John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was a British economist whose ideas transformed the way governments manage their economies. He argued that during economic recessions, when people spend less and businesses struggle, governments should actively intervene by increasing public spending and creating jobs to stimulate economic activity. Unlike classical economists, who believed markets would naturally correct themselves; Keynes believed that government intervention could help restore economic stability. His ideas became the foundation of Keynesian economics and influenced economic policies around the world, particularly after the Great Depression of the 1930s. The above quote comes from the preface of his famous book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). The original quote goes like, "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." Although it is written in the context of explaining economic theories, the principles apply to everything. It is true we can always learn a new idea. But how can we get rid of the old one? And why is it so hard? In other words, is it true that our greatest intellectual limitation is not in the lack of new information but our attachment to familiar ways of thinking? That really sounds complicated. Let's break it down simply. Imagine you are looking at a lake, and you are a scientist. While in the lab, you learn about the arrangement of the water molecules, how two hydrogen atoms are in harmony with oxygen. And how these atoms get together to form the live interaction of water. But when you are in front of the lake, you would not see atoms or molecules. You will only see a lake. You can say it is because your eyes cannot see the atoms and molecules. However, mind you, what we see is not just our eyes; it is a creation of our minds. Hence, I say, it is only because we have our previous convention or the belief that a lake exists, that we can see a lake. But truly speaking, there is just a collection of random atoms, moving against each other, occasionally splashing you. Change. : https://unsplash.com/@martz90 In life, we learn things by pattern recognition. This is very easy to understand when we look at large language models of modern AI. It is just an algorithm built for pattern recognition. We learn a language by building a mental model of an alphabet. The problem and danger here is everything built on top of this basic structure called language is dependent on the properties of language itself. It is bounded by finite quantities. However, nature doesn't follow rules of discrete entities like in an alphabet. It is infinite. Infinitely many atoms, infinitely many instances. And it is very dynamic. So much so, something that happened in the past will never recur with the same exact pattern. So, what we recognize as patterns is just an illusion of one instance of such a complex process. Labeling this as a pattern would definitely help us to work in the future; however, there is the problem it may not give the same outcome as we expected in the past. The person who knows this would live a dynamic life, with a mind for continuous awareness and change. It is an important exercise to think about this while we are at leisure. How many dead and old beliefs do we carry and inherit to our children, just because we did not investigate them thoroughly? How lazy we are as a society, as a generation, and as parents. How can we create a mind open to new ideas? Or simply, what are the ways of emptying the cup early morning, without drinking the same coffee mixed with leftovers from yesterday? Would meditation and mindfulness help?

This is a question I have asked myself several times in the past. I am richer than when I was a kid. I can remember having just enough money to travel in the bus, I never even looked at the fancy stuff in boutique shops. They were eye catching, there were rows of them on the sidewalk, sweets and toys, what a kid would crave. But I wasn't rich. I would wait two hours at a bus stop until I get a free ride. That was how much my time was valued when I was a teenager. However, now things seem different. Sky: a thing that you cannot buy https://unsplash.com/@ryanxbraxton I value my time in dollars. Each hour passing not doing anything productive means I am losing dollars. Guess I am richer than before. I have a bag full of skills at my disposal to earn money. Years and years of my youth spent on learning them. However, am I happier than a child? My former teenage self who was looking at people who are passing by. I saw thousands of them passing by me daily. None of them looked happy. Guess I am reached that stage of life. Money doesn't make us happy. It just solves some problems. Like your utility bills and travel expenses. However, what makes us happy is how we spend our time. The internal feeling of fulfillment in life. Thing you look at and say wow. Internal feeling of content. Mind you there are 10000 things you cannot buy with money. Now let's look at a different definition of richness. He who knows he has enough is rich. Lao Tzu. Because there is no upper bound to the greed, you can never be satisfied with more. If you are rich enough, you might want to travel to the space station and spend a week there or even go deep down to visit mariana Trench in a submarine. Human madness have no limits. The person who is rich is a one who has understood this. To know you already have enough. Imagine yourself sitting on a hill facing the