Website

Hi,

I have uploaded my website http://www.gauravparashar.com/ and will be gradually shifting my blog to it.

Cheers,
Gaurav

Mix it up!

I drank of the cup of life,
and found bitterness in every sip,
the sweet taste of happiness,
seemingly never touching my lip

I swirled the cup and saw,
many hues and flavors within,
never seen and tasted before,
as I hadn't seen beyond the brim

The secret to my happiness lay,
not in seeking another cup,
but taking the one I had,
and just mixing it up! :)

The Book of Life

Dog-eared covers,
enclose fading text,
missing pages I seek,
unknown chapters ahead

Writing my dreams,
in the blank pages ahead,
line after line filled,
with hopes in my head

It may well change
like chalk on slate,
but atleast I'll know,
the author was me, not fate

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The Computer Programmer And The Frog

A computer programmer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to his pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want." Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket."

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"

The man said, "Look, I'm a computer programmer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool."

Green Business

A new upcoming genre of business is "Green Business". I am also new to this concept of enterprises, solely based on maintaining environment, or the new concept of "Energy management", or further the increasing trend on making pioneer educational institutions "green and carbon neutral". Be it the Harvard Green Campus Initiative with whopping funds or the MIT's upcoming plans.

Considering the trend in mind, and foreseeing energy scene in India in the next few years, we also should look forward towards a "Green IIT's" or "Green IIM's" campaign, present a model to the whole of the country on how to manage energy in the upcoming climate crisis.

My perception of same still remains noob but the future of business, seems to have a green element to me. :)

References:

1) Harvard Green Campus Initiative
2) The MIT counterpart
3) Community for Eco Entrepreneurs

Why Survival?

This is the first of the "why" series, i may be blogging about. Such notions come in every mind (atleast i believe). Why do we live? Why survive? Just for the heck of it? Such thoughts seem misleading and disturbing at first but my friend you have to agree there is no purpose of life. Some answer to it by happiness, some try and solve the mystery by religion. In my initial quest for knowing the purpose of my life, i made a simple google query and to my amusement i found the link Discover you life purpose in 20 min and the funny four step guide:

Here’s what to do:

1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
4. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

I hold no grudges to the author of the above article (link in references below) but on a higher plane of thinking i find myself empty and unanswered. My brain unfed over this simple yet powerful question which i believe can disturb the most sensible minds.

Knowing what you want from you life differs a lot from knowing what is the purpose of your living. And i guess even a very little percentage of people know what they want from life or how to guide there life. Am i sounding like Robin Sharma guiding about life :P.
Keeping things light and simple what i feel is that such a confusion will prevail for some time until something divine guides me. ;)

Till then lets live life simple and more importantly without thinking :P. Let life come to you in the raw form. And after all it all lies in the brain, brain is what makes you think and behave in a way.

Let me introduce to you this awesome concept which will profess laziness everywhere. Why do we work, or why is work good. The notion of "constructive" deed is a human product. You work cause someone told you work is good. This notion is not and cannot be original to the human species. Work was a virus which infected human species when it was evolving and now it is almost internal to us.
Let us imagine a world where everyone has trained his/her brain for happiness. In such a world, everyone will be happy whatsoever the conditions are. You will be living in a virtual reality (btw who know this world may itself be a virtual)

We live life in fears and expectations. Amid the confusion about what will happen when i die, we work our ass off throughout our life and die. We try and follow various routes which people/ god /websites profess, basically we perform this life experiment as other have imagined/ witnessed/ tried. I would end this arbit, meaningless blog professing laziness, lethargy and brain power.
You think you are happy => you are happy. More powerful argument would be to redefine happiness (after all its the mind which sets parameter)

PS: If after reading this you feel i need counselling, please drop in a mail at gauravp@cse.iitb.ac.in

References:

1) Purpose driven life a crap link
2) Discover the life purpose in 20 min ;)
3) Another idiotic link
4) Purpose of life inventory