One Man, Many Missions ...

1425 hours : September 18, 2007

No apologies, no excuses.. it just always seems so cliché, only thing I can say that I was supposed to be busy with writing my mid-semester exams, registering for TGMC – The Great Mind Challenge, thinking about the advertising event to be held in our tech. fest, besides trying to cope up with mba prep. ! It happens with almost everything.. once you start to ignore something and put it in the back shelf, then you tend to postpone it for ever. And thats exactly the reason the blogs have not been coming. It seems like eons have passed since I have posted the last one. The exams went almost as expected, nothing extra-ordinary, very mediocre. TGMC work is supposed to be progressing, and I am sure the synopsis will be complete by the deadline – a typical engineer's statement as I would like to put it. The use-case diagrams have to be discussed with the rest of my team and have to be given a concrete shape. Does seem like a gigantic task at this point of time, but if it has to be done, then it is going to be done – 'by hook or by crook'. Advertising work is also progressing at its own pace. I have referred to a couple of sites for studying the trends in the advertising industry and all kinds of related shit. Also had a couple of meetings with the senior who is supposed to be in-charge of organizing the event. The only thing left to be done, and probably the only the only thing that needs to be done is framing the problem statement. Big deal, huh ? Nopes, when I know I can do it, its never going to be a big deal, just a matter of time and the right effort at the right places.

Meanwhile, I seem to have become an admirer of Deepak Chopra, the spiritual guru. His open-ended statements are the type whose meanings are obvious, but the sentences are brilliantly phrased and cannot easily be debatable. One of the statements goes like this “The level of enlightenment of a person can be judged by how comfortable he is with contradiction, ambiguity and paradox”. Now all paradoxical concepts have always been very appealing to me, whether scientific or general. According to me, every spiritual or religious text or phrase is ambiguous and can be interpreted in a no. of different ways. Its only limited to the no. of people who are willing to take the initiative to interpret it their own way and spread it to a larger no. of people. If his interpretation finds favor with a large no. of people, he is hailed and respected and his following increases exponentially. One more reason why I liked Deepak Chopra is he doesn't forget to show his humility at the end of the article. At the end he states that he has yet not achieved that state. Quoting my own paradox, it would be something like “If someone says that they are perfect, that is the first and the best evidence of their imperfection ...”