breeze, smelling fresh air of the country. Looking at leaves of a palm tree making noise to the wind. Imagine you know the feeling of an ant crawling up your feet. And you have time to watch a spider weaving it's web amon the grass leaves. Can you even buy that with money? You cannot. But is it out of your reach? No, it is not. Anyone can walk to a park and get the similar feeling. It is not at all about money. It is about everything. Imagine you start eating your breakfast. From a buffet. The guy who is not satisfied would want to taste the entire buffet, and he will end up with Ischemic heart disease at 40. The one who do not know their limits, can end their life by jumping off a cliff, into an unknown water, just to feel the thrill of it. If we do not know and contemplate on death, we might not live a satisfied life. The fullfillment doesn't come tomorrow. It comes today. There is no dream to chase. Richness can be there in an ordinary life if you see that as rich. List of things you cannot buy with money. Stars Clouds Sunlight Moonlight Rainbows The wind Ocean waves A sunrise The horizon A mountain's shadow The blue of the sky The sound of rain A shooting star The reflection of the moon in a lake The scent of the forest The silence of a snowy landscape A passing breeze The Milky Way The warmth of a summer afternoon The colours of a sunset

Contemplation on life takes decades. Life is a strange affair with a lot of unknown variables, perhaps the most difficult equation you will ever encounter. This complexity baffles most men and women, and they never truly confront their lives during this short span of happenings. They just get pseudo-busy with surrogate activities like careers, hobbies, and even caring for children and loving someone. But what a wrong thing to do. You were born alone, and you will die alone. In between, there will be people and things, which can come and which can go in an instant. If you do not think about the deep questions of life, you will be contemplating them on your deathbed, in the last few days of your life. And then there would be no time or even mental energy to investigate. So, we have to do it during this life. Yes, while you are working at your job, while you are taking care of your family, while you are partying on Friday. Because of these hindrances, it takes a normal person decades to do that. But it is a necessary sacrifice. https://unsplash.com/@bookslope Consider this fact, how can we live if we do not know what living is? There are a lot of fake people with fake answers on this. There are thousands of pages of prescriptions from hundreds of philosophers. However, they are not all false. Each and every one carries a true message mixed with a lie, due to the inherent weakness of the language. Language is not built for truth; it is built by speculation. If you call something a tree, it is just a speculation. If you say someone is running, that also is speculation. However, it is a genius invention as it can indirectly pass all human knowledge, so progressively, if we study everything, we will come closer to true answers to life, without any words. Answers to life are just a feeling, a knowledge. A simple truth which can be applied to anything and everything. But knowing that is different from reading about it in a book. As knowing will make you see truth in everything and everyone you see. But knowledge would just disappear in a matter of days, and you will fall back to doing your surrogate activities. Can we control the process of contemplation? I am not even sure this is possible. Sometimes we might be partially responsible for what we are doing in life. We do not know what article google would suggest next. We cannot predict who we would see in a bus today. We cannot control you falling into a manhole and breaking your leg. All these tiny things which happen, which are not in our control will change your future. So, even when you are contemplating on life, it happened due to unknown reasons. Who is in control? Do not ask me. Let it be as it is, but give it a boost with some information, a good book, and being inquisitive with thought patterns of brilliant people from the past and today. Attachment is the weakness If contemplation of life is the power, then attachment is the weakness. If your mind shakes and makes waves each and every time something hits its surface, your mind is weak. A strong mind would not be afraid of anything. Physical pain we cannot stop, but mental pain comes mainly from things we get attached to. And understanding this fact can lead us to a pain free life. It is not simple as these are hardwired to our brains by our genetics. But there is a glitch in our genes that we are able to understand ourselves within. Contemplation on life is the power Understanding the changing nature of life is the power. It has the ability not to cry when something precious breaks. A teacup perhaps, a pair of shoes, a relative that got detached. An Amazon package which never arrived and was not refunded. Increased oil prices. Loss of the political party that you voted for. We are searching for permanence in an impermanent life. There is no end to the search until we contemplate on impermanence, not for one day, but a good decade and a half, until we see everything that is going on around us is interconnected by this fact. From then onward, you can let life flow like a normal human being with understanding. Perhaps life needs nothing more to achieve before it becomes peaceful.

