Saturday, August 21, 2010
Memoirs of ma lyf: From ambition to aspiration, from acquiring to bec...
Memoirs of ma lyf: From ambition to aspiration, from acquiring to bec...: "From ambition to aspiration, from acquiring to becoming. This is my topic for an All India Essay Competition. Though I have already submitte..."
From ambition to aspiration, from acquiring to becoming.
From ambition to aspiration, from acquiring to becoming.
This is my topic for an All India Essay Competition. Though I have already submitted it, but still I would like to have some feedback.:)
Ambition, aspiration, acquiring, becoming. The four steps to success. Since childhood; almost all of us nurture ambitions for our life. Ambition is the foundation stone of this process. It leads to an aspiration which propels us to gain something with our efforts and abilities. We need a reason which motivates us to work harder and harder to attain the goal we set out for. But the path towards it is not as smooth and simple as it seems to be.
Ambition is the desire for personal achievement. It provides the motivation and determination necessary to give directions in life.Ambitious people seek to be the best in what they choose to do for attainment of power or superiority. Acquired power can be wielded in the name of a vague or clear ideal or multiple ideals. When ambition is used to seek a clear ideal, it develops a close relationship to extremism. William Arthur Word had said, "If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can be it."
We all have a dream, but the difference is how we realize our dream. Throughout human history, many examples can be found of people who were extremely ambitious, for better or worse. The notorious Greek Herostraus had the ambition to become famous by destroying the Temple of Artemis.
To be good at any point of life is certainly not an easy task to accomplish. One has to go through an immense amount of hardship before attaining one's goal. As we are now living in a world which gets more competitive day by day, its important to scrutinize our wishes from different perspectives before getting started.
Ambition and its predominant theme of acquisition is being touted as the new ideal of an increasingly materialistic world. Prescribed as an indispensable prerequisite for 'success', it has long erased the virtue of aspiration from the minds of our youth. There has been a radical shift of mentality, a huge change in outlook and mindset of people. People were, and still are ambitious but what has changed is the manner of achieving our dreams, achieving 'success'. Its a matter of great pity that aspiration is lacking in today's youth. In the past, people used to meticulously plan their path and worked really hard to carve a niche for themselves through forward thinking and also the correct manner. But today, the whole situation has reversed. People tend to get attracted towards the shortcut rather than going for hard work. They want the easiest way possible, even if it requires treading the illegal and illegitimate path, no matter who might get hurt or trampled in that process to achieve 'success'.
( an easy way eh!!! ;) )
the proverb 'People worship the rising sun' is apt for the current scenario. The person on top has the largest number of followers. The worst part is that none of the followers are concerned about the scene behind the curtain i.e. the path taken by the sun is immaterial. Even the one upon a time hard working yester generation is also getting sucked up into the centroid of this trend. A recent advertisement by a popular tea brand showcases this phenomenon in an adept manner. A father is shown re-assuring his son not to feel low as he will get him admitted in an engineering college using money power. In a way, the elder is instilling in his ward that bribery and corruption can solve problems, and help attain 'success' without any toil. Alas! but this is situation world around today. Schools, colleges: engineering, medical - you name it, we have a shortcut for it. No wonder, bridges keep falling every now and then.
Aspiration plays a key role in development and molding of character as well as the personality. Characterized by a subtle yet firm will to achieve or become, aspiration advocates the pursuit of excellence as opposed to 'success'. Life is a race, where nobody remembers the person who comes second. But then if you are excellent, success will automatically follow us.
Ambition and aspiration can be seen as diametrically opposite manifestation of the soul's need to evolve. both when combined truly defines the human spirit. But the road taken no longer matters. At the end of the day, what matters is the kind of money and status we acquired, rather than how we acquired it.
This is my topic for an All India Essay Competition. Though I have already submitted it, but still I would like to have some feedback.:)
Ambition, aspiration, acquiring, becoming. The four steps to success. Since childhood; almost all of us nurture ambitions for our life. Ambition is the foundation stone of this process. It leads to an aspiration which propels us to gain something with our efforts and abilities. We need a reason which motivates us to work harder and harder to attain the goal we set out for. But the path towards it is not as smooth and simple as it seems to be.
Ambition is the desire for personal achievement. It provides the motivation and determination necessary to give directions in life.Ambitious people seek to be the best in what they choose to do for attainment of power or superiority. Acquired power can be wielded in the name of a vague or clear ideal or multiple ideals. When ambition is used to seek a clear ideal, it develops a close relationship to extremism. William Arthur Word had said, "If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can be it."
We all have a dream, but the difference is how we realize our dream. Throughout human history, many examples can be found of people who were extremely ambitious, for better or worse. The notorious Greek Herostraus had the ambition to become famous by destroying the Temple of Artemis.
To be good at any point of life is certainly not an easy task to accomplish. One has to go through an immense amount of hardship before attaining one's goal. As we are now living in a world which gets more competitive day by day, its important to scrutinize our wishes from different perspectives before getting started.
