What is a correct attitude for life? After a hard working day, when the physical and mental pain is at its high, you might have tumbled upon this atricle. Maybe just random scrolling in google got you here. So, it is my duty to wast no more time yours. So, when i came across following idea about life, i thought maybe i should proliferate it here in the blog as it sounded fascinating. Consider the following quote. Persuit " The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the act that you lack it in the first place" Alan watts It seems this is true statement for everything we persue in life. It may be happiness -> hapiness monster, it may be success, it may be a satisfyed relationship, academic excellence or trying to colonise mars is your pursuit in life. But if we look at it from where youre today, you will see the truth in it. As you will have to endure suffering of not having that thing you seek. Forget about great things that you want to achieve in life, just take a journey on the bus and do a walk on the most ventured street. You will start to realize you persue everything, from hats, to cars to buildings. Whenever eyes see something pleasurable mind start the game of persuing this. Whenever eyes see something unpleasent mind starts persuing the opposite experience. All day everyday, we are doing this and simply we can call this life. So, from a practical standpoint we cannot avoid persuing things. What can we do for this? How can we get around this problem? What is the correct attitude for life we can generate from above principle? Let's summarise what we have learned so far so we get a better idea about our problem. Fact 1 Whenever we persue things in life we realise we do not have this thing now. This creates an unavoidable suffering in the moment. After all life seems to be a collection of moments, continously becoming another moment. Fact 2 As for living we cannot avoid persuing things as that is the fundemental of living. You have your meal today because you persued that. There was a moment where you craved a meal, where you did not have it in your mough. Potential solution. Choosing your own suffering One potential solution is to avoid the persuing altogether. As you can see it is impossible to do. And even unnecessary as we have the second option. If you chose this as an answer completely then you will be dead in few days as you wouldnt even persue a meal. There is a limit for one can continue non persuing. On the other hand non persuing is another persuing. So if you fail to continue your non persuing you can be sad after some time. Itself can be a suffering. Choosing your suffering Second potential solution is more attractive. I have seen different versions of this given by different philosophers. Some say it is the art of letting go, accepting nature, valuelessness of life, zero of life, etc. Some great people from the past have understood this principle. Here in this solution we can kind of accept that there is no "non -suffering persuit in life" every persuit has to be suffering. On the other hand "there is no life without a persuit". You can see the problem itself provides the answer. Which is to accept the suffering and lean into the least severe suffering for yourself. In otherwords you are allowed to choose your own suffering. Let me repeat this so it sinks into your brain and it comes out later as an answer when you feel the suffering. Coosing your own suffering - means understanding, everything youre going to persue in life will generate some form of suffering. Hence you give up the "no suffering solution" to life altogether. This has potential to bring more happiness to life as acceptance of the current state of affairs in your life is the best thing we can do today. Infact we can call this mindfulness in modern wisdom. I am not sure how far you read into this article. Or whether you underood what i tried to explain in words. Now with this wisdom you can choose any persuit in life, which seems worth for you, with expectation of endurence for suffering. In harmony with it, not with anger towards life. Lets have a great day ttoday.if you do not know how to get inspired read inspiration is perishabl e

I am guilty as a convicted criminal, for pleasuring myself from the world. The penalty for this I think would be the death, as I can see more I am attached to the world more difficult it would be to leave the consciousness function. How, can I not eat the sweet apple of creation, when it looks tasty, it smells tasty and it feels tasty with my perfect senses. Have you ever noticed how delightful the world is? It seems to be just being is enough to give us an enormous pleasure from life. The beach When I was walking on the beach yesterday, I was pleasuring myself as my feet dug in the perfectly milled sand. The sand had no single reason to be there. Sand which might have come from the Mesozoic era, from volcanic mountains, travelling back and fourth. Disintegrated by constant crashes with each other, shredded into perfect powder by the force of waves. Now giving a glorious sensation on delicate free nerve endings on my feet. I just grabbed it, judged it as good, and paid the price instantly when I stepped on the rough tiles of indoors. It wasn't just sand. The waves were rough, but with plenty of drama on the stage with the low singing voice and the bubbles in thousands. Orchestrated throughout my presence on the beach in background. I just had to look if my eyes felt tired looking at the coconut trees or the blue sky. I could listen even when my eyes closed on the hammock hung between the two trees, slowly swinging sideways. I could pleasure myself with the wind which was not stopped by the fishnet on my back which hurts from wear and tear from the long journey of life. The world is remarkably delightful. Sometimes I