Imagine a goldfish, inside a bowl. Living all its life in this confined space. If it had the ability to answer questions, we could ask few questions. Imagine you sit with the fish half an hour and ask questions. Fishbowl Paradox Do you know you live inside a bowl? Do you know you only get a distorted view of the room? Do you know there is the outside world which you cannot reach? Do not call me idiotic, when I ask those questions. Many more people have done the same. In fact Monza city council of Italy had banned spherical fish bowls in their state. Among many reasons, "Fish seeing a distorted version of reality" was mentioned. But how can we ever know? we ourselves are fish, in bowls called human body. The reality we see is only just a replication of the mind. Fishbowl :https://unsplash.com/@kazuend Do the fish know they live inside a bowl? I am sure they do not know. Do not ask me how I know. I can see them happily swimming. Perhaps their story ended happily ever after the moment they went inside it. Fish don't seem to possess the brain capacity to know their confinement. I do not see them investigate the boundaries. Unlike octopuses, which are really brainy and explore each and every corner of their habitat. An octopus would definitely suffer inside a fishbowl. It would yearn to move out of this place. Compare this to many of our lives. We confine ourselves to homes, families, ethnicities, countries, humans as a species. But there is always something beyond these fishbowls. Many of us do not know about them, as we cannot get an outside perspective while inside a fishbowl. Maybe there is no other way than jumping a few times. Do the fish know they only get a distorted view of the room? With the actual fish, we do not have to ask this question, as it is mundane when they cannot even understand what the fishbowl is. Similarly, many men and women in our world are stuck at the level of not knowing where they live. They do not know they are prisoners of the mind. How can they question reality itself? We can use magnifying glasses and telescopes to enhance our vision, even use infrared cameras and X-rays to see inside. But ultimately, we have to use our eyes and brain to recognize and make sense of everything. This limitation is not something everyone is aware of. Some know it as a theory, most philosophers and scientists. But not when you see something beautiful and recognize it as it is. Do the fish know there is an outside world where you cannot reach? Again, this is a mundane question with a real fish. But with humans, we can call it just the philosophical view of the allegory of the cave. I call this the unseen world. The unseen world is much more than just infrared and X-ray vision of a superman. It is everything and everything else you do NOT know right now, including what your pet is doing on your couch, to what is happening behind closed doors of the cabinet. Our beliefs, our experience, our culture, and our knowledge have limitations. So the greatest limitation to our understanding could be our inability to understand the limitations themselves. With these thoughts in mind, I think you can do better with your day. You will obviously be able to imagine outside the fishbowl, although knowing this is also a distorted image. You could be able to be at peace with the lie constantly present in reality and live a fulfilled life. Words can only do thus far for wisdom. End. Fishbowl Paradox

Bathroom Breaks. For the modern man the bathroom is a place for breathing and rest. How pathetic the life has become; we do not find a space in our compact office apartment a place to rest. A silent corner where anyone can sit and relax when they are overwhelmed by work. Do you not wish of such a place? I am sure if there is such a place that would be the favorite of many. Until then the bathroom would continue to provide that function. This is not a false fact even for a home. How many of you would find peace at home? Unless you are living alone and bored, or you live in a Manson so big that there are literally hundreds of empty room chances are still the bathroom is the place that you relax every day. That even makes sense as half an hour of a day inside a bathroom is five years of lifetime inside of it. Mind you when we get older the bathroom time would only proportionally increase. Influence: https://unsplash.com/@anikmandal98 While sitting in the bathroom, I had thoughts. I could not see beyond the walls of the bathroom. There was no specific thing I had to do, except the bodily function. The weakness of every dictator, serial criminal offender, and even the richest man on earth is that they cannot escape from bodily functions. Unless we find a convenient way of transferring our consciousness into a machine. Perhaps we already are these little machines. Even if that happens, our experience is limited to what is in front of us. If we are not aware of our immediate surroundings and things happening, that is a true waste of time. Circle of influence. This gives us a different perspective about our life. What is your circle of influence? That is just your immediate surrounding and what can you do with things at your hand. Even if you can upload a photo to instagram and watch that it getting reactons while you are sleeping, your circle of influence remains what you do inside your room. Essentially your circle of influence become shrunken to your unconcious bodily functions during your sleep. The way you can influence more people is by some form of recording or broadcasting your thoughts, ideas and pictures. However, paradoxically you do not live with them, the actual circle of influence you have is just yourself in front of your camera. Just you and a camera and a microphone. Just you and your journal. Just you and your pots and pan. Just you and your bathroom mirror. It is true our minds take thousands of short journeys into the past and the future during a single day. However our circle of infulence remains small. With tools available to us to reach millions at a time, yet, only interact with few of them. Apart from being aware, other thing we should be focussing on is taking action. Although our circle of influence is small, Still this is the place where everything happens. Like a tiny drop of water which will eventually collect to form a mighty river, your tiny actions and inactions will accumilate over years, and provide enough evidence to the exisistance of you. As memories and as work. As buildings, paintings and paperwork you have done. The fact is this doesn't need a lot of IQ or even physical exhaustion, if you are wise. If you can just walk around the country collecting strange dried up leaves. Even that might add a value to your experience. Perhaps, a better quote would be something what Franz Kafka said: Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - but you have to be aware of your circle of influence to do that! so mindfulness first.

