Patience

Sometimes i wonder what patience can do to a person and its influential surrounding. When you are taken for ride or taken for granted remedy for once console is patience. Being angry or petty will not be solving any of the issues either short or long run.
So be patient when world around you start to trembling. It will be one of the best things you could be doing to yourself.

You, who you are

Been beaten by all angels of life, one day i thought i'll be different. more precisely copy what others do.
Believe me it was hard and I was going no where, what a plan.
Irrespective to your intentions and goals in mind, like a tree branch position back to its original, even though you drag it down, you be you.
Is it worth the effort ? it depends. if you are to quit smoking then yes. One should look at what exactly want to achieve and does it agrees with you, support your consciousness then you could proceed accordingly, only then you would be able to absorb the fact that you are changing. Changing for good.

Piecing together

Our lives, rather than one big stream, it is more like a collection of items, events and memories. each event has a start point and end. we pick up from end of one and working on the next. does not have an idea of how things started, yet next, next, it is all about choices. choices we cherish and regret over a time scale. we make those choices and inevitably define our life and who we are.

we claim our  lives either successful or not, by collectively looking at these bits and pieces and end result affected upon us.

you either make choices upon your will or not. most of the time one is compelled to make choices pertaining to different environmental facts he needs to be answering and reacting to. this is may be his responsibility or gut feeling. father is compelled to bare the brunt from his boss, simply because he is to keep the job so he could feed his child. by way of help, you have been given a relief (monitory or not), but lived by the terms of the lender. above are common situations we come upon and listen into which classic examples of adopting to change and change it self. it is a known fact people make much drastic choices just to keep their heads up in water.

lets get cracking and make the right choices. ironic ? i think so...!

be little different

now we are accustomed to things which seems like part of our life. now this get boring and it is necessary to find something that interesting.
how things make you interested is a funny thing. it is more about the experience rather than the action. if our same set of actions be making a different kinda of experience then we would enjoy
so in pursue of new actions, it is quite important to explore new ways to enjoy our existing ways as well

from Sunday to Monday!

it is sunday. day with pity and fun, collaborated together in a fine way. Fun, yes that is understandable, sad/ pity ? it is so understandable. 

For some day may not be sad as said, but i'm pretty sure for very most of them it is sad. 

may be it is not very needed but have we ever thought why we are been felt like that.

Yes there is the holiday factor, spending two whole days out of office and monday makes us anxious and not so pleasant. simple answer, we hate our work, may be there is difference in degree which explains people are different in hating.

One thing i don't get is, job is our lifeline, it is what keeps us fed and nurtured. so why to dislike it so much ? pretty confusing is n't it?

is it genetics ? or are we supposed to hate so the work would get done, without being emotional about it. Unlike any other activity, job is something we ought to perform quite frequently. if we are to be emotional like in an event of a marriage or similar, there is a good chance that it would not work and no output be generated.
don't we have any other way to overcome this, just face it, we spend a very good amount of our lives doing our job. making it a good experience, will only be betterment of ourselves.

now and then

it came into my mind that all the management thoeries we learn could be adopted pretty easily to our lives. i may not be the first one to notice it yet it is very interesting.
in an organization we try to understand the current position and the next position need to be. we all begin at a simple position. we become different based on the next level we wanted.understanding the next position is a different thing all together but it is interesting to study what we do in order to move to the next level.
we engaged in a complex process which includes a lot of innovations and decision makings good or bad.this is a continuous process that we keep on doing until it get successful. needless to say it is not always happen what we expected. then what we do? do we stop? no not yet. we compromise something we are ought to do. something that determine our survival as a success and not as a failure and thrown into street. it is not the end result or the beginning that who we are but complex process that we employ intermediate time and our capacity in compromise plays a biggeer role most importantly.

life in a day

depreciated life resulted by extended work load is remembered and forgotten like a seizure yet enjoying the moment. a brief enjoyment for the life starting from very next day

being low at yesterday

my crippled mother and father with a fragile bone structure left at hospital alone where i could not accompany them. feel pathatetic and dissapointed. i'm not a person with atleast less fortunes yet this kind of a new low to me.

What you say, what you do!

There is no better example than noticing what people around us do, for true understanding of what actually people do against said and blabbered.

It is considered a great achievement, if a man achieve its vision and no wonder there are only a handful happened in history. More are comfortable with following a senior manager who has a direct or indirect saying to the money of the investor. Here and there you find individuals, raise the voice yet most get hidden in the process followed by many of the managers, converting the voice just to a murmur and that murmur get forgotten under the rub and everything remain as it is, uneasy, intense and disappointing. Unfortunately that is the status-quo of the so called corporate world.

