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Let's understand a basic feature about greed and jealousy, with some stories. Story 1. When I was a schoolboy, I used to do relatively well in academics, (of course I failed at anything else, couldn't sing, couldn't dance, couldn't do well in sports) Yet, I was among first few in the class each year. I used to sit in different places in the class as well. So, whenever there is no one else, I would sit there. I had a friend who did only average in the studies. One day I asked him. "Do you feel jealous about me?" I don't know why I did ask such a question. I was curious. I wanted to know his point of view towards me. I wanted to know what it is like to do average in the studies. And his answer surprised me. He said, "Not at all. I don't feel jealous about you. Actually, I don't feel anything about you doing well. But when I get exam results, I am more worried about other children who are at my average level. I would feel jealous if someone who scored less than me before, passed me this time. " His answer amazed me to this day. And I was glad he wasn't Jealous. Story 2. You may have heard about this story, at least some form of it. Think about following scenario. A man driving a Rolls Royes sees a jet and think to himself "Hmm, I wish I could travel in a private Jet." A man driving a regular car sees the Rolls Royes and thinks "Hmm, I wish I could drive a Rolls Royes" A man driving a motorcycle thinks "Hmm, I wish I could buy a car." A man cycling to work thinks "If only I could buy a Motorcycle." A man who walks by thinks " I wish I had a bicycle." A man on a bench without legs think "Oh, I wish I could walk again." It seems that the man who walks is likely to think about a motorcycle than a private jet. And it is more likely he would be jealous about someone buying a motorcycle or a car. Someone who is living in his social level. Similarly, we are more likely to be jealous about people who are at our "level" than anyone else. It seems absurd, if we think that jealousy solely depend on the level. It depends on where we are on that scale as well. Similarly, greed follows similar rules, as greed precedes jealousy. If you see closely, that seems to be the reason, as explained by my friend he had no issue being my friend, without feeling jealous. What does this teach us? Imagine you hear some news about people fighting with each other for a bag of rice in a rural underdeveloped part of the world. It seems tragic at first. But you can understand, the bag of rice is as valuable as a car, if you compare it with your society. You will fight for a bag of rice if you were in that situation. Next problem is even if you travel through your social or whatever the ladder according in your measurement, greed and jealousy will prevail. It will also climb up the ladder unless you understand that it happens. So, it will provide an opportunity to look at ourselves, and correct us, at any level. Unless we will never be satisfied. Thank you for reading: The nature of our greed and jealousy story. You may also like to read: How to create a statue- mindfulness. To catch the happiness before it hides (poem)

I was watching Sausage Party the other day. An animation film with dark humor, if you haven't already watched. For those who haven't watched I have to give a summary to explain one scene which made me think. Film is about food in the supermarket, living their own lives thinking that they have a life filled with happiness and joy beyond supermarket doors. The humans or their "Gods" choose them to go beyond and give them a life of their imagination. There is a scene in the film where the sausage meets some wise items who are "non expiring", and they discuss the "great beyond " is a lie that they themselves generated to reduce the sadness and chaos otherwise would prevail if food understood the truth. This let me think about life and death. It seems whoever wrote the plot of the Sausage Party did think about it as well. We generally think the life beyond death is Either good or evil. Yet if we stick to facts, there is no absolute evidence for either of them. So, we have to imagine each one is equally possible. We ourselves have to think individually. Otherwise, we will be singing all the old songs our ancestors sang. There is a chance they created those songs, so they feel better when we face the death beyond. Let's think about each in turn, consider following scenarios, Everyone gets a happy ending after death. Everyone gets a sad ending after death. Death is the end of everything as we know it. What comes after death is consequence of what we do today. External force will help us to become great after death. You can be creative and add more. I will stick to these simple thoughts and discuss what we should be doing. Please drop all your prejudices if you wish to read beyond this point. Trust me I have my own believes, yet I like to forget all this and be rational and rational only. Scenario 1,2,3 If first second and third are true, there is nothing to worry. Whatever we do today the outcome for each of our action is fixed no matter what. It is good right? Yes of course, it is good only if we know one of them is true. Trust me I have not come across such evidence to say so. If I would ever find out, the search would end, and I will write it here so you don't have to look for it and we all can be happy or sad. Scenario 4 Imagine the fourth one is true. Our actions determine what happens to us after death. This is an equally possible scenario. If this is possible, we really have to be careful what we do in this life. Otherwise, we are doomed. What we should do and avoid you already know. Our ancestors taught us. But if we look at the world, you will see different ancestors taught us different good and bad things. One action which is correct in one part of the world is wrong in the other part. Scenario 5 If this is true it is great news. All we have to do is do whatever we like and get that external help on the specific way. But if you are rational, this is an equally possible scenario. There is a chance this could be wrong as well, as all of the others. More importantly if you believe in this too much it can clash with scenario 4. You will see this as a loophole to escape consequences of your actions. So, how are you going to decide what to do? You may ask. Think about each scenario and give equal weight to each one of them. Then think about yourself and you will have the answer. Unfortunately, I am not capable of deciding for yourself. Thank you for reading: What is there great beyond? Afterlife. Sausage Party You can find more on similar topic here: What is a life well spent. Minimalist, achiever, seeker Philosophical insights to near death experiences.