Inadequacy of words. There are many words in English language. I use it as a case study here; however, you can choose any language. There are enough words, so anyone cannot even memorize if given a lifetime. Today My Oxford dictionary is thicker and pages are thinner, than a decade ago. It seems new words are accumulating at a faster rate, just with advancement of the science. However, I say these words are inadequate to describe the nature. The reason is the nature is more complex. It fluxes through time in a rapid unimaginable rate (if we agree to the fact that the time is a thing). Imagine a sunflower, which blossom in the early morning hours and move around the clock to end up looking at dusk. How can you explain this phenomenon without dropping any details. sunflower: https://unsplash.com/@michellefranclee Consider, the following ways of describing a sunflower. 1. A golden sunflower stood proudly in the summer heat, its bright face following the sun across the endless blue sky. 2. Its yellow petals spread like tiny rays of sunshine, capturing the warmth of a beautiful summer afternoon. 3. Standing tall on its green stem, it turned its face gently towards the sun, as though watching an old friend pass by. 4. The sunflower wore a golden crown, bathing in sunlight as the hours slowly slipped away. 5. As the sun travelled from east to west, the sunflower followed its journey with the quiet devotion of a faithful admirer. 6. Its bright yellow petals danced in the summer breeze, while its dark brown center gazed endlessly at the moving sun. 7. Beneath the scorching summer sky, the sunflower stood like a little sun of its own, borrowing light from the greater one. 8. From morning's first light to the afternoon's fading warmth, it kept turning its face, unwilling to miss a single moment of sunshine. 9. The sunflower seemed to measure time not by clocks but by the changing position of the sun above its head. 10. As the summer day unfolded, the sunflower remained a silent observer, turning slowly with the sun, as though the two were sharing a secret conversation. None of these capture the moments what sunflower undergoes. But all of these carry a tiny bit of truth in it. Not the entire thing. The entire thing which happened to sunflower is rapidly become an uncaptured past, except for few memories and few photos that we take. How can we make sense of such a world? Is there a better alternative? Nonverbal communication, is it a better way of communication? Gestures, facial expressions, and even silence can communicate. Often these are without words, obviously. When we talk with someone there is always more than just words. There is a second message given without even any words. And this sometimes is more important than the words. But the problem is you cannot interpret these nonverbal communications with words. You just need to feel them with your senses. Observe them and let them be. Just like you can do with a sunflower. The question remains, is it a better way of communication? When you are watching a sunflower, you just need to watch it. Just feel it's presence, the journey through time. And that is it. There is no more and no less to it that what you just experienced. And the experience also would vanish moment to moment. Rapidly than any speedy car those humans ever going to build. You can call this a form of nonverbal communication, or simply mindfulness. There is no inherent value in doing this thing. Except it is just the experiencing the existence itself. Who are we if we really do not know what is the existence itself is? This article has no specific purpose, no specific message, that is given by words, and there is no prescription. But you might get the message given by the words. If you read between the lines and contemplate on what is not said here, in relevance to your own existence in life.

