Dots ............

My grandma told me a story on joining the dots when i was growing up - it never seemed to quite make sense then, but now it does a whole lot - she said, at every stage you in your life you want to throw dots and every now and then you want to join them - if you feel that you are joining all your dots, it means you are not challenging yourself enough and if you feel that you are not joining any of your dots, it means you need to take a step back and really think what you are doing with your life - Next obvious question you may have is what is a DOT really?
Think of a dot as a goal or a task you want to achieve
Throwing a dot means - declaring that this is your goal
Joining the dot means - you were able to establish a path to your goal from your current status
There is no right answer here - sometimes it might be nice if you can join some dots and sometimes it might not be - One of my friends wanted a job at a big company really really bad - but did not make the cut - this was his dot - getting into a really big corporation - but instead he got accepted at start up and now he is really rich - So you see its not always about the joining of dots but it definitely helps to throw dots - and you will be able to join them eventually .........

Same or different?

I think I am getting addicted to this blogging shit - I mean seriously two blogs in 24 hours - I have been spending a lot of time reading blogs of different friends - some random blogs - knowing what other souls think and do - I hope to keep up the enthu and be more regular and systematic to this stuff - Impulsive that I am, I sometimes get into things so quickly and then get out of it just as fast - Lets see how this goes!

While reading these blogs, I am beginning to realise that most people who are relatively "similar" - be it education, age, culture or upbringing - have the same thoughts going on - same questions - and same concerns - what amazes me is that this whole social framework was created- and we will create a whole new generation of such people after us - it seems to be pretty systematic and regular - yet, a copy command does not seem to work - The very nature of human thought is random, yet the section of society that is "similar" has the same properties - something so random can actually be so similar - Fascinating! And so in order to be really different - (why one should be different - thats a different question) - you must do unique things amongst these "similar" set of humans.

To illustrate my idea - I am posting the picture of a boat I took when my wife and I did a cruise in Lake Michigan this summer - this picture tells me how to be different in the surrounding that looks so similar from all angles

responsibilities sucks

....... really really sucks - we have to do things, earn a living, pay bills, take care of people and in general deal with a lot of stuff - adulthood is totally overrated - i remember when i was a kid my biggest worry was to do well on a test or how to knock the other kids down in a game - it never was so complicated -
The scariest part about responsibility is fear of screw ups - don't get me wrong its not the fear that you may regret what you did, but its the fear of what people may think about what you did - Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces, responsibility doesnt go away. It cant be avoided. Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences.