Be Happy

No, No.. This is not the movie review (not at least from me) but the unquenchable thirst and the hunger of life. All of us, consciously or unconsciously, seek for happiness. I smoke for happiness, he drinks for happiness and the other guy gyms for happiness. We do what makes us happy. But what if one day you realize that your reasons for happiness are diminishing? You want to be happy but you don’t have a reason to be happy.

Without getting into the writer’s shoes (the thing I am not good at), I will straight try to hit the nail. There used to be a time when I would cheer up for a new Pen, drive around the whole colony on my first bicycle, cry for a balloon the whole day, will distribute pancakes to everyone on my selection in JEE, but now there is nothing that can make me that happy. I still laugh sometimes, but my reasons to be happy seems to be decreasing with increase in my age, experience, and intellect. The only time I am happy now is when I am sleeping or listening music (and that too sometimes becomes mechanical).  When I analyze between then and now, the only thing that have changed are my desires. My desires to become successful, my desire to earn, my desire to get a partner, my desire to make my family happy, and my desire to be happy. I don’t know if these desires are the cause of my diminishing reasons for happiness but Buddha do. Buddha in his Four Noble Truths said  “craving is the cause of suffering and when they (People) have completely overcome desire, ill will and ignorance, they will know the supreme happiness”.

Therefore, I am now trying the Buddha way to know the path to happiness.

Souce: www.xkcd.com

Maths has always given me a tough time from the JEE time to today. And I am happy that this is the last semester I am having a Mathematics course. So, no more Δ , ∈ and other weird looking symbols after this semester. (at least until I undergraduate)

Cheers. And yeah, I know the title is a function and not a relation.

Kicked Away

Recently, my friend Anurag Nilesh got an intern in Switzerland. As I am going to Germany for the internship during summer, I thought of visiting him  and shared my thoughts with him. I was perplexed with his following reaction:

Me:  yaar, main tuzhse milne switzerland zaroor aaunga.(I will definitely come to meet you.)
nilesh: yaar lekin tu rahega kahan, wahan hotels badey mahangey hai!! (man, but where will you live, I have heard that hotels are too costly there!!)

I feel like the man above, left alone on the Airport. But I am happy that he told me this before I went to meet him.

It has been well discussed that the reservation must not be there on the basis of the caste but on the basis of the economy (if it must be) , still we continue to divide the country on the basis of caste, religion, sex, etc (ironically while we are actually trying to unite by this.). Although we saw a glimpse of it in OBC reservation (exemption of creamy layer) , but the issue to be addressed is far from the reach of mere and dirty politics.

Whenever I hear stories of the destruction caused, when the mandal committee passed the matter of reservation for SC/ST people, my heart fills with sad anger. Do we always have to fight for our rights, do we always need to threaten the government for what we want. I saw a glimpse of it during the recent “Gujjar-Meena” issue, where the government bent after the community started to destroy the public property at large. Recently, while I was coming from Guwahati to Delhi, our Rajdhani was stopped by few CPI-M members protesting that no Rajdhani stops at their small station and they face problems commuting. When I inquired, I found New Jalpaiguri(NJP), the largest station of West Bengal was just 1 hour away. I agree you are having problems people but this is not the way to get your demands fulfilled by the government.

I just fear of the day when there will be incidents like this even for the demands of electricity or water. But there is no one else to complaint, our government never act until their ass is on fire.

I dream of the day when someone (at least one of them) will rise all above this, and will raise his/her (I don’t want to discriminate them) voice against the whole idea of dividing the country on the basis of caste or religion or sex. Amen!!

Will see you more often guys!!!