Who is Unabomber. He is a terrorist lived in USA, responsible for deaths of 3 men and injured many others over a period of decades. He is a well-educated man seemed to be motivated by his philosophical ideas to improve the society. The means he used to achieve his goals, or "Send a message to the society who did not take his seriously" was wrong, as hurting anyone is a crime regardless of the reason. But his published manifestation, have attracted many people over the years, as it provides the powerful interpretation of the struggle of the modern man to fit into the system he was born into. In many ways is the story of Many men and women living in the modern world. Following is a summary of Unabomber manifestation. Marathon: https://unsplash.com/@amutiomi 5 Key Ideas of Unabomber Manifestation - summary The process of power According to Kaczynski, the sense of satisfaction of a human comes from achievement when he/she is engaged in difficult task and able to fulfil this. But in the modern world basic survival seems to make very easy as long as you have a stack of cash. And instead of finding food, we are diverted by the system for different tasks that we did not want to do in the first place. This observation of him seems true. Although there are many opportunities, to earn while doing what you like to do, many of the individuals in life land in different parts of the system turning wheels day after day like slaves. Like in a system of modern slavery, pathetic situation than slavery itself, as these people do not know they are the pawns of a system. Systems restrict freedom. True freedom is if you can function, individually in nature and survive. However, as we are all dependent and used to the modern systems, we cannot function individually. We are stuck. There is no survival target. Although we appear free at the end of the day, we fill our lives with mundane tasks and entertainment which doesn't make a fulfilling life experience in the long term. "Surrogate activities" Surrogate activities are given as a goal to life by the system. We are aiming for vacations, retirement, getting promoted, having the biggest car in the neighborhood as our goals. And some even spend their entire lives without knowing what to do, just dreaming to have an experience in a first-class flight in an airplane just a few feet away from their economic class colleagues. Status, political games, academic achievement and materialistic gains are all surrogate activities imposed on us by the system. Psychological pressure. Imagine you woke up one day in the middle of the jungle like Bear grills. What would you do? I am sure you would either be dead or would just start doing something to live immediately. There would be greater urgency in your actions for your survival. It is very difficult to say you would come up alive or not, but those few days in your life trying to survive would just feel like you have been living, when and if you come back to the society and talk about it. But modern systems would not allow you to do that, as it has created psychological pressure on us. We tend to take easier and faster route every time we choose, and there are a whole lot of choices too. Technology keeps expanding. Technology keeps expanding, creating new goals. New niches for us to spend our entire lives thinking about. Consider 3n+1 mathematic problem. How many human hours have spent over years, of humans tackling this problem. Is it even necessary? For advancement of what? To create what after that? To earn how much money for whom? And what they are all doing with that newly gained money printed by government, that they created? It seems we are just playing an imaginary delusional game without even knowing that. Why deliberately choosing difficulty can make life richer. This is an easy question to answer. And it comes from the famous book, the flow. If life is too easy like most of the people in modern days, it will be really boring. You might just scroll, watch TV and binge eat. If life is more stressful, like most of the people at work, you will be utterly exhausted, and you might not enjoy working. What we really need is a balance between these two extremes. A boring life can be fulfilled only by deliberately choosing some difficulty, so our brain and body muscles have enough strain to grow, but not too much to tear them apart. Perhaps this is the place the Unabomber wanted every one of us to be. But I am not sure it is capable of happening in modern society. Like he suggested maybe we need to change the structure of society entirely from scratch. But not with violence.