weep indoors in artificial Life when I know I could have been watching an ant cross a tiny lake made by a Childs hand. I used to be that child. I have outgrown, Outsmarted, and in utter chaos of an imperfect life like every single one of my high school classmates, except a couple who died last year. The world is remarkably delightful still. That, I know for sure, as I can see myself watching happy grass swaying in the lagoon wind in my dreams, like I did in last December. I would watch a tiny octave foot Spider weaving a trap of death in a dodecagonal Shape, without knowing any chemistry, or high school mathematics. Which no matter how much advanced I am, cannot replicate without significant sacrifice of part of my life. Dandelions There is delight in, Watching a spider Dandelions float in summer Listening to the sound of squirrels . Watching the celling from by bedroom. Every dead and dry leaf, if I picked them up and chose to spend my consciousness observing its venation pattern which once used highways by a tree to send a concentrated soup of ingredients back and forth from its cells. World is painfully delightful If you understand this simple truth about life, that just being enough was what the mind ever wanted, maybe just then the content that Jim Carrey talked about at Oscars, is achieved. The world is painfully delightful, being content in it is just a choice. I reminded myself today just before close my eyes, that maybe I can achieve that content, just now when I see the delight of having a sleep. Maybe life is meant to be with whatever the problems it has, and we just make them ours by declaring the presence of ourselves instead of being in it.

I agree, life is all about asking questions. If you are about to go somewhere today, you should be asking the question why? Maybe it is to work, maybe it is for travelling. Maybe it is just the day to relax on a couch on Sunday still I suggest you ask the question why? I am sure trying to answer this question will perplex you at some point as nobody seems to know exactly answer to the "Why?" So, we take the easier route of not asking the question and make ourselves busy with How's. Now, how's are entirely different. About How's Of life. How's make us passionate about things. Imagine a caveman who never cooked meat. And he finds a deer burnt in a wildfire and eat its meat. And his taste buds jump up in joy, and He wants to know How? He will figure out fire caused the extra taste in the meat and somehow develop a way to tame this fire and use his for advantage. But here is the problem. He would not ask why? taste buds in the first place. Why anything at all? Why existence? Tribal man Life of How's is Mediocre No matter what you are doing if you spend a life of How's I would call it mediocre. You can be the professor in your department in the university. But all during the day if you're trying to figure out how, we can genetically engineer some chemical compound to cure cancer, I would still call it mediocre. Even though it saves great many lives in the future this has nothing to do with what as humans we are supposed to do. Even crows have figured out How's. What makes us real humans is the ability to drive our consciousness into whys. Problems of whys There are some problems with whys. Mostly we do not find answers to why. So, majority would stop questioning altogether. But I would say the major problem, or the obstacle to whys is, the devious nature of how's. Some, questions in the form of how's can disguise themselves as whys. These how's also do not have answers, or even unexplainable. But they can mislead you from real questions of life. Consider, doing good things in life. They appear as rational thing to do. After all society will punish you for doing bad things, either financially or physically. And it seem we were taught all our lives about how to be a good person. It seems success as agreed by the society is something we should chase. Why should not anyone chase success when it seems to be the most evident thing agreed by the majority of the society to have a fruitful successful life? This seems like a legitimate question of category why? But as you can see, it is a real How question. We can ask the same question as, how we can spend a successful life according to the consensus by the society. Without even asking a single question of why, we might start to draw perfect circles on the sand like bunch of experts. If one has to get away from these traps and find out truth about life they should stick to fundamental questions throughout. Even during the journey of chasing success. And be willing to give up if it seems success is not necessary. Someone might call this stepping down from the " Game of life ". It is not like suddenly you become a saint. But gradually the mind understands the erroneous nature of the world view about life, that our ancestors taught us. Mind you some of them had similar problems to us. Consider, hunger, thirst and need of having sex. Although we have become advanced in our technology, we are still under the control of these forces of nature. We haven't magically achieved freedom from fundamental problems of life through science and technology. So, I would not waste much time of this life chasing technological miracles. Instead, I will stick to basics when I walk on the beach tomorrow. What a wonderful world Why's of life. I would ask myself again, who am I? Why me? Why birth? Why death? Why all the do's and don't do's in between? Why am I hungry? and why should I eat? Why should I wake up every day and why should I work? Why anything exists and since when? Why should anything exist? I am sure I will not get an answer, and likely whatever answer I am getting is wrong. It makes me just humble and helps me detach temporarily from this painfully delightful world.

