Disclaimer: explicit content in a literary perspective ahead. Surface tension - Essay There are many things, which happen in the universe, other than you. Yes, you! the selfish egoic humble proud subjective isolated consciousness which is reading this now (you are allowed to add or subtract adjectives as much as necessary, but what matters is the core, the bare consciousness stripped out of adjectives). How about surface tension? This little force which is negligible when compared with the human scale that we try to measure things, is one of the core reasons, life exist. Including animals, plants and gigantic Armadillos of east Andes. In 7th grade you may have learned about how surface tension works, to keep a water droplet in a round shape, and soap bubbles to become spherical. There are thousands more examples where surface tension works. If you have forgotten middle grade science on your way to PHD, following is a handy list. Poem on Surface tension Due to surface tension Insects can walk on water Small objects like needles can float on water Water rises through plant stems (capillary action) Meniscus forms in containers and test tubes Raindrops stay together Lung alveoli are affected by surface tension Ink flows through fountain pens and markers Formation of foam and froth Water can move through tiny pores in soil and paper towels Coitus I was discussing the act of coitus with one of the friends of mine, in thorough detail as it happened. And having a degree related to biology, the aftermath of this lustful human act was replaying in my mind in a remarkable detail. I couldn't ignore the fact that I am imagining gigantic human sperms swimming in a sea of seminal fluid enriched by fructose and salt, in a confounded space of fornix of a vagina (top part of a female reproductive tract). Now, that is all what a man can achieve, except the little bit of euphoria having succeeded doing that, his role is over. While anticlimax is wearing him down, the sperm, with half of genetic material required to clone life, would struggle to reach the ovum to unite with other half, unless they have the help of the negligible force of surface tension secretly guiding them towards its target ahead of their swim. (for your reference I have calculated how much it has to travel in human scale, which is 60-80km in distance, by foot, you can see the reference to the calculation at the foot notes) Surface tension as a reason for existence. When we refer to the above list, we can see coitus is not the only action, that our existence also depends on surface tension. Plants exist due to capillary action, our lungs, do not collapse due to surface tension, and every cubic millimeter of our body, depends on surface tension for transport of essential nutrients. The fascinating fact is not the science itself. It is about how we can translate this information to tangible human form in everyday life, if just we remembered at right time. So, what is the right time to remember Surface tension? Scenario 1. - When things go wrong blame surface tension. When your boss blames you for no reason, you can ventilate your anger on the surface tension which worked extra after an episode of coitus which happened approximately nine months before his/her birthday, this way you are not targeting some human but interconnectedness of nature. Same is the reason for stupid oil price hike and market collapse happening each and every time President DJT opens his mouth in front of a microphone. Scenario 2. - When things go right praise surface tension. When you are elated, and successful and triumph after hitting a milestone in any aspect of life, you can be grateful to surface tension for doing that. That tiny little force, which makes things move in microscopic distances made it all possible for you to have a consciousness of your own and all the people around you who share love and happiness with you. It is not a crazy thing to do; it is a rational thing to do :) Armadillo So, what would you blame or praise surface tension for? -end Surface tension essay- Foot Note on calculations. A human sperm cell is about 50 micrometers long (0.05 mm), making it extremely small and invisible to the naked eye. However, to reach the ovum, it must travel a much longer distance through the female reproductive tract, typically around 15–20 cm. When compared directly, the sperm travels a distance roughly 3,000 times its own length. To understand this in human-scale terms, if a sperm were enlarged to the size of a 2-meter-tall person, its journey would be equivalent to traveling about 60–80 kilometers. This shows how remarkably large and challenging the journey is relative to the sperm’s tiny size.

