"Diary Page"

Started writing my dairy that day:
   "Someday I got to learn from my mistakes quickly. I shouldn't let down my good old dreams and goals for the shining new ones,..."
In this process if re- prioritizing my mind shelf, I discovered that I'd ' I ' on the top of it and the rest below with descent 10 foot distance.

You know mind's dirt yard, you throw anything it takes gratefully!! It do not know what 's good , better and best. Leave alone bad- it won't recognize it!This mind is a logical unit, manipulative, speculatively instant blabbering machine, inadequately clueless living 'object', finally Un-mimicable deadly funny being. 

What I intended to say that I discovered was- Think with your heart through your mind. But not through your mind alone.
:)

The world - the way I see

Life's not the same every day, each person we interact leaves some impression on us, may be permanent or momentary but it does affects us!I keep doing same mistake of judging people when I'm blind with love & affection I posses towards them, may be each individual have different purview and perspectives, may be 'm complicating or may be I'm wrong. But all I have to say is "You do not see the world the way I do!"

This very complex-ed confused ideas and mixed feelings led me post this poem I wrote yesterday night-

Tranquility completely destroyed,

Calm and peace- a big void,

common dreams ended in drain,

thoughts that wandered sung refrain

The problem is you do not see,

the world the way I see.

Anger that boils within,

blood that rushes through vein,

Not the hot burning coal,

Not the boiling tender soul,

The problem is you do not feel

the world the way I feel.

Crossing thousand miles a beat,

Skipping hundred thoughts a minute,

Happier all of a sudden, gay and glee, 

blossoms my soul, pale and plea

The problem is you do not see 

the world the way I see.

Rushing in grubby thoughts 

Weeding it out - godly bots

Utter nonsense in uber mess,..

By now I know you would guess

The problem is I do not see 

the world the way you see!

A god-man called STEPHEN HAWKING!

A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.

In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.

Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today.

The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future.

"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," he added.

Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design, in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe. The book provoked a backlash from some religious leaders, including the chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, who accused Hawking of committing an "elementary fallacy" of logic.

Hawking  at the 2001 Strings Conference, TIFR, India

The 69-year-old physicist fell seriously ill after a lecture tour in the US in 2009 and was taken to Addenbrookes hospital in an episode that sparked grave concerns for his health. He has since returned to his Cambridge department as director of research.

The physicist's remarks draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos.

In his bestselling 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking drew on the device so beloved of Einstein, when he described what it would mean for scientists to develop a "theory of everything" – a set of equations that described every particle and force in the entire universe. "It would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God," he wrote.

The book sold a reported 9 million copies and propelled the physicist to instant stardom. His fame has led to guest roles in The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Red Dwarf. One of his greatest achievements in physics is a theory that describes how black holes emit radiation.

In the interview, Hawking rejected the notion of life beyond death and emphasised the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives. In answer to a question on how we should live, he said, simply: "We should seek the greatest value of our action."

In answering another, he wrote of the beauty of science, such as the exquisite double helix of DNA in biology, or the fundamental equations of physics.

Hawking responded to questions posed by the Guardian and a reader in advance of a lecture tomorrow at the Google Zeitgeist meeting in London, in which he will address the question: "Why are we here?"

In the talk, he will argue that tiny quantum fluctuations in the very early universe became the seeds from which galaxies, stars, and ultimately human life emerged. "Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in," he said.

Hawking suggests that with modern space-based instruments, such as the European Space Agency's Planck mission, it may be possible to spot ancient fingerprints in the light left over from the earliest moments of the universe and work out how our own place in space came to be.

His talk will focus on M-theory, a broad mathematical framework that encompasses string theory, which is regarded by many physicists as the best hope yet of developing a theory of everything.

M-theory demands a universe with 11 dimensions, including a dimension of time and the three familiar spatial dimensions. The rest are curled up too small for us to see.

Evidence in support of M-theory might also come from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva.

One possibility predicted by M-theory is supersymmetry, an idea that says fundamental particles have heavy – and as yet undiscovered – twins, with curious names such as selectrons and squarks.

Confirmation of supersymmetry would be a shot in the arm for M-theory and help physicists explain how each force at work in the universe arose from one super-force at the dawn of time.