Stress According to Naval Ravikant, stress is the pull between two opposing decisions, creating the mental stress on mind. While physical stress is similar to pressuring an Iron bar from two sides, it might hold as long as its intrinsic strength is not overcome by the force. At some point iron bar is going to be fractured. Similarly minds, stuck within dilemmas, can come out in unhappy places like angry or sad or it might survive the stress leading to another happy occasion. But here is the thing, we face such stressors all the time throughout the day. Some are so subtle that we do not consider them as stressors. As an example, when I go to the bakery to buy some snack, I would often look at the various food items, not knowing what to buy. Should I go for a plain bun, or some fancy one. Often, I would make a wrong choice and be unhappy about it. Yet, next time also I might do the same mistake. So much stress for a bun I might chose to avoid going to the bakery at all. Lol. Of course I am extreme in the spectrum. Generally, the people who knows what they want would spend less time in bakery as they do not have that analysis paralysis problem in their genes. Those who have it will understand what I am saying. Paralysis of choice Anxiety and stress - what is the difference? So, what is the difference between anxiety. You can read my previous article on Sharpes ratio and anxiety where I produced that anxiety is a ratio of risk vs return. If we consider above analogy of two factors acting as stress someone can say it's just stress. Anxiety from the sound of it, looks worse than stress. On one hand, a balanced stress might lead to progress. But anxiety seems to be always harmful. Something to be avoided in life at all costs. But the problem is often we cannot. Anxiety seems to be a collection of large number of stressors, acting simultaneously , that the boundary and clarity of the two stressors for each factor is not clearly visible. As an example, you can be having a relationship problem giving two choices of staying or leaving, at the same time you might have trouble with your job, again, staying or leaving. But if both of them acted together, interactions and feelings might be overwhelming, that anxiety and panic is the result for most minds. That can cloud your judgement that you're unable to decide on anything as you do not know why. Grass Turing machines and limits. This modeling of Anxiety and stress have good advantage over the previous model using Sharpes ratio. Although anxiety has variety of reasons behind it, at one moment we cannot tackle everything altogether. Our minds are like Turing machines . One step at a time is the way to do anything. So, that guarantees, although stressors can go away with action immediately, anxiety will not go away. As there are more and more problems to solve. It is better to expect, a reasonable relief once you have tackled enough of these individual stressors. Maybe old school method of going back to a paper and writing each of these problems down is the easy way. Maybe getting help, professional or otherwise is the way. Little bit of mindful awareness practice daily, being with the nature might do better bringing out clarity to solve one of these problems. But my intuition is that we all should have a deeper understanding about life, which is closer to what is actual happening. Not just modelling of anxiety. Then we will be able to solve all our problems once and for all. You can call it knowledge, wisdom, or even truth or even Ride on the asymptote to the limits of infinity.