It is often discussed topic whether the process is more important than results. Here in this article, I will try to understand which is more important. At the end you will get enough information to decide yourself. Imagine you are trying to pass an exam. Exam is in six months' time. It may include a six-month period of study. We can consider two scenarios, Sam and Tom Imagine Sam who enjoys doing work, reading, taking notes and discussing with other colleagues. Similarly, there is another person (Tom) who is merely doing minimal and at the end of the semester cram for the exam. And imagine the second person able to get marks more than the first one. Think about these two people and which person would you like to be? Would you like to the person who enjoy work with low results, or do not enjoy the work but somehow get results? Although it is more likely the outcome is better, I think at least majority would like to be the person who enjoy the work. It seems the process is where we live most of the time. In this case the Sam can be happy thorough whole semester while Tom merely suffers it. Of course, in reality Tom has less chance of getting better results than Sam. CEO Jeromy - If the room is cold Meddling with thermometer would not bring the heat up. Now, let's look at the same problem in another perspective. This time you are the CEO Jeromy in a company. Let's say it is a computer software company. You have different projects running this year for several clients. You have few teams working under your management. Their task is to deliver the product before deadline. Earlier the better. In this scenario, the happiness of your customers matters most. It doesn't matter the process your team going through as long as they deliver sound products before the deadline. Results matter the most. But, similar to the above scenario, each individual like to have the best out. It is contradictory, if we think individual point of view, process matters more and if we think as a group, results matter, at least same as the process. In most of the companies they like to regulate the process, more intensely giving less creativity and degree of freedom to their employers. Where is the balance? I invite you to think how Professor Nash in Beautiful mind gives answer to similar question. In one scene of the movie Nash faces the following problem. He goes to a bar with his group of male friends. And there is a group of girls as well. His friend thinks about asking out the most beautiful girl in the group and Nash thinks to himself. If his friend Frank go for the Blond, chances are he will be rejected. Then if he goes for the next girl, he will be rejected as she knows it is his second choice. As every male is in the group wishes the best for themselves, they will all try the best girl first and nobody will succeed. However, if Frank goes for the second-best girl in the group, his chances of winning her are higher. Everyone will have a chance. Nash concludes that the "best outcomes in a group arises when Not when individuals try what is best for themselves individually, but when you try your best for the group." We can use this to answer our question. If you are individual, it is true the process can matter more than the results, especially if it is a lengthy one. Also, if you are in a group, you may have to sacrifice some individual gains in the process to have better outcomes for the group. Otherwise, nobody would gain. So, it is up to us to find out the sweet balance. You can find some more insights about the process and results -> here Thank you for reading, Process is more important than results? - insights from a beautiful mind Nash Equilibrium. You may also like to read: Autumn colors (Poem) What is there great beyond- afterlife- sausage party

Have you ever played a game of chess, with an opponent, a computer and lost? You may think that well, the computer is "programmed" to play the game of chess. although you did not think "Am I programmed to play the game of chess?" "Who programmed me?" I was watching the movie Sherlock Holmes the Game of Shadows. There was a scene in it where Sherlock Holmes is playing a game of chess, with Professor Moriarty. It was so interesting to see how much intellectual these two guys were pictured, as after a while playing the physical game of chess, they took it into a whole new level. They started to play the game mentally. Chess boards were in their minds, they were moving pieces in their minds, until the game end. Usually, no human being is capable of analyzing more than a handful of possible moves into the future as the game is far complex than we think. How does a game of chess between humans differ from a game played with a computer? Imagine a game of chess played with a computer. We tend to take a computer as a true opponent of us. Even if we know computers do not "think" and they don't have a "wish" to win the game, it appears during the game, the computer shows, and interpret some qualities as such. It seems computers are capable of "thinking and wanting to win" after all. Although a simple computer program is not capable of replicating all the functionality of a human being. Now in the new era of AI, they are conquering these complex human responses as well. At least we can have a great conversation with AI nowadays. It really feels like chatting with some intelligent being, if you involve your emotions rather than just trying to find answers to questions. Following is a chat I have done with AI Bing. You can try on your own. It seems AI is more ethical and practical than most of us would do. This is not a time or place to discuss how to use AI effectively. There are plenty of articles on the internet for such purposes. This is just to illustrate the fact; we can be just mere complex structures which follow physical laws (deterministic). After all the gap between us and our own inventions become lesser by the day. I really wish Elon Musk would ultimately prove that we are crazy advanced AI one day! Thank you for reading, A game of Chess AI and life. You may also like to read, Immortality and life in a black hole. A talking tree.

