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Monday, July 31, 2006
Please visit again for new posts - they will take a while. Currently I am more busy with some poetry and there ARE several reason I am not able to write anyting for my blogs. The ME Daily anyways is updated almost daily.
 
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Thank You Mr. Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane will be remembered for a while, and then will be forgotten; newer amusements come in and the older ones fade out leaving fairly respectable impressions on the history records. Voices rise and are deafened by louder ones; all that remains is an old crack on the tablets of fame and greatness. These tablets are relabeled with new inscriptions and are hardly scanned for the underlying layers by the eye of the next generation thread. But for those who are barely blindfolded from irrational emotions that create history, the present will mean more than just history for them when their present visions materialize – in their self-controlled future.

A man is all about discipline and control. Even under the hardest of his times he is know by the emotions he puts on display which by all means are the premise of his character. He may be successful as a millionaire, always shine giving out the light of his mastery, or be an articulate genius, but he is hardly then a man of wisdom if he can’t control his emotions.

Realizing the Sunday’s event as a lesson to be learnt from a compromise done on emotional discipline, I travel through the idea of enrichment of any edible tuberous root such as a sweet potato which grows inside the earth surrounded by the dirtiest mud and is taken out to be relished by the human tongue. The point here is that though it was surrounded by unsavory, it comes out as a gift from the nature. Though this is not an error committed by the nature, it shows how nature absorbs from something unpalatable. And it is not an idea it is a law.

The lesson to be learnt from a fallacy committed in a way trains us not to become committed to any such behavior. Zidane teaches us the consequences of being uncontrolled and undisciplined. It was a match that would have probably been won by the French soccer team but with the exit of Zizou, apart from losing the captain – the French fountainhead, the team players were possibly demoralized and might have lost the zeal and conviction required to win. Zidane, being 34 years of age is expected to be rational and think before he could act – before coming to a conclusion that he has the right to attack a player from the opposite team on the field. He did prove that it is lot easier to feel than to think.

It is no doubt a matter of deep concern taking the verbal duels, mudslinging and vulgarity directed at the core subject of racialism and inhuman values; it is sad that such an act was carried out by an Italian player expected of class. It is obvious that any normal human being under such pressure would get provoked and turn aggressive. But was the objective of Zidane in the field that day was anything else rather than winning the match for his country? Is it true that he did put some things above a victory for his nation? Were a few unreadable comments larger than a nation that bowed in front of him and hoped that he would get them a joy billion times more than the price of that cup? Zidane has exhibited the so called anti-moral anti-society individualism ruling over the so preferred collectivism.

This was the 14th time that Zidane was given a red card and not to forget the one he got playing Saudi Arabia. Having played over a 100 matches, he is expected to be a mature sportsperson having only the team in his mind and not any traces of personal feelings – at least when he is playing a world cup final match. I am sure this was not the first time that a racialist comment was thrown at him. Did he not learn from his past experiences? Did he think it was fine for him to take up such a thing at such a nervy moment? Or was he waiting for such a thing to happen before his departure so that he can take a final revenge? He could have done so much against racialism after taking an honorable retirement and could have dedicated his life for the betterment of the underprivileged.

My regards for him shall never change and he will remain as my favorite all through my time. I am sure to forget his last match and remember him as a genius footballer. But apart form all this I learn from him that a personal aggression intended to defend a personal comment can cost a world cup final match – can break a billion hearts. I learn that though a man can reach the threshold of personal success, a single mistake from his side can destroy all the life that exists in the small moments of glory when he can just break into a high of incredible pleasure of joy. I learn that a man who cannot control himself can end up loosing a dream at the final level of gratification.

I denounce the Italian who was the evil and I disapprove of Zidane who committed an evil act. Perhaps it takes more than a Zidane to prove that humans can be perfect. Zidane was closer to perfection and he shall always be adored for what he was.


Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidane
 
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Dreams

Right from every person’s understanding of the existence of two kinds of dreams to the interpretation and explication of them, my heart is fairly oblique to the obvious fact that any kind of dream gets everybody astonished, and that astonishment has got me to write this. The two kinds of dreams are of course the one seen when we are asleep and the one imagined in consciousness.

It is not of much concern to me what is dreamt in sleep - it may be an interesting topic all together but it depends on the individual who prefers taking it on with more interesting construal; I happen to take these dreams as an entertainment to me sometimes apart from some amazing ideas I get from them. Otherwise they mean nothing at all.

Every human has some hopes, some wishes and some dreams. Hopes and wishes are usually the lighter forms of dreaming where nothing much is expected out of them. But the dreams – they make the soul take part in a quest for cosmic significance. A dream is like a force in the universe that puts fresh energy back into the system.

Why do we dream? Probably because we feel nice by doing that. Or maybe because of our longing for more comforts in our lives. Or perhaps it is just in the nature of humans to dream. But it can be much better understood as a source that drives people towards success. People are considered successful when they accomplish dreams – of their own and of others. So dreams are probably dreamt to further life or to quench the thirst of the vacuum that is created when we don’t have anything worthwhile in our lives.

