What we are and how we act.

I have spent time understanding what is it that makes us what we are. What makes us do what we think, what makes us write and the whole panoply of activities we do everything... why some people dont think.. why some people do it.. what's the use of thinking as well. I want to decipher life itself both at the psychological level and at the molecular level.


It gives me incredible passion to go deep down those thoughts to understand them. It also gives me great pleasure to write what I think because each time I do, this is what happens to me:

This is an example to illustrate the feeling:

Someone comes in front of a crowd and shouts.. I am rich! He thought he was rich. He was convinced he was rich! But at the moment he said it in front of people.. he realised that ..he was not really as rich he thought he was. And at this moment only.. he redefined his thoughts and had a better image of what he really was thinking.

Each time I have talked to people about my ideas, I have realised that I either had to adapt it, or I had change it fundamentally in a way it confused myself in what I was trying to say and what I must say or try to say. It's like an adult trying to explain sex to a child. The adult has to change what he wants to say a lot.

So I think that each time we try to expose our thoughts to people.. the thought can be critically affected and may change totally from what it initially was.. because the aim at the point of talking.. is to convince.. And it is hard to convince someone about things.. if you know this person will not take your idea with the same passion. And I concede that trying to expose wisdom to people.. affects the person who is delivering the idea. It puts into question many things.

Throughout my life I will continue to evolve my ideas and refine them and put them to the challenge it needs to better understand them.

But I will say strongly it is a risk to talk your ideas to a large audience. Life is designed in such a way that certain things simply cannot be transmitted since the reasons you will advance will make no sense to someone else. There are things that will come and show up that will always blow the ideas to pieces even tho if they are true.

But nevertheless I want to understand them and put light on them.

I have always had a need to understand certain aspects of life and human behaviour. I want to embark the person reading my blog on a great journey of thoughts and ideas.

It is very difficult to do it because it times it stretches what I am from what others are.. and it disbalances the order of my ideas.

But I go from the principle that if other people did not write what they knew.. each one of us would need to reinvent the wheel each time and it would take a long time for people to develop.

Time and focus

Many of us thinking that tomorrow we will do the work we have been planning. Few of us actually develop this urgency within us to get the things we think done. We simply think we will get it done alright. And we keep on waiting and waiting till something really really bad urges us to work.

We dont have any of such problems when we want to play a game. Or when we want to watch a great movie. Why?

It is all down to want. If we want to do, we do it. Sometimes we want to do something but we do not do it, why? This is because we have confused wanting and wishing.

I wish to play piano. I wish to really master it. But I never actually get it done. My brother learnt the piano all by himself and he can even play Mozart with eye closed.

In contrast, I really want to learn as many language as I can. I learn German. My brother has no interest at all in German even if I told him how useful it can be.

So ability is never a crucial reason why we actually do something. It is how the mind perceives its usefulness to us.

The reason why I put the time life of the eminent people I wanted to discover each day is to show we cant wait to do what we want to do. Actually it is simple. If we are doing anything instead of something else..then that thing is what you want to do more.

Many people find themselves playing a game at a time he was supposed to finish a homework. He wished the homework was done, but yet he plays his game. He wants to play the game more than finishing his work. For him to shift from playing should he shift his interest more from game to work? I dont believe at all in such philosophy.

As humans we are not only work. This is very important. If we simply keep shifting all our desires to work hoping to work better or more we will end up destroying ourselves. We will easily stress up and kill ourselves.

So the idea is never to want the work more. The idea is to plan. I like to play game more than working. If I plan my day well I can finish my work then I can play as much as I want. This one is so much more constructive mindset. However many people do this: the more time they can get to work the more they succeed. The more they succeed the higher they need to achieve. So they clearly see that they are trapping themselves and they stress up and blow.

So explain how we go around this problem I will have to elaborate on another issue then link up the idea with this one.