What is the importance of a grain of sand.? Imagine you have been to the beach. Although it is far away, I have been to the beach many occasions in the past. You can see the waves, bubbles, constant humming noise of the sea, wind and the sand. Truckloads of pure sand dumped and washed by the sea with each wave. You can take a walk on these sandy beaches from one corner to the other, until you meet some rock formation. Imagine you bent down and picked up a handful of sand. Compared to the beach, it is less, but still, something you can look at with your naked eyes, and use to build something on the beach. But now take one grain of sand out of that thousand on your hand. If you drop the handful of sand still there would be plenty left on your hand. Most of them are barely visible. And even barely palpable with your fingers. So, they have lost the significance. As we can comprehend things in life only when they are macroscopic. When it is microscopic We have to find a way to magnify them. So, let's agree to the fact that a grain of sand has no significance in life. Sandy Beach: https://unsplash.com/@zerotake Grain of sand in a building. Let's imagine our grain of sand in a building. If you just remove a grain of sand from the structure of a building, nothing will happen immediately. The building will remain strong. But if you remove a grain of sand every day, still the building would last for few generations. however, will weaken over a millennium. And this is what actually is happening. A real building is losing its grains of sand every day. With a tiny bit of force from its edge, with corrosion, wind and rain, heated by sunlight, crushed by the weight of itself. Tiny atomic bonds loosen and grains of sand just change its composure to become free of bonds. Ultimately the building would weaken and collapse one day. So, Grain of sand is not important, and also, it is utmost important when taken collectively. Now consider this metaphor to the above quote by Emily Dickinson. Forever is composed of Nows - Emily Dickinson. When you consider life, it feels like a beach, a bulding, or a truck load of sand. It seems a lot and it seems important. It makes sense only when you look at life retrospect most of the time. We speculate the future with the amount of sand we see on the beach. However, life does happen with single grains of sand which on minute scale makes no sense. If taken alone, a second in your life doesn't matter. A second of your life during today would not even feel anything, It won't significantly affect the outcome. True? But I have shown you above that all what matters is the seconds. Imagine you stopped existing for a second in your life. I am sure you would disappear and die if that happens. That is how important a second in your life is. But the problem is our minds cannot comprehend a second, only can imagine it. Another example. Imagine a tiny cell in your body. How long does it take one cell to get a mutation and turn into a cancer? It is even less than a second. But if it happens and this tiny cell escapes all the repair mechanisms in your body would develop into full blown cancer in your body and there would be months and years of your life lost! That is how important the second in your life is. So what can we do when the forever is composed of nows? What can we do about seconds of life? There is nothing we can do other than to be aware of the present moment. If we just dwell in the past or even the future, the seconds which create life would be lost. We might not be able to see what happened during those times. Awareness is like the watchman of the Titanic, the ship. If you loose the consciousness to look at Jack And Rose on the deck, you will miss the iceburg and crash the Entire ship. Awareness can cost life! awareness can bult and enrich life. So, there is no time to be aware, as it is just now? The question is what are you aware of? Does it make sense?

Self-discipline What do you feel when I say self-discipline? A form of resistance, right? You will feel like there is some difficulty when you try to gain self-discipline. As mind always like to wonder, like and inquisitive child. It is hard to keep it in a place where it doesn't want to be in. But there are other things. Resilience: https://unsplash.com/@yenvu2410 Sometimes self-discipline feels like we should make an effort. Imagine you are an athlete. You want to become self-disciplined in your routine. You feel like you need to wake up before everyone else and run around. You feel like you need to control what you are eating and drinking. You feel you need to run the same route every day. You need to improve your technique and build your muscles so you can try winning the next race. But what if I told you there are some other aspects of self-discipline that we often neglect and overlook? One such aspect is that self-discipline starts with mindfulness. To be honest, everything starts with mindfulness. For a brief moment, we are aware of our feelings. Consider when you were angry the last time. How did you remember the incident if you were not aware? Before you lost your self-control and made a huge, shameful mess, there was awareness. But it was too brief and not enough to stop your reaction. But what if you were aware that discipline is all about reaction, not the feeling? mindfulness comes before self-discipline Let's consider the case of the athlete. Imagine he woke up early in the morning, as he planned. He walked for 15 minutes and ran for half an hour. The first day was fine. After a week, he would lose his self-discipline and fall off his routine. Unless he was aware of what was happening, he would revert back to his old self. He can be mindful and say he does not like watching Netflix until late at night. That doesn't work. He needs to be aware that there are barriers to his routine. It may be laziness, perhaps tiredness, or sometimes it may be family problems. If mindfulness is there, he can recognize each and every specific problem that might lead to failure and change the variables of his life so there are fewer problems likely to arise, and choose the response in advance using an if-then routine. It is all about making a comprehensive plan, or a system, considering all the failures. How can someone improve mindfulness? As you can see, mindfulness is very advantageous, or we can call it the first domino that falls when something falls apart. When mindfulness falls, there would be no recovery until it is too late and the end of the day. But each and every time, there are brief moments where you can take a pause and bring back mindful awareness. Mindfulness meditation practice is nothing but an exercise that we do to bring awareness to the present. It is difficult in real life when you are faced with real problems, when you are chasing illusions of life thinking it is reality. It is easier to practice mindfulness when you are free, alone, and calm. So, close your eyes and set aside time every day to feel what it is like to be you. This will help to increase the gap between your feelings and actions even when you are "not meditating."