I was reading the book by above name written by Rosmery Friedman. More likely assembled by him as all the quotes were produced by who came before him. Many writers in the world have contributed to the book. If you do not know, being a writer is hard at times, when nothing seems to come into the blank mind occasionally. Some call this a writer's Block. Some do believe in such phenomena, and some do not, as for the ones who do not believe in this, writer's block, I assume they don't because they have a writer's commonplace book and a good pair of eyes. What is a writer's commonplace book? This is a book, a writer carries with him/her all the time, so, whenever idea occurs, a quote is found from a book written by others, or a new intuition arises in mind while looking at buffaloes grazing in the fields, he/she can write them down. Not, as paragraphs, but as notes and quotes to self, with minimal words. Even one such interesting ideas can turn into a poem, an essay or even a novel. If you do not believe me, ask from Jack London. After writing his famous "Call of the wild" he had just a spark of idea to write an Opposite novel. In 1906, 3 years after the initial publication he published his second book "White fang" which was even more embraced by readers than the former. The core idea of white fang was just "A wolf adjusting to a civilized society" Commonplace book Commonplace book is not a diary. Diary is a place where we keep records of our observations. But fundamentally commonplace book is not a diary, although it can contain observations. Majority of these observations are just thoughts (& judgements) which arise in the mind. The reason to keep a commonplace book is evident. Our short-term memory averagely can remember only 6-9 things at a time. Even if you get the most brilliant idea than Einstein himself during lunch, you will forget this when you are into desserts. And commonplace book will solve this problem. There can be alternatives, including, recorded messages on your phone, or a dictator phone, or even a note app on the phone itself. Yet, I would highly recommend a notebook and a pencil, as it won't distract you with thousand notifications. Example entries. Having introduced you to the commonplace book here I will give some example entries from the above book. Hilariously enough I found TV as a commonly occurring theme among some writers, and these are some quotes of them. --EXTRACT-- Television is a fantasy which destroys everything. MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Television has made us extraordinarily well informed on subjects we know nothing about. MICHAEL HOLROYD The 'television Personality' who possesses no skill other than a quick wit and a certain ease of manner in public, is a modern phenomenon which has never existed before. ANTHONY STORR TV plunges people into noisy Isolation. FRANCOISE SAGAN Film and TV purvey life to those who do not live it. SOURCE UNKNOWN I felt passionately about not wanting my children watching TV because it was vulgar, stupid and debasing. AUBERON WAUGH --END-- Ha ha, I really wonder what these writers would have said, if they encountered 10 second Tick Tock and YouTube shorts of gen Z..

It suddenly occurred to me that the rat race I am immersed in do not necessarily have to be a greedy selfish affair between me and the world, for me to become wealthy. Of course that is the traditional point of view, and that is why the getting rich game is labelled as a rat race. However, the second definition of being wealthy is equally rewarding and satisfying. A definition of being wealthy. A definition of Wealthy In this definition, being wealthy is never about the amount of money you earn or spend. It is like water in a cup. But it is never about amount of water in the cup. It is about the "Status" about the cup being, full, empty or half empty. Imagine every one of us carrying a cup with us. And by trying to be rich we toil with others on trying to get it full. We beg, we confront, we clash, we cry, we triumph. And I can imagine 100 people in a room with half empty cups trying to get water from each other's pot (we call this fundamental problem of economics or optimal distribution of scarce resources, like money). And I call this room the scheme of capitalism at work. In this game the guy with the biggest cup with highest amount of water wins. It seems something is twisted about the game and there is evil spirit behind numbers. Consider a scenario, having the full cup is the end game. And there is option to trade cups. Instead of finding water, we can trade a cup and easily achieve status of being full. In fact, you will see when you have only a 100ml cup and your previous cup had 200 ml water you can easily donate 100 to others who are thirsty and dying. (You can call this true Philanthropy) A Dream of future. It is time we had a better system than capitalism. It had worked well and done miracles in advancement of technology and human knowledge. However, in the heart of it, the evil spirit of desire to be rich is there. It promotes things which are valuable, not necessarily ethical or good in long term. Better would be a system which is governed by the principles of generosity, contentment and co-operation on global scale. We will find more happy people in such a world than we find in traditional capitalism. As global connectivity is faster than ever, it is high time we explore such endeavors. This seems a good moral ambition to chance, however, you can just be happy chasing ducks in the park, if you trade a smaller cup than moral ambition or success. Take home message -> You can be happy, either chasing more and achieving it physically, or morally. Or you can be content like Jim Carrey