I can still remember watching Sir David Attenborough video about dung beetles. If you haven't, I have given a video about the dung beetles in following link. However, when I was thinking about it, I had a thought how we are similar and different from a dung beetle. This article is about it. Dung beetles - the Gurdian How are we similar to a dung beetles? Think about the dung beetle. It was born from a beetle mom and dad. It grew up eating dung. And once it is fit and grown it started rolling balls of cow dung proudly over long distances tiring everyday every week. Eating and growing more. Mated with the partner and made some more beetle kids. Once it is old, it will die making food for some black ants. A whole lot of similarity found between us and dung beetles. You may think wait! we do all those things, but Dung? We don't eat dung. Of course, we don't eat dung. But I'm quite sure not only the beetles eat dung, but they enjoy that too. They must have taste for the dung, they must feel some satisfaction when they eat. Although we don't share same taste buds, Dung is food for the beetle, and there is nothing wrong in that. Fundamentally beetle eat dung because it has taste for it. Aren't we doing the same? We eat whatever we have taste for. After all, we are animals. How can we judge the beetle. We would be doing the same, if we had taste for that. We are lucky our nature didn't give us taste for that. But imagine a world where we had, and nobody would judge us eating cow dung. It will be like milk. Surely, you must be furious with me now. You have thousand things to say. We have brains, to think and we are of course higher than a Dung beetle. How dare you compare us with a beetle. Not a Ladybird, but a sick dung beetle? What is the point you are going to prove? How are we different from a dung beetle? I can give few ideas from thinking about such a fact. Following are my lessons. It helps me to lower down my ego. After all I am not much different from a dung beetle. I have my own dung to roll everyday every week. And whenever I see someone who thinks otherwise it makes me smile. Their ball is bigger, in their dung bank, but it is still dung. It makes me appreciate the nature. Think about it. Nature as a person, looking at us. Does she see us as this intelligent species doing marvelous things? Maybe not. Maybe nature just laugh at us seeing just like we laugh at beetles. It's time to lower our egotism as a species. In fundamental aspects of life, I see no difference between humans and dung beetles. I may be wrong. We have our thinking capacity which is unique. But if we don't use it. We will just spend a beetle life. So, whenever there is time, I suggest you think about life. To understand the game of nature, that it plays with us. Respect animals, in same level as humans. Thank you for reading How are we different from Dung beetles? Egotism You may also like to read Afterlife- What is there great beyond - Sausage Party Fisherman and Businessman story and life lessons.

