our duty to work for the
improvement of our society. The duty may vary according to the work one
undertakes. Even a corporation worker who clears the trash bin is doing a great
service to the Nation for keeping it clean. Similarly a primary school teacher
who teaches hundreds of children and makes them literate is a VIP. But we
consider only a certain class of people as VIPs and VVIPs. Someone
said: “Always remember that you are
absolutely unique. Just like everyone.”
DEATH
There
is no greater sadness than what death can bring to our
hearts.
We may never
move on, but that’s not necessarily a bad
thing.
It means that we had the utmost
privilege to have
something/someone so special in our lives that we will never
forget how they made us feel.
There is always a time for sadness, but within
that sadness is happiness.
The happiness is that they were part of our lives.
Nothing makes it easier.
Nothing makes it better.
You can be sad that it’s
over, but be happier that it happened.
The
most precious things in our lives end, but the memories and the love will live
on forever.
DRONE
It is the popular name of unmanned aerial vehicle of unmanned aircraft system. It is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. Drone innovations started in the early 1900s. The first scale remote piloted vehicle was developed by Reginald Denny in 1935. The drones as we seen today, were developed over the last fifty years.
TO QUOTE
There will
always a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life
or you’re the one that will change theirs. – Angle Flonis Harefa
Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable
to walk along, but no flower on it. – Vincent
van Gogh
JUST TO LAUGH
Peter
and Larry hadn’t seen each other in many years.
Now they were having a long talk, trying to fill the gap of those years by
telling each other about their lives. Finally Peter invited Larry to visit him
at his new flat. “I’ve got a wife and three kids and I’d love for your visit.”
he said. “Great, where do you live?” “Here is the address,” says Peter.
“There’s plenty of parking behind the flat. Park and come around to the front
door, kick it open with your foot, go to the lift and press the button with
your left elbow, then enter! When you reach the sixth floor, go down the
corridor until you see my name on the door. Then press the door with your right
elbow and I’ll let you in.” “Good. But
what’s all this business of kicking the front door open and pressing buttons with
my elbows.” Says Peter, “Well, surely you’re not coming empty-handed?”
TELL ME WHY?
What
is touchpad?
A touchpad is a device for pointing on a
computer display
screen. It is an alternative to the mouse.
It
was invented by George E. Gerpheide
in 1988. The touchpad
is a flat area, located beneath your keyboard. When you
move
your finger across the touchpad surface a corresponding mouse
pointer
moves around your computer screen. With a touchpad
you perform clicking actions
to open or select things on screen
by using the right and left buttons on the
bottom of the
touchpad. Under the soft skin of the touchpad, there is an
array
of sensors which create an electrical field. The finger
changes the character
of the electric field allowing the user to
drag a cursor across the screen.
(From Manorama TELL ME WHY No. 117)
TEN THINGS THAT CAN WRECK YOUR LIFE
1. Not living in the moment. Always
wishing you were somewhere else, doing something different with other people.
2. Blaming your problems on your past. Although the past affects us,
it need not define us. We can choose, decide and act – and take control of our
lives. Don’t let your past heartache and pain affect who you become.
3. Running away from problems. It’s pointless to bury your head in the
sand and pretend that things are fine when you’re dealing with a problem. Face
reality; take action and work to turn things round.
4. Being ungrateful. Being thankful sets you free in your heart and
mind. It inspires all that’s good and, also, oils relationships. But an
ungrateful person will wear others down. It destroys your spirit, and it saps
your energy.
5. Being angry and bitter. Refusing to forgive and bearing grudges
against others will slowly poison our personality. It’s much better to release
them and to focus, instead, on living a happy and fulfilling life.
6. Letting your expectations rule your life. Life rarely goes smoothly
and according to plan – and people disappoint us and let us down. Accepting
this is normal takes some tension out of life.
7. Disrespecting yourself and others. Every single person deserves
respect, and every single person is fighting their own battle. So focus on
being kind, understanding and forgiving.
8. Neglecting important relationship. A relationship that’s built on
unconditional love – where a person accepts us for who and what we are – is
truly a gift and is worth fighting for. Don’t take it for granted – recognize
that it’s a gift.