A Wednesday morning. A delightful, casual, clean day of the week. As the sun rises, common populace wonder out from their hideouts to overcrowd the streets. Groups of children dressed in white following steps of their parents and teachers to the school. And teachers distinctively dressed to contrast themselves from students walk at a slower stern pace with straight necks. Streets full of vehicles of middle class debt owners, creating traffic jams at cross roads. Lawyers crossing the road dressed in white shirts, and black overcoats, resembling the truth that they try to reveal or conceal on the witness stand. Hospitals, shops, factories of cooperates attracting crowds like gigantic magnets in junkyards, imitating beehives or anthills. Crowded district Through this mass mess you travel towards your workplace and wonder what's all with this. It feels like a whimsical dream. Where and why all of these crowds move? Deluded by stories made by their ancestors and peers. They wear trousers shirts and belts, golden glistening ornaments that appreciated by others who belongs to same clan. Without a clue to why and how and what is their purpose. Isn't this another cycle of growth and prosperity of baptized penguins? You wonder into the deep chasms of philosophical argument of Anatolie Frances novel "Penguin Island", while experiencing the clothed cultured flock of penguins first hand. Story of a freedom Nut The car you're driving speeds in suburbs 40km per hour. Just like the growth of the society, riding the exponential curve. Yet you realize you're just a nut, plain, metal, dirty nut, inside the engine, holding one piece of metal glued to the frame. Nut has nothing to do with the movement, yet nuts together with other pieces makes movement possible. A nut is not independent, although it can dream about freedom, and write about it. Yet if a nut wishes to be free, there is no choice but to step out of the car, which will halt any movement or progression. As far as other nuts concerned from that point onwards, a freedom nut would cease to exist. He will be replaced by a similar nut. And nobody would stop to be with the nut who decided to step out of the car. You imagine yourself deserted by the moving car by the road side. Getting rusty by the weather and falling into eternal boringness of the still universe. Not wanting happiness You feel like the solo nut who chose to stay still. Once you chose to stay and watch, you see the illusion of movement and its absurdity. You label it as "Not wanting Happiness". It is like you have got ridden of the parasite of success within you forever. Wanting movement and reaching destinations had been the way of your problem solving for ages. "Not feeling wants" is your new definition of life. Who cares about the pile of files on your desk today, that you have to archive. Who cares about dirty laundry you have to do today after work. Who cares about hunger or thirst or you'd die by the road in five days. Even if you do, during those five day you'd still be free of wanting. There would be no wanting or not wanting to make a living, be happy, or be a legend. Pure existence in its natural form, without a will to carry on it will cease to exist like decayed lost nut.

Waggle dance - the story of randomness It's not only humans know how to dance and convey a message. Honeybees also do this, not for burning calories after full stomach, but to inform other bees of potential direction of flowers. If one bee finds out there are flowers in a part of the forest, after returning they would do a waggle dance in front of other worker bees to show exact location of the honey patch. Most of the bees would follow this advice but 20% of the bees ignore this. They would take a random journey to a different direction. Venturing out looking for better hunting grounds. Waggle dance Explore and exploit When you think about a big company, like amazon, and Google and even Wall mart or Starbucks, they exactly imitate the behavior of bees. The majority of their budget and resources are utilized for the purpose of exploiting current affairs. Improving their own system, in an Iterative manner so they can increase their margins of profit. These actions are generally guaranteed a measurable outcome. As an example, increase in number of unit sales or a reduction in production cost. However approximately 20% of their effort would explore random ideas. Seemingly stupid, seemingly irrational seemingly crazy like a bee who chose to take a random walk despite proven paths. However, this is not by chance, but by design, as Jeff Bezoes and every CEO of these companies know what it means exploring randomness. Major discoveries are made not by the formal process but a mixture of random events which happens to people and environment. (Chaos theory) Fat tailed distribution. The reason behind this kind of organization, or rather disorganization in life and nature is the principle of "power law" or "fat tailed distribution" if you know some statistics and mathematics. Compared to normal distribution, things which work in power laws have a fat tail, which skew the average markedly to right. Business venture is such a distribution. As Jeff Bezos puts it, in baseball home run can earn you four points. But In business home run can earn you 1000 points in his case a trillion points. But how can someone achieve that is by playing around with resources, taking a limited risk. Fat tail Experimentation mentality. What helps one in such a venture of hitting a home run in any discipline is having an experimentation mentality. This is the explore part of your equation. If you are an artist, go and run a business for some time. And quit if it doesn't work for you. If you are an engineer, go and study marine life or a chloroplast. If you're a zoologist, learn how amazon sorting algorithm works, and learn the principle in action in a group of buffaloes that you study. 😉 you can call it a detour, if you're walking in a park. But all the wrong turns do not end up in disaster, they just change the future dramatically for everyone in long term. (Chaos theory again) even the seemingly trivial ones. Story of randomness is fascinating. You're here because of it!

