Saturday, January 28, 2012

I'm cold, but...

It's getting less and less cold now, with each passing day. I love winters, especially very cold ones. The two winters I lived in Lucknow were my coldest and the most memorable and pleasant. The cold in Bilaspur is nowhere close to the spooky foggy chill of north India, of which I got great experience in Lucknow. Of course, if you go further north, you have snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures, which I experienced only for a couple of days when I went to Sikkim. But cold feels awesome only as long as it does not start freezing stuff around...

Snow and Ice reminds of the thing going on at Davos right now - The World Economic Forum. I wish I could be there. The thought of so many intellectuals and crooks at the same place talking stuff that shape the world definitely gives an intellectual erection to anyone suffering from paralysis of analysis, like I do. But the way I am going about my career, I don't see that possible in my whole life-time. I know that at the core of nature, there are stuff called quantum leaps, but they might just be the operating procedures of god to execute this world. Not that steep rises at macro level are rare - we have people turning billionaires in USDs within short time-spans - but I am deeply pessimistic at this point of time. Although I often feel these are not quite normal in humans (but important to note that one's concept of normality is only relative assuming himself/herself as normal), I wish I had a single strong passion to drive me in some direction, a single strong goal and motivation to pursue it or a single strong pain I would have fought with all my energies.

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