Living in the philosophy that tomoro will be the day to achieve instead of today is a bad one...because one such tomorrow or one such later we will die with 100% certainty. We dont exist for eternity on earth. it is important to realise this. It is like pain. We do not care about it until we feel it. the same goes for death. Many people become wise at the time they will die. Never before. But it is too late.

In life if we chose to be in such and such ways then we have simply chosen to be this way given this set of circumstance. Given the fact that all lives are different, I believe that it is useless to look at the higher opportunities that others have got and complain about it. Because we are different. Many people will end up comparing your achievements with that of others. You are to feel good or bad depending on what others have achieved. This is a fake concept. It is important never to scale achievement and to make it relative. Achievement needs to be seen as absolute.

Something that is very stricking is this: people tend to look at you the way you look at yourself.
The reason is simple. You will try to project to people what you think bout yourself. So this iw what people see and this is what people think about you.

Another stricking thig is this: some people tend to say that they dont care about what people think of them. How dangerous is this. IF you stop caring about what people think of you, you will stop trying to show to people who you are. When you do this, you will just never be able to know who you are. So in the end you simply destroy your own image or never make it. What people think of you is the ultimate mirror.

I also believe this: the amount we can achieve by looking at possibilities is so much bigger than impossibilities. If impossibilities are really impossibilities then why waste time dawdling on them?

For instance wishing that I was born rich is impossible. But wishing that I land a top job that completely fulfils me is possible. Then if I change my focus from what is impossible to what is possible I clearly increase the chance that I achieve it.

Another example why many people simply fail to do what they can do:

Many teams say they want to win the championship at the beginning of the season. After 10 matches one or two favourites lose enough points to make them seriously under pressure.

IF their mind is now focussed 100% on winning the championship which is clearly impossible their mind will give them all the time a wrong feeling preventing them all the way from giving their best. This is why when things are 100% impossible you find some teams playing incredible football, just because for a big span of time they had been foccusin on what they cannot do. Some small teams play incredibly well only when they are losing. If only they were realist about what they can do and focus on only what they can do, they may possibly achieve what they thought they could not. Anyway you cant achieve what you yourself think you cant.

So it is important to give the mind focus on what it thinks it can, rather on what it thinks it cannot.


So we can come back to getting things done. The reason why many people simply get stuck on a work is this: they have put unrealistic aims. The aim is now a wall he has to cross. The work is itself a hurdle. They put aims taller than the work so they end up not jumping it and the work stalls.

The art of getting things done is to think in terms of what can be done instead of what cannot be done. We need to have a clear idea of time and really gauge the possibilities and priorities. Work more along the possibilities to get things done. Even if we imagine something really incredible and almost impossible to achieve, if only we think on doing the possible we not only get things done but we put ourselves in a better position to achieve what we thought was impossible.

Never try to achieve the impossible. This is a fake concept. If it is impossible how can you achieve it?? But you will have my full support if you try to make the impossible possible. Very crucial nuances that help to focus the mind onto productive things.

Never focus on what is impossible., never even look at it. It is useless. It produces nothing good and wastes a hell lot of mental energy.

There is no limit to what the mind desires. So we end up most of the time with lots of unrealistic aims in them mind that prevent us from moving. Always ask yourself is that goal am looking at possible or not? If impossible put it out. Look at possible stuffs because of the simple concept that you CANNOT achieve what you think is impossible.

I have put a lot of impossible aims in my life only to come at a point and see that I would have achieved more if I did 1 % of what is possible. I remember saying I want to learn 1 piano song a day. After 5 months I not only did less than 10, I also forgot all I learnt because of discouragement.

The solution?

I simply need to shift my goal from objective wise to point wise. Instead of saying I do 1 everyday, I say if I master one, I will try to master another one. Simple.

The same for my german. Instead of saying after each 4 years a new language. I tell myself if I manage to master german, I will learn a new language..maybe Chinese.

Immediately in my mind I have done something huge. I have shifted an unlimited pattern that will never stop to one that can stop.

I have caused my mind to look at learning a new language as something I must complete to go to the next. This is what will make me finish it and more to the next.

