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.

Have you ever searched for something? Perhaps your keys went missing, or you lost your purse somewhere. Maybe you are searching for a new land to build a house. Maybe It is just a car. Maybe you are looking for a spouse, or even someone missing in your life. No matter what the situation is the life feels like a search function. Have you ever contemplated about this? Life as a search function. Even a newborn baby cries as he/she is looking for her mother for some milk and warmth. Animals search for food, water and shelter. In times of the spring, they look for mates and x. Each and every time when they go on searching for something, they would eventually find it. Or something similar. And that will stop their search. At least for a while. For a half a minute actually, someone would not look for something, and we can call this peace. Next, their minds will fix on something else to search. Searching: https://unsplash.com/@irrabagon So, if you want to learn about life, I suggest you start thinking about this search function. More importantly following questions. What to search in life? How to search in life? Why search for anything in life? I will try to answer with my knowledge and limited wisdom. However, answers should be generated or recreated individually by each person. What to search in life? Whatever your heart desire Answer to this question, is it doesn't matter. Our likings and disliking's markedly differ. And opportunities provided to us in life are varied according to our environment. As an example, if you are born a son to a farmer in Vietnam you would be wanting to buy a tractor. That would be your search function for the rest of your life. But if you are born son to a Texas ranger, you would want to become a Rodio Bull Rider. Imagine you changed the location of the Ranger and the Farmer. They would definitely search for different things in life then. So, as far as what to search in life is concerned, we have to be more knowledgeable. More you have information your wanting will change in life. Today information is free, it's just a matter of choosing what to put inside the brain. It will get iteratively better when you start as each new information will improve the next one. How to search in life? - Search in parallel This was my mistake in life. The greatest mistake in life for someone is not to realize that search function is not linear. Like a Turing machine. Search function can be parallel. Without searching in a particular place at a particular time, you might want to run 100 search queries simultaneously. It is more likely you will hit the target in shorter period of time. We can call it having more options, or diversifying your portfolio, or even multitasking. (Although latter is a myth) Why life is a search function? Perhaps this is the hardest question of life. If you solve this problem, you will stop the search function entirely at your will. Imagine such a condition, where you can sit on a chair without needing anything, except for the physical pain of existence, there is no mental pain. And you might even stay until your hunger no longer bothers you, and nothing moves you away from your peace. Can meditation and mindfulness achieve such a state of mind? I am not sure, in a matter of days for few minutes of meditation it might not work. However, if we deliberately try to understand the process of mind over years and decades, the peace will eventually come, not in ways we assume it would, as mind is always run with an inherent error. And conclude itself the search for anything in life is meaningless.

Yesterday I was having a chat with the sky. And sky said I am trying to do business with everything. I thought, Mmmmmm.. maybe I am. Guess what? I did. I tried to commercialize the sky. But when I think about it, I realized the sky is already commercialized. Like everything else on earth, from a grain of silicon to charcoal, to a drop of oil to the wind which is evergreen. This article is a brief description on how to commercialize the sky. How to commercialize the sky? Sky is commercialized, by the Aviation industry. Thousands of aero planes fly over united states per day. If you look at a map, there would be 10000 of them in the sky. How about telecommunication? We have gone beyond the limits of the reach of humans and commercialized outer atmosphere. If you are rich enough you can travel to the international space station, for a large sum of money. Balloon: https://unsplash.com/@jasongooljar24 How about a hot air balloon ride? Would you like one in your summer vacation. You can look down upon the scenic beauty of cultivated landscapes of river valleys. Perhaps a skydiving, or even a helicopter ride would do good to your health. Literally some news agencies have commercialized the sky by putting up advertisements for everyone to see. If you are not rich enough to buy a balloon, you can fly a kite. Or even sell few when you have some free time. Take a photograph, of a beautiful sunset and post it on Instagram. Maybe a couple silhouettes of some aquatic birds would add a color to your imagery. If you upload them to Shutterstock Instead of Unsplash, you would be paid a premium by the ones who use your photo. But hilariously, this is the most stupid and funny thing. Imagine it, the sky is free for anyone to look at. Twice a day there would be beautiful colors painted across it during golden hours. If you are just capable of climbing to rooftop or a hill, you would definitely see the sight. But we are too busy to do this. Too lazy or too tired. Instead, we shamefully pay to someone else to take a photo and show us on our face for us to wow.. about it. How pathetic is the life of a modern man has become. How to claim the sky? It is easy. You just have to look at it, and pay attention when you do. Twice a day everyday, you just look at the clouds which drift ever so slowly and fast. You can just close your eyes and imagine how it looked this morning during the hard working day. You might occationally catch a moon which likes to hide behind clouds, shy and retracted. If you wait long enough it will reveal itself to show the full glory that it hides. All these things in life doesn't cost a penny. Yet, as we have commertilised our time instead the sky, we do not see the value of it. While someone esle have harvested the vision of our own eyes. By commertilising everything. If you are smart you can just follow them. Instead of looking and watching and contemplating, you can take a photo and post it in social media with a tag "Feeling Awsome". If it is worth. The question is, are you going to claim the sky today?