We are here today in this modern era for only one reason: because great people in the past have had great dreams which they did accomplish. It was not just in the past that people had great dreams; in the present day too there are innumerable scientists and researchers who constantly dream big and achieve the impossible. It all starts with a small imagination that gets converted into a dream. And this tiny dream becomes the only purpose of life for these people – they live for it and live up to it; successfully.

A true dream is a hope. It is the energy that makes living out of survival. Having a fire in the belly to achieve what has been dreamt is the only way that takes us there – to the apex of our life.

Everyone wants to be successful, have the best in his/her life and have all the desires fulfilled. Seldom are people found victorious in getting what they want. Why does this happen? Why do people fail? Who is to be blamed for the failure people see in getting their dreams fulfilled?

A dream must be an emotional energy – that which comes out from the inside, something undefined yet our own. The dream must be an offshoot of our psychological embodiments that casts a vision – a vision close to our heart, a recreation of our inner strengths in the form of a power that would drive us to a desired end, and a hope that keeps the soul running. The dream must create a fire in our belly. Only that kind of determination can get us to a triumph. Most of us lack this emotional energy, hence the lack of determination and lack of ‘fire in the belly’.

Without fire in the belly, a dream is impossible – it is nothing more than just wishful thinking. When we feel truly passionate about something then we are in dream territory. The right dream drops passion in our guts. It begins from that passion.

Sometimes it dies away. The basic reason is lack of confidence on ones own self. This again is an indication of missing fire in the belly. But sometimes it is because of our background and environment that we fall back from accomplishing our dreams. Even the people who pour in negative material into our ears are a junk that causes only destruction. But we only need one person who believes in us to make the dream a reality. To start with it is better that we are that person ourselves.

People cannot see what we can see, so it’s better that we don’t try to make them see our dream. If they don’t like our dream, it means that they have never learnt to dream anything. Having a dream won’t be easy – nobody will love us more because we see what they don’t.

There are times when we don’t have proper dreams or proper ambitions. This can be because of the same reason why we fail to accomplish our dreams. But we should realize the importance of dreaming; it is the small spark that lights up the fire that gives light to our life. Getting a dream means being unafraid to get emotional: to get to those places where our true feelings and gut urges hide. Too many people are afraid of their feelings and they end up living a tragic lie.

A dream when decided to be pursued becomes a goal when its exact date of accomplishment is written with it. Dreams, or goals, can be short term or long term. All are to be given importance but a better planning of short term ones is essential for the success of the long terms’.

There is one point where people fall short of getting to the right objective or goal in their lives – backward goal setting. People set their goals depending on their past experiences and the experiences of others. They are blinded by the forces that say they can’t do what they want to do. They see short of their potentials and are conservative in their approach towards their lives. They cannot see what they can do, instead they believe only in what has already been done and they trust only the existing capacities. Their dreams are the already accomplished dreams by some other people and they are not their original. These kinds of backward goal setters never make a difference in their own lives, let alone others. The accomplishment of a perfect dream should affect at least every person connected to us if not the whole world.

When the proper dream is dreamt, and a good goal set, there is always a price to be paid to see it get transformed into a reality – not a virtual one, in our imaginations, but in physical reality. Sacrifice, discipline, commitment, perseverance, faithfulness, loyalty. delayed gratification. Feeling nauseous yet? These words conjure up mental images of pain, agony and years of frustration in search of a dream. They’re becoming less and less popular especially to the Leisure – Pleasure Generation of today.

We can see dreams and build castles in the air, it is perfectly alright to do that, but to really live in those castles we need to build foundations beneath them. The higher our castle rests, the bigger and larger the foundation we need. We must be clear about our dream, our aims, our willingness to pay the highest price, and our readiness to go through the kind of pain that the average human being avoids.

Discipline is doing it when you don’t want to do it. Discipline means, apart from anything else, having routines: doing the same things all the times. Not the things that unsuccessful people do, but the things unsuccessful people won’t do. Discipline is the chieftain of requirements to see our dreams being fulfilled.

Bigger dreams are seen by visionaries. These people may or may not complete what they start but they do leave behind something more to be done and dreamt. We are not tiny little unimportant creatures in this world – this world is because of us and our existence in it. Our passion has brought us this far and our dreams will take our march further. We may not last in the world for long but our accomplishments do. What will we get being remembered when we are no more? But if we have our dreams successfully accomplished then it is the present life that will adore us and the satisfaction we obtain will surpass all the materialisms.

Negativity is everywhere – the largest part of it is inside us. It is contagious because people are not conscious of their shortcomings. We ought to clear ourselves of this disease of being small and shortsighted. It’s a crime to let our potentials become suppressed under the weight of our narrow views. This world is for the one who lives feeding himself on his own energy and victory, parasites feed on others and live under others. They have no vision and they leave the world unused.

Imagination and creativity is here to stay. Money is paid for ideas. Those who materialize the ideas are nothing but parasites. Those who come out with these ideas are the victors. Ideas, dreams, visions, goals – they all belong to the same kind – the winner’s kind.

 
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