Have you ever tried multitasking? Listening to the lecture while chatting with a friend on Facebook? Or trying to solve a math problem while listening to music? It may sound a good idea to do that so. You may like to eat while you work in your computer. Does this improve your productivity? What does the computing and mathematics teach us about multitasking? Turing machine: In 1936 mathematician Alan Turing introduced a hypothetical machine which has ability to do complex mathematical problems by following simple instructions and inputs from an infinite - long tape read by a "head". Head can read and write one symbol at each time. The Church Turing thesis follows that such universal Turing machine would compute any mathematical equation which is possible by humans. If you would like to read more about how such a Turing machine works following is a good example. However, I would not elaborate more on this line. Imagine a computer with only a one Turing machine inside of it. Although multitasking is possible and computers are capable of doing this fast enough, we would not see apparent slowing from end user point of view, this is surely going to slow down the process. (computers can follow several processes at single time but with slower) Now imagine us as similarly with one Turing machine inside, which is our processor whatever it is. If we try to put more information from multiple tasks, it surely will slow down. Apparently, this is what happens for most of us. Hence, at least for tasks that need more intellectual powers it is not recommended to do multitasking although it seems an attractive option for some. It can really affect the productivity and exhaust. However, imagine if our brain doesn't work like a computer and we have several Turing machines inside of it. In that case, of course multitasking is possible, and it can improve the outcome of our work and will be faster to get something done. So, the real important question is that are we owners of single Turing machine or several such machines? To practice mindfulness, do one thing at a time. When I look at myself all I see is my attention can only hold onto one thing at a time. It is like the head of the Turing machine focusing on one cell of the Turing strip at a time. I can focus on sound, a thought, a taste only one at a time. So, at least for myself it is only a one Turing machine. Hence, multitasking is not for me. It doesn't mean I do not enjoy some background music while I do some writing. But for mindfulness practice multitasking is a bad idea. What does multitasking do for you? Is it helping or hindering you? Thank you for reading Multitasking and Turing machine lifehack mindfulness. You may also like to read: mindfulness definition. Is slow the new fast - mindfulness.

You may have the same question, or something similar. Although I oppose Elon Musk landing on the mars, I have no doubt he would succeed. But we can look at the same problem from different angle. I am also excited about 2029 where we will land on Mars! On superficial level following are a few of many reasons why we shouldn't land on Mars. At least Now. Next, we will try to figure out what problem Elon Musk is trying to solve. Reasons for not to land on Mars. It is Expensive, as we all know money is scarce resource. It is estimated that we will be looking at 100 billion to 10 trillion dollars to build a city on Mars. Imagine how many cities we can build on our own planet. Humanity still seems not immediate danger from a threat from the space. Yes, there can be some things like extreme climate changes and increase in heat, or a disease which can wipe out humanity out of the planet earth. However, if these threats are real Shouldn't we try to find out solutions by allocating our resources on experiments and developments on these lines? We are not using everything the planet earth have to offer us. There is still space to grow trees and build cities. We are still not united as a single species on earth to tackle the problem of habiting another planet. Are we going to fight for a land On Mars by 2059? Let's us not forget our true responsibility as affluents is not to follow every dream but to realize our responsibility for fellow humans. Singers Famine relief argument is a good starting point of our moral obligations. Just because we could do something we shouldn't be do it. Those are my main reasons for not to think about Mars at this point in time. Yet I cannot tell still whether it is a good or bad Idea. As it looks bad Idea today actually this mission itself may unite all human beings in the future somehow and think as "Earthers "than individual nations and races. Or it might develop research to change our climate crisis as we learn how to change a total new planet. Time will tell us what is there in future. More importantly let us hear what Elon is thinking when he decided to look for Mars. "I think this is an incredibly important thing for the future of life itself ... there's always some chance that something could go wrong on Earth. Dinosaurs are not around anymore!" -EM "Life can't just be about solving problems," Musk said. "There have to be things that inspire you, that move your heart. When you wake up in the morning, you're excited about the future." Now, that is interesting, and it seems Elon is just as we are. He tried to figure out the meaning of life. And during which he was excited about the idea of conquering the sky and landing on Mars to prepare ourselves for the doom's day. Just like I am excited in building my blog. He is excited building massive things. Just because he can. I would like to imagine things too. Let's imagine he figured out the meaning of life with some information. And if he did, he would never even think about landing on Mars. Fortunately, or unfortunately, he would not and that will change lives of many others around the world as he is very influential by power. The problem Elon trying to solve is meaning of his life. Instead of looking at the sky for answers I would suggest we should look inside ourselves and ask the question "Who am I?" and be not satisfied until we get it correct. It would save us a billion dollars in the future, if you happened to become a wealthiest man on the planet. There is no way out, other than to fly Fly like a bird, an airplane a rocket into the sky And rise above the problems of life Once you are done, it's time, Time To look back at them and smile And never succumb to gravity Ever again. Thank you for reading: Why Elon Musk shouldn't land on Mars? You may also like to read: That one good thing about the thief Puddles of life rain rain go away.

