A Ray to Life…

Life is composure of many facets. Feelings are a way in which it is understood within and thoughts are expressed in the form of smile or tears to the outer world.

One of the strange facts is that there are many shadows to accompany you when you smile. There are many voices to giggle with you when you laugh. There are many shoulders to support when you are cheerful. Howsoever, you won’t have trust on even your own shadow in those dark days which don’t leave you for a second on those sunny days. There won’t be any shoulder where your head can rest and take a deep breath if you are in hard times. There won’t be any more music, no more smiles, no more support…

It is said, that true friends are the one which go along with you in all the times. Family is the one which keeps you going. Belief is the one which holds your morale. Still even if you have all this why do you feel so lonely… why it’s like everyone has just left you and all around is the cacophony instead of the rhythmic music few days back. All those friends are lost somewhere, Why? Family still holds you but there is fight within somewhere deep into the heart, Why? Belief is keeping you alive but no one to show you the way out, Why?

Amongst all these what’s that which still keeps you going …why even having a family, friends and beliefs being not able to bring smile still one keeps on going, why one feeling left out, lost and alone keeps on going…

I feel it’s the Power of Dreams, Sense of Commitment, Tears of Love, Warmth of Compassion, Care of Values, Trust of Relation and Courage of Fight which won’t let you down… I feel having all this will keep you going forever. Out of all those hundreds of terrible days one can slow a bit but can’t break.

Further, I feel it’s the Dreams which really fuel your Life. Dreams give you the Objective and Objective set the Goals for you. Your values act as the Milestones to be achieved in order to achieve the goal and your belief act as your partner in the journey. No matter how tough the path is but the strength of Dream and Confidence in Oneself won’t let you stop neither it will let you sleep.

The path will be full of hurdles which would be: strong enough to shake your belief; questioning your credibility; walking you to the nadir of your life; ending in all your friends; challenging all your relations and more…

But the moment there is a sense of courage to stick to the Dream all this will go away and the journey will be much more enjoyable.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mukul

What is the difference between Sacrifice and Compromise?
I often come across this question whenever I am gonna make some critical decision making forgoing something for another, in hard times. There are times when we want to get the things done in a particular way, but it goes in some other. Many a times we accept the happenings in short term and move ahead for the better one in long term but for which we are not sure of happening....what’s this...Sacrifice or Compromise???
Can sacrifice done in steps to achieve something which couldn’t be achieved due to some reasons, lead to compromise in long term?
Is Sacrifice more of a short term and Compromise a long term phenomenon?
There are many such questions and reasoning. I tried finding answer to this to some of my friends and here are their views. It’s striking that all have different views, though there are some funny ones also.

Parasuram Comments:
Compromise is something which we do without wish whereas Sacrifice is something which we wish very much but couldn’t do. Continuous sacrifice lead u to get into the habit of compromise.
When it was asked to him that wat’s d way out to avoid Compromise in long term while doing sacrifice in short term, he says that “u kno wat to sacrifice on. and wat nt to sacrifice”. He further speaks that we can sacrifice on the taste of mess food but if we try sacrifice on its hygiene factors then we can compromise on any kind of food!!!

Shreya Comments:I love Viks tat is sacrifice; but Viks love me is compromise :)
Compromise v do 4 others happinesswhere as sacrifice v do 4 our happiness

Digvijay Comments:
“ agar koi tera rumie banane ke liye raazi ho jaye to woh hua compromise...
aur agar koi suri ka rumie banane ke liye raazi ho jaye to woh hua sacrifice” (If somebody wanna be ur roomie, it’s compromise and if somebody wanna roomie of SURI – my classmate, it’s sacricice)

Anuj Sood Comments:
Compromise may not be the loss for one side but acceptable to both the parties, sacrifice is more intense word. Sacrifice can be done to one you love or respect, while compromise is with someone of equal status as in biz deals.
On asking can continuous sacrifice leads to compromise he denies the statement.