You are already a winner, If you woke up this morning when a thousand reasons there for you to get late. You are a winner, if you smiled with a fellow human being, despite knowing how unpleasant some of them are. You are a winner if you typed a sentence in you cooperate letters, with a smile. You are a winner if you drank plenty of water today, so future you are free of kidney stones. A winner: You are a winner if you kept a book open on your desk, for you to wake up and read tomorrow morning. You are a winner if you stayed 10 minutes before turning on the TV, contemplating on the couch about ghosts from your past, that you avoided confronting because of fear. You are a winner if you saw the sunrise today and did not miss the sunset. You are a winner if you stepped outside your home, in shitty weather, like a hydrophobic leaf You are a winner if you did not give a reason for your mind to get angry, and you are a winner if you watched your anger so it wouldn't break something precious You are a winner if you dig up a mine, in search of emeralds, although you came back empty handed in vein. You are a winner if you ate a piece of fruit, an apple, orange or a plate of cabbage, like a cow. You are a winner if there is one single person who says they do love you, and you are a winner if that person is you. You are a winner if you can spend a day in silence, observing everything from door frames and cob webs. You are a winner if you gets invited to a party on a Tuesday, even if you do not enjoy the wine that they offered. You are a winner still if you could go back home and be the kid that never grew up. You are a winner if you find reasons to smile in an ordinary life, when there are dreams to be chased, deeds to be done and thousands of errors haunt you. You are a winner, if you can visit a grave and think about the lives spent by those who are dead, and question your own reality. You are a winner if you can hear a fish shout in pain, loneliness and shame of unable to swim out of its bowl. You are a winner if there is a place where you can be quiet and peaceful once a day, you are a winner if you chose to meditate You are a winner even if you lose your life, a job, a spouse or a child, if you did not forget to make an effort to make things right. Beach: https://unsplash.com/@daviddiveroli You are a winner if you saw a single cloud, a tree a bird perhaps pecking on its bough, looking for tiny insects dwell in its bark You are a winner if you noticed an ant a spider or a gecko, crawling down the cieling, like you used to notice when you were a kid. You are a winner if you call a friend, give some help, or even get up and have some food. As I have seen depressed weary and weak who cannot do any of those but still lives a life.

Oldest problem of philosophy - Seneca occupation Until recently I thought the problems of modern man were very recent, due to the development of urban culture. It seems majority of the people in the city are stuck in some job doing things and getting busy by themselves without actually living a life of their own. But apparently this is not a very modern problem than industrial revolution created. Rather industrial revolution and development have created more opportunities for more men to live a virtuous life. In the case of Seneca, the wealthy stoic adviser to the roman Emperor 2000 years ago, he himself have tried to address the problem of human occupation. This article is exploring his approaches to it. Birds : https://unsplash.com/@gdfoto Life as a bank account Imagine time you can live as a bank account. You make a withdrawal every day and you cannot return it. Bank account slowly gets depleted over time. Think about life as a depreciating asset than something you build and crash at the end to become zero suddenly. Then more important question to ask is what would you spend your withdrawal on today? Would you tire yourself acquiring more wealth and status, which you cannot keep for yourself without exerting day after day? Would you spend your hours on TV looking at information you did not want to receive in the first place, but given to you on accordance to someone else agenda? Would you read a book you do not want to read, or be somewhere you do not want to be? Would you spend time with some people who you do not appreciate but just carry on as circumstances necessitate this? Answers to these problems is YOU WOULD NOT! If you do understand the true currency of life is the time you live on earth, and the true wealth you gain is experience and knowledge exploring yourself and others, you would spend your time on creating more opportunities to these rare moments. I can give you a list of rare moments of human life. It seems not only in this modern society, but they were also rare in the era of Roman Emperor 2000 years ago. Priceless rare experience you can get in life. A man seated on a chair thinking about nothing is a rare wealth. A person who spends five minutes without wanting anything in life is a rare sight. Someone walking down a busy road observing the nature is a rare phenomenon. A young person going to bed and waiting in silence for the sleep to come is a rare situation. A man who stays in silence and responding calmly when someone blames is rare A man doing some favor to someone else without anything in return is rare. Being content with what you have now is a rare life experience. A living man, not being afraid of death is fulfilling. Not wanting to be anywhere else but here, now is a rare life experience. Watching a bird chirping in the garden and hopping away looking for worms is a rare sight for an adult. As you can see, these priceless experiences in life don't cost anything, as all the ingredients necessary are given to us by default. The key factors missing are understanding. Our tendency to learn what we should value, from our ancestors, not from within ourselves. It rarely has anything to do with our jobs, or occupation. But if they seem hindrances, and spill over to your life spoiling your ordinary experience, perhaps it is time to act upon Seneca wisdom, which is applicable to even today. If you remember that your time is limited, ordinary moments become more valuable. -Senecca