People people and people

My childhood memories are back and haunting me. Everyday people i deal with, are on a wave of emotions that make it difficult for a person to decide to single behavirol understanding.

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Society and rights-2

Democracy is been maintained and protected by none other than the transparency, in all the aspects from financials to citizen services. Transparency is where a citizen knows what is happening, how it is done, what is the progress and what cost. Here we talk about information and availability of information. Handling information is tricky. Information is processed data, which means one should have enough intelligence and opportunity to process available data as data availability is easy and straight forward, it is the information makes a person numb.

In nut shell, for democracy to flourish,  

One; citizens should be given direct, efficient, timely and accurate access to information or at least data, where he or she could process back. it is not only data or information, it is about the quality of such.

Second; citizens should be given sufficient and affordable education so they and generations to come, could be equipped with enough creativity and capability to process the information provided. Considering the education structure provided by the government and what is available, at least to level of secondary should be considered as the minimum.

Third; citizen should be provided with at least lowest levels of Mars low's hierarchy of needs in terms of their social needs, from living conditions to living economy. Citizen should be secured to the level of physiology, metabolic requirements of human body.

Above is nothing but empowering of citizen, so he or she should be in a position to provide themselves and act when necessary.

Society and rights-1

Even though we are not experienced it at lease not all of us, loosing your right to live and not being harmed is a serious issue and something humans through their intelligence and different approaches, tried to implement in the society they live. Times of buddha and even before in the indian subcontinent, approach was to shed the desire out of the life so that no suffering will be in the life. This movement created enormous amount of knowledge, which may not in supportive of the purpose. Further, different set of knowledge started to appear from different segments of world, euorpe, arabic, china etc, making the effort to be free and living, to an operation of generating knowledge which will enable humans with capabilities. these capabilities contributed greatly, in defining our improvement as well as destruction.

Supported by the civilization grow, people expected to be ruled according to their willingness or something proportion to it, rather than getting dictated by a group or person or a king, as such approach to governing turned out to be a shame to the intelligence  and understanding the society at that have achieved. in order to make their voices heard, as a requirement, methodologies in which population has much more saying was adopted. this was a kind of a trend, and theories, words started to build around, making it to a full pledged scenario. This is democracy.

Yes, we may have different definitions and approaches. Needless to say, i have not written down the evolution in correct sequence or degree. Yet this is in nutshell that we have achieved so far. Once I heard saying the Condelessa  Rice, ex-secretary of state of US, democracy is customized in every country, where democracy in India is different to what is in USA. Fundamental required and necessary condition for democracy is, it should support the rule of people and their majority belief and be the sole and effective decider in termination or sustaining of the government. But democratically elected governments are equally corrupt and hazardous to their counterpart dictatorships.

What went wrong in this ? Something that people fought hard and implemented through out the human civilization is turning out to be so inefficient, ineffective and disastrous to the majority of people who needs it the most.

To identify the root cause, it is necessary identify the supporting conditions for the democracy, since there is no wrong with the concept only the applying conditions it to work, need to be straight and followed.

Living like a child

Balancing act, 'cause of no choice

We as the group whom has to pay in form of taxes to govt so they could maintain the rich and the poor. Given infavourable circumstances we have to resort to more of a balancing act, where one has to make choices betweem instances instead of reacting to them as pleased. Basically we bit the bullet for sake of some gain you think at given moment is more important to you. Cycle continues.

Lot to say; fewer to do

Increased interest in being a managers in current employment world, makes me wonder whether there will be enough people be in the world to do the actual work. Surely there will be enough "managers" in the world but it is equally important to have people to do actual work. Otherwise quality of worl been done will be lower. I am not that certain whether this is a global phenomenan yet in sri lankan context i think it is very true.

what we have

now the good question is what we do not have. each minute we stack up things to do our list irrespective of whether we really want it or not. Few people in the world who has formula to force others to consume goods and services they invent has caused this status of dilemma and forced selection.
Recently i listened to discussions done by prof. Nalin silva, who has correctly said what we currently experience is due to western influence, which force us to increase the greed,lust, stupity. What buddhism has thought for thousands of years, is the path to reduction of those, which is currently we have chosen to overlook, digging our selves the destruction.

HD or Not HD

This is suddenly came into my mind, when i received a sms from the SAT TV company, giving me a opportunity to upgrade to HD. It is worthless, considering that, the premium package is at home and neither at home or here, there is a HD TV, that i can operate in.

But this has made me think of how things are been routed, "importanted" such that, mass will compel to use the particular good or service, with interest, yet with no option.

