Good Bye Facebook

I do believe that a great life is nothing but great years spent, which implies great months which in turn implies great weeks, finally great days which boils down to great hours and great moments. So deciding what to do effectively at each moment which contributes to your growth is very important.
After analyzing my time spending pattern on the web, i realized that there was a huge amount of time being spent on Facebook. After having this interesting conversation , I deleted my FB account few days back and it will be deleted permanently from FB servers tom i,e Oct 1st of 2015. Bye FB.

Conversation Snippet:

Analysing Achutha : Why do i need Facebook ? I am wasting lot of time on that

Facebook Loving Achutha: Bro to get updates . Cmon just few minutes you are on fb.

Analysing Achutha : Whose updates are you talking about ? Few minutes, Few tens of times will result a huge loss of time for me in FB.

Facebook Loving Achutha: Oh! Updates about all your 1200 + friends.

Analysing Achutha : Do I know all of them personally ?
Facebook Loving Achutha: Nah, But isnt it cool to know about people and where they are heading to ?

Analysing Achutha : No man. I don't need updates of people who i have met only once in life, updates about some school friend who I haven't been in touch with in last 20 years, updates about some distant relative of order n who i have met just once in a wedding, updates about a chic who is anyways committed & married, updates about the honeymoon pics , engagement pics , marriage pics and kids pics, Stupid statuses and check ins,

Facebook Loving Achutha : But how will you stay in touch with them, How will you know their bdays, How will they wish you ?

Analysing Achutha : Look I have few friends who I have organized on to concentric circles of friendship which has me in center and they being arranged in the circles based on their level of closeness. I have email ids and phone numbers. Moreover I stay in touch with people. My friends remember my birthday and I remember theirs. Even if they forget big deal, What am i school kid to crib and cry ? People I am close to are anyways gonna update me about their life to me.

Facebook Loving Achutha:But everyone might miss your presence in FB .

Analysing Achutha : Its already been 14 days since I deleted my account, Did anybody miss me and begged me to come on to FB ?

Facebook Loving Achutha: No

Analysing Achutha : Then Hell with you and FB addiction.

Facebook Loving Achutha:Okay . Fuck off.

Mind as a model

I always felt the need to understand about Mind. It is indeed mystical for most of us ,unless we pay attention to it. It remains mystical even if we try to fathom it. One who can gain the complete control of the mind , become yogi and attains utmost happiness. Of course success will be his.

Sadhguru constantly talks about distancing ourselves from our mind & body. He tells us to view all these 3 entities separately which is not easy. 3 separate entities working in full synchronization will lead to a balanced man and free from all the miseries created. One can read his book Mind is your Business to get a deeper insights about what is mind about.

While I was reading the book and after finishing the book, I started observing what was my mind doing. May be a funny analogy, I felt mind was just like a blender we use in kitchen. How ?

Everyday from dawn to dusk , there are hundreds or thousands of things we will be exposed to. So many things penetrating to our mind has terrific impact on the mind. Irrespective of whether good is being fed to mind or bad is fed, mind just accept those things. What is the output of those things you have fed into mind ? I say it is THOUGHTS. Thoughts are nothing but the selective processed content fed in to the mind. If we have fed so many good things , then thoughts automatically will be good else bad thoughts come out of the mind. Thoughts lead to actions & words which are witneseed by the external world. Thoughts may not be visible but definitely actions & words are going to be. So many great persons have asked us to watch the thoughts. But I feel we also should watch how thoughts are generated. For that we have to be extremely careful about what we feed to the mind. We should work on the input to the mind. Consciously decide not to feed bad things on to the mind.  Just like if we put good fruits to the blender, we get good juice after processing , we have to put some great,excellent, pure , honest things to the mind. Not the mistake of mind if it is generating bad thoughts , because 'you' fed some bad things to the tender mind.

Agony of Attachment.

Life has its own ways to test your patience,attitude & approach towards it. No matter how hard we try to control the events of life, there are always things which doesn't pay heed to you and acts in it's own way. Now i feel like recalling "If you can do something about it, do it else then there is no point in worrying about it". I don't remember who has quoted that. But then it's so true. More the attachment on anything worldly , even more the pain or agony when we don't get it.

I ordered a router on Wednesday night paying 100 Rupees extra so that it gets delivered within a day. I did a lot of research to find this nice router and ordered it. Friday was a holiday and I wanted to go home for enjoying the long weekend. My illusion was the package would get delivered in a day i.e, on Thursday , so that i can take home and enjoy configuring the router and enjoy the high speed router. Quite Materialistic desires isn't it. Got to know that the package could not be delivered on thursday because the package had to be shipped from Maharashtra. Called up Amazon guys if i could redirect the shipment to Kolar[My hometown]. She told she could and i was happy that i could leave to home without waiting for the package to get delivered. On Friday after repeatedly calling to the customer care guys, I learnt that once the order is placed, the change of address is not possible for an intercity . The whole of friday I was so excited to receive the package. I got to know that there is no way they could deliver to Kolar . So I will have to wait till monday to get the package, which also means, i will have to come back next weekend to home to configure. It is so painful , Ego hurts. But who i do tell this ? I feel like screaming ! I feel like abusing ! I feel not OK. But But But i should be OK. Guess time to seek some stuff which will pacify my anger and frustration.

Peace Bro.

Animal Priority ?

Sometimes it makes me think so much about us. Us refers to Indians. When I am on wheels, my thinking capability grows multi fold and the various thoughts about politics, people, cricket, technology, new music, speeches, me giving TED talk on one day etc erupt in my mind. Mind is really fascinating and also extremely imaginary. One of the topic I was thinking about today when I was heading home in my bike was about tomorrow's Bakrid festival.

Out of the very few festivals Muslims celebrate, Bakrid is one of those. Yes I was happy that there was long weekend. Happened to see a huge trucks carrying 100s of goats for tomorrow's festival. Me being hard core vegetarian, I always hated blood shed, except on Game Of Thrones. Now for people's yummy meal, there is a huge amount of massacre of the poor goats. Goats are scapegoats indeed. Never tasted the meat and not going to as well. But I have nothing against them eating meat.

I have few things to mention about Adarsh Liberals. Couple of days back, when I was browsing web, I saw a tradition where buffaloes were killed because of a tradition in Nepal. I also saw a huge furore about this inhumanity of Hindus by these Adarsh Liberals. If a poor animal is being sacrificed in the name of the God, Adarsh Liberals wake up and start a huge debate on that. But where are these Adarsh Liberals on the day of Bakrid ?? Double Standards indeed.

I am truly against cruelty on any animal, May it be Hindu traditions which kills goat or chicken in the name of the God or Islam which kills goat or chicken in the name of sumptuous meal on the auspicious day of festival or huge turkey killing in the name of Thanks Giving. I feel like asking why should some animals given some preference over others. Kill a stray dog , you will be given a bad stare at by people. Why don't people love hens,goats and sheep just like dogs and cats ?? All of them do have feelings right ?

I may have less apprehension on these eating meat . But I guess my logic is clear.