I am not a politician. Even if I benefit from a clean and uncorrupted legal system, I would not be a policymaker. Or run for presidency. You can ask me all you want, I would not even run for local election, or even a leader in the Saturday book club. You would not find me talking about politics, in a forum, a gathering or here in the blog, except as a concept to illustrate a fact. And I wasn't all like this. Corrupted monitors Perhaps, in the past, once or twice I might have wanted that. Furthest I have gone is to become the "MONITOR of my class" Which was given to me by default. The power it gave me was enormous. I could ask the kids in the class to be silent. My mates would listen to me. I could write their names on the black board if they speak too loudly or disturb the peace. As I always loved the peace, I would write their names. If a teacher comes, he will find all the kids on the board and punish them. And only one who would get credit for this action would be me. That gave me the power. I am not sure whose name I wrote, if ever anyone got punished from my action. I would always erase the names. Perhaps it was a tit-for-tat game like described in the game theory. When they were co-operative, I would erase the name. Best game for the perfect outcome. However, I could see myself abusing power. In subtle ways. I know I could never play a drum. I am not capable of singing. When some kids start to play drums, I would write their names on the board. Part of me made me irritated I did not play the drum. Of course, their beats were great, and all I wanted to do was dance, like a monkey. Join them in the beat and make it a mini party inside the classroom. But instead, I wrote their names and erased them later. I am not sure, what I thought during that time. The power of "Keeping 50 students in life" means I have to use drastic measures. Presidency: https://unsplash.com/@claybanks Abuse of power Forget about the classroom. Consider our society there are so many people with so many thought patterns. Doing so many stuff guided by their selfish greed. A politician has to be strong. He has to take rough decisions to keep everyone in line. Send someone to prison and release them to the society when it is time. Just like they like to dance to the beat of the drum. Politicians would be the criminals if they were given the opportunity and the mindset. It's just a matter of human nature to follow selfish patterns. With this corrupt self, nobody in the power of a politician would not abuse it. Unless they are fully aware of it and have a strong enough will to overcome that. I haven't met many men or women who can just do that in real life. Maybe, I have once or twice seen a humble monk, who would not listen or follow their thoughts. To reach that goal, there is a long path of self-discipline. I am pretty sure; politicians are the ones who would avoid such tedious routes in life. So, I can see a politician is someone who is already corrupted and with hidden desire to abuse power, just when you chose to run for Presidency! For this reason, I would not consider myself running for presidency. As the job itself demands corruption.

Step number 1- 1% principle. Be the 1. There is a rule on the internet called 90-9-1 also called 1% principle. Which states that most of the people who surf the internet are just wanderers. They scroll, peep and swipe, they do not stay to comment or keep a like. They just come and go and that is 90% the Majority. Then there are some like, comment and share, they ask questions, they do engage, and that is minority which is 9%. Lastly there is 1% who post create and share. Not occasionally but regularly. They do this out of passion, or as their Job. They are the creators. So, if you are from that 1% group, this article is for you. Suprise: https://unsplash.com/@theshubhamdhage Step number 2 - How to become a creator That is the easy part. You already know what to do. You are a creator when you create something. Even when you fold a piece of paper to create an origami paper plane, you are a creator. Even when you cook your meal you are a creator. Even when you work in your garden caring for your tomato plants you are a creator. You just have to know that you are. And only way to be a one is to take actions and be aware of them. Step 3 - Consistency Matters, novelty comes late. If there is no creative idea in your head, start copying others. I am not asking you to plagiarize. I am just asking you to reuse the alphabet. Do not think you can start and introduce a new letter to alphabet on the day 1 of your creative journey. You must travel to the edge of the knowledge to do that. And the path will get steeper more you travel. So, consistency matters more than the outcome of your actions. Novelty comes later. There are no gifted artists in the world. Everyone is just an ordinary person with a belief that they were unique. Step 4 - Diversify early, Diversify late, Diversify throughout. Life is a search function. Think of your creative journey as a search function of google. Like a lightning strike which hasn't struck the ground. Your task is to find a unique territory where you can comfortably land with your full strength. The way to do that is by diversifying. This is a lesion I learned from Finance. Yes! from those boring people who learn about money. Diversifying is survival in a competition. You will spend a broken ordinary routine average creator if you are not open to opportunity and change. Diversifying is adaptation, like a squirrel who wants to survive a harsh winter in the wild. Search and gather all your nuts, although there are sunny days, winters will come for everyone. Step 5 - Enjoy En route. Not at the destination. Life is what happens when you are busy doing the ordinary. For a creator ordinary is creation. Life is what happens when you rehearse for your Ballet dance. Not at the moment when you perform on the stage. Life is what happens when you mix your paint, not you meet the audience when it is displayed in the Gallery. Life is what happens when you chose your words for your ordinary poem on a Tuesday morning, when all the others are sleep. So, be aware and present for your life, which otherwise you would remember as a suffering. Life is the struggle, and the suffering that you chose to endure. And that is true for every one of us.