9. Loving people who are bad for us. Not every person will build
into your life. Be aware of those who who’ll use you, or who want to bring you
down, or who want to hurt you, or destroy your confidence.
10. Never taking
risks. If you always play it safe, you’ll find you end up going nowhere.
You must be ready and willing to take risks. If you don’t, you may regret it as
you’ll miss so much in life.
LINES I LIKED
Ø
Mind can
only operate efficiently when the emotions are under control.
Ø
Mind without
agitation is meditation.
Ø
Minds are
like parachutes – they functions only when open.
Ø
Meditation
is not an act, it is the art of doing nothing.
The happiest people take the time to appreciate
the little things in life!
Meet you next month – May, 2017
Professor A. Narayanan, Ph. D., FISPP
E-mail: arumugakannu@gmail.com
Ph : 0422 4393017 Mobile : 098422 42301
(NARA’S DIGEST)
(NARA’S NOTEPAD)
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
MEMO FROM NARA
“Why only few people come forward to express their views
boldly and openly...not others?” – a question stirred my brain for a long time.
Many answers came to my mind, but none of them appeared satisfactory. Normally
most of us do not bother very much about things that do not concern us and we
do not bother to express our views about them. Issues that bother us, in fact,
induce us to show our concern in the form of views or opinion, sometimes by
suitable actions also.
The few people mentioned above are the ones who are somehow
affected directly or indirectly by a particular incident. The demonetization of
500 and 1000 rupee currency notes by the Prime Minister of India on 8 November
2016 was one of the issues faced by every individual in India. So, not few people,
many people especially belonging to the non BJP expressed their views as
forcefully as possible. Day and night they expressed vehemently their views
against demonetization all over the country. We were not knowing whether their
views were correct or not. However they appeared to be appealing because of the
non-availability of new currency notes. But these views had certainly a
political colour. People felt a slowdown of economy because of non-availability
of cash. However, transaction of cash through electronic means progressed
further to establish a cashless economy for India. Good thinking indeed!
Introduction of any technology or change brings in the habit
of opposing with all sorts of arguments expressed boldly and sometimes in
unpleasant ways. That was what happened in the demonetization issue also.
Abolition of black money, corruption and terrorist financing, cashless economy
were cited as some of the advantages of demonetization. But the views expressed
were that demonetization was not the way forward to achieve these sacred goals.
Some of us side these views too.
Last year just before occupying the Presidency of the US,
Donald Trump called the United Nation as a Club for people to have a good time.
The view was a bold one and Trump had no fear to say that. Thus he became one
of those few people who have the guts to express their views so boldly and
openly without hesitation.
One thing is obviously true from all these, that unless some
people openly and boldly express their views representing many others, no good
thing happens on earth. So expressing views is essential in
any democratic country including India.
THINGS TO GIVE FOR HAPPINESS
1.
Give up your need to always be right.
2.
Give up your need for control.
3.
Give up blaming others.
4.
Give up your self-defeating self-talk.
5.
Give up your limiting beliefs.
6.
Give up complaining.
7.
Give up the luxury of criticism.
8.
Give up your need for to impress others.
9.
Give up your resistance to change.
10.
Give up your fears.
11.
Give up your excuses.
12.
Give up your past.
13.
Give up attachment.
14.
Give up living your life to others.
15.
Give up ignorance.
LOVE OF PEOPLE
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
But to feel the affections that comes from those whom we do not know, from
those unknown to us, who are watching over our dangers and our weaknesses –
that is something greater and more beautiful because it widens out the
boundaries of our being, and unites all living things. – Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet, Nobel Laureate.
JUST TO LAUGH
The HR Manager of an
automobile manufacturing company confronted an employee for being habitually
late by claiming that. ‘the company could have manufactured five extra cars in
the time wasted by your late arrival!’ To which the employee quipped, ‘but the
additional cars would mean worse traffic, and I’d be here even later!’
In 1969 Leonard Brezhnev was told Americans
had landed men on the moon. “Tell them our cosmonauts are ready to land on the
Sun.” His horrified aide said this was impossible; the cosmonauts would be
vaporized. “Do you take me for a fool?”
said Brezhnev, “we’ll land them at night.”
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