July 27, 2007

Hiya Folks,

It’s me once again. It has been sometime, but I guess old age is now taking deep roots into my system. So what, it is nice to be alive and kicking. And, of course, smiling once in a while.

So what is life. Seriously.

I read an article in Discover magazine. I am not sure I can share the entire article with you’ll but I shall give you a jist of it. It was all to do with Positive Attitude. Now, please do not take me wrong, all you religious aficionados out there.

We all agree that it is God’s will in whatever we do, and perhaps how we look at things, but that should not stop any of us from trying to do things and try to make it happen. The article talked about Positive Attitude towards everything that occurs in our day-to-day life. If good happens, then we need to understand that somewhere we had a hand in accomplishing it. Also, if bad happens, then it is similar to the above. Whatever we do in life, we are responsible for it. Because responsibility comes with choice, and it is us, and us alone, who make the choice in whatever we do. People influence us, our situation compels us, but we still make the decision ourselves.

So,

LIFE IS JUST MERELY ‘WHAT WE MAKE OF IT’.

Reflect all over again.

We make our life. We make the way we live. I am not saying that we should hurt other people in getting the best for ourselves, but not getting the best for ourselves is also hurting the person you owe the most in life. And that is YOU. If you set your values real high, then you will be doing the best for everyone, when you are doing the best for yourself.

I am always arguing that we have come to this life for a purpose, and to achieve this purpose, we have all been bestowed with a talent. An inert talent which we have to search for, and get. It is really a sin, and I mean a real sin if we discover our talent, and just let it go to waste. I have heard people saying, ‘but it is not going to get me anywhere’. So, who cares? We need to do it for ourselves, and ourselves only.

Like a funny thing, I have written a couple of books and many short stories and poems, and I have a special audience of One who has read most of my work. Guess who? Yes, the answer is ‘Me’.

So, to repeat:

LIFE IS JUST MERELY ‘WHAT WE MAKE OF IT’.

Reflect all over again.

Changing the topic, we were all in a classroom, and a very difficult topic emerged. My boss called out and asked the students the definition of INTEGRITY. Although, a word normally used many times in our daily life, what the hell is Integrity? How do you define it?

Answers.com came up with:

 In my own words I would say that INTEGRITY is, A very nice balance of self respect and confidence.,,,, Jamison.

A more psychological answer:

Besides being a virtue it is a flowing plant. It grows in the early summer and has pink flowers and a heady aroma. When the flower die they leave seed cases behind that are translucent and the seeds can be seen in the flat shiny silvery pods. These are cut and uses as dried floral decoration.

(A Bit too deep for me, but it does make sense, though)

Collins English Dictionary definition:

“it is adherence to moral principles; honesty.”

My boss’s definition of Integrity:

“It is what you are doing, when no one is watching.”

I just liked it. Made a lot of sense to me. Actually, integrity is the essential purpose of our meaning in daily life, religion, our friendship, our loves and romances; everything that makes sense to us.

Take it for example, honesty is integrity in business. To be an honest business man, the mere thought of cheating or manipulating another fellow person would be akin to having no integrity at all.

 In life and love, to have fun and cheat on your spouse just because they will not have any knowledge about it is parallel to have no respect for their feelings.

 In religious terms, to hide and do sinful things (if you are a religious person) and that no one is looking is making a mockery of religion.



So, our actions and deeds when we have no one to compel us to do otherwise, and we do it on our own free will iwould be the real meaning or the real sense to integrity. Integrity is analogous with what our values and standards are in life. What are the standards we have set for ourselves? Ask yourself this question. You may find the answers change over your life time.

If we are talking about a hot summer day, then Dubai is just the right place to be. Well, hot is just a simple way of explaining a ‘sizzling, steaming, flesh burning, head reeking, body perspiring’ day. Yes, It is the end of July and August is about to show its mean presence to all us, dubai-ites. Well we have survived nearly half a century or more, a few more years will not hurt us that badly.

This weeks prime sites:

Answers.com

Discover.com

Well, until next time, and if you have any comments please do write to me, and whatever you are doing right now, do it with some purpose in life. That is what will matter most in the end.

Buenos Tardes