I'm an architect by profession. But I am more than that. This is my new project and this has nothing in particular to do with buildings. Or architecture. Thanks to this gentleman called Brian Armstrong, who inspired me to do this writing just like as if it is a project. I have been putting this off for long, mostly because another side of me kept telling, you are no writer. But what's the harm in trying? Most importantly, this is for me, to clarify my thoughts, to put some discipline into my life and to do something useful with my time.
Which puts the spot light on my favourite idea - time. The more I think about it, the more fascinating it becomes. The only true resource that I have at my disposal and the one that gets diminished by every passing second. The only one that is truly non-renewable.
We will live for a short while but will be dead for all eternity - a truth that we forget in our daily rat race to meet the demands of life. And we pretend to live as if we are going to live for all eternity. We procrastinate, we plan for the future, we wait, we fail to live in present, when suddenly something happens that reminds us how fragile we are and how short our lives are.
So what is all this mad rush about? At the cosmic scale of things, we are truly insignificant. In fact even the planet we live in is just a pale blue dot when viewed from distances we can't make sense of (Courtesy: the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan). At a personal level, are most of the things that we deem important really important to us? Are we taking life too seriously? Shouldn't we be doing things that are meaningful at a deeply personal level?
That is Project One in a nut shell. Its a personal journey to discover the most important things in my life and to add some meaning into it. Putting words to this idea brings it into life and I hope to build this step by step.
One small step of a long journey.
A Short story: Once we were on a road trip and while chatting away to glory I asked my wife - "what is it that you want in life?" and pat came the reply - "mutton biriyani, nalla piece ulla mutton biriyani". This is the search for that mutton biriyani.
Which puts the spot light on my favourite idea - time. The more I think about it, the more fascinating it becomes. The only true resource that I have at my disposal and the one that gets diminished by every passing second. The only one that is truly non-renewable.
We will live for a short while but will be dead for all eternity - a truth that we forget in our daily rat race to meet the demands of life. And we pretend to live as if we are going to live for all eternity. We procrastinate, we plan for the future, we wait, we fail to live in present, when suddenly something happens that reminds us how fragile we are and how short our lives are.
So what is all this mad rush about? At the cosmic scale of things, we are truly insignificant. In fact even the planet we live in is just a pale blue dot when viewed from distances we can't make sense of (Courtesy: the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan). At a personal level, are most of the things that we deem important really important to us? Are we taking life too seriously? Shouldn't we be doing things that are meaningful at a deeply personal level?
That is Project One in a nut shell. Its a personal journey to discover the most important things in my life and to add some meaning into it. Putting words to this idea brings it into life and I hope to build this step by step.
One small step of a long journey.
A Short story: Once we were on a road trip and while chatting away to glory I asked my wife - "what is it that you want in life?" and pat came the reply - "mutton biriyani, nalla piece ulla mutton biriyani". This is the search for that mutton biriyani.
5 comments:
All the best... May this be a success story...
Thanks aliyo :)
Both of you are hereby invited to Cochin for a Mutton Biriyani. Hope that is one down and many to go!!!
Wish Arun & I could know the identity of the person behind the mutton biryani invitation...Thanks in advance!
To the unknown person,
That's very kind of you to invite us :) Surely we will..
Is it someone I already know??
Regards,
Arun
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