How Fortunate!

If you are reading this blog entry, you are in minority! Well, this post is not a crib about the less following of my blog, it is about the fact that you are probably an educated, person who has access to computer and most probably you earn more than Rs100 a day. If you qualify on these parameters, you are in minority in this country. There are only 4% like you!

To make sure the point reaches home -

22% of India's population earns less than Rs11.60 a day, which is Rs348 or less a month.
19% earn between Rs11.60 and Rs15 a day, that is between Rs348 and Rs450 a month
36% earn between Rs15 and Rs20 a day, that is between Rs450 and Rs600 a month
19% earn between Rs37 and Rs92 a day, that is between Rs1110 and Rs2760 a month

Are you feeling lucky or concerned for the other 96%!!

Nice Guys Finish First

Nice Guys Finish First! In today’s world of cut throat competition and rat race, these words either sound hollow or they calm your nerves, depending on what has been your recent personal experience!

Hollow or not, the fact of the matter is that it has been proven scientifically that this idiom holds true. Before you skin me for saying this, let me put in a few disclaimers. (You see nothing comes unconditional!)

Nice guys finish first, actually should read, the-guys-who-start-nice-and-then-reciprocate-the-response finish first. Also, this is true in a repeatedly occurring scenario.  In one off scenario the hawks win over the doves, but in an unlimited repeated scenario, it pays to start nice and then reciprocate the response. 

Stories

Our life is a string of stories. The more intricate the stories the more enriched is the life. To see if someone has lived a full life ask the person stories of his/her life.
I am sure everyone has stories to tell from their college days, interesting stories, daring escapades. As we grow old our tendency shifts from making stories to handling  transactions.

For making stories there has to be dreams in the eyes, dreams that are little removed from buying next big car, investing in another property or checkmating a colleague at office! These dreams have to be what the heart wants to do rather than what the brain tells one to do.