Cauldron of Thoughts...

Recently, I saw this movie 'Stranger than Fiction'...It revolves around a man named Harold Crick,a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations. His routine is very rigid, guided by his wristwatch. Everyday he'd brush his 32 teeth 76 times, 38 times back and forth, 38 times up and down. Every weekday for 12 years, he'd run at speed of 57 steps per block for 6 blocks, barely catching the 8.17 bus to work, which involved reviewing tax files. Basically, he had a monotonous, humdrum life! It got me thinking! (Though it wasn't at all about what I'm going to blog on! It was about how this man later finds out that he is a protagonist of a story being written by an author elsewhere.Whatever she writes, comes out to be true.But I happened to watch 'Colours of India' on Discovery Channel the same day while flipping through the channels.) It got me thinking that here in India, we people have such a vibrant, colourful life.Anyone travelling here wouldn't t...

Sometimes I get this thought..that it is the fear to under-perform that bothers me and limits me at times, by which i do not mean fear to under-perform in others' eyes (That really doesn't bother me so much) ..but my own.. I fear that I may just fail to effectuate a task with 'that' level of perfection...Perfection is a very relative term I feel.. varies from person to person..Perfection is basically achieving the standards you've set for yourself..which obviously can never be same for two individuals.. And I've been fighting this fear like hell...Complicated!!??!! I've been trying not to think of results prior to doing something.. Well, I believe in doing whatever I do with perfection..not that I achieve it always..but I can say I do aim at it..whether I get it or not (though I believe forces in universe ensure that you get that something you really 'want') and I easily get annoyed when I come across people who actually start off a task with ...