What I Learned

1. To Learn 2. To Help/Serve 3. To Create/Produce 4. To Love 5. To Act 6. To speak the truth 7. To be polite 8. To be clean and to keep my surroundings clean What am I NOT here for? 1. Not to Hate 2. Not to Fight 3. Not to get intoxicated 4. Not to say bad words 5. Not to only Talk 6. Not to lie 7. Not to cheat 8. Not to hurt 9. Not to compare 11. Not to be corrupt 12. Not to Borrow

Did we know how to walk when we were born? We learned that. Did we know how to speak at the time of birth? We learned that too. Did we know initially the language we speak? We all learned our mother tongue. Did we take a crash course on parenting before getting married? Still most of us got married and have a family. Point is, there are hundreds of things we learned since birth and keep on learning daily. I believe, one of the purposes of life is to learn and to share/pass-on the learning, while continue to learn afresh every day. That is the reason, I get upset when someone avoids some task saying I haven’t done that before or I don’t know how to do it rather than saying please allow me a little extra time to figure it out and do it, or I need to learn it and then do it so it may take a little longer. I’ll be very worried the day I don’t learn something new. I know some close relatives who say they don’t want to read or learn new stuff as they are almost reti...

Navaratri Dandia is a great leveler where every one dances together forgetting all differences. Below are some thoughts I had while playing Garaba this evening. I guess the positive energy in the atmosphere there gave me these thoughts. Jai Mata Di! When I was born, TV was a luxury in India and it had basic state-run phone service and automobile in the form of an indigenous car, Ambassador and a Mahindra Jeep; forget about computers. Today, I use a mobile phone with Internet access, write this on a laptop computer, and drive a fancy car (by Indian standards :-)). In half a lifetime, we have transitioned from no TV or car, to TVs, mobiles, Internet and (soon) self-driving cars, while looking forward to NetWorld (IoT) and smart homes. I read literature in Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi and English while eating Gujarati cuisine and developing computer software for American/European/Australian and Indian clients from my office in a tier-2 Indian city. Isn’t that amazingly fortunate?...