HOW HELPING OTHERS HELPS US

Life is a book full of mysteries and you cannot figure out all of it on your own. It’s the smallest things that helps us to learn in life, if carefully observed with the eye of an eagle its possible to notice. Though simple tools that guides and benefits us are hard to find, they do exist. One such small tool is "helping". When someone approaches us for help, its always wise to consider the pros and cons of helping them. But,  the most extraordinary things happen only when we  never think before, doing good to others.

Except for things like

1) Allowing the strangers to use your credit card.(never done this)

2) Giving away your last hundred to a beggar, when other beggars are watching. (Do this if you want to become a star for a moment :))

Though there is humor to helping people in India and sometimes hardship, we can not always get the best out of it. It’s more like paying to some schools, thinking that we are actually going to learn something useful other than the process of memorizing. 

 Anyways, It took a while for me to realize that in any case, helping is never a one way process and whatever you do will come back to you. They are very small that some time we don’t even notice them. It may be as simple as looking for a job for your friend and finding a better alternative for yourself, in the process or on the process of giving the beggar some change we discover that we don’t have enough cash for purchase or trying to book tickets for a friend and understanding the process comes in handy when you need them. But, even the smallest benefit disappears when we help with expectations. The benefit do not show at the same time or moment, careful observance is needed to know the change within and around.  .

About The Book: Three Mistakes of My Life

If you want to be an entrepreneur you can take out few tips from this book. Written by the Author of “5 point someone” and “one night @ the call center”, it has the right mixture for a good book. Though it might sound like a story of a person who could not make it in life. ”the 3 mistakes of my life” is the best book to show you, what not to do as an entrepreneur and also how to manage setbacks. The story happens in the backdrop of Gujarat earth quake and the successive riots.

  It’s about three friends who come together to start a business. It starts out as a sports shop and slowly develops into a sports and stationary shop. As the story progresses so does the business of the three. But, when they dare to think big everything starts to fall apart around them. The shop they buy on the shopping mall crumbles taking down their dream of growth. But, they manage and put themselves together to start all over again. The rest of the story is about the other problems an entrepreneur faces in his personal life.

     This book is written in simple words and will make you laugh at few instances. Thus, keeping you entertained throughout the story. The one main problem in this book is that the story may seems real in the beginning as it goes on, the author seems to have got carried away a little on the reality. Due to this few instances, the story is little filmy and the characters seem unreal. But all the downs in the book become nonexistent, thanks to Chetan bhagats brilliance in narration. On the whole, this book assures to be a good entertainer and a guide for certain entrepreneurs. 

Changing World

                                   Miss those days when I would be fighting with my brother for the smallest toys. Miss those days when we are supposed to share everything in the house, miss those days when biscuits came in big tins, miss the yellow cloth bag. Miss the beautiful cold morning, miss the old cycles that are the only transport, miss the tasty briyanies made by mom,  miss the time when a landline is a blessing and every call is a surprise, miss all the free time that I had when I was young, miss the empty streets of Sunday, miss the days when all that neighboring countries had was rusting guns, miss the pollution free air in the city, miss the sophisticated scooters, miss the excitement of having the only channel releasing the new movies, miss the days when 10rs is all a school kid used to get, miss all the simplicity of life.

courtesy: BBC.co.uk

                                           I loved the days when lack of money kept families together. Loved those days when new clothes once a year are the cheers of families, loved those days when the crows are kept at bay by the lonely guard, guarding the sun dried grains, loved those days when all I had to have is, what the guy next door had to feel like a king. Loved those days when schools where on leave for the smallest drizzle. How can I forget all those days, when a kid felt, he had everything in life with just a torn shorts and an ice cream in one hand.  I am really happy that, I saw it all and sad the coming generation won’t see it. But, is it not the amazing thing about change, it never stops.  

Too much positivity

If a small child is born in India and is allowed to watch TV and go around the country, it will think that life is superb and there will be always good things happening and problems never occur. Yup, that’s what they will think; if you say I am wrong, just look around and all that you will see are banners of two people smiling, an happy couple and people with superb cars and bikes. Well about the poor, They must have done something really wrong to be there. Even they can be easily eclipsed if the only transport you use is a car and you only go to malls. I will not be surprised if a child says he wants to swim in toys and live in candy land in India today. Sure, they will suffer. But they feel really left out thinking that they are the only ones going through this. Just going through the ads in television makes me convinced, that the world is made without hell.  It seems they have solution for all the problems in life. Is Monster roaming near the treacherous path?  Buy a bike, everyone will follow you. If you feel troubled drink a coffee you will feel better. Husband is Feeling tired???  You  need a better cooking oil. While I was wondering why the ads are so positive, what harm it might do to the thinking of people, I felt they are not alone. The movies (talking about Tamil movies only) are not far behind in convincing us that we are in heaven. Hero sees a girl the girl is very beautiful and unusually humble, Likes everything the hero does. Well, wonder where the guys get the idea of teasing the gals. The place where I see negative is in the Indian TV serials, Man they are sad, packed with every worst things that is possible. Any more sadness added to this there will be no house wife’s in India. People dont realize its the reality and the truth that is more reaching to the audience, than fake optimism.  Hope the the more sensible are given the opportunity than the repeaters in the future.