Consider the HD thing. Suppose, someone tries to show me the difference of HD and non-HD difference. Unless until it is been pointed at me, i may not figure out the improvement, simply because, i don't care about it. And i'm satisfied with it. But will that allow me to stick with the old method. Yes for a while, but sooner or later, i'll be forced to reckon with the new method, citing my self, with a lot of justification, just to handle my conscious and guilt.

that what is happening in the world. Few with the vision for their remembrance, has invented goods and services, that want the people of world, to consume. We are managed to do that all these time, will do in future as well, unless we change our thinking.

Sick of office work and even sick of talking about it

Information, Trust & Employee

why organisations been so protective of there information? have they gone to the extend of killing the innovative employee and be remained with the ordinary ones?
information, files not necessarily be the most important things in life
information is outdated as the time flies and needless to say about files
what the decision makers need to figure out the people factor as a theory for organisational improvement where the system is set in such way that people does not matter only role they play.
further innovation is the key to success and survival of an organisation. it is the organisations' duty to make the employees have the correct environment for effective innovation. blocking mail, internet and USB is not the way forward. thinking beyond the horizon is what is needed at the moment

Life in stages

Looking back at my life, i'm somewhat amazed by fact that, how events been occurred in my life and their impact and changes happened. i find it little hard to believe the way i have handled them and came through.
These kinds of changes occur constantly and i have even witnessed one very recently. I became a father of a beautiful little girl. She is going to be there for the rest of her life, in which she will depend on me for almost everything, which is something that scares me a little bit.
I'm not the first person to feel this way. Considering the way my father handled our affairs with so many difficulties, i'm not in as bad situation to handle things. But the social segments we to engage with are quite different to each other.
Yes this is something i can define, drill down to various levels, so it is a never ending exercise. Yet i need to think through considering my life's position and resources concerned, and be assure of a way forward.

My baby daughter

Buddha

Yet more to do!

Each minute we pass, our future becomes some what difficult. Mostly resulted by our ways in which the environment is handled and treated. Our mother nature provides, also she would abandon us when things are not done to her wishes, more like she is loosing the strength to grab us and comfort.

First and foremost, we have to adjust our attitude. Our actions need to be more environment conscious than before. We must find way to be helping towards environment friendly in any means. unless we do that, our responses will not be tangible and worthy enough.

We must move away from word gibberish and media stunts, and look for a practical and effective actions, when comes environment conscious. Ways we could contribute changes over geography, but a common goal will be reached.

Policies and policy makers should be one step ahead of the normal citizen, not just he has to think about the future, he must open up space for them to think and contribute effectively. He is the one capable of thinking for the whole society, country as he is positioned by employment.

Nevertheless, we should not sit idle and wait till things fall into places so we could take actions. Let the things be fallen into places later, we must act first and act fast.

Innovator & "Innovator"

Innovation is the utmost reason why human civilization where it is now. We change ourselves continuously in terms of life style, technology and culture and many other. Change adopted, may be for the good or bad, yet, change will make a shift in the lives we spend. Again, Innovation is the driving force the civilizations of past, today and tomorrow.

When there are innovators in there is always, impersonators. it is a skill and a gift one could achieve and be a front runner in the human civilization. even though, humans are in billions, it only required a fraction out of those to make a difference. so it is not an exaggeration to say, been able to be a innovator is a great privilege one could achieve. 

Innovator can make you life miserable, yet it enriches the once life. On other hand, impersonators could make your life miserable, yet it does not enrich. Problem is, impersonators do not understand their incapability of being innovative, yet their belief drive (mostly force) others towards goals yet less likely achieve, and move more towards further chaos.

As far as the success of any organisation, there are derivatives that are direct inline with the success of the organisation. One basic factor is very much needed is, understanding of the managers of their true capability in being innovative.

Ants, more ants

Ants

by Arjuna ( My brother in law)

Wee oya; small yet elegant

Colored my view

Life's Perspective

When time goes by, it makes me wonder, the sort of perspective should be taken in life. Considering the events we face, which are either makes us happy or angry, sometimes it is easy to take a side. having a balancing attitude about the life and activities we do in it, is difficult and boring. but if one picks a side, it is easy to concentrate and resume mono responses yet no fun in life.
See funny part of the life is, "fun" in life not necessarily comes from the good things happen to us and do. sometimes it is more about the way we handle the bad situations and their outcomes. more you learn, more one understands the ways in which fun could be achieved.
it is learnt understand and enjoy the birth of your child, even it comes with responsibilities and hardships that are going to last forever.
it is good to learn how to enjoy, when your boss is a total ass, yet you enjoy complete the work done and be proud about self.
it is wise to find ways to satisfy the parents, whom you don't get enough time to spent with and attend to their needs.
so it is nothing but, how you manage stuff, according to the situation you consider what is appropriate.