Kira was walking in the park. The sky was gloomy as usual, yet it was not the totally bad weather. Spring had begun, and the sleeping beauties of nature just started to awaken. Everything else was damp except the concrete and tiled walking paths in the park. Several beings from the neighborhood were there, out for a walk as he was. He sat on the bench, by the big playground. A couple were playing with a rugby ball, throwing and catching in turn. He saw another emerge from the bush behind the playground. Their dog preceded them into the ground. Dog, looked happy as always, dogs are. Sometimes he wondered dogs are happier than him. It met with another in the middle of the ground. Like real human beings greeting each other, they wagged their tails and ran away together. He took a deep breath. He felt like the sky. Closed his eyes and listened the sounds. Sounds opened up another dimension to the same world. He could hear, things he could not see. He could hear wind, which he could not see. He could hear birds and he could hear the bell of a cycle, and a couple walking by. He could hear a tinder voice of a little girl talking to her mom. And he drifted in his mind into the past. Six years ago, he was a clerk in a private firm. He used to tire himself daily, working nine hours per day. It wasn't hard work, for his body, yet his mind was exhausted at the end of the day. Never ending unhappy crowd, he had to work with, for the minimal pay that he got. It was barely enough for him to survive. It was all past and he smiled as he was far away from the that past. He remembered one such afternoon, stressed by work, he had to walk out of his office. He was about to burst, and he had to walk out. He ran into a nearby cafe, put his hand into his pocket and had few coins. He bought a tea and started to slip it looking out of the window. He saw a small boy, in rubbish worn-out cloths looking through the window. The boy looked hungry and afraid. Afraid of the society which abandoned him and had been cruel to him. As his eyes met the eyes of the boy, he ran away. Darted across the street like a ghost. And saw the boy stopping by the drain on the other side of the road. Ghost boy waited half a minute and bending forward staring at the drain, and next second he jumped in the drain and vanished from the view. As Kira got up and went to the window to see what happened and he saw the boy climbing out of the drain. Triumph in his eyes as he held onto a note. Dirty old, ragged note. And he was full of black dirt and oil up to his belly. And vanished through the crowd who wanted to get away from the stinking pile of running garbage. Suddenly he was awakened by the bark. A proud dog walking by him with his lavish owner, the sight of affluence. He smiled to them. He felt happy he was away from the hell. Yet he felt a deep sadness in his heart when he remembered the Ghost boy, and the cup of tea. Maybe he died in a dark corner of an alley. And he abandoned him. Thank you for reading, a cup of tea and a Ghost. You may also like to read How new inventions are made - Philosophical point of view The last mile home Singer's famine relief argument

When did you last visit your home? Home is where most of us love to be. Especially, a place where there is comfort, love, safety and company. Most of fortunate of us have lived in a home or already living in such a place. For some of us unfortunate, 'home' although far away brings us memories that we cherish throughout our lives. It may be a small hut, may be a big house or a mansion with a maze and a garden, It may be a mobile trailer, or a boat, everyone likes to be in home. Most of us miss our home when we are away on a trip. Even when it is a long-awaited trip to most beautiful place on the planet, we tend to get tired and look back at the watch to wait until we get to our comfort of home. Look at an igloo or a tent home in arctic Eskimo family. They have temporary homes, with a single room. Everything is done, in presence of your family. Everyone, eat sing, and sleep. Everyone expects return to their home, even if they go out for fishing, or hunting. Its a small world, a small community. But emotions, lifestyles cultures are handed over to the younger generations, although they would not stick to that, home will be in their minds as more than just a mere place of shelter. Their children will grow out of those homes, migrate to towns and will build their own homes, in modern ways. Yet, for their children, it will be the only home that they know of. I still live in my mind playing with my siblings in our old home with two rooms and kitchen. Happy memories. How about you? Not only humans, but animals also have their own homes. Imagine the Eskimo family. Their sledge dogs are a family too. They also have their own place even though out in the cold. They have each other's skin against each other to build their home outside the hut. They squeeze together, and they feel the warmth, safety and comfort, as long as they are together. You would wonder why I started taking about this story of sweet homes. I was watching a documentary the other day about different kinds of animals and came to know that there are some animals call us as their home. It is true. There are some tiny animals who live their whole life on our bodies. Not only our bodies are home to them, for some it is the only known universe to them. Take an example Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. These are tiny 0.3mm type Mites (arthropods) which lives on our face! This same moment when you read this article there are tiny animals live on your face. Of course they are harmless, living a symbiotic life. They born, eat, lay eggs and die on our faces. Your face is their sweet home. Fortunately, they are not visible to your naked eyes, and you can forget about the fact they exist once you finish reading this. The fact they exist on us enlighten us with following factors about life. Rather Awkard. We share our earth with a lot of other species and our own kind, making our own places to call home, similarly "human body" is just an earth for thousands of species, as a safe palace to live and die, a home. If you wash your face, you will be violating animal rights. Eating and maintaining your body will benefit the small world animals who depend on us. Thank you for reading Home sweet home- Eskimos and microbes -demodex You may also like to read How are we different from a dung beetle. Nature is really beautiful or is it? Robert frost BBC reel on demodex