I have been to the gem city once. But not to a mine itself. Yet I have seen plenty of gems. In fact, the other day I was reading avidly about the gems, especially blue big sapphires and Rubies and Emeralds. I have never touched a Sapphire or a Ruby. But in my mind, I am in love with Emeralds. They are called the queens of the Gem. A lush green transparent color gem with little cracks inside. Just like a person with scared past. However, cracks do not make these gems less worthy. Still investors spend millions of dollars on empty lands in Colombia mining them. People kill each other for these stones which are slightly shinier and with a tone. I do not know if they were skipped on a surface of water they would make same ripples. How come they are different from every shiny transparent thing I have seen in my life? Sapphires But there are more fascinating things about other gems. For an example, I have read about the Black star of the Queensland. Which was found by a 12-year-old boy in 1930. It was kept for a doorstop for decades until 1947. It was rediscovered and given its proper value after cut and polish to reveal its true nature, which has a six-pointed star reflection on its surface. To me this is just the perfect metaphor in some lives. They are not valued unless they are surrounded by people and circumstances which gives them a value. Unless they change their toxic environment and moved on. The Black star of Queensland had been the biggest Sapphire in the world until recently it was replaced by Star of Adam in Sri Lanka in 2016. Gemstone: https://unsplash.com/@gyostimages Star of Adam is a blue Stone, which has tiny inclusions in it. When cut and polished they create a star on their Surface. The price these stones are sell is astonishing, but nobody knows who bought this latest gem. But the story doesn't end there. Now the title is shifting from Star of Adam to Star of Pure land, a purple Sapphire again found in Sri Lanka with a weight of 3563 Carrots. Emeralds About Emeralds I have written a whole article. But not about their cracks. Emeralds also have inclusions inside them like Sapphires. They are called Jardin as sometimes represent a garden inside them. These liquid inclusions do not make them less valuable. Contrarily they increase the value of Emeralds when combined with their avid green color. Colombia, Zambia and Brazil are famous for Emeralds. If stones had personalities Emeralds would be the ones which have composed their personality even with deficiencies and bad memories. Rubies Rubies are the hardest on the scale to crack. If you checked Moh's hard scale, only Diamonds appear more than Rubies. They have colors ranging to pigeon blood to crimson. The chromium inside them gives them this color which can glow when applied by sunlight. Apparently the first Lazer demonstration was done in 1960, had used synthetic Ruby for their experiment. Rubies represent, the blood, love and toughness of a person. This is why the 15th and 40th anniversary are associated with Rubies. Although they have become increasingly rare to gain, and progressively increasing in price, when human minds crave them, you cannot stop them from Mining for them and buying. All the rest of the stones. I do not see a diffence between a Ruby, Emerald or a Sapphire. To my naked eyes they are just shiny things. Just like I remember them as a kid. Shiny things which might add color to my Toy basket. So, all the other Topaz, Toumalines, Amethysts and Opals, are similar in shininess to them. This is why it is hard to value a Gemstone. Hope we all can look at people with the same mind of a child who looks at a Gem and be fascinated with all the gardens and cracks we possess inside ourselves.