Another potential discovery at the LHC, that of the elusive Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to elementary particles, might be less welcome to Hawking, who has a long-standing bet that the long-sought entity will never be found at the laboratory.

Hawking will join other speakers at the London event, including the chancellor, George Osborne, and the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

Science, truth and beauty: Hawking's answers

What is the value in knowing "Why are we here?"

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. We need to use the effective theory of Darwinian natural selection of those societies most likely to survive. We assign them higher value.

You've said there is no reason to invoke God to light the blue touchpaper. Is our existence all down to luck?

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

So here we are. What should we do?

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

You had a health scare and spent time in hospital in 2009. What, if anything, do you fear about death?

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

What are the things you find most beautiful in science?

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology, and the fundamental equations of physics."

Courtesy: The Guardian Today

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The Mars and Venus syndrome

Before I read an article which, I, almost have reproduced here, I really had no idea of the phrase, "Men are from Mars and women are from Venus!".

Read on to know what's the matter!  

MEN THINK IN BOXES AND WOMEN IN CONTINUUM: A woman experiences life as a continuum where every moment is connected. Therefore when she encounters a conflict in a relationship, a woman wants to stay and talk about it. When she is not listened to, she does not feel valued. She cannot move from one problem to another experience without the earlier one being resolved. In contrast, men think in boxes. It is like they have opened one box this moment, closed it the next minute and opened another.

RECOUNTING PAIN: When you share a painful experience, a woman may also share a similar experience that she has had. Her thought in sharing the experience is to convey that she understands the pain. A man will also narrate his experience in a similar situation but his focus and pride will be on how quickly he got out of the pain.

MEN TALK IN GENERAL AND WOMEN IN DETAILS: When you ask a man how he feels, he may give a vague answer and say that there are some difficulties. He is looking for solutions and wants to be left alone till he finds a way out. Whereas, a woman will want to share in detail how she feels, what made her feel that way etc. She dwells on the experience and expects her partner to be listen.

Men look at moving out of an experience quickly and finding solutions. This is to avoid feeling vulnerable when encountering conflicts. Women want to express their vulnerabilities and be understood. They want to be listened to, and given attention when they are sharing their experience.

Knowing such information helps in understanding the difference between the nature of men and women. The responses, which are the basis of complaints like the one given at the column’s beginning, are not to be looked at as against each other, but part of one’s nature.

Courtesy: TheNewInianExpress

Change the World by Changing Me

The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself: “I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was: ‘Lord, give

me the energy to change the world.’ " 

“As I approached middle age and realised that half my life was gone without my

changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to: ‘Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my family and friends,

and I shall be content.’ ” 

“Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, my one prayer is: ‘Lord,

give me the grace to change myself.’ If I had prayed for this right from

the start I should not have wasted my life.”

SOURCE : “THE SONG OF THE BIRD” ANTHONY DE MELLO, S.

Are You Suffering From Nomophobia???! Well! 'm not!

Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia", was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organization to look at anxieties suffered by mobile phone users. 
"It’s not real until a TV news organization throws a label on it. Nomophobia, according to MSNBC, is the fear of being without your mobile phone, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s on the rise.
The story says that cellphone use is either a healthy way of staying connected or a dangerous obsession. According to a survey cited in the story, 66 percent of people responded with a fear of being without their mobile phones.
The story cites a few particularly sad cases, including a woman who even takes her phone to bed with her (my phone has my alarm on it, so I do this too). She says that she only has real conversations with her child over Facebook and the phone (an improvement over the classic parenting problem of barely talking to your kids at all). She takes it to the shower, she takes it to the bathroom, and reading this article is meant to make you feel that you’re just like her.
It’s hard to pin this on the device itself, though. For me, it’s more the knowledge that I deal with people in different time zones, that speed is essential to my job, and I want to know what people have to say to me, when they say it. It’s a symptom of the oft-cited interconnected world of which I, as a blogger, have become an unwitting apostle. It’s also a nervous tic – don’t know what to do with your hands, check your phone.
Nomophobia is an example of displacing blame onto technology. Blame the phone, not the anxiety or obsessive disorders that make you feel compelled to check it all the time. Phones have a way of bringing out the worst in people like the woman in the article, or me. But in the end, it’s all just a reflection of your own problems." SIC FORBES

Maybe it is wrong to call this a phobia.
For a phobia is generally an 'irrational fear', and that pang of anxiety when you are without your mobile in this brave new connected world is perhaps an understandable feeling.
But either way, for 66 per cent of us, being with your phone at all times is an obsession that occupies every waking minute.
If you think you may suffer from nomophobia - or 'no mobile phone phobia' - then the warning signs are:

• An inability to ever turn your phone off
• Obsessively checking for missed calls, emails and texts
• Constantly topping up your battery life
• Being unable to pop to the bathroom without taking your phone in with you.