Presence of a visible audience. Imagine a play, a dance of ballet or a show or comedy. The actors have a place to perform, which is in front of the audience. They prepare their whole lives to act. They do numerous rehearsals, plot changes, and expensive costumes. They make sure the stage is well lit, and elevated above the ground so everyone can see. On the day of the performance, they get ready in the backstage putting a final make up before entering the arena. And they do a breathtaking performance leaving a visible audience with an awe. This is an example of a visible audience, but where is the invisible audience? Visible Audience: https://unsplash.com/@headwayio Presence of an invisible audience. Invisible audience is invisible. So, many of us do not know it is present. However, artists and creative workers, even scientists spending their entire lives cracking millennial problems know the presence of an invisible audience. Imagine our actors while they rehearse their play. They do this before the actual performance begins, to an invisible audience before the play begins. Imagine an artist painting. He does this in front of an invisible audience, before the artwork displayed in the gallery in front of a visible audience. A worker in a co-operate office function to impress his/her boss or colleagues. They try to entertain an invisible audience by doing this, even though to the actual audience, you are just a piece of domino, which can be replaced. Uses of invisible audience. The invisible audience gives a motivation for anyone to work on a task which gives a delayed reward of appreciation. The anticipation of this reward makes us work hard and longer hours. In fact, most of our lives we have been following signals of this invisible audience to change our direction in life. Dangers of an invisible audience. The natural tendency to follow this invisible audience is dangerous. The ruminations going through our minds when we practice our performance in life, is not real at all. Often this is far different from the visible audience. Invisible audience is speculative, and always rewarding. Presence of an invisible audience might even make someone anxious. But the visible audience on the other hand behave differently. We cannot predict how they would behave watching our performance as correlation with this visible and invisible audience is poor. Often invisible audience misguide us. As a real audience is really unpredictable in their reactions, speculation with the invisible audience is a bad practice. Self-sufficiency is the key to tackle with invisible audience. Imagine you are self-sufficient. Self-sustained and self-fulfilled. This is a real happy place to be, as the external audience, either visible or invisible would not affect the act, performance or the art. There would be no validation you seek from the boss, neither from your invisible parents and not from your family. Not even when they are present, not when they are not present. There would be only an action, which you would do regardless, which is the only thing that matters in life and only thing we should focus on improving. Our real character will be visible to us when we perform without any audience, visible or invisible.