I have been learning about investments, stock market and human behaviour lately. For anyone who is interested in growing their wealth there are a lot of videos on YouTube nowadays. In Fact it is filled with financial advice that you might find it hard to stick to one strategy. Good luck with that! But as a general advice I would say don't forget basics when you learn advanced mathematics of financial models. When you learn Sharpe’s ratios and variances and Betas you might forget that the values are not in the stock or in business but in human minds. If you forget this you might just become a number man and be fooled by the system at some point. If you know this, at least you will know why you were fooled at some point, by these financial advisers. But here is an interesting fact. Let's look at sharpe’s ratio to understand life. Sharpe's ratio definition Sharpe’s ratio is a mathematical model used to describe the risk adjusted return for an investment. This is a fundamental concept. Any return is associated with a risk. When you have two investments with the same return for a period of time, the pathway they have taken can be markedly different on a plot. Consider the following two graphs. To select the good investment we need to quantify the return to the fluctuations as a ratio. As these fluctuations show how risky the return is. More fluctuations will have less sharpe’s ratio. If you understand the concept upto this point it's good. I will give the formula for sharpe’s ratio below for the completeness of the article. Here’s the graph showing two stocks with equal final returns but different Sharpe ratios: Stock A (High Sharpe Ratio) : Has a smoother, more stable growth curve due to lower volatility. Stock B (Low Sharpe Ratio) : Shows a choppier, more volatile path to the same end value. Sharpe's ratio formula From sharpe's ratio to Anxiety But it made me realise why we behave as we are in society. Consider my article on riding waves of life . Here I discussed how people fluctuate differently although it is the same wave. Consider two people and above graphs show how they behave to external stimuli. Some show a steady response. They hardly change their course of life to external factors. They appear like good investments. Others behave like Apple stock! They fluctuate to stimuli. Their values skyrocket during the day and dip down at night. One day feels good to be alive and the other day is Anxiety prone. But when you consider a period of time the outcome may appear the same. The average return may be equal or even higher than the steady risk free ride. Sharpe's ratio to careers We can expand this idea to individual careers. Consider an actor to a clerk in a private company. The sharpe’s ratio for an Acting career is going to be higher. It's risky. You are going to have parties and shit that makes you feel high, like Mike Posner sang. Next day you might wake up and commit suicide due to stress and boredom without knowing what to do, like his friend Avicci. So for some of the folk who act, risk adjusted return (Sharpe's ratio) can even be less than a clerk!. But it varies depending on individual characteristics. We can consider happiness, fulfillment or containment as the return of life, anxiety and stress the risk we take. An engineer on the other hand has a better chance of having good returns for the risk than a clerk. That is why everyone wants to be an engineer rather than a clerk.  Optimal Sharpe’s ratio for life. But as you can see the optimal sharpe’s ratio doesn't come when we do the work with the highest return. It depends also on our internal characteristics of how much we fluctuate to external stimuli. Or the Anxiety component or the risk. As you can see it's variable with time also. When you progress in your career you might take more responsibilities to make a higher return. You might get promoted in your job. From the outset this might feel like the right thing to do. But it might limit your freedom and increase Anxiety to a level that risk adjusted return is far less than the previous. Nowonder why people are stressed when they become CEO's. Unlimited life. How to achieve Limitless happiness? Now let's look at an interesting phenomenon. Consider a life with zero risk. You do not take any risk. Sometimes we meet these people, in corners of PUBs, rural villages, in churches and In libraries. What do you think about their sharps ratio? When the risk is near zero, the sharpe’s ratio can be very high. Which means proportionately the happiness they feel can be overwhelming. Even having lunch can generate more relative happiness than getting a seven or eight figure bonus. Because the risk adjusted return is better for someone who takes minimal risk. I am sure you had a great deal of thinking and ideas by this time. Why don't you comment on a few and we can have a discussion for aiming a quality life with better sharpe’s ratios and less anxiety? You can read more about modeling anxiety here.