The mind likes to achieve A goal. It cannot achieve a goal in perpetuation. It never will. When setting our goals we need to make it a clear definite point that is not in perpetuation.

Examples of goals in perpetuation:
-I want to be rich.
-I want to learn as many musics I can
-I want to learn as many languages as I can
-I want to have as many friends as I can
-I want to win as many trophies as I can


can be changed into point goals that simply changes everything:
- If I manage to earn 40 000 dollars a year I will try to achieve 50 000 dollars next year. This is beautiful. It simply makes all the difference. Simple. Do not say..when I achieve 50 000 I will aim 60 000 and so on. This will make it a goal in perpetuation and kill the goal the moment you thought it. Project your goals into what you think is possible-ALWAYS.

Become someone who achieves what he can. Let people see you achieve things that they thought you could not. (because anything you will do ..impossible or not should be possible at any point in time. It was only you thinking it was impossible. And if you continue to aim at what is impossible in your mind you will simply achieve nothing at all.)

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-If I can learn one music I will learn another one.
-If I can make one good friend, I will try to make another one.
-If i can win one trophy I will try to win the trophy again next year. >>Instead of saying I will win all trophies year in year out by doing this and that. There are advantages thinking this way but the disadvantages are deathly. Such thoughts clearly help to think big and take big initiatives on the long term, but if they are unrealistic... during work out small failures cause bigger impact on moral which can kill all chances of success.

There is also important things like saying you do this and all will be fine in your life are examples of perpetuation. You often find this in proverbs. And more often than not you find dozens of proverbs coming up on the same issue by the same people. Only because perpetuation does not work. You have a problem X. You tell yourself you will fight this problem by doing this. However you do the mistake of thinking that this way of doing things will solve all your problems. This is perpetuation. You must instead say that doing this will solve this problem. Simple end of story. Avoid perpetuating your life...unless maybe if you wish to stay fix. Life is incredible. We can be anywhere in life and there is always room for improvement and it always need more strength and vision to reach. So matter what we think today, tomoro we will always need to think in better ways to achieve higher goals. So there will always be new problems simply because we are at position x in life and not y. And to move from x to y we need to be stronger. So our mental structures need to resist the pressures of the higher demand.

Mauritius

I have been living the major portion of my youth life on this Island. My ancestors came from India. They were brought by the whites to work as slaves. So am the descendant of a slave. Actually those people left their homelands in search of a better life. They endured a perilous and deathly journey to come here. I owe those people a lot. Our generation represents an emerging generation enjoying better freedom compared to previous ones. But due to massive brain drain in this country our best talents keep on moving away so this country will keep on having to re-invent the wheel for some generations to come. However, I can only be grateful to all it gave me. Free education till the tertiary level and very affordable tertiary education represented a gateway for any child who wants to come out of poverty. Recently I have started to take pictures of this Island famously baptised by Mark Twain as "Paradise Island". The beach, the mountains, the people...

Mauritius is about 800km to the east of Madagascar. It forms part of the Mascarene group which includes Reunion and Rogrigues. The Mascarene group apparently got its name from the Portuguese Don Pedro de Maceranhas who visited the Islands is 1512. However the Arabs had visited the Island first.

Well it was the Dutch who killed all our Dodos making this species to become extinct in the world. I thank them , otherwise the dodo would never have become popular :P However from a zoological point of view it is amazing this bird got on only on our Island which itself got formed by volcanic activity.


Its plateau is about 500 m above sea level. Its highest mountain is the Piton du Milieu (828m) high.

About half the population consists of Hindus. The rest are Roman Catholics, Muslims and Chinese etc.

This country gained its independance from English colonisation on the 12 MArch 1968. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam who had a remarkable and inspiring vision which led to its independence. He is the father of our nation. However has the fate of this country in our own hands been better? I will not enter a political debate on this.