Tarun Mathur Comments:

Sacrifice is to give up something that under favourable circumstances u would never have but compromise is to settle for less than what u bargained for
Mukul: Can continuous sacrifice lead u to get into the habit of compromise?

Tarun: ya...most definitely
Mukul: how can it be avoided....i mean how can a compromise be avoided in long run if sacrifices have to be made in short term
Tarun: only if u make the other person realize that u have actually sacrificed
Mukul: If that’s difficult to do?
Tarun: It may be difficult but tat is imp...people otherwise will take ur sacrifices for granted
Mukul: If disclosing is impossible?
Tarun: Then always sacrifice J


Gunjan Gulati Comments:
Brother, Please google it!!!!

Deepak Comments:Sacrifice is you completely let the benefit go withour taking ur personal gain into account where as.. in compromise... u decide to divide the spoils based on competitive position of u and opposing party...
this is my idea:)

No, continuous sacrifice cannot lead u to get into the habit of compromise. But i think .. vice-versa can be true. Continuous compormise will make u more liberal and let u forget ur self interests. To avoid it..... you should be prudent enough to decide what is right nd wrong for u... rather that always be compromising situation..
u will be always aware of compromising situation.. as u r forgoing something which should be in ur court due to ur inability to achieve the desired result




After having all these comments, it’s very clear that it’s a subjective topic and depends on the situation. I am still in search of some concrete difference......

Life

Where we should draw the line between Professional and Personal Life???

Life is more about balancing the two... but what if one overtakes another.... can a happy life be achieved by one being more than other.... I dunno
Even if you are favouring one over the other, still there are the times where the lower one becomes important and you lose focus. So can we say that having importance of one over the another is dependent on the need of an hour or it's just our mindframe which tries to act differently at different times.... I seriously don't know.....

Love over Hunger...

Many a times, I try asking myself some questions which compels me to think beyond everything. At times I really don’t understand what purpose we are serving for.
Once while going to the college my train got late. I was waiting at the railway station sitting on a bench. Suddenly my eyes struck on a poor women, with shabby clothes and she really seemed to have no purpose in life. She was also accompanied with 2 little kids. She was trying to feed them with the food which was hardly enough to feed them. I don’t know that whether it was cooked by her or was given by someone, but it was such that we could hardly imagine. For every 2 bites each to their kids she took only 1, but none of them complained to each other about the hunger which was still there. Instead, the woman gave a gentle smile to them as if nothing happened, then she turned to the empty tracks, her smile gone and she got lost thinking something.
I was completely awe struck with this event and wasn’t able to imbibe whatever I saw. I was asking again and again that can the love overcome the hunger. Is the poverty has its own language which is spoken just in eyes. What is that which leaves someone with no option but to sleep empty stomach or the others who take 15 minutes to choose from the menu what to eat and drink? What makes someone to work barefoot on the roads whereas others to hardly look outside the air conditioned environment. What is that which makes someone polish shoes for his whole life but never had a chance to wear them, or someone who makes our houses in all the conditions whole of their life but don’t have a chance to roof their own kids. I still don’t have the answer to it. This is the case with millions and millions of people everyday across the globe, but we hardly think about them. Even if a bunch of people (like me to some extent) think, we don’t do anything. We have different reasons for it. Some say what difference can our small efforts make as a whole, some say we have lot many other commitments and hence don’t have sufficient time, some lack in resources, some took it as a destiny and list goes on. We call ourselves as professionals, we learn great management lessons about how to convince people, look for the need of our customers and all. We take 20-22 years of our lives learning these, yet we hardly know how to overcome the hunger.
I think the greatest manager or professional is that woman who being uneducated knows how to overcome hunger, she not only feel but communicate Love, understand and satisfy the requirements just in eyes. She knows the way out of the worst situations which most of us hardly knows.
I feel that if people like us try to think a little bit towards these aspects we can bring a revolutionary change, we can bring the change in the lives of the millions and millions of the people. These people want our support, sympathy, love and care which will come only by our strong will power.