The number of people afflicted with nomophobia was revealed in a study by SecurEnvoy, and shows a rise from a similar study four years ago, where 53 per cent of people admitted the fear of losing their phone.
In the latest study, of the 1,000 people surveyed in the UK, 66 percent said they felt the fear.
Young adults - aged between 18 and 24 - tended to be the most addicted to their mobile phones, with 77 per cent unable to stay apart for more than a few minutes, and those aged 25 to 34 followed at 68 per cent.

Bring back the sparrows

Once chirping happily in our backyards, sparrows cannot be spotted easily nowadays. Seen in abundance till 20 years ago, house sparrow, a common species is not so common any longer in cities like Delhi.

While there is no official data on the number of sparrows left in India, it is certain the population of the small birds has certainly declined not just here but world over.

Loss of micro habitats, decreasing spots to lay eggs, change of human lifestyle, architectural changes, changed agricultural patterns, proliferation of urban predators, microwave towers and excessive use to pesticides are some of the major reasons to blame for disappearance of sparrows which evolved with humans and are always found in and around human habitation.

It took people awhile to notice that there are hardly any sparrows now. The decline has been more in coastal areas. Few campaigns by individuals and organisations have been organised to raise awareness on the issue and increasing the population of sparrows has brought partial results.

One such campaign was organised by a Nashik-based environmentalist Mo­h­a­m­med Dilawar in collaboration with Burhani Foundation of distributing 52,000 bird feeders world wide to individuals, NGOs, and other organisations. The effort was to help towards increasing sparrow population.But increasing urbanisation and changed architectural settings in cities have refrained sparrows from thriving like two decades ago since these are birds that lay eggs in human habitats.

A film Beyond the Mirage by Nutan Manmohan on the disappearance of a once common species was scre­e­n­ed at IIC followed by a disc­u­ssion to talk about the issue that hasn’t got its due.

The film talks about how sparrows’ importance has been undermined without realising that big exotic birds can survive only when there are enough small birds like sparrows.
According to the film, 25 per cent of birds in India have gone extinct since 2008 because of lack of nesting places and loss of micro Eco-systems and what can be done to bring them back.

“For the past five years, almost every bird watcher and environmentalist is talking about dwindling sparrows. This is a much larger environment issue. One of the most harmful features has been the increase in the population of dogs and scavengers like crows because of the feed that they get from people in urban areas. These animals finish the bio-sphere,” says Nutan. While dogs scare the birds away, crows, being very aggressive actually end up eating the sparrows’ eggs.

Dr Surya Prakash who specializes in Zoology at School of Life Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University and a passionate bird watcher, says the data suggests that human beings themselves are responsible for dwindling sparrows.

“We have homes and buildings these days in which there are no ventilator, no windows which gives leaves the sparrow no space to build their nests. The Electronic magnet signals coming from cellphone towers is also keeping sparrows away from cities. The concept of kitchen garden is also gone,” informs Prof Prakash. The professor has collected data which shows that sparrows have gone down by 80 per cent in Andhra Pradesh and other coastal places, by 20 per cent in Kerala and Gujarat, while there is no information about the numbers on the same in Delhi and Bangalore.

Some steps by people - such as placing wooden or earthen homes, feeding them, putting water pots for them, planting trees and discouraging use of pesticides can be of great help in increasing sparrows. Don’t you want to hear the chirping again?

As in DeccanHerald  by Kusum Kanojia.

ONE PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS LIFE!

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983..

From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:

"The world over, 50 million  children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the  grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' "

"Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrow keeps you Human,
Failure keeps you humble and Success keeps you glowing,
But only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going.........”