A Harvard lecture on what is moral ambition I was listening to a Harvard lecture by Rutka Bradman the other day and it was about how intellectually gifted students or intellectually superior part of the population end up in doing some mediocre selfish game played in corporates, finance, And other fixed categories of workforce in our society. According to him majority of these people by the end of their life, are not happy about what they have done or accomplished in their careers so the alternative he gives in this speech is having a moral ambition which is: Finding a suitable sizable solvable and utterly neglected problems in the society and try to find a solution for these problems for the great good of humanity. As an example, climate change, hunger, poverty, ethnic clash traditional capitalism etc. A wood Duck Moral Ambition? Or truth? I thought about this for a moment It seems very nice thing to morally pursuit if someone is not inclined for absolute truth in the world. I would say second best option is having a moral ambition like Rutka mentioned. And I'm sure nobody wants a second-best option in Life as when we play any game we want to be first right? So, what is the first and foremost thing to pursuit in any life? I think it is the truth. Because whenever you're getting closer and closer to the truth riding asymptote in life the happiness and the feeling of success and even the feeling of moral ambition gets heightened. Sometimes you may never come across to 100% truth in life yet the pathway to finding out truth about your existence or it's nonexistence, truth about your selfish ambitions, mystery about afterlife if it is there, seeking these things early in your life even if you are struggling, make you more clarified about your current status of mind as well as current pursuits of mind. Is chasing ducks in a lake better than moral ambition? Imagine a thing which you pursue, let it be moral ambition or other, which doesn't matter at the end of the life, on your death bed, why does it matter now? Why does it matter a moral ambition if there is nothing called moral ambition in the nature? Don't get me wrong I'm not asking you to be selfish and stop your charity, just being rational and trying to understand our deep core reasons for doing anything. It Is far more superior to just being selfish. If I can spend a perfectly content comfortable life sitting on a bench under a tree near an isolated lake full of ducks, isn't that something to pursuit? Is it wrong to pursuit something like that without getting distracted by moral ambition? These are the questions that I asked myself whenever my mind tries to create a future which is far beyond what is expected from anyone's life. I think what is expected from any human life is inclination to strengthen the effort to reach as much as possible to the Truth in the world, during the lifetime and I only see very few people talk about these truths without being prejudiced by the stories of the creators of the past or even seekers of the past. but any individuals journey is very unique, and we cannot compare to anyone else's in the past.

The simple answer is anything that interests you. Trust me there is no bad kind of reading. Just like exercise, there is no bad exercise right? As long as you're doing it any exercise is good. Similarly reading is a good habit. There should be no need to put barriers to what you should be reading. Read My reading habit. I started reading as a very small kid. First thing I can remember was a big book with Russian fairy tales. Now as an adult I can see that wasn't a big book at all. But relative to a five or six year old kid that was. The beautiful vasilessa. I was attracted to the ivans, sea horses and magical woods with wiches who ate kids. And it did not stop from there. I was in search of stories all the time. Novels, translations. We exchanged books with our classmates. Tarzen, sherlock Holmes, Jack London and Emily bronte. I was in these magical world of imaginary tales. It was the era before smartphones and movies. But imagination involved. In parallel to these fascinating novels, I found out that there are quite fascinating textbooks as well. They are different from novels as there are no characters. But for any curious mind there are enough things to discover. From why the sky is blue to how Steve Jobbs spend his day. I found most of the time that textbooks doesn't capture attention on the first chapter. Sometimes interesting stuff comes in later chapters. I would turn the pages and take a haphazard walk. Just like I would do in a botanical garden. A walk in the Botanical Garden Imagine you visit a botanical garden on a Sunday. There would be a lot of places. Lot of people. There would be thousands of shades and corners to explore. Would you panic? No, you would slowly explore some of these places, engage In thought. Look at wild flowers and write down your observations. And next day you will come back and revisit some of these new places and old ones. Each time you would spend different quality of time in the same garden. Now imagine you do the same with your textbook. I found this very interesting. You will not meet me carrying a notebook, if you met me in this garden. But I suggest you do just that like Moriarty, as your imagination from this garden is totally different from the author, that you might need to capture it. Just like a fleeing butterfly your novel thoghts might slip away otherwise and you might not be able to show anyone. Exploring Colors Let's get back to novels. After reading loads and loads of them I found out that novels are kind of boring. Texts are much more interesting. But after sometime you might find that texts are boring too. Life is far more interesting. Infact all these reading material are representations of life. Someone's perspective of the world, factual or imaginative. When I look at the world now I can see what reading has done to my world. When I look at a tree I see it differently from anyone else. In a unique way, as books have taught me a lot about trees. When I look at a flower I can separate its shades from the science behind it, as I have read about color theory. When I see stars, I see them unique way as I have read how these giant balls are appearing as twinkle stars at night, and even move faster than light into forever darkness. When I see ants I see how they see the world as I have just seen the photographs of ant vision. So definitely my world is rich in imagination and opportunity only because of variety of books. So what should I really read? If I was stuck to one book. One domain of knowlege, that would never had happened. I would never be able to write an article or have a meaningful conversation about meaning of life. So, to answer the question What you should read, is anything that interest you. As our interests are unique and you are irreplaceable if you master your interests. Which can look like work to others but just a play to yourself.

