POTS OF THOUGHTS

One of the perks [if you could call so] of my job as a software consultant is an opportunity to travel; visit new places, meet new people and try to understand different societies & people’s behaviour. Being a very open minded and a highly perceptive person that I am, I have been fascinated by how strikingly similar they are in one or the other ways, though they are geographically apart and culturally different. My perceptions have changed with time; have changed for the good. I don’t like to be opinionated or judgemental on most of the things; I find it hard sometimes to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad; as I believe it depends on which side of the coin you are looking at. Anyways, it was my first assignment to US as a consultant in 2001. As I had been just out of college, I was a little nervous. I didn’t know what to expect of the visit. But, it turned out to be a wonderful experience and the one that would reinforce my faith on people and belie...

It has been drizzling for the most part of the day today, here in Ipswich. I feel a very strange connection between some of the incidents that keep happening on a day-today life, like deja vu. Some events act as a time machine taking me back to my childhood incidents. They rekindle the memories of some sweet and cherished moments. The fresh fragrance of the soil after it rained today reminded me of my hometown and my school going days. It was the same smell of the soil after the first rain and I still remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember the time when I used to go to school along with my sister Anuradha, my cousin Asha and other girl friends - Manjula, Susheela, Shahin, Prema. [Yes!!! I was the only boy in the gang and was the next youngest after my sister!!]; all of them happened to be our neighbours. I remember waking up in the morning on a rainy day and wishing if I could sleep for a little more ...

YES!!! It happened again. I heard about this new business proposition; a chance for me to become an 'aspiring entrepreneur' – independent of any financial tangles; free from the daily, mundane and boring routine job and live a life that is supposed to be fulfilling and also, make me financially independent in the near future. Yes…I heard it again and as always, didn’t excite me or trigger the passion that I was supposed to have. It didn’t rekindle the spirit that every entrepreneur talks about….Is it a problem with me? Am I being too lazy? Or, do I always like to play safe and not take any risk? I don’t really know…But, I really wanted to give a serious thought about the same. When some one spoke about ‘Amway’ business model, the thing that impressed me was their conviction, the belief that it would really happen and it would happen soon in a big way!!! Shame that it was, ‘amway’ to me sounded like ‘am away’ as I couldn’t connect with the business model or...