Life Is What You Make It, Is It Really?

Few days back I went through a novel "Life is What you make it" by Preeti Shenoy a beautiful novel depicting life of a meritorious girl who makes it to the best management school of country and all of a sudden she loses all she has achieved and ends up in medical institute and then story stretches telling us about her recovery and how she makes it with her courage and determination and spends a normal life. But the million dollar question is everyone have a choice on how he/she would live his/her life or rather we are dictated by our destiny.
Well few will say yes, it is upto us how we want to lead our life. Everyone of us can and have choice to make our life a hell or heaven.
But what I feel is,it is very difficult to make our life What we want it to be, as it is governed by thousands of factor which are not in our hand.

Last 6 months

It have been quite a long time, since I wrote something and really this 6 months had been most crucial part of my life including some experience which have changed my perception of life. This time should have been the best time of my college life. But something came up, making it more than a hell for me. Now, I don't know what will happen next, whether I would have to live with it just like I have to with my shadow or I will get some light so that I can get away with it. This I cannot forecast because it is something where logic's don't work.
But this period had me much stronger, much tolerant and much else.
Well, now I will make it a little regular for all my readers out their. 

Ice Cream

Ice cream a word which brings hunger, no matter how much I already had. And why not because it activates pleasure zones of our brain. But then all my readers(which I know are not more) will think what make me write on Ice cream. And the reason comes here.
Few days back while I was in Surat and on one day when I was coming back home after that day's industrial training. On my way back I bought choco-bar. But that it was not able to activate my pleasure zones. Not because something was wrong with that ice-cream. But because something was wrong with environment which made it melt at faster rate and I was left with no choice except engulfing that at once. And that left me with the memories which I had in childhood enjoying that orange ice-cream, but that doesn't used to melt at this pace.
But then suddenly I realized we are developing, we have developed many ways to melt that ice-cream. And I fear we will steal this pleasure which we used to have from our future generation.
And in upcoming days we might left with only cones and stick ice-cream will extinct just like many animals but difference will be that it will be something which is man-made and not natural.

Natures last call

“Cukdu ku cukdu ku” and it started getting louder as I lousily rose from my bed and put it off. It is my alarm ringtone I keep this one so that I can wake up on time but even this fails sometime and it has again failed today when I had something very important on priority list.

31^st December 2099

A meeting with environmental experts to get team ready for upcoming environmental catastrophes. While brushing my teeth I thought

Sustainability was something which was defined by forefathers of our fathers and what makes me astonished is they defined and forgot and that’s why we suffer today.

If our parents had understood earlier and made a better choice between economy and environment we wouldn’t have been facing this today.

Now technology has reached new helms, beyond what our forefathers might have imagined and now we live in an era we call “Natures last call”.

In last, four or five decades though our parents significant efforts to brought Global Warming under control failed and it is because their prediction about its effect on environment and us are drastically different from what they had predicted.

55*C is normal now and storms, typhoons, cyclones are normal now. But, we know are sustaining all these things, now to sustain this high temperature we have built a smart skin which insulates us and keep our body temperature under control which is put within five hours after a child born and it grows as he grows. And to fight storms buildings are much like rotating ones which rotates themselves and comes into position of least resistance and we have also entered into a world of smart material.

By the time I had bath and put my black suit with green tie a perfect match for a meeting of this kind, clock stroked 8:05 AM and I have to reach Gurgaon from New Delhi, but thanks to the new ultra fast network laid five years back that makes it possible in less than 15 minutes and it have zero Green House Emissions.

I forgot to tell you that Global Warming in the past had hit us so hard that we consider it now to be the greatest terror. It has resulted in not only loss of natural vegetation but also had resulted in drowning of major portion of lands due to polar melt downs. About 20 % of total earth’s surface has drowned and we had lost cities like Mumbai and Hyderabad. And that shifted everything to Gurgaon from Sensex to B-world everything has relocated stressing this remaining land. But this is something which happened nearly 40 years back and after that we have all united and not only brought our CO₂ emissions down but also have found means to capture out of our atmosphere effectively. But only thing which makes us stop is “How good it would have been if our forefathers had given a second thought, when they made their choice”.

These thoughts trigger tears, well right now there is no time for tears. I for one last time glanced at my notes for meeting and went through bullet points and left home with my son repeating his morning lessons which h got fainter as I moved “ A for Atom B for boy C for Can ……………”

This again brought older thoughts time of our childhood at that time we used to have A for apple B for boy C for cat but now after losing many of fruits and animals they have also been eliminated from curriculum.