Someone told the life is about balance. If you compare the life to a balancing act in a circus there is some similarity. It seems easy when we are just spectators. Even laugh when someone try to balance a ball on a stick on tip of their nose. Even harder is to eat an apple while balancing the stick and the ball. But there is a problem. The difficulty doesn't come from not only the act of balancing but also from the fact there are multiple elements in life to be balanced. And only way you can do this is by juggling. Juggling life Juggling is a better analogy. We can consider each and every ball an element in our life. One for friends, one for relationships, one for relatives, one for work, one for spirituality, one for happiness. The problem is how to let them all not fall at once? And we have to juggle not just balance. How do they juggle.? If you have seen a juggler, you can see they are comparatively more dynamic than a balancing actor. He has a holistic view on everything at once. He catches the falling ball smoothly, transfer it to the other hand to buy some time and release it up again with momentum, while simultaneously catching another in empty hand. There is balancing in his act, yet it is more smooth and agile. He knows each and every ball is equally important, but choose to catch only the one which is fallen so far. It seem there are equally important elements in life as well. Health, work, relationships. If you juggle with three. If you let one fall, your total act would be a disaster. At the same time you have to change from one to the other, giving your attention more to the one which is falling right now. Now imagine some balls are made of marbles. If your health falls on the ground it can shatter entirely, so is your family. But maybe work and success can wait, and bounce back like a ball of rubber. Tolstoy Wisdom Then again there is the problem of what to focus on? A Tolstoy wisdom story comes handy here. One day, a king determines that he will be able to cope with any occurrence if he has the answers to three critical questions: 1. "What is the best time to begin everything?" 2. "Who are the best people to listen to?" 3. "What is the most important thing to do?' Many educated men attempted to answer the king's questions, but they all came up with different answers. The king decided that he needed to ask a wise hermit in a nearby village. The hermit would only see common folk, however, the king disguised himself as a peasant and left his guards behind to see the hermit. The hermit was digging flower beds when the king arrived. The king asked his questions, but the hermit went on digging rather laboriously. The king offered to dig for him for a while. After digging for some time, the king again asked his questions. Before the hermit could answer, a man emerged from the woods. He was bleeding from a terrible stomach wound. The king tended to him, and they stayed the night in the hermit's hut. By the next day, the wounded man was doing better but was incredulous at the help he had received. The man confessed that he knew who the king was and that the king had executed his brother and seized his property. He had come to kill the king, but the guards wounded him in the stomach. The man pledged allegiance to the king, asked for forgiveness and went on his way. The king asked the hermit again for his answers, and the hermit responded that he had just had his questions answered: 1. The most important time is now. 2. The most important person is whoever you are with. 3. The most important thing is to help the person you are with. (Which the Wise king already did without hesitancy)

Silence Oh. I have been running away from you You have been my guidance, to eternal peace it's true When the words play the game of life, on the sandy beaches of mind She gave me the strength to fly away like a wind for a cloud in the sky Why you should visit the beach Reason 1: Because it takes courage to look at the sky. For an ordinary man, or a woman, it takes courage to look at the sky. Remember when we were kids, there was never a day that we did not spot an eagle or a cloud. Now, when we are pressed in between our work and responsibilities there is never a time to look at the sky. But the beach, at the beach you even do not have to look at the sky. The sky meets the ocean at the horizon, even if your neck is fixed with a stable gaze parallel to the ground, you would be able to see the sky and the clouds. Often, I find without an effort the eyes start to drift towards the sky looking for those lost clouds. https://unsplash.com/@pedropiteiramonteiro Reason 2: Watching the waves. It is fun to watch the waves. Do not believe me? I have written a whole article on watching the waves and learning life lessons from this. However, even without life lessons you can just watch the waves. Longer you look at them you will notice they convey the same message as drifting clouds up above. Life is a buoy on a wave. It ups and downs with happiness. Memories fade away like footsteps of strangers on the beach. If you would come back tomorrow even the sandcastles would not be there. I still do feel like a kid playing on the beach, making castles- real ones, only hoping that they would not wash away with time. Reason 3: End of the land. If you want to run away from life, you should run away either into a library or to the beach. If you run into a library, you would improve your vocabulary and come out as a poet one day. If you run away to the beach like when the forest gump did, you would learn the lesson of life. You will learn the lesson of life that there is no place to run away. Nobody lives in the sea, not for long. So, there you will have to turn back. At the beach, you can feel all your problems, all your memories are just behind, on the land. You are at the edge, at the unknown future. Spend some time there, and it will clear your head. It will make you just a little bit wiser a man when you return to your problems back again. Reason 4: Plenty of life. On a busy Sunday, there would be plenty of people, at the beach. You may not seek this company, but I am sure you will still find a peaceful corner. Even if you did not, you can just stay at a one place and watch. You will start to notice, the people, they come and go, come and go like ants. You will start to