I am guilty as Jonney, eating sugar. My latest hobby has been reading White Fang to steal words from Jack London and post some stupid philosophy/poetry ideas on serious philosophy groups and watch their reaction and read through comments. As someone suggested it closely resembles masturbation in public. Yet I cannot deny the secret pleasure I am getting from it, maybe even more heightened experience than the former blasphemy. Now, do not ask me "Then magical, what is with counting Apples?". To explain, consider following post I sent to one of those public groups. "A world without numbers would be a sight to see. I wonder it would be blissful as nothing to chase." Philosophy of existence- is it flawed? Someone commented numbers are fundamental as, if exist -> 1 , if not exist ->0. It looked an interesting concept. Maybe that is how we figured out numbers. At the core of every child figuring out numbers counting their head, they had to jump from fingers to numbers almost magically. If you do not get my point, consider following example again suggest by another enthusiastic commentor. Sand, is it uncountable? Consider you have an apple. Which physically exist on your hand. And you get another apple. Now you have another existing. exist + exist is two exist. Apples are just one "Thing" exist. But once if we learn to count apples, we can count anything, applying this principle to anything existing. Some are countable, naturally like apple. Some are uncountable naturally like sand, yet we make them countable by putting it into buckets of countable. So, far so good right? Wrong! I believe to answer questions of life we should always start by examining question itself. We must get back to basics, of life, fundamentals like "things" and "philosophy of existence". If we do not, we would be just playing the hunger games for the entertainment of whoever the crazy creator is. I am not angry, just following a logic here. So, when I see an error in our basic counting, I think we should examine it further, as important as it is, as some even would consider mathematics a fundamental "thing" in nature. But what I see, it is just another abstraction, a failed attempt at naming the existence by counting things. In contrast what I can see in an apple is change. And change is opposite of existence. I cannot point out to same apple twice. Otherwise, how come apple gets rotten after some time, if it was not changing moment to moment just like water in a river getting washed downstream. Sound familiar right? " You cannot step into the same river twice - Heraclitus " What is true for the river is true for the apple. And that is even true for you and me. Apples So, nowadays, I see myself as a continuously changing function. No wonder I was unhappy about my circumstances as I was trying to fix myself to a "Success" or a role of success in the past. But, if I can just embrace the change, that would be far closer to what it is natural for this existence. So, we are not actually talking about counting in a discrete sense. Let's be mindful so we can see more and more of these absurd little functions called change in every aspect of our lives. What is truth is most beneficial in a society where majority are blinded by their own believes.

Sometimes lessons are learned in hard ways. Although how much we like we are just creatures of universe made up of stardust. So, one lesson If I have learned anything from the past, it would be to be myself, even when it is hard to do so. Maybe you haven't learned that lesson. This article would be just a reminder when you get your turn to learn it by experience. We all are seeds of nature. Literally a tiny cell when it all happened inside a mother's womb. Few months later we were born equipped with everything necessary to carry on the consciousness. I would say, lot of things were pre-determined by nature. Consider, DNA, your height weight and complexity all included in this genetic material. Of course, our choices do matter, yet choices would make sense only when we align ourselves with nature. It is like a seed of mango. Although it seems same, all the mango trees, never two trees are the same. Even when they appeared first time above earth as saplings, with its dicotyledons, each one would be different from its neighbor. Saplings I used to see myself as this rigid structure, a rocket crafted to reach one target and one target only. That is to race the Mars before anyone else. However, in doing so, I had to prune some of the creativity. A necessary sacrifice in the name of science. But that is past. Nowadays, I have a better understanding on the inner workings of the mind. The mind to go into uninterrupted flow and create an earnest experience on living, it just needs to align its actions with its nature. Suppressing our core identities would work in short term, but not definitely for years and decades. Learning to be yourself, brings best outcomes for life. What is true for me would likely be true for you as well. If you stare inside on a cold day in silence just before bed you would have answers to your deep questions about life. Is the trouble that we face every day worth the course? If it is then, no harm, already you may be living a fruitful life. If not, it is time to change. And when change occurs, let it sweep in naturally like a river. After all, the best contribution you can provide for the humankind is not by doing what everyone asked you to do, but by doing what is meaningful to you. And this cannot be forced. I am sure it is not a pile of money that you are seeking, as I can assure you it is not worth. Seek freedom more than anything After a little bit of free space, and experimentation, now I know, the mind seeks freedom. So, sometimes I let my legs take the brain into the woods, where nobody is there. Away from the artificial race. The moment I step out of concrete roads, into the old fallen leaves, and smell the fresh leaves mind relaxes. It gains more clarity. There is no need to think. Mostly it has dead empty spaces occupied by calmness. I do not disturb this by thinking about work. And that there is the connection I see of my soul with its creator or the nature. Why should anyone deny themselves of this simple happiness. Maybe the life is already perfect, until I disturb its flow to build dams. Maybe it is time you let go of the fear of losing whatever you are holding tight and embrace the freedom which is free for anyone to have. If you just close your eyes, you will know what to do next, and I suggest take that advice from the universe. Do not spoil it trying to be the smart man. Happy mindfulness day.

