The varied personalities of a regular Homosapien

Why do we wish to impress? Why do we publicise our blogs and status messages. Why do we crave recognition? Is not satisfaction to be gained only from within? I beg to differ. The root of that desire, I claim, has been inherited directly from God. Sivoham! Sivoham! (I am God)       Source: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/10/26 Let us investigate this further. What was the purpose of creation? Initially there was only existence. Then with a single sound, Aum or the Big Bang based on one's personal inclination, the concept of space and time came into being. Earth was formed with all its beautiful flora and fauna. However God was still not satisfied. Yes there was beauty but there was no intelligence. He wanted someone to be able to appreciate the beauty and to appreciate the creator. He needed an audience. Hence man was created, evolved or imported from other planets, based on whether you get your knowledge from the holy books,...

I promise to unite India and Pakistan with the power of Love and Peace and strengthen the bond between various religions by the force of Advaita. I will persuade China to give up its claim on Tibet and place the peace-loving Dalai Lama in the seat of her power. I will send bouquets to the military leaders of Myanmar and pray to them to voluntarily make Aung San Suu Kyi their leader and reinstate Human Rights. I will abolish AIDS from this world and suck all the harmful bacteria, protozoans, fungi and viruses from the earth and stick it into the moon along with NASA's probe. I will send diplomatic peace missions across the universe and ensure that the Star Wars remain a silver screen phenomenon. Phew, that was tiring. I will now collect my Nobel Peace Price. Thank you. [Click on image to Enlarge it] Source: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/0000/500/526/526.strip.gif If promises are all that are needed to win a Nobel, our Indian Politicians sh...

[Click on image to Enlarge it] Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ " We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers How often have we felt a sense of great satisfaction, a moment of grandeur when we read a column on our favourite hero. Be it a Mahatma Gandhi or an Albert Einstein or a Sachin Tendulkar or for that matter (in the more literal sense) Kamal Hassan . For some reason it makes us feel good about ourselves. This hero of ours is not necessarily confined to being a member of our community, our nation or our race. Ha, how the world celebrated the victory of Barack Obama . This is in essence the celebration of the Human Spirit. Every man rejoices his Hero because he knows that he too is capable of being that person. (He merely chooses not be.[;)]) Man always takes more pride in his potential than in his work. Tell a child that he is not hardworking. He will probably shrug it off. Tell him that he...

Trillian: "Can we drop your ego for a moment. This is important." Zaphod: "If there is anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Immortal lines from " The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ", by Douglas Adams What makes people like Zaphod and Calvin so lovable by the neutral distant observer (with a stress on distant[:D]) is the fact that they speak their mind. They are not corrupted by the social definition of correctness. They are self centered to the helm and care a paisa for what the world thinks of them. In the words of Bill Watterson , " Calvin is pretty easy to do because he is outgoing and rambunctious and there's not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth. " [Click on image to Enlarge it] Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ So why is the average humble person so, well, humble? Does he really feel that all men are equal in the eye of the divine and hence it makes no sense to ...

There was a time when I used to go after Self- Help books like a dog chasing cars. Just as the dog does not know what to do if it caught one , I did not know what to do once I am done reading one. (I did not copy this line from the Joker. It has been in use since way before. Americans may patent the turmeric but they dare not copyright the wise cracks ;) ) But still it made you feel good. As though by the act of having read the book, you have improved your life already. Well may be not. But at least by having endured the book, you have burned away some Karma. Anything that is bitter is medicine. Right? But when life decides to give you the wealth of wisdom, it does not always wrap it up in a treasure chest or an elegant jewellery case. This one came wrapped in plastic. ' Bheja Fry '. Now that is what I call a life changer. It was a low budget movie hosting no stars and taken almost entirely in a house. The movie is probably the second best gift of France to India after Demo...

Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ One is normally allotted a certain amount of indulgence on his birthday. I thought I will carry it all the way by throwing on all of you, a blog. Every person no matter how mundane his existence feels occasional spurts of grandeur arise forth in him. He takes on a different personality at those times. Becomes a leader of men (Note: Only one gender specified), a philosopher, a saint and maybe even GOD. This normally dies down after a while when reality after giving the person a nice smile, politely shows the mirror. The world then goes on and all was well. Unfortunately with the coming of the world of blogging, these moments of grandeur got translated into words and published into eternity on the internet. Though this usually creates only a nuisance, it has surprisingly, some advantages. It is said that there is nothing more powerful than an IDEA whose TIME has come. (No wonder both terms are registered and copyrighted). Unf...