notice, the sea, remains the same, the sandy beach remains the same, and you and the sky remains the same. There you will find peace, when you are a constant, not a variable in the picture. Do you know who else will be there on the beach? Crabs. Plenty of them. So, truly speaking you can never be alone on a beach. You will have to share the beach with plenty of other life, human or not. If you are an animal lover, you may find many both in the water and on the sand. It might make you smile, a crab crawling out fast before the next waves hit, or spotting a fish in the shallow water. You do not have to do snorkeling or diving, to see life as it is. A pair of good eyes and a childish curiosity is handy. https://unsplash.com/@sotti Reason 5: Golden hour rush Sun is soft, when it just pops up from the far horizon, in the early morning hours. Just like a little child, who smiles and dance innocently, the sun would play some time until it passes into teenage times and into the youth at noon. Like the miracle of life, just to be soft again in the evening, before it hides from our sight. Again, at the end of its death, the sun would be soft, clam and be innocent like a child, forgetting all the havoc it played when it was a bright silver star in midday. Take your time to go through all of it, never in a rush to leave, otherwise you will miss it. Reason 6: natural fan - the breeze The wind at the beach is a natural fan. You can fly a kite even if it is not meant for flying. However, what I like most is how it plays on my face and the body. The wind will touch your face like it does touch on your dog, when it peeps out from the window when you drive it to the wet! Did you see the smile on the eyes of the dog? You really do not have to jump from a 1000m cliff, to feel the breeze, risking your life. At the beach, the feeling would be provided even if you are stationary with zero risk. Try it next time, and smile to yourself when it tosses your hair. Reason 7: natural mindfulness Just like the breeze, the mindfulness is natural on places like beach. Just like James Clear claims in his TEDx talks, changing your environment changes our habits. One thing I noticed when I am at the beach is there is no place in mind, for any hazy thoughts. Just like the ships clearly visible on the horizon, each thought which appears in mind beach is clearly visible when I am at the beach. It has nothing to do with my effort. Because I never try to be mindful at the beach. So, it must be natural. It must be nature doing it. So, if you are finding difficult to start on mindfulness awareness, I suggest try the beach on your next vacation. Or this afternoon if you are close by. That concludes my 7 reasons why you should visit the beach. What are yours?

I was lately frustrated with google. When I search for something, I never got correct answers to the problem but slightly different version of it. Most of the time the top page is covered with How to do it articles with a list of ten twelve rubbish steps. The way I see it these articles are not for human read. They are manufactured for the Google to read! I think now I have some answers to the problem why? Problem: Why can't Google answer my question, instead leads to rubbish? I never even understood that there is a problem until I started my blog. The reason, for me to start this blog was I did not find answers to my questions in the google. I saw it as an opportunity. But after writing about 120 articles, now I have an idea why I did have this problem. Google is a very efficient in answering our questions right. I would say no. It may have been, but it loses its human touch lately and that is apparent in its search results. If you would not agree, try something. Try searching for something you are interested in. How many times you get some interesting article to read about. To me the experience was not good. Sometimes I did type "Where to find interesting things to read" Because Google has become so boring lately. Are you frustrated with google too? Good old days Remember good old days Google. When Google was operated by bunch of enthusiastic humans and all the articles on the internet were written by experts. What did the experts had in mind when they did write articles? Their mind was thinking about the reader. They wanted to give you the experience they exactly had. And most of the time they were successful too. But no more. Nowadays articles on google or vast majority of them are written not by experts who want to put something new on the table, but some low-quality content written by not so experts who have Google as their target reader. Yes, they only have Google in their minds when they decide to write articles, It is not about the reader anymore. The 'Reader is just a money-making machine for everyone on the other side of the curtain' And 'Google' for them is just a fool. How is Google Fooled to value rubbish articles? You may ask, does it work that way. I would answer 'Yes my friend it pretty much does'. That is why you may feel frustrated when searching google Doesn't provide you with answers. When I write my articles, I have to do 'Search Engine Optimization' each and every time. What does I have to do? I have to find bunch of keywords people type in the Google search and stuff my article with high volume keywords. And this will destroy user experience as when I write my article I must do it. Otherwise, you will never come across this article and be able to read it (The Process of ranking articles). How unfortunate? Even, this article I may have to re-edit several times to show Google, it is good enough to be read by humans. The sad truth is whatever Googles algorithm is it cannot give proper value to an article. What it does is use some parameters from the auto generated from the article and give it a number. How can we expect AI to do a man's job? How can AI decide how relevant an article is for humans, especially when they are written for the purpose of ranking high on the AI itself. We created the AI, so do you think we cannot fool this AI ourselves. (Trust me I am all in for AI) Articles ranked in Google are not natural The number of words in article are not natural; it is to rank in google higher. So, I have to stuff some stuff even if it is not relevant to you. The flow of the article is not natural, I