It was gradually, over the years the duck realized that it was just a Duck. A duck who thought It could beat them all in any game. A duck who thought if it worked hard, trained hard, spent just few hours up, more than everyone else It would reach the top. And it would be some kind of a golden duck that it would be remembered in the duck community. So, just like all the other ducks, it learned. Spent hours and hours memorizing equations, parts of a duck cell, and chemical composition of duck beak. When its friends went down the river to watch the sunset, duck spent my afternoons being anxious about exams, that nobody even knew it was taking. Twenty duck years straight to learn some craft. And when suddenly It was winter, duck found itself stranded in the forest. Alone. It did not know how to fly. A duck in crisis What went wrong. The duck knew all the mathematics of aerodynamics. It knew the ideal food with balanced nutrition that It should take to have enough energy. But its wings were lacking power, as all It exercised was its brain. When others left when duck could not join them so it chose to lie down before asked a question. Who am I? Am I not a brilliant duck? Or am I just another ordinary duck? Why am I a duck? Not a human. An elephant or a deer? Why duck? Just like an ordinary duck It went into an existential crisis. Birth of an Existential crisis duck. As a duck It had never experienced this new realm of existential crisis duck level. It had been sad, happy, elated and even angry. But this new thing was a trap. Every day the duck woke up asking the same question. What now? I can see me as just a duck, with all the constraints of a duck soul. I would feel hungry and have to fish like all the other ducks do. I feel sad and happy fishing day in and out. When I try to speak up I just quack. Although I wanted to sound like a nightingale, that was a dream which will never come true. Should I just embrace being an ordinary duck? Should I just pray to God, so he will carry me to heaven when I'm demised. Every day the duck watched its happiness disappear, crushed by this existential crisis. Going fishing no longer felt happy. Duck knew it cannot sustain. It was just an ordinary duck. It could not paint a sunset with its beak so colorfully as it is, so never tried. What is the point it is just a duck life. Days became weeks and months. The duck knew it was going to end but did not know how or when or why it should. It did not come. But instead of asking who am I? The duck learned to ask different questions. Mindful When the duck was depressed, it would ask who was depressed. When the duck was happy It would ask who was happy? When the duck walked along a path it would ask who was walking? Still, it did not see any answer. But the duck felt alive, just experiencing the depressed, happy and walking. Maybe after all these years the duck had chased a wrong target. Maybe the duck was really limitless on its own tiny experience which it failed to recognize as it was blinded by all the stories of extraordinary ducks. Maybe just being an ordinary duck itself is a profound experience. And key to the solving misery of "who am I?" Is just a matter of observation. So now instead of the existential crisis duck, there is a mindful duck who just watches the existence.

After a tired day of working, I chose to go to a nearby temple on a modest hill. Surrounded by taller mountains, the pagoda, was the main attraction of the temple. I could see the treetops, just at my eye level. There was no wind. The highway was nearby, disturbing the silence by noise of cars at discrete intervals. And mind, spontaneously started to count them. One two three four, it looked natural the counting. Hence natural numbers . But when I looked at trees, I saw them experiencing another world. An analogue world without discrete numbers. I wonder what the world would be like if it is just analogue. Are we heading for this with quantum computers? Discrete This is not just imagination. We just passed an era of analogue world. Few centuries back, when the mathematics was rudimentary, it was considered to be used by people of intelligence. For someone to survive the world counting was not a necessary skill. Being able to see hear and move would be enough. Yet today we have branched out so much that, some of us spend our entire lives just by counting. And My God! some who do not know how to count would pay, a statistician a fair sum of money just for the counting. Numbers are not only important, but They also mean survival. One has to be prepared to shiver in cold when its winter, if they did not learn how to count. So, everybody counts nowadays. Imagine a world without numbers. You would wake up, when it is sun up above the horizon, like you were supposed to do. You would have odd, or even number of pieces of bread, yet you would not count them. Instead, you would be focused on the feeling of your stomach to know what is enough. Definitely you would not know how "MUCH" calories you have taken. Then, once you are ready you would walk out of your house, for work. You will work, for whatever amount of time it takes to finish the job. You would be paid by your work, not by your hour. And the amount you receive would be something which can fill your stomach, enough for some time, as there would be no money without counting. You would be happy even if you get one piece of bread, or ten pieces of bread, as you have no means of knowing which heap is bigger. Except you may remember from last time and think its larger. You may feel happy walking, and each and every day the distance you travel would feel different depending on your level of tiredness. As there is no way of knowing exactly how much you travel. Hence distance although same would be fundamentally different each and every day. Flight of a Kite An analogue world The supper would be when you feel hungry, not at 8. The progress of your life and success would not depend on an imaginary number in your bank. It would depend on what you see, feel and hear during the day. Hence, you will have more time to think about the little pleasures you miss, as you are not bounded by imaginary race to be the "first". Everyone would be considered equal by default as there is no scale to measure against. The height, the color of the skin, the age would make no sense. Ah, of course I am exaggerating. But can you see, some of the burden of our day-to-day life arise from the fact that we are so much obsessed with numbers. Maybe it is time to remind ourselves that we are just trees in the backyard of the creator. The counting is not the natural, but a prison built by our ancestors who failed to see the analogue nature of our environment. Maybe, we might just blow up the planet earth with our superior knowledge on numbers, in a WW3 and then, the analogue world would be inevitable. Ignorance of numbers is a bliss.

