Our "world" - people sense, people awareness

My two year old was asking to see the usual Disney stuff on Youtube when we landed on 'A whole new world' from Aladdin. I was reminded of the beautiful song I heard in my teens and played it for her. She immediately pointed her index finger to the screen and said "Mommy - Daddy". Wow! So she thought Mommy and Daddy look like Jasmine and Aladdin?!!! Or maybe there was a bigger compliment involved here - maybe she meant to say "Mommy and Daddy mean the world to me".

This brought a whole swarm of thoughts :

1. When did I last tell my parents they meant the world to me?

2. What, or rather Who, indeed means the "world" to me? and lastly,

3. How aware am I of the "world" around me?

This has nothing to do with philosophy and everything to do with a useful trait called people sense or people awareness - how much we recognise the presence of other people in our life, people around us.

Some people have this naturally. These are the people who will immediately rise to bring a glass of water when someone in the gathering coughs for long. Others, like me, need to be conditioned to acquire this trait. The Irish are born with it. They will need to say atleast a "Hi" to anyone who comes within a couple of arms length distance - how can you just ignore the presence of another person, whoever they are? If the technical sense of the Indians and the people sense of the Irish are combined into one person, he / she will most definitely be a genius.

So, maybe the next time we'll pop our busy heads out of our i-phones / i-pads / laptops or whatever, and try to be a little more aware of the "world" around us?

Choose action in thought vs. action

This is of course, my first blog post. And like many bloggers, I put a title which immediately came to my mind - choose action in thought vs. action.

Yeah I know what you're going to tell me - what's the use of mindless action? It will only make you regret later after the act is done. But its here that I am reminded of a scene from the movie "Karma" where Anil Kapoor is grinning over Dilip Kumar's advise that you need to think before you shoot. He just proceeds to say "Budhaoo keh riya hai, pehle socho, samjho, phir goli chalaao - arrey tab tak to dushman goli maar ke chalaa jaayega - marvaaega budhaoo". Ha ha, but yes, there are "reflex action" circumstances in life where the act is required before the thought even flows through the brain.

I am also reminded of a short course I attended in human relations where it was discussed that actions follow feelings. So if you regulate the actions which are more directly under your control than the feelings, the feelings fall in line. So there you are - one more argument in favour of action.

Action was also backed in one of the 'linkedin' articles I read, which sort of advised that in uncertain business atmosphere, the best strategy is to "Act" on what seems the best course and then try to increase the gains or minimise the losses, rather than to sit and wait for the atmosphere to become favourable for action. Now I don't know how sound a business advice that is, but it seems logical.

And last but not the least, this blog post is a result of action - I acted, and the thoughts started flowing........

Love,

A woman of action