Showing posts with label Self development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self development. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Nomads: Aren't we all

The nomads are people who wander from place to place. It doesn't mean they are crazy. That is why they are called "no mads." Most civilizations in history were originally nomads, however they started settling after industrialization took place . They wander from place to place in the search of food, water and shelter. There are still many nomadic tribes in today's world-no joke.

However, I am not going to focus on that aspect of nomads today. I would like to discuss more about how people in established civilizations have started to live like nomads. Yes, it is kind of a new concept, or say a lifestyle, which people are choosing to live these days. I personally have no problems with this type of lifestyle and this is just a new perspective.

Since the old days one aspect of us human beings that is not stable is "the mind". It wanders and wanders to the new dimensions of knowledge and exploration. Due to this instability of the human mind the whole world ends up with the most structured civilization. Now, the funny thing with humans is every generation calls itself "the prefect generation". People have always claimed this, even since the Roman empire and one thing which always remained constant is development. This wandering mind of humans has given birth to so many discoveries and inventions. Moreover, generation after generation, humans became more intelligent. I mean look at us! How much we have developed since the age of barbarians to the age of embezzlers.


During this development each generation has discovered what they want for their world and what they want to pass on to the next generations. One aspect of life which all the generations have in common is pursuit of happiness and the definition of happiness changes from generation to generation.

What do people want in today's world? Independence and freedom.

All the people have one dream to have a good life and a safe future where they don't have to worry about old age. If these two fields are covered people feel so happy. However, this is what's making today's generation act like nomads. People wander form place to place; first, to get education so that they can build their skill sets and then they start moving from place to place to look for jobs. Yes, people in a industrialized world are not nomads because we live in concrete houses. However, if we examine closely we are no different then nomads . We both(i.e our self and nomads ) are on infinite journey to find the things which matter to us most.


Cheers
MS
P.S. If you love it or hated it or you think you are in between these two extremes please live a comment and let me know how you feel about this.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Networking With right minded people

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I once heard " Man is known by the company he keeps",trust me this is so true, I have personally experienced it. However, it doesn't mean people who are not in good company cannot do wonders. I always remember one saying one of my old friend use to "Man makes his own destiny" and that is true. But again what is destiny for one individual will not be destiny for other individual. Some people are satisfied with the mouthful of sky and some people wants whole sky and there is also a third type who doesn't know what they want. To be honest there is nothing wrong with being any of the three types. It is totally personal choice. However, in order to achieve right set of dreams and aspiration one need to hangout with people who have similar kind of vision. For example, if a person want to learn to play guitar and he goes and hangs out with athletes who want to play and exercise the chances for this person to learn guitar is very low because whenever he is surrounded by these friends he cannot focus on what he wants. This doesnt mean he cannot learn to play guitar if he wants it really bad yes he can make it happen. But hanging out with people with right mind set helps a lot.


To be continued .... (be back with more)