"I used to be a guy experiencing the universe but now the universe is experiencing a guy. " What can I say, it shook me when I heard Jim Carrey when he spoke these words in an interview. How much an actor, an impersonator, an entertainer can know about life. But here it is evidence to the fact that Jim is not build from ordinary material. He seems to be a supernatural being, a monk who lives in Hollywood. This is not the only thing he had said about life, if you read the part 1 and part 2, I have illustrated his wisdom in words. Let's look into the anatomy of the above sentence and see what it means. Starry nights and universe It started with the simple question of why the sky is dark at night, except for a few twinkling stars. The night should have been as bright as day, if there are infinite number of stars fill the sky stretching beyond to the infinity. However that is not the case, as the universe seems to be expanding beyond the speed of light. Hence there is a boundary to our observable universe with not enough stars. What is beyond this likely to be more universe yet not accessible for us. Not by conventional means with physical constrains. So literally we are at the centre of the observable universe. But here is another way too look at it. Each one of us are again at the center of the observable universe. Centre By center I mean the core. Within the body we are stuck observing everything happening around us. This is the natural view of things. Inside out. But as with nature everything has another perspective. As it wasn't random that you get to be the center of your observable universe we can consider ourselves as the universe itself. What is the use of an observation without the observer? What is the use of a fruit without its seed? What is the use of a boat without a sail? Similarly we can ask the question What is the use of the universe without the observer? As clearly universe is one such continous observation. Universal perspective of life If we are fundamentally inseparable from the universe maybe we are not two things just one. Maybe really it's the universe which experience a guy not the other way around. But why should we adapt this new way of thinking? What are the advantage of knowing its the universe not me. I would say, knowing this pushes one into an infinity of abundance. Universe is abundance. No limitations. Self on the other hand is a limited quantity. A box within infinity. Surely this universal view of self will dilute the burden and responsibility. It will dilute the good things that we tend to greed upon like happiness, the peace, the charity. It will also dilute things we think are bad the greed itself, the anger and the sadness. And it will let us understand that there is no rush in life. There is no game to play. There is no target to reach. Gemstone There is no need to move earth dig a hole in the ground and collect precious gems. There is no need to take down another life by doing so. As you are the universe so is your neighbour. So is the tiny mosquito which bites onto your forearm looking for it's share. Sometimes best outcomes arise when you do not try to attack, but let it flow like it's supposed to flow.