have to break it down to subtopics with subheadings so Google can understand what the article is about. Collection of words in the article are not natural as I have to use best possible shot to rank first on a particular query on Google to attract some visitors. So, you are just some random non-valuable users. How unfortunate these bloggers and writers have become. I think it is time to rethink what we are going to achieve if we continue this. Obvious target trap - When the parameters used by the google to rank articles do not represent real human values, search results will be bombarded with low quality articles. Fictional analogy of google ranking In a way google is like a shy girl. She suspects you are wired if you do not provide a list of ten good things about yourself or at least seven, if you want to go on a date with her. And because of these trust issues she always turns towards her ex-boyfriends who rank first with thousands of rubbish articles. And the pattern is repeated as nobody human is intervened for obvious reasons. There is too much data to handle. It is like finding Nimo (film) in the great Garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. Simply impossible. And more importantly if you were to be trusted you have to get so called "Backlinks" from these ex-boyfriends of the google. If you refuse to do that, not be friends with the gang, you will be panelized. It is like being the poor kid in the classroom. A sense of modern bullying for being innovative and fun. You will spend the rest of your life in Google Sandbox and never come to the party. What can you do to overcome the problem? So, if you want to read some human articles written for humans, forget about it. Buy some books or go to a library, before that too is replaced by bunch of computers with google in it we still have time. And my advice is if you find some humanoid articles in google which provides a value to your life, just bookmark it. It is better to come back to it than doing a Random Google search on how to improve your life. Use it as a catalog so, you are interacting with humans than rubbish knowledge. Dooly little dinosaur In summary Why Can't Google answer my question? instead leads to rubbish? Writers nowadays do not have the reader in mind when they write articles. Most of them are not experts in the field or have something interesting to say, but they are just good at beating the Google algorithm to rank higher on its search results. Hence, results you see on Google are becoming less and less with human values. The problem seems to be not addressed by Google anyway. Thank you for reading: Why Can't Google answer my question? instead leads to rubbish. I would invite you for a discussion on mindfulness, consciousness and game of life in General in philosophical point of view.

This is a phenomenon which occurs naturally. I could say everyone who had seen a large body of water, had definitely seen the ripple effect. Can you remember the days where we used to skip a flat rock, on the surface of the water, and which created ripples of waves, across the surface of the pond. Ultimately fading away. Of course, the stone did end up in the bottom of the pond even before the ripples go away. And this is a good example to illustrate some observations happening in our minds. https://unsplash.com/@dreamsoftheoceans Ripple Effect. In short, ripple effect is the phenomenon which happens in a complex system. Similar to the butterfly effect, or the chaos theory, ripple effects have the ability to propagate increasingly larger proportions of the system. Hence, with time, there will be more disturbances visible although the initial causative factors are no longer there. This ripple effect affects, many more things than a surface of water. It is explained in economy, and even in social science. And there is a good example given as the Rise of me-too movement. The rise of me-too movement. - wiki. In 2017 according to Newyork times, some allegations were made against a famous film producer, and many had come forwarded following. And this initial incident had created a rippling effect across the so-called elite society that many had come forward against similar sexual misconducts in following years. And it is given as an example for the rippling happening in our social environment. And it seems natural. https://unsplash.com/@cbarbalis Rippling effects in life. If we look at our life, we can see ripple effects. In mindfulness we can see rippling is a good way to look at how things happen inside the mind. We can understand this with an example. Imagine you hear a sound (mindful listening). You hear a motorcycle pass across your Neiborhood with a loud Noice. And this observation happens in a few seconds. Compare this to what happens when you skip a stone on the surface of water. After the initial contact, it will create some disturbances in the surface of the mind, and there will be thoughts. From the stone these ripples will become more and more, and if not checked, they will eventually be overwhelming. You would shout in anger and try to blame the careless driver. But what you have to understand is the ripples are just there in your own mind. Really speaking, all what happens is ripples. We just create ripples in our mind day in and day out, according to what we encounter throughout the day. Sometimes these ripples can be there, for a long time. Then we call them 'memory'. They will come back, once bounced from the walls of the surface. And create new ripples on the water. https://unsplash.com/@harleydavidson I can elaborate more on similarities of the rippling with our mind. As an example. Same event can produce different ripples in different surfaces. It all depends on the depth and the density of the water body. Just like inherent differences in our minds. Some create more 'happy' ripples. Some create 'sadder'. Some create more 'dangerous' ripples. And what happens with mindfulness. I would say, it will harden the surface. It will eventually make the water like the surface of the oil. Once you know how to identify the ripples they will just disappear, and stones will still skip on the surface but without any rippling. Even if they are there, they would create no harm as they are kept on check. This is what we mean when we talk about becoming a hydrophobic leaf.

