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If this does not make sense to you, forget it. Photography is not for you.
Priyums, i did not understand when you asked me to forget about the feedbacks or the lack of it and do things just for the heck of it. i understand now. Maybe i was just trying to impress all and sundry and consequently was frustrated when i could not perceive their positive reaction. Maybe the feedback thing is just a sham. A shield erected by me so that none can see through.You managed to see through.
After reading Gapingvoid.com, its beginning to make sense.
It was my job and i was expecting feedback. Nobody gives feedback on brushing teeth every morning, do they?
Hurray! The depression that engulfed my psyche is at last reaching its final days. Well, how do I know that? From the way karthik has been bombarding his friends’ mail boxes with all the goody content available on the wwweb in the last few days.
Suddenly I am finding all the good things. Life is showing me its brighter side. I am listening or rather I am able to listen to and enjoy wonderful songs. I get appreciated at work.
So, does that mean the things that caused the depression have vacated their stay? Nah. It’s just that I have grown over my problems.
Bad. I searched for ‘prabukarthik’ in google and for once its giving a result in fropper.com and I, to my shock, found another living soul by name prabukarthik. Looks like i am not alone after all.
It was one of those rare instances where I did not mind waiting longer in the Q for petrol. All because of a song played in FM radio.
The song : “Asai adhigam vachu” in the film ‘Marupadiyum’.
Ilayaraaja would have given a very different feel for that song.
Listening to that mapped me to Balu Mahendra’s scintillating, realistic cinematography that makes it truly timeless and unforgettable.
In recent times, I was bowled over by the song “Kadhalikka assai illai” in the film “Chellamae”. Nobody had used Blue Gradient better than K V Anand.
Man essentially is a set of emotions and feelings. However much we seem to study, learn and analyze, our primordial instincts, feelings and emotions govern our personality and decision making.
Resonance is one of the magic of emotions. At a particular level, we can make our friend cry when we cry, laugh when we laugh. Nothing else explains our love for cinema, literature, music, humor etc.
The best part about emotions is it can be manipulated – in us as well as in others.
It seems like yesterday. Six months back, on Aug. 13th, 2004, I left Accurum for greener pastures. The team, the boss, the company as such evokes fond memories in me. I had to leave after a lot of convincing from inside me. I kind of had to prove myself that I can move. Good people can really make you dependent and addictive. You can’t have enough of them.
I remember the day I joined there. It was a fairytale in its own way. The initial struggles to establish in a team that had too many smart people. The consolidation phase and then the cake walk. I did not go to college for long, but Pinnacle (later Accurum.) compensated to some extent.
My exit from school had been unceremonious. I left as soon as I got my 12th mark sheet. I will always carry within me the send off I got from Accurum. I will remember the way Johnson almost cried that day. I knew I quit royally. It’s a feeling of getting it right and still a mild regret for having done so.
Hmm. I don’t know when exactly this thought crept into my mind. Maybe, it’s been there for a while. I was not aware of it though.
The more I think about it the more valid it looks.
For all my nice qualities I think I need to be much more disciplined.
I think about the projects I have in mind.
The books I want to write, the website I want to build. The plans for the future and the time I had been devoting towards it.
There is a lot of gap to be filled I guess. Let me see how to go about it.
After my research with this Multi-level marketing thing, i am getting more and more hooked up by the process of secondary research.
I was working on our company’s corporate presentation. That was when it struck me. Like all organization’s corp. presentation, may be we too should have our own presentation and presentation template.
It should have our own identity, the values we stand for, the standards, the code of conduct, the philosophy, the religion.
Sure, we all can take the content from the existing sources available, but all the copy pasted content should again be tailored to suit our needs.
And just like Corporate Presentations, we should subject our life templates to scrutiny by us periodically. Just to make the minor tunings/shifts and adjustments as and when the need arises.
Agreed it is all a pain. But I guess it is all worth it.
But sometimes the most straightforward way happens to be the smartest way too.