Hanging in balance

Consider the current worker dynamics and existing social conditions and consider the both and see how much of a damage could be done to our lives. See the state of fear and uncertainty, those would create and created already in our lives. We most of us, have achieved a certain level of status by our own, where money of our parents' did not work out in achieving that. Reality is there were none of that much that could be provided us with such gift.
Status acheived, basically who we are, is heavily reliant on our occupation and social stability. It is only because of those, we remain as who we are. that is nothing but hanging in balance.

Hi-Jacking our lives

As Buddha once said, each and every one of us is a "Loka" or a world it self. we assume our actions are correct and justifiable as they are performed to cater desires generated. ironically, this individual set up could grow to another extent and will not be within the scope of one individual. Certain set of individual, group themselves, mostly knowingly but not as a theory, thinking it is the way forward for individual achievement. they achieve and build theories around them. it is considered as the single most effective way to hold up tight another set of individuals where their engagement or individual influence is not sufficient balance off the others'.
The world of these individuals and their desires and their objectives will eventually be the driving force which will steer the society and later on us.
These are invincible agreements or understandings can turn someone elses' life good or miserable. Yet the question remains, what exactly we should do. Either to drink from the flowing river or dig our own well ?

World we are employed

Spending a day is becoming a cause for concern each passing day. Cost of travel, food, lodging grows day by day. We as monthly income earners, gets the greatest brunt and suffer from mental stress and anxiety over uncertainties and difficulties in meeting requirements. May be we have more requirements and avenues of spending than before. it is true if we can reduce the ways of spending results which is the oldest trick in the book.
One way another, we stay in this world because we are employed. Employed by a set of people, similarly employed yet investors cannot work without them and they are given the clean chit to act like they own the business. Our life for an extent is governed by the rules set by our employers. Our freedom and capability to be independent is a function with two variables where one controls the employer and the other is the capability of the family to back you up.
Worker dynamics are changing rapidly. i may not be a person with a lot of work experience, yet during the time i have worked i have witnessed the ruthlessness companies adopt in order to control their employees. Heartless contracts which do not emphasis any assurance of permanency towards, rather depend on the thinking of the direct supervisors who knows are making the right decision. At least i was able to get into permanent carder, which is a privilege for the freshers' of today.
Imagine the hurdles we face every year just to claim a promotion. Seeing the population increasing, their sampling is becoming easy. it givens them the freehand to throw the conditions of their choice make the employees work on them.
Dynamics in our workplaces are changing to levels are not favorable to employees at all. Also they are not favorable to employers as well. How come a disappointed majority be advantageous for an entrepreneur ? these are for the minority  whose been given the free will to feel that they own company, yet contracted through an employee agreement.
Yes, there is no point in demanding justice and fair treatment within an organisation. Organisations are run by people who are with personal intentions with certain objectives. Fair treatment and judgement does not provide adequate speed or capability for these objectives to be realized soon. What we have to find out is  understanding these dynamics and finding a feasible method that would not let you lose your self! 

Taking care of the life

Life of current earth dwellers, turns out to be more disastrous than their earlier generations. Other than generic survival issues, they are suffering from lack of being trendy, job insecurity, maintain the foundation of family, being busted day to day.
it seems like, old survival tactics and methods are emerging in a different outlook in order to suffocate and get rid of the less fortunate and less capable. Capability in current society is not termed for physical capability or birth right. yet it is somewhat birth right but right is not granted yet received by form of business and influence, which are not symbols of fair play.
simple example, it is no wonder that we see people get away by doing activities which are not law abiding, using their connections making truth or justice unnoticed.
further, how much we being compared, dishonored or showed off simply because that unfortunate is not in a position afford the "luxuries" and yet being judged by that.
this is why i have made a judgement about the current social set up is governed by the basic human instincts originated from the beginning. may be as humans even though we claimed civilized,  we have never dropped those as our guiding principles.
Starting to learn fight and survive ???

if there is good governance for real, most of use would not be worried about much of the thing. the very people munching with the word, are the one who always forget to assess them selves.
if the good governance to be made a reality, it should be practiced by each and every one of us, with the full intention. workaround is, who manage people and take crucial decision, take the first step and implement and give a lasting example for others to follow.

Understanding what to do and not to do

Few days back, in news, a woman was allowed to get down from the bus heading to Galle in the highway. Driver was fined or acquitted to court what ever. driver has broke a rule specific to highway, yet a custom normal citizen will play while on road.
Citizens' are encouraged to follow the highway rule and forget about being culturally accustomed individual. is this the  right way to move forward ?