The picture of Dorian Gray is a great masterpiece novel by Oscar Wild, which I had my hands on when I was in school. I loved the character of Dorian Gray so much, that when he destroyed his priceless painting and by doing so, killing himself in the final chapter, it left an empty sadness, which I can commemorate. Is it the sad reality about all of us written there by Oscar Wild? If it is not Hedonism, which we should follow in life, then what is it? Is it Abstinence? https://unsplash.com/@farreal Let me give you a background to the novel, assuming you have read it a long time ago. So, you can follow the stream of thoughts. For others, who are mint with memory, you can skip the plot. Plot It is a story of a young man named Dorian Gray, whose portrait was painted by artist Basil Hallward, magically joining his character with the picture. Dorian becomes obsessed with his own beauty and youth and wishes that he could remain young forever, while the portrait ages in his place. As Dorian indulges in a life of disinhibited pleasures, he becomes increasingly cruel and corrupt, although he doesn't represent it from outside, his picture shows his horrible self, by changing its appearance over time. And finally, after years, Dorian decides to destroy the picture stabbing it but, ending up his own life in doing so... https://unsplash.com/@sijmen89 Message of the Picture of Dorian Gray What is the message Oscar Wild wanted to convey us in the picture of Dorian Gray? We can argue that he was just writing a mystical novel and there is no hidden message in it. In which case we should stop arguing and thinking about it. But curiosity is our nature. Hence, we will look at Dorians' in our society and within ourselves. It is true that Pleasure, whether we like it or not, controls most our days. Remember when we cried asking for more candy when we were little? From that time onwards we were in a never-ending struggle to keep a steady income, to travel, to feel the pleasure of food and wine, and relationships. How can we be so sure, when we are greedy, when we act angry, that our picture is not painted with our actions? Is it what Mr. Wild is suggesting? That we all have a picture of our own drawn somewhere hidden in an empty room, re-painted with our every action? https://unsplash.com/@sheldonliu If it is not hedonism (Pleasure determines what we should or not do) we should follow, Is it the opposite? Is it the abstinence from pleasures that we should follow? If so, to what extent should we follow that? Can we make our picture better if we donate all our wealth to the poor and live just with minimal necessary things needed for living. Should we really buy an expensive car, even if we had plenty of money to do, even after donating. Or should we avoid cars and use public transport instead, and is there a limit for being generous and good? There are some insights for this question, we can get from the famous argument, which was put forward by Peter Singer in 1971, some 80 years after the publication of the Picture of Dorian Grey. In his essay "Famine Affluence and Morality" he argues that affluent people are morally obliged far more to donate resources to humanitarian deeds than what is considered normal. So, if you buy and expensive car instead of a normal one which is obviously needed for transport, you are helping to the death of some children somewhere in the world by not donating that money which we could have saved. So, we make our pictures dirtier by nature even something simple as not donating money. (Singer’s ‘famine relief argument’ and vegans.) Boundary between traditional good and evil is stretched nowadays more than ever when, bad is represented as good in disguise and even accepted by the society as norm. So, we can question as is there a boundary at all. As an example, it is bad to watch someone's hands to be chopped off in ISIS video- it is snuff, but it is not bad to watch a SAW movie. Latter is more accepted by the society but represent the same, killing someone for some reason. Horror is a genre on its own. Does it mean our insides get rotten, when we appear doing good from outside, even when is not obvious? https://unsplash.com/@marckleen So, it is true individually up to us to do whatever we desire with our resources. But I think the message from Oscar Wild is very clear that we should go back to our Attic from time to time and look at our picture and adjust our course of action before it becomes uncorrectable. Thank you for reading "Picture of Dorian Grey- what is the message" You may also like : Singers famine relief argument and vegans What is time - a novel understanding.