The economy of the country is relying massively on Tourism at the moment since the cultivation of Sugarcane is becoming unprofitable with the rise of labour cost. The economy is particularly low at the moment suffering from large inflations bordering the 9%.


The economy of this country will sustain itself for 10 years more maybe but in my view it will be very hard to pull the strings in the next decade due to relatively poor economy and political management.

My perception of reality.

What's the point of being owner of a multi billion business when you have no idea where you came from. As a teenager I asked myself a lot of questions about life. I will believe we are product of a thought. A mind. Where this mind comes from I have no inkling. But that it conceived everything am prepared to believe. If I can put into image my whole idea lets look at a seed. It is small. It is round for most. Put it inside the earth and by extremely wonderful processes it builds up into a fruit bearing tree. Remember it was only a pea sized round and dry object. In a similar mechanism vastly more complex, life came into existence. The aim of it was to have humans living on it. Everything was tailor designed for human life. For human evolution.. for human thoughts to develop. In short it was put up to challenge human thinking. All the time there is a blanket of human thinking rising...all the time pushing the potential of thoughts. All thoughts in a way are interlinked at the moment am thinking. I say this because of my observation of common goals among civilization. Common pursuit. I dont know exactly what causes common pursuit but for me it means that human thoughts are related and we are always pushing its limit. We are all pushing its limit.

If I can put it in this way, there is no race. There is no reason at all in "personal achievement". We are all contributing in pushing the limit of thinking in which ever field we may be. Everything has been planned. We are evolving all the time. When we sleep, the Chinese have evolved because they are not sleeping. When the Chinese are sleeping the Americans have evolved because they were not sleeping. So we are perpetually evolving. Our babies will exhibit better and better development possibilities as evolution continues. This will continue for an endless period. Many predict this will stop by some collapse of our environment or by war. But as space exploration continues humans will find means to continue its existence. Recent discoveries have proven human can exist on the moon of Saturn. (Titan). This is not fiction. But humans have thought that they can sustain living under the water of Titan. But we are not there yet, but I really believe in a few centuries humans would have settled on other planets and moved in space. Without forgetting the long existance of our cosmos, without forgetting the long existance of our earth, human existance is VERY recent. So I think humans will be existing for maybe a time span like 10 0000 years. By then I think they would have occupied a huge portion of the universe. In short I want to say we are living a generation of technology and massive development but in contrast to what will happen in 10 000 years we have seen nothing yet.

Coming back to earthly matters, I will always explain things this way: from 0 to 22 you are the product of your environment. You may decide to change later on to what you want to be when you change your environment. This is universal logic : A donkey cannot become a horse if it was conceived by two donkeys. Am very sorry for those born short or ugly but for me it has no relevance towards the purpose of human life. Your achievements count. I am also among those who believe that when you die nothing remains. We disappear completely and we are remembered by those who continue to live. Maybe we are absorbed into this originating mind, I cannot be sure. But what I know for sure is that we disappear completely. There is nothing as such called karma or re birth. Life has incredible intelligence to create what it thinks will help it to survive.

It is no wonder mundane activities will not interest me much because my interest is in the metaphysics, but still these are the basis of human existance as we spring from a feudalistic age to an advanced age which will perpetually metamorphose.

The purpose of life was to challenge human logic. Intelligence of mankind in every form is the point of life in my humble opinion, whether it be on small disputes to scientific or technological revolutions. Following this logic, in my view we will be confronted to big environmental problems at a time we have the capacity to solve the problem. We will also face the problem of extra spacial earth threat at a time we have the potential to solve it.

A simple question to be used as reflexion of my above theory, why were woman of the past not as beautiful as woman of the present? This is it, we are constantly creating our own challenges. The mind is the trigger for everything. Life is a complex kaleidoscope creating a world of challenge for different minds. It is a blanket which functions holistically by virtue of heuristic components.

Beginnings..

Hello everyone visiting this blog. Am VERY enthusiastic about writing this blog and it gives me some thrill inside about putting it up as it gives me a unique sense of tactile delimitation of my life.

