Alter thoughts - 6

This post is a bit haywire, starting with me, going to he, then me, kindly excuse, just got a bit confused as to what I was trying to write!

Time and again, I have heard, people saying do what you love and love what you do. Some thoughts linger in my head regarding the above two line. I agree you need to do what you love. But when it comes to the question of sustenance, does this really apply.

Lets assume, I love photography and I wish to pursue it as a career. So, I end up doing what I love and I love what I do. Now lets give a thought about sustaining and revenue generation. In order to survive, I need money for my daily needs, food and shelter. Following my dream job can I achieve the same. Well, yes, but how?

Traditionalists say you have to work very hard, day in and day out you have to focus and finally it will yield results. So lets just think about hard work, scope of application and reward in the field of photography.

Just like me there will be 100's of people pursuing their own passion of photography so, its not a niche field. You just cannot tell how one person(professional) is better from the other just by looking at the photo and comparing.

Now, since there are many photographers around who do things professionally, what are the chances of me getting a contract and making money enough to be able to sustain myself? I'm not sure. If I had inherited a fortune from my parents things would have been different. But over here I rely on external contracts for steady source of income.

Does it exist, may be or may not be. Since there are many professionals in the field of photography, you need to charge bare minimum to get contracts. so you end up with some money after all.

So are you now sure that, you are still in the game and enjoying it considering you earn something which is a bit meagre? I'm not sure,

What I would like to tell is, even if you may end up doing what you love the most, you should never expect it to earn you a bread, because the chances of having a non existant market for your interest and high competition might drive you nuts. If it does not earn you a bread, should you still be doing what you love? (is there sufficient market to provide source of income to all, who follow their hearts)

But these days, I see, artificial market generation, in other words, trying to market a field which literally is non existent or is not essential. in order to make people spend money on things (photography) which they are not interested in, there is tremendous aggresive marketing strategies applied, where in the user gets tricked into buying unncessary junk and realizes the fact that he has invested (his saved) money only later to regret!

Is it ethical, just in order to keep one's inventions and interests running, you trick people into the application of stuffs, while you well know, its only leading to capitalism and nothing else. For example buying stuffs using smartphone on massive discounts!

Cheers,

Alter thoughts - 5

My blog is generally not read by many, but yeah, I do remember someone, somewhere reading it and when you get some words of appreciation on this kind of post which evokes mixed response (rather depressive) in a normal crowd, you can be rest assured, you have an alter friend in your reader! Well, I have ZERO answers or solutions to the alter thoughts which run in my head.

Here goes another one!

I sometimes wonder, is 24 hours enough for a day. I generally get this thoughts because, we end up giving our time to so many people/stuffs, that, we do not get time for ourselves. Our day starts with or in the presence of someone and it ends with or in the presence of someone.

So, where do we sneak in the alone time? We work in some company, we eat in some company, we finally land home to some company. Is there a slight chance of a person being all alone for himself during the day? I guess not. If someone takes out his alone time, I'm sure the world is waiting to call him mad or depressed!

Do we nurture ourselves by not interacting with anyone? I know most people never feel such things, just seeing time go by is so much fun, but growing old is not so much. And yes, I get judged by people, which I do not really mind!

I haven't yet found a concrete way to balance family life with the need to be alone. Will write about it once that happens!

Somewhere in the middle, people will transition from kids to teenagers to adults to aged people and yeah, there you go, your life's over, zero introspection, unfulfilled ambitions or rather unfound dreams, and so, is 24 hours enough?

Cheers,

PS - I think after certain while, when you have a family, the urge to spend time alone becomes almost non existant, am I correct? 

Alter thoughts - 4

I sometimes just wonder, why does man work hard, why does man strive?

The reason lies in either of these,
- Strives to make money for various below reasons.
- Strives to find a sense of social security. So that, when he gets sick, he has some money to fend for himself, when it rains, he has a shelter, when he feels hungry he has food to eat.

So in a quest for his overall well being, he moves out of his comfort zone, he moves mountains, he works day and night so that the fruits of his labor act as enabler for the above mentioned areas of his interest.

I was just thinking is there a chance for a  mediocre man in this world? A man, who enjoys what is he doing at his own pace and lives life at his own pace and runs his own race.

Do we have to compromise on something, if we are opting out of the rat race? Working in Bangalore, I do feel its all about rat race. I am not sure if anyone thinks otherwise please let me know.

Everyday, I see people, including me, ferrying from one side of town to the other side, in search of work for work, for rending their service. If they do not, they (including me) will have no money to fend for themselves(ourselves too).

Doing this for years together, we may grow old, money may keep many happy provided it gives a sense of security and our work gives us a sense of respect. We get identified by these parameters by people whom we interact with.

Just curious, if all the people working so hard and part of the rat race, are they really happy, doing whatever they are doing. Or are they just trying to follow the crowd, where everyone does some work gets paid goes home and sleep.

With so much of travel, traffic, noise and pollution, and 9 hours of office work, is this the only way, I get to grow old? Is this the only way, I get to find my sense of identity, is this the only way, each human has to live/work.

Is there a different way to feel complete, achieving a sense of satisfaction, with all the hustle and bustle going on in our daily lives?

Why do people ask me, what I do with all my money, where have I invested it, why nobody asks me, am I happy with my job, am I at peace with myself?