There was a question in my mind, since I came to live abroad several months earlier. Question aroused one day, like this. I was walking into a restaurant to buy me some dinner and there was a boy who stepped on to the door at the same time as me. We both waiting each other giving way to step in, and nobody moved. I was in no hurry, and he was letting me in as I am. Somebody has to go in, so I smiled at him and stepped in. The moment I went in this person started to curse me saying "Say f------ thank you when you were given something" And I was taken aback. My mind was saying "What? why this guy stepped in if he was in such a hurry? Just to blame me for not thanking?" "Oh, they expect a thank you in return. Isn't it bad to expect something in return?" Recently I learned the four-quadrant model of philosophy which allows one to look at all the philosophical arguments in a bird's eye view. Then it hit me, the answer to my question. It was another dimension to why, in above scenario. Four Quadrent Model of Philosophy Essentially everything about philosophy can be understood in this four-quadrant model. More importantly once we categories and understand which quadrant one philosophical point of view lands, we can see conflicts and relationship of it with other. Four quadrants are as above: Q1 : individual interior Q2 : individual exterior Q3 : collective interior Q4 : collective exterior And the contents are given, in each cell. If you would like to know more about the principle link is here. It is best understood with above example. I was looking at the problem with my previous internal collective standpoint of view. I was hurt because, in my society where there was no culture for opening doors and saying thank you, in return. And that was the norm. More also nobody would expect a thank you in return even if you are helped by them. So, I saw him as selfish and stupid to think like that in the first instance. Yet, when I look at the four-quadrant model, I can understand that, that problem would have never arise if I was used to the culture abroad. Because I was a foreigner only for few days, I had no understanding of the culture and, it was not routine for me to say thank you, there was not time for me to change my internal collective quadrant. It was a norm in this country to let others in even if you are in a hurry and you will be guaranteed that will get a 'thank you' in return. Similarly, there are philosophers who think mainly about problems in single quadrant. Their ideologies can clash with some of the others, if they are trying to solve the same problem in a different quadrant. Yet, knowing this concept will help us to understand some harmony in otherwise opposite arguments. Thank you for reading: Four quadrant model philosophy -Birdseye view - Ken Wilber's model You may also like to read: How to create best outcomes for life? How to practice mindfulness?

Do you also have the same question with no answer? Then maybe this will provide an answer. It is not backed up by any evidence or science, but simply an observation within myself and one other that simply I had to agree upon. Maybe the answer may apply to you as well. About the problem. Ever since I can remember I was a child I was bad at, remembering people by names. Soon as I have lost touch with them, I forget their names. However, what I can remember are my feelings towards them and interactions. This was a real problem especially when they are on the other side of the equation, can remember very well I have been a friend to them. One such embarrassing moment I can remember when I attended to a wedding in a hotel. As it happened there was another wedding of one of my school colleagues happening on the same day in a nearby vicinity and I met some friends who invited me. Unfortunately, I did not remember names of most of them. It had been few years since I left the school. As I joined them on a round table, as we were chatting, one guy asked me to tell his name. I was embarrassed I could not remember. He repeatedly asked in front of all the others and saying that how close a friend I have been, but like disappointed that I cannot remember his name. Didn't let me slip away from the question. I had to declare, that I am bad at remembering names. Fast forward several years, I was listening to a nice explanation on category theory and life by Eugenia Cheng in following you tube video. And guess who had the same problem of remembering names of people! I was surprised to get a possible or the best explanation coming from a mathematician. Math was the favorite subject of mine during my school years. Too much of a coincidence. Answer. In brief category theory is a way of looking at how mathematics is working. Instead of focusing on individual elements (numbers, functions, etc.) category theory look at the relationships in abstract level. These layers of abstraction help mathematicians to understand the nature of the mathematics in a bird's eye view. Eugenia applies this into her own problem of life, and notices, instead of remembering names of her friends (compared to mathematical elements) what she can remember are the relationships and interactions. And I could not agree more to her statement. It is like a new revelation that nothing is wrong. It is just some brains are wired to see different. Obviously for some of you this may not be a good explanation why you are not remembering the name of your friend's name. But for some, this may be true. But it is awesome to think about life in terms of abstract mathematics. As math can provide explanations to life without any equation or numbers. Thank you for reading Why cannot I remember people by name? Category theory. You may also like to read: What imaginary numbers teach about life? How new inventions are made?