My first encounters with blogs were not successful but I think it will have a decent thrust now that I have got my passion and desire to write again. I feel free to decide on many things, something which was not really possible some time back.

I will put it this way. My life starts at 22 years. It is like I took a train, I fell asleep, and when I woke up I realised am 22 years old. And I asked myself, "oh shit, what have I done of my life?" What happened? Well basically I lived inside a shell of expectations like a massive ignorant. Thinking that the world will open to me like a pack of chocolate. Talking of chocolates, am just reminded that am a chocoholic... ;) But no, life is not like this. Life is what we cannot define at all, it will always have its dose of mystery. And maybe I will hear myself saying one day, am 44 years now and am waking up to a new living because I just woke up. Well it turns out that life is about exploring all the time new horizons and learning all the time. And the best of all is to blog it.



 

I was born in Zimbabwe! And yup thats me as a baby. Both my parents are Mauritians. They went to work in Zimbabwe and I think I just dropped from a tree and fell into their hands. I also have a 2 years my junior brother.

Well on time lines we always have major dates. Just like BC and AD! I put such marks on 22 years. The time prior to this I was always under strange parental and society pressure. I never could actually decide for myself what I want to be. I have plainly drawn a line at the 22yrs stage. After this everything will be and has been different. The part before was when I was a kid under much parental oppression. "It feels like: "Now watch what I am when I really am myself fully :)" Many things have simply gone missing in my life but towards my more mature years all these will look very small as I muscle big initiatives to stamp down and erase youth fallouts deceptions. Am glad that many things have fallen in place to give me the leverage to get to at a new higher level in my life.

I was a student of John Kennedy College, Beau Bassin. I went to the Aryan Vedic primary school, then my ranking for CPE sent me to the above mentioned state college. It was the third best college in the country. But many regard it to be the second category compared to the the "Royals College". Nevertheless, I spent the most memorable times of my life there even tho it was not laden by a lot of activities. I felt like it was my home. Even tho it was not the greatest and most well known group of all time I still think my class was very special. Am a very philosophical guy, often drawn into the metaphysical. Those thoughts are responsible for making me realize that there is a lot to do.

Well after school ..it was time for university. *Coughs* Let me not describe how unprepared I was. All I knew is that my parents have funds only for the local university. It was a very bad option for me. I went very reluctantly there and I paid a very high price for this. I never managed to like the atmosphere around the university and I quickly lost interest in my own life. Why this happened is maybe because I had other expectations. I failed lamentably year in year out. Until after 3 years of painful dragging into a system I could not fit in, I finally quit. After I quit I felt like a pang of relief. "Phew!! now am free." Am planning to go to a new university, while my ambition is set I still need to see how things will turn up.

Well everything looks set here to have what I can call "une vie de passage." A sort of life that comes by and no one noticed. In other words , a sort of life that came as unnoticeable as it went. My mother tongue was English. You cant imagine how much I hate this creole language in my country. Nothing can be done to ban this language. It is an insulting language for the islanders and is used to muscle out intellectualism. IF I were PM I would ban this language.

..A very difficult childhood, I still feel proud that I lived through it and that am prepared now to live a life of fulfillment by making every moment of my life a special time to remember. My childhood is a very simple one. It had nothing at all extraordinary. It fact it was so "meaningless" that I felt a revolt to change this. I had spent a huge portion of my childhood leisure time inside the stone crusher at the back of my house. If I could build something back I would build this place again. It exists no more. Many things have been washed out of my childhood. I see the relation of time and my life like a sea shore.

Am the second from the right. The third from the right is my brother. The others are people I have a lot of emotion but who may mean nothing to me now. Few people have stayed around me for long.


22 for me is a golden age and an age to remember. It marks a milestone in my life. For me this age is the start of a new era. I step into my adulthood at 22 years, now it is me who dictates my life. And I plan to lead it my way. The man I will be tomoro will depend massively on what I start doing as from now. I decided to put true meaning to my life at 22.