Cheers, 

Alter thoughts - 3

Social networking -

The emergence of social networking in this decade is noticeable. It has its own advantages,
- It has given enough employment opportunities to people.
- It has made investors open up more of their money to build social networking systems,
- It has helped people to keep in touch, to network, to market to indulge in a way which was not possible previously!
- It has helped to send important especially distress signals quickly for a large audience.

Previously, growing up, absence of social networking, if a classmate changed schools, it would take months to recognize where in the world that guy went, I still have not met people who left school midway to another city / locality / country!

But are there any down sides. Oh yes, indulgence is good, over indulgence is not so good.

For people who wish to abstain from the crowd and lead life at their own paces, well, I am literally clueless, on how to abstain from reception of so many information.

Here I am getting force fed about information, data about lot of unwanted things and believe me, I am getting old, trying to interpret or analyze this information. I agree its a good past time, but on the contrary, it has led me to dissect every minuscule detail, most of which are unnecessary.

I am interested in good books, stories, and here I get all shown all info about movies, advertisements, what not. So, in a world where I try to mind my own business, here I am being shown everything materialistic, capitalistic. There are certain aspects of life which cannot be portrayed, which have to be felt, which can never be shown, but have to be understood and deeply nurtured and idolized. Like getting up on a Monday morning, doing nothing, abstaining from work, just seeing the world go by, not interacting with anyone.

Why are such simple pleasures not being shown. ?

If extreme capitalism, marketing is not the buzz on social media, we have people who try portraying themselves as the next best thing. like the,
- next best traveller,
- next best photographer,
- next best baker,
- next best socialite.

I agree, I do have photos on social networking, but guess what, after an year of joining the site, I have 85% friends on the restricted list, most of whom cannot see what I have shared. I am not being a hypocrite, I am just being myself, trying to hide my personal life/travel/ happenings from the race.

The next point which I have is, education should tell a man what is good and what is bad. But isn't over marketing bad? isn't over capitalism bad and here it is being done by all the educated people themselves, the root cause of which is to earn money.

well, hasn't education taught us that money is not everything. It has, but undergoing education is different and applying education is different. Most people end up studying and not applying, especially basics.

On the contrary education has definitely taught me, over indulgence is bad, I have deleted my quora account and I rarely check facebook/goodreads these days, the reason being, there are people everywhere portraying themselves as rockstars, most of whom do not get paid for doing so, its just the alter life they are leading or rather illusion which they are trying to portray, (who knows underneath of it what they might be hiding). And I do not find the need to fill my head with tonnes of information, I am trying to keep it simple, however, I have failed in keeping this post simple!

Here we are a generation of over-educated, success hungry freaks, trying to make money at an entire human species cost. There seems to be no care anymore in this world. Any person who cannot participate in the capitalistic rat race seems to be sidelined as an indifferent specie.

Anyways too many points in this single post, I will try to decipher them as and when I get time. Posted since my friend asked me to write something.

I can write about positivity, about my travel, but yeah, how long to suppress these alter thoughts.

By the way, this blog URL is known only to a specific set people.

Cheers,

PS - After reading this post, I am not sure what you will end up turning me as, sadistic, hypocrite, mad, lost soul ? let me hear your opinions!

Alter thoughts - 2

This post is dedicated to the person who opened up to me saying how less friends he/she had over the years!

Recently was having a conversation with a friend of mine, who was telling about how less friends he/she had over the years. That person also told me what was the reason for having less or no friends.

I tend to agree with all of the points with what the person told.

So, the alter thoughts or questions which currently run in my head are,
- Is it really necessary to have friends.
- Can a person survive individually?
 - Does not having friends points to some kind of social stigma which society has given birth to.

I am someone who is of the belief that, friends or no friends, as long as a person is happy, it hardly matters!

Look what I found on an inspirational post on a social networking site!

Cheers,

Alter thoughts - 1

There are several thoughts which do round my head, I wonder why do I get into such thinking. I have always tried not to write serious matter in my blog, rather stuffs which are light weight, which brings smile on my face and reminds me of good old days!

But here I am, into this new year, as I grow older, I am thinking of putting thoughts down, under a different label though. I wish I won't be judged as sadistic, unrealistic. But you never know what runs in people's heads.

After working for so many years in IT, I have come across many people many questions many stuffs which leads me to few points!

 - Is this life meant only to be successful.
 - Is this life meant only to be rich & make more money
 - Is this life meant only to be lead on society's terms and not on one's own terms.

Several bollywood movies have taught us to lead lives on our own terms. But do we actually apply things. Never mind. Found a community on facebook and found this nice picture and lines. Here it goes!

In the coming few posts I try to dissect what runs in my head!

Cheers for now,

When we met the same driver again, on another trip - TTTT 37.

Last year december, we went to Gokarna in a hired vehicle which ended up with a flat tyre on two different occasions. We had to spend close to 6 hours early in the morning stranded on the road due to lack of help or repair.

So, we had thought we would never ever hire the same over confident driver or vehicle from the same tours guy again. But luck would have it otherwise.

This year we decided to visit Dandeli and guess what, the driver and vehicle was none other than the previous one only. Just that it had a new set of rubber and we were travelling on NH4. Luckily no such flats happened during this time and we reached home safely.

Cheers,