These are wisdom gained from tweets. @mgmindfulliving Today the theme would be "Peace." Peace Maybe its inner Maybe its family Maybe its world Maybe its universal Peace is a bliss when it stays But it liked the game of hide and seek Often hours it would go missing just to appear all of a sudden. Game of Thrones I did not like the game of chess as kings would never die. I would be a pawn or a knight and play, not be a coward and hide. Shadow Of War We have seen it again and again our world at war Why? we ask when it only brought us destruction so far! It's a Challenge to keep peace when it cease- fire wherever we are Hidden behind evil like a little weevil peace was there the SHADOW of war A Gem for Coronation Like a craftsman to cut carve and polish a poem to be published Like a surgeon to Remove the unwanted and repair what is left For better Function Like a pilot to be precise as no room for error or indecision Made a Gem of a verse about universe to be used in kings coronation A Poem From One line She heard the crows calling each other for the feast To offer one piece for each From the dead crushed beast She walked down the lane Heard a nightingale singing Fighting over a dead worm She was angry and bursting Beauty Is Not In Cover is a verse shaped FromOneLine An Alen Haiku This is an alien haiku Hg j fghjic z udu Hds dsart jlk vy dsa gcf hcxzd Hce esxtr fdw dse gjcxd Seasick Haiku (Alean haiku translated to English) Floating in Boat of life In an inevitable march of times journey I am seasick now vomiting For the one who afraid of March Of time Dylan said "most scary thing in the world is inevitable march of time till death" Mary said "Dylan is most scary thing" I would say you are scary at the time of now. If you talk and think about it. Wisdom From Someone Who is wiser If the truth is eternal, the quest for it also will be eternal. A word about Wisdom: If wisdom is a prisoner of the mind I would imagine it is cuffed by words Things I have learned from Writing One thing I have learned from writing is. Mine is so boring I like reading yours Much more interesting Fear and freedom Of the Prison I can relate your fear of freedom, Like a bird granted of it though it never leaves. Of course she was better cared for Than those roam free I hate doctors Nobody should become a doctor I would treat my own cancer Facing the death I'm not afraid I'm the bravest man on earth! A relaxed carrot in the park Carrot was tired. After a long day So he relaxed on a pillar Like all the carrots would do I wonder its still there. Going nowhere? It did. Carrot stayed until it was fed to the bugs and worms when it was rotten and stank photo by @Pat_ward How to Grow Wisdom Wisdom grows when we read other stories Not when we are writing our own To the One who lost the wisdom Tooth I do not understand. Are you in pain? Or angry with the surgeon who took out your wisdom Anyway you must be a fool by now ! Oooops only for sarcasm of it ! hope you don't get angry Chaos of mind Never ending chaos inside our minds Why do we claim it to be ours? Mirror mirror On the wall If there were no mirrors. Beauty would not be an industry Economy: A friendly Gecko. Just like our economy. Empty bellies with inflated Tails Boredom sO bOred dOing oRdinary wOrk eVen tYping fEels sO mOnotonous tHought oF uSing cAmel nOtation uNtil iM bAck tO nOrmal aGain When its time to sleep Like a cruise in a current without propellers drifted down the day Effortlessly tirelessly to live that is the way Like a babbling brook down the hill Or squeaks of a drifting car Didn't make much Noice today Dragged by the night closed heavy eyes what a wonderful day of Poetry Shipwreck The voyage begun with a good spirt Ship sailed into open ocean a brand new quest Yet battered by the winds and mother natures wrath She perished from surface and became a shipwreck Silent treatment In a relationship silent treatment is a worse kind of punishment you can inflict on the other. silence is not all good after all. Hope you would speak up today! A Pathetic Poet Yesterday, I was poetic Today I am tired septic Tomorrow will I be fantastic Or just pathetic? Thank you for reading, War Peace and Wisdom A Day Of poetry You may also like to read: Last mile home- story Nature is really beautiful, or is it? Robert frost.