Qualia : The Definition Marrium Webster The term "qualia" refers to instances of subjective, conscious experience . It is derived from the Latin word "quālis," meaning "of what kind" or "of what sort." Examples of qualia include sensations like the taste of food or the color of an object. The word fascinated me for a good couple of days. So, here I am writing about it. In fact, many articles I have written in the past, was about this phenomenon called Qualia. Yet, I did not understand that there is a single word defining it. As an example here in this article I have written about tastes how they differ from person to person. Even though two persons eat same mango, we can never know whether they feel the same mango taste or not. In fact, it is likely that the tastes they feel are different. Although we can make exact same chemical composition of the food, we cannot remove the subjective nature from the experience. Shades of Red This is not limited to taste. Consider pain. The same kind of disease condition can cause marked variation of perception of pain. Touch smell and even colors are the same. Two people will never experience two colors the same. Although the physical component is measured and assured to be the same, (In the case of red, the wavelength of the light) the perception is subjective. What is the importance of knowing the Qualia exists? and Big Questions I would say, it makes me realize how stuck we are in this world. No matter what we do, we will not be able to reach some outside wisdom, as we are stuck within our own reality. Imagine someone of the universe stumble upon the truth. Although he/she understood this because of the Qualia, he/she would not be able to give it to me. They might try to write it down or make a video about it. But whenever I hear or read about that wisdom, I will just make my own understanding. Secondly, it makes me listen more to the other people and even empathize them. When someone say, they are depressed, I would believe them. When someone say they are having a hard time, I would listen to them. As I know, I have never been in their domain. I do not know what it is like to be in their mind, in their circumstances. In their soup of universal reasons. Whatever boils in there comes out as that specific action, speech or the deed. Yet, I can see they are bounded by the same laws and limitations as myself. Just a pocket of Qualia in otherwise limitless universe. Yellow Color Bricks It makes me humble when I realize, I have been stuck in my own world of interpretations and information sphere . There is no way out of this. I used to believe scientists have solutions or will find solutions to all our problems. But the faith in the scientific method is lost. And I can see they themselves struggle in life as they haven't taken time to investigate their own boundaries. So, I invite you to be mindful next time when you take a mouthful of an ice-cream and ask big questions of life. Why on earth, this isolated experience of tasting an ice-cream is necessary? To whom? For what purpose?

Inspiration is Perishable - Naval Ravikant If you are a procrastinator Like me all my life, this is good advice from Philosopher Naval Ravikant. I follow this angel investor from Silicon Valley for some time, who has a bit of taste in philosophy. He doesn't talk you 1000 steps to become wealthy person. But he might give a 20-minute talk in a podcast like an artist who would paint a mural on a wall perfect in every sense. Where you can stare at it for hours until you absorb every colorful wisdom it generates. Compacted with advice and reason. Consider the above powerful quote, "Inspiration is perishable". Inspiration in Coffeehouse Inspiration can come from anywhere. The magical thing about inspiration is it can come at anywhere anytime. In most unusual places. It can come in a middle of a noisy Party, while you wash your dishes. While you are being blamed by your boss. While you are watching Netflix munching Popcorn wasting time on the couch. It will come suddenly like a flash, a brilliant idea that you think you should try. It can be related to some problem you are trying to solve, or something entirely new that not any of the 8 billion people ever realized such. So, what you do? You keep it in mind and go back to whatever task you have been doing, and half an hour later, you have forgotten that you ever had this idea. If you have acted on it immediately, It might have created a little butterfly seed that would hatch one day and grow into a butterfly. This butterfly by flapping its wings might change the entire climate of the universe in the future. The power of compounding will make it bigger and bigger. But as you can see you did not do that, and it never came into a reality. That is the practical meaning of "Inspiration is perishable" Get inspired by nature Inspiration is perishable - seize it when you see it Carpe-diem. Is the theme of this blog. Which means seize the day. It is a famous quote from the Robbin Williams Movie the Dead poet society. So, it means the inspiration is temporary. During the day, if we are aware, and anticipate the inspiration, we might just be able to grab it. And make it something lasting just a longer than a thought, which has a half-life of few minutes. Maybe you should carry a notebook everywhere you go. Maybe you should keep a voice recorder. Maybe you should record a short video of your idea so you can come back later if you are too busy to work on it. Maybe you are not just a procrastinator but, you are unaware of the fact that every genius who made new things in this world have the same inspiration as you, but they just acted on it immediately than late. One afternoon, after my 8-5 shift, I sat down. I started to write one page of a book that I wanted to write about things I have learned by trial and error in this life. One page became two and I wrote my first book. Then I thought maybe I should start a blog. To promote my book. That was two years ago. Here, now I am writing my 554th article on the blog. Each article started with just a perishable spark of inspiration. Maybe it is time you started grabbing yours too.