why set goals ?

what is kamyaabi? why am I setting goals and trying to achieve them. At times I feel its an excuse to not ponder deeply the meaning of life. But today morning I read something in "the speaking tree" that kinda made sense. The author said that "there are four main purposes to human life. They are: Moral perfection, worldly attainment, fulfilment of legitimate deries and liberation. The first 3  values have meaning only when they are aimed at the fourth. The first three practices make our lives satisfying so we can devote ourselves to the most important fourth ideal." So it is necessary to be kaamiyaab while being moral - and always concious of the fact that there is a larger goal towards which we are working.

Haan woh theek hai .... but what is the point of this liberation. I think this world is actually pointless. So this liberation is actually liberation from "struggling to survive". If you do well in life while having a clean heart then you will feel happy (because you are conditioned to feel jiittery when you lie). I think if someone is brought up to be most comfortable when they lie and cheat - then this is what they would need to do to live a fulfilling life.  Just that being social had evolutionary benefits - so we are trained this way. Bass is evolution ko samajh ke chalo aur apna kaam nikaalo .. woh to apna kaam nikal ke hi rahegi - there is no escaping her chungul.

Google pestering

I hate it when they try to sneak in other tools when i am downloading the tools that I need. In the last 2 days I have been asked if I need "chrome with real player" and "google toolbar with acrobat reader". Why is google trying to sneak into my life when I am already invested in their tools.

The Hindu : Opinion / Cartoon

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/cartoon/article49930.ece.

News Blog Articles | Stereotyping Increases With Age | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

I agree - as we age we should be more wary of people who talk in stereotypes.

http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/stereotypes-loom-larger-as-our-brains-age-1505

This process "appears to be a more general phenomenon of aging," they note, adding that some older adults "may be relying on stereotypes despite their best intentions to the contrary."

The second paper, published earlier this year in the journal Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, contains a way around this problem. It describes a study in which older and younger adults read a story in which a central character was employed in a sex-stereotyped profession. In half the stories, the character's gender was consistent with the stereotype (a male plumber), while in the other half it was inconsistent (a female plumber).

Missed Connections.

When I see work like this - I feel very happy and hopeful :)


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/craigslists-missed-connections-as-art/

"Some browse the "Missed Connections" section on Craigslist in the hopes of spotting a posting from the dapper gent they exchanged a glance with in the checkout line. Others read the listings purely for entertainment.

Sophie Blackall, an illustrator living in Brooklyn, N.Y., saw it as an endless goldmine of material "


http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
" Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down."

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