Ever since her mother made crepes for Lily she wanted to make them on her own, whenever she was hungry. So, the other day she wrote down the recipe on her diary. And kept it with her. One Saturday, she wanted to make some crepes. First, was to melt some butter into a bowl. That was easy, she just cut some butter put it in a bowl and heated it in the oven. Second was to crack an egg to another bowl. She hit the egg with back of the knife just like her mother asked to do. Kept it over the bowl and cracked it open with fingers. Oppps! suddenly the egg cracked with force and egg was spilled everywhere except into the bowl! Crepes :https://unsplash.com/@maxniceman "Oh dear" Mother said sympathetically, and Lily was sad. "Egg is spilled all over my frock, and on the floor, and I ruined your cooker mom. It is everywhere!" "Do not worry dear, why don't you go to the bathroom and change your dress, we will crack another egg" So, Lily white cleaned herself and let her mother crack the eggs and mix the ingredients. She did not want to do it anymore as she was very sad. "I am never going to crack the eggs; it is so hard!" So, Lily did not, crack the eggs next time they made crepes, or waffles, or anything which needed eggs to be cracked. It was about a fortnight later, they were at the kitchen, and this time Lily wanted to crack the eggs again. She had almost forgotten last time, what disaster it was to spill eggs all over the kitchen. And she cracked an egg and this time it was far worse. The egg was broken again with so much force that it even went on her hair. She had a full change of clothes and a bath, before eating "Mom made" crepes again. And she told Rosy, "I am never going to crack eggs ever again". "Oh, Lily that was just an accident, I want you to learn how to make crepes. So, we can make them whenever we are hungry. Grandma doesn't know how to make them, so when Mom is not there, we can do it with her" "Hmmmm... I will think about it. I will try one more time. Cracking eggs is the hard part!" So, in a few days, Lily was seen in the kitchen with her father this time. She wanted to show him how to make crepes. And once again she tried to crack an egg into the bowl. Blooooob... The egg did crack this time, half went into the bowl with butter, quarter of it on the floor and quarter of it spilled all over Lily's dress and even on her face. And it was a rotten Egg ! It was stinky like a dead rat. Lily was crying and everyone tried to console her. Rosy was looking at everything from the dining room with her nose closed. It was the worst smell of all. Project crepe was an utter failure. They stopped working in the kitchen. Father ran a bath on Lily and sprayed water on her, like she was a puppy. Half and hour rubbing with all kinds of soap did not make the odor go away. It took almost one day for it to completely gone. "I am never going to make crepes again" She was sobbing and crying. "I think you should try again Lily" "Why?, it is going to happen again" Lily said. "I know it is going to happen again, but what is the worst can happen? You have cracked a rotten egg! There is nothing worse than that. If you want to make crepes. I guess there is no way out. YOU NEED TO CRACK YOUR EGGS! " "Hmmmm.." It was only after another two weeks Lily finally cracked her own eggs, completely into the bowl. And she already knew how to do the rest. They did a cooking demonstration to Grandmother next day on "How to make Crepes". There was a note on Lily White's diary, and it was about Crepes. How to make crepes Ingredients 1 cup (125 g) flour 2 eggs 1½ cups (360 ml) milk 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 tablespoon sugar (for sweet crêpes) ¼ teaspoon salt DO NOT PUT BAKING POWDER! Mix the ingredients, until it is smooth. Like mom says, no amount of butter is less or more. And no baking powder. After mixing I ask my mom or dad to cook it for me. Hardest part of making crepes is breaking the eggs. I am getting better at it. It is good that I did not stop after I cracked the rotten egg. Although I feel stinky when I remember it. We love crepes. Me and Rosy would never ever be hungry again when MOM is not here! The best part is how Rosy loves it when I make them instead of mother.

Understanding past. I am not going to trick you and divert you to some AI generated hypothesis to discuss current hypothesis about time travel. But simply, I am going to discuss how, what and why understanding past has an enormous impact on my own life. So, if you follow the arguments, you will see this also apply to your life too. If it doesn't, fine, you can move on to the next article or the cat picture you need to see on your screen. The past, as I have discussed before has no evidence to its presence. I can give you a memory of the past. Something happened 80 years ago like Hiroshima bombing. But to create the feeling of the past, first we have to imagine that there is a one! By bringing out a memory which mind has gone through before. But we forget when we do that, that memory location is not in the past. That memory location points exactly to the present. What we are doing is, filling up our now, with a past experience. So truly speaking, I can say there is now, but not the past and the future. Past: https://unsplash.com/@jack_1 It is important to contemplate on the above fact, as long as necessary. Do not let it slip your mind just as a nice idea. As understanding that would have enormous impact on everything that you do. Everything ordinary, extraordinary that you are planning to do today would depend on your past and future projection. Your meaning and values stand on the believe that there is Time, like a continuum. However, this is just a one interpretation of the understanding of the world. There are few people who find fault even do not believe that this interpretation is wrong. And they are not wrong either. Only when you contemplate on this fact long enough in various situations you would understand the illusion of life. After all this blog is about mindfulness. What better practice there other than contemplating on Now? Can your chang your past? Absolutely Yes! The solution comes from the form itself. If past is just a memory in the mind which we interpret in the present, perhaps we can interpret it better. So, we feel more productive and alive. As an example, imagine some stupid thing you have done in the past. I am sure there are loads of things in your memory bank. When you remind of this thing, just cut off the label Stupid, and look at it just like you would look at a thing. This stripped naked thingness in everything in life is neutral. From there you can put a any topping you like. You can think about alternative routes you could have taken and ask "Then what" until you find the meaning of all of this. As an example, consider you are on a vacation and now you think you should have been at home. Ask Then what? What would happen if you were at home? You would do ordinary stuff, walk to the park, watch some TV. Ask Then what? You would sleep and the day would end. So, a couple of days would end, and you will meet yourself in the future. Ask then what? The life will go on as usual. As you can see, there is no end to it. Nothing remains in the mind including your sad and happy thoughts. But the past would be changed indirectly with your interpretation. Another thing you can do is to think about exact circumstances that lead to your decision during that time. We take decisions with available information, although when viewed in retrospect, we might find faults, we cannot recreate exact circumstances in mind, and these will be never replicated in the future. So, truth is past is merely a gone function. There is nothing to learn from it by thinking back. Whatever gained can be used as information for current decision making. Other than that everything can be discarded the moment it arises in mind like a piece of a rotten banana. So, that is it. So far I have given two ways for you to recreate your past. One is to create a new painting over your previous picture. Other is discard your old ones entirely with rational thinking. Hope this helps.