Ambition and its predominant theme of acquisition is being touted as the new ideal of an increasingly materialistic world. Prescribed as an indispensable prerequisite for 'success', it has long erased the virtue of aspiration from the minds of our youth. There has been a radical shift of mentality, a huge change in outlook and mindset of people. People were, and still are ambitious but what has changed is the manner of achieving our dreams, achieving 'success'. Its a matter of great pity that aspiration is lacking in today's youth. In the past, people used to meticulously plan their path and worked really hard to carve a niche for themselves through forward thinking and also the correct manner. But today, the whole situation has reversed. People tend to get attracted towards the shortcut rather than going for hard work. They want the easiest way possible, even if it requires treading the illegal and illegitimate path, no matter who might get hurt or trampled in that process to achieve 'success'.
( an easy way eh!!! ;) )the proverb 'People worship the rising sun' is apt for the current scenario. The person on top has the largest number of followers. The worst part is that none of the followers are concerned about the scene behind the curtain i.e. the path taken by the sun is immaterial. Even the one upon a time hard working yester generation is also getting sucked up into the centroid of this trend. A recent advertisement by a popular tea brand showcases this phenomenon in an adept manner. A father is shown re-assuring his son not to feel low as he will get him admitted in an engineering college using money power. In a way, the elder is instilling in his ward that bribery and corruption can solve problems, and help attain 'success' without any toil. Alas! but this is situation world around today. Schools, colleges: engineering, medical - you name it, we have a shortcut for it. No wonder, bridges keep falling every now and then.
Aspiration plays a key role in development and molding of character as well as the personality. Characterized by a subtle yet firm will to achieve or become, aspiration advocates the pursuit of excellence as opposed to 'success'. Life is a race, where nobody remembers the person who comes second. But then if you are excellent, success will automatically follow us.
Ambition and aspiration can be seen as diametrically opposite manifestation of the soul's need to evolve. both when combined truly defines the human spirit. But the road taken no longer matters. At the end of the day, what matters is the kind of money and status we acquired, rather than how we acquired it.
Monday, August 16, 2010
D bst frns of ma lyf..............
I consider myself the fortunate person in this world. I have been blessed with true, awesome friends at each and every stage of my life. Today, I Sweta Nair, dedicate this blog to all those friends of mine who have been with me for the past 17 years and have promised that they will always be there for me.
Jithu, Ayush and Kartika. The first friends of my life. And guess what today we 4 are in different states of India and yet we still are the best of friends :). And, one of them is going tomorrow for higher studies :(. m all alone here!!!!!
I'll start with Jithu. GOD!!!!!!! A guy wid so much mood-swings. Our friendship is more like a silent film, I would say. Its like, he shares evrything with me but on my side, I never have to speak up. It is more or less understood. Last two years we were in the same wacko section in school, and it was such funnn!!!! From assignments to practicals to projects, we copied everything from each other.LORD!!! it was such WOW!!!!
I miss those ol' times so much.
Ayush.My 'best-est' friend. The whole world might leave me alone, but I am 100% sure that dis guy will stand beside me, with me, supporting me. Ours is a friendship which has stood the test of time.Well, it started in Nursery-C and still on.... We have fought, I think twice.. ya twice.Though, first time around it was my fault-cum-stupidity dat we did not talk for 3 years!!! IMAGINE!!! but den we patched up and again dis year we fought like dogs!! :). As usual, we are back to square one.The best part is that whenever I log on to Facebook, I know that he will be online. Had it not been for his internet-addict tendency, I would have got bored of Facebook and Orkut a long time agooooooooo. But d sad part is that he is leaving tomorrow :'(
Have fun 'cHECKy' and dare you forget to gimme your new number.
P.S : d most patient, most tolerant, least angered person in the world has to be him. Our still being friends is a proof .;)
Kartika. She is another saint of a girl. Mild, soft-spoken, cute, sweet.. well there isn't enough words to describe her. Breaking News : she got the 2nd rank in her college for B.com. Studious girl. There is no such secret of each other that we don know about. Precisely, we are each others safety lockers. God only knows what would have happened if some good guy had not made Facebook and Orkut!!!!! hope to see you soon my sweetheart!! <3
SPECIAL MENTION : sOUMYa kEJRIWAl
Kudos to her. She kept me sane during the last two years of my school. First day of standard 11 I experienced something short of a heart attack.52 boys and 6 girls, 5 of which were gone cases. then one fine day she came into the class, looking sober and calm-like. Initially she was a H.C.V Verma worm but later as we came to know each other, we started having blast. Though 11 was not a high, but 12 was the highest. Many of my best school memories are with her. From physics practicals to chem practical to AD mam's class to USP sir's calss. The day I had made her bunk a class was simply WOW!!! with mam trying her level bst to find us :) [though she failed miserably]. And all those ronaldo tlaks and my doodles.. its still freh in my memory as if it happened yesterday. I miss you so so much :)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
My first blog
15 Aug, 2010. This day marks two important things. First, India has completed 63 years of its independence and secondly, today after over an year of this blogs creation, i will be publishing my first blog :) . Of course, I am excited, why I shoud not be!!! Well honestly, i remembered about my blog today while watching uninor [v] ROOMIES. So here I am, writing my first ever blog and its feeling good.
I woul like to start with my introduction. I am Sweta Nair , a 17 year old girl. At times I can be fun like hell and sometimes I might be an irritatingly introvert, though the latter part quite often happens. Three weeks ago, I stated my college. It ROckS!!!!!!!! This much for now, more in my next blog :)
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