Here, I reached Lions Club building which has floor area equivalent to that of 50 football grounds but base area just 250 square metres and this is all result of increasing stress on land.

And as I entered the building it became quite clear because everyone is conversing about the same thing “What will come out of this meeting?”

This is because now environmental reforms have gained greater importance than anything else even political and economic reforms.

Today, after having successfully eliminating CO₂ emissions now our aim is to bring solid waste generation to zero and in fast two decades though we have replaced everything with degradable that too in sort span of time merely two months but now we are stressing to change every packaging material with eatable packaging to relieve earth off this also as we are already falling short of land filling areas.

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14, 15 and as it flashed 16 on elevator’s digital screen its door open and I have reached the place 5 minutes prior to schedule and expected that I might be first who arrived, but to my utter surprise, everyone has already occupied their seats and I am last one to reach the place.

This though embarrassed me a little, but made me more proud as it is good to see this generation so much concerned for something which was taken for granted by our forefathers.

Committee for Energy and Environment’s (CEE) chairman welcomed and addressed us to recent developments and then important points regarding solid waste elimination were discussed how to implement and most importantly sustain this reform.

But to us all something which was more pressing was what will be discussed after tea as chairman has already stressed what we will be discussing will be really be something which we haven’t been yet prepared for.

After ten minutes tea break when all of us assembled back chairman once again rose off his chair and went by side of projecting screen and projected first slide of presentation it displayed

Global Warming: Reached to a Stable level

And each one of us was looking at each other what this means?

Chairman started in our previous meetings we were stressing for Carbon capture sequestration (CCS), believing that it might help us in reducing average temperature but what studies by scientists at IEERO (International Energy and environment Research Organisation) claims that Global warming has reached a stable level a level at which it has become now stable and our any effort to reduce it off by capturing it will not help us. They believe that it has attained equilibrium where any chances to reduce its partial pressure will trigger reactions which will bring it back to same level so our plans of capturing it and disposing it to the Jupiter’s surface for its unique ability to absorb CO₂ permanently is of no help. So, I want you now to focus on this issue now.

With this note he showed us some slides of stats and consequences.

But I was no longer listening to it because I have reached somewhere else

Few days back while watching a documentary named

Natures last call: Remains Unheard

It showed how nature showed sign of its continuous deteriorating but no doctor and none of its family members i.e. our predecessors remained deaf to it.

Melting polar ice caps, drying rivers, seasonal variations and increased frequencies of environmental catastrophes remained invisible to them making it visible to us and generation to come.

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This I wrote in order to save something which I perceive might happen in future if we will not pay heed now.

After seeing a documentary named “An inconvenient truth” and recently when I passed of ONGC Bridge in Surat I heard Natures call which I want to make others also hear.

  

As it Happened

Last few days were quite busy and rather I should say it have been around a month which have swept down.
Now, I am really finding it hard to write something and I am really missing that gesture which I had few days back.

Well, all of us have learnt that any thing which has high heat capacity takes longer to get heated up and same is the story when it cools down.
Then, why we humans in certain cases deviate from this common theory. Well if we go little deeper then comes the factors which governs us so called "Social beings". We are governed by our habits and our moods and not by our wills. So, is the case with me though I am willing to write something but my mood and habits are trying hard to drive me off to Game of Thrones.

A sToRy

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted…
“Dad, look the trees are going behind!”
Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity,
suddenly he again exclaimed…
“Dad, look the clouds are running with us!”
The couple could n't resist and said to the old man…
“Why don’t you take your son to a good doctor?”
The old man smiled and said…
“I did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today.

Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you.

Reflective Summary

This thing though many of us might be familiar to but we really avoid it and if we ask to ourself why?
Then we remain answer less or we give a poor excuse.
We humans always want to go through the path with the least troubles knowing that it will not to do any good to us. So here comes antidote to it and that is through the reflective summary.

Reflective summary is an awesome activity to improve self by the act of simply writing. We would never have thought that writing could be such a great tool to improve self. This can also reduce our habit of procrastinating.

What you have to do is take your pen and diary and before going to bed just jolt down the activities performed by you and just ask your inner self how many of them were really productive for you. You can also assign number out of ten to each of your activity.Believe me this activity which is so simple to us can turn out to be game changer for us. And I hope we can at least invest 15 minutes for ourself.