Social Insanity

I was discussing the ironies of human condition and related perils with my inner circle (conveniently). One of friends quoted a saying in Urdu, which loosely translates into "Wisdom is in limited supply and sacred generally, however, wise people are generally unsafe and probably endangered in an ‘ignorant’ surrounding" . We deliberated this for a while and concluded that – One of many subtle incivilities of our times is that: the rare bulb’s get hanged by the crowd of candles . N.B., We are going to push this BULB and CANDLE metaphor to the next level – so strap in your cord tightly! CANDLES are afraid of the light of the BULB – they do not know ‘WHY’ it shines so bright or powered differently or does not have to be sparked by a matchstick and has different thinking/beliefs to us. He is not enticed by the same thing, he is not afraid to shine alone and even if we ostracise him, he keeps shinning. Candles can easily join heads and continue the same bandwagon/following the floc...

#35 today – wouldn’t change a thing about it and the best years are yet to come! Disclaimer: These are all not my words; I’ve tried to list any many sources as I can or remembered. I haven’t accomplished anything notable or created/destroyed companies or cured cancer. By all standards I’m the just an ordinary person with suboptimal intellect, mediocre talent, below average memory but a life-long learner and a divergent thinker with a horses jaw – you can say my greatest achievement is just EXISTING for three decades. I've always been impressed by the ability of people to concisely articulate arguments in a few words. So here's my poor attempt at it: 1. LIFE is not a movie ; so have a plan for big things or at least for the ones which matter to you. Have an artist’s ambition but an engineer’s mindset. 2. A lot of people don't get what they WANT in life, because they DON’T KNOW what they want in life. 3. Abilities are not prized by associated virtues. Whatever a...