There are two types of people in this world – one whose basic disposition is ‘joy’ and is occasionally ‘sad’ and those whose basic disposition is ‘sorrow’ and is occasionally ‘happy’. I’m that of the latter. I am a sad soul. I know that in my heart. No matter how happy I am in a day, I know sadness will find me. I’ve been trying to fight it for years, but of no avail. Initially, I thought of these bouts of melancholy was a part of growing-up compounded by my existential stand towards life, but, now I’ve realized that it’s an inescapable & irremediable part of who I am. The thought that, I may be suffering from depression did occur to me, but, this profound sense of sadness was far more mentally incapacitating than depression (which can clinically be administered upon) engulfing my entire self. And, many a times, I’ve felt that I’ve fallen so deep down that I feared I was beyond redemption, but all these times, I knew something in me would rise up to pull me out of the darkest pits of my heart, before it was too late.
Archives for May 2013
John Galt: Steve Jobs’ Lost Interview
My Online Strategy
Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo; Flickr, Picassa, Droplr; YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo; Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud; Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn, App.Net, Instagram, Pinterest, Orkut; Whatsapp, Hangouts, Messengers, iMessages; WordPress, Tumblr, Typepad, Blogger – some of the services we use daily on the net. The internet is connected to our life in ways we couldn’t have imagined ten years ago. But, the nature of internet is changing from an ‘accessing information’ model to a ‘content creation’ & ‘content sharing’ model. I doubt even Steve Jobs imagined that his introduction of the iPhone would usher-in the post PC era. We are no more tethered to the desk, glowing rectangles in our hands – always connected to the internet – have pushed us into a ‘mobile computing’ era. If launching the iPhone & App Store was the first move towards mobile computing, the concept of ‘Cloud’ services is making the transition seamless. The future belongs to the cloud (Google Chromebook anyone?), and as more and more life goes digital, it has become extremely important to know how to manage our data across these various clouds, services and applications.
Who Determines the Value of your Life?
Should we be valued for who we are? Or for what we do? Should we do good to be valued? For legacy yes, but in general, should groups like ‘family’, ‘friends’, ‘society’ value us for being a part of them or for what we contributed to them? Should we be valued for being or doing? Is man an isolated creature? Or is his value always determined in relation to others?
What exactly is ‘being’? Is it absence of action? Or doing what is most natural to us? So what if we do things we see as natural to us, but are of no value to others? Does it make us less ‘valuable’?