Afterthoughts

Very few can remain impervious to the allure of success and its axillary (The Feel Good factor ofcourse) and I have no intention whatsoever to join their ranks not just yet.
Well how does one figure out what it is you can be really good at? Do you just keep looking till you discover your true calling or am I getting too metaphorical here?

Take my case , I am a masters in biochemistry, dabbled in corporate reaserch for a year and was learning the ropes when I had to shift to the Clinical side , Central Laboratory of a 350 bedded hospital!!!
Saying the job is a lil on the monotonous side would be the understatement of the decade if not the century. To satisfy my urge to do something more constructive with my time I take classes where I unleash my version of biochemistry on a batch whose attention is captured by whether the syllabus gets over in time or not.
Life was just going on fine when one day and completely out of the blue I started blogging and Viola discovered it was too much to my liking.Its a lot of fun, my creative musings have found an outlet, no boss, no constraints,
I can be a word churning machine one day and hit a writer's block the next day, Ah the joys of uncertainty.
It does definitely make me feel good but I would like it more if the quotient got upped a lil bit, I mean I aint hear no deafening applause here he he.
The only blip on my seemigly perfect radar is how to get people to read my blogs? Friends and family are going to be the obvious unsuspecting victims but how do I navigate away from them and widen my nets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any suggestions????????

The Feel Good Factor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Feel Good Factor( FGF) is fast becoming ubiquitous ,staring at us from giant billboards, newspaper and television ads with the advertising honchos doing their darndest best to convince us that their products will make us feel good.
"To feel good you need to look good" this perpetual myth will be milked to its last drop by the billion dollar industry it feeds.

To me it offers a fascinating peek into the human psyche,its not only the driving force but also the cornerstone in the elusive search for happiness.

Think about it, every single thing we do is dictated by the innate desire to excel, to leave a mark, to stand out from the crowd.
Why do we crave for success so much? coz along with the innumerable perks it brings in its wake the indomitable magic potion of recognition and appreciation from the peers, family and the whole wide world , its a powerful aphrodisiac!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Boy! It must be an exhilarating and totally addictive high when people around you cant stop raving about your work and the moolah starts flowing in.
Must be motivation enough for workaholics to keep working round the clock like zombies.
Researchers will attribute this high to a chemical concoction of adrenalins and endorphins released into the blood stream at just the right time !!
Just imagine a small dose administered intravenously or in a fruit will do the trick but nah it just wont be the same.
You have to work your ass off doing something you really like to get the real kick and FEEL GOOD!! :)

Resolutions

The Creative juices are flowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two posts in as many days should be adequate proof that I am now well past the dreaded ignition mode.

Well I usually start off with the best of intentions and resolve solemnly that I will stick to them or atleast take it to its logical conclusion but more often than not I would have wandered a little off track even before I have realised it.

Have lost count of the no. of times I started to keep a diary only to find it a year or two later with entries made only in the first few pages.
Exercise and trying to keep up a beauty regimen of some sort have met with the same fate.
As a discerning and conscientious individual( Well I can always resolve to be one) I set about to do a Why does this happen all the time analysis
This smacks of lack of indiscipline, the will to go on and on and on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a case of acute indisposition threatening to assume alarmingly chronic proportions .

Hey wait a second or maybe it could be that I am a free soul and sticking to these resolutions (though altogether not too disagreeable) will change the very essence of my soul and when I break away from all this trappings I am subconsciously doing myself a big favour , going about life the way I want to.

Now you know How I can wriggle my way out of anything(which is self imposed in the first place).

Height of Laziness

Hellooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had signed up for this space in the bloggers world sometime around march with all the zeal in the world and the indulgent belief that there is a writer hidden in me just lurking beneath the surface waiting for a chance to spring out from oblivion to fame and posterity he he and here I am five months down the line and the blogspot still awaits its first posting.

I have always yearned for that kickstart approach which gets you going but invariably I end up becoming a perennial victim of the starting problem ok enough of my making up excuses let me start rolling.

There is absolutely no dearth of burning current issues these days , reservation fiasco that is being foisted on a hapless but defiant student community in India,the resurgence of threat of terror in the skies, young south Asians esp the muslims having to bear the brunt of a new breed of racial discrimination, Israel wreaking havoc on Lebanon,India's foreign policy going for a toss with all the kowtowing to the Big B on the nuclear front and I happen to have an opinion on each of them but keep it to myself which is quite normal as I belong to the passive species of this world.

However amidst all this turmoil the one thing that lingers on in my mind is the growing mass hysteria about supposed miracles. Is it because deep down we recognise the fact that we are mere mortals and need to believe in the power of the supreme being.