Hi ren Recently I came across the song in the name of hi Ren, by the artist of the same name. He seems to have flown over the coco's nest to tell us a story about good and evil. The song is about the mental battle inside the arena of his own brain. The fact is I cannot recreate what he has done with words, emotions and melodies. So, I invite you to listen to the song instead. Fight between good and evil. Fight between good and evil is well known. We saw it in Tom and Jerry, in superman, spiderman or even a classical romantic movie with a villain. And we make inferences, draw out conclusions from these movies that we have the ability to be good while gaining material success. But for a conscious self with awareness someone can see something else is going on. It is neither we are good, nor we are bad. It just fluctuates from good to bad. Bad to good. Whatever the observer is good and bad. During different time frames of the day. Sometimes these changes are so rapid, so we call a man violent. Sometimes they are so subtle we call a man patient. But if we look at life with the lenses of good and evil. With this judgmental attitude we have to label either good or bad. So, there is a problem. As neither is going to last forever. https://unsplash.com/@owekiofu There is nothing eternal in life! In real life there is nothing eternal. Everything flows. Everything changes. So, whatever we label as good will eventually be rotten and bad. Consider a banana, it starts green, so no use while it is on the tree. When it is ripe and consumable It is yellow. And everyone likes a good yellow banana after lunch. But if we do not consume it, will eventually turn brown and rotten. Everyone would try to get rid of the rotten banana, once your banana is gone you will choose an apple instead and play the game all over again. So, in life, good always turn evil. Evil will always turn good. Only when we step aside and look at life objectively, we can see the battle itself is the one which is flawed. The peace that prevails today in most of the world is not a result of our good behavior. It is the result of a brutal war, which killed thousands of people per day. Bigger the war, bigger the loss of life longer there would be peace. So, war is neither good nor bad. It is bad for the people who lived in 1940s and immediately after that. It is good for us millennials. As peace which followed let us all unite and focus on more development. Even your own battles, experiences, good or bad deserve the chance to change. It will eventually by naturally, but sticking a label would make the process longer. Alternative route. Instead, we can look at life in a non-judgmental way. Without labelling an experience good or bad we can just observe it neutral. And let the time decide whether it becomes good or bad. Let others decide that. This is a difficult thing to do. But not impossible. Theory applies to everything, including your decision to take a walk vs stay at home. There is nothing inherently good or bad about anything.

Today is not yet started. It is still dark and silent. Kitchens are not filled with housewives. Birds are still sleeping in nests. The sun is barely visible in the sky. It amazes me when I know only me and frogs are just up for an early start. Perhaps frogs never slept because they had a wedding last night. So, while this background chatter is going on I was contemplating about yesterday. Yesterday. Was typically ordinary. Kids started early in the day. We skipped swimming classes and decided to go to a children's park instead. I can tell you many things as this is very fresh from the memory. But particularly interesting was That I had a chat with the park attendant. Who for no reason discussed about the power-cut which happened during the day, and how it had affected the bouncy castle. Apparently, it was deflated during the power cut and went off while kids were playing. I spent a minute of my time talking to him and we drove back. Apart from this guy I can remember the Ice-cream vendor, Slippers of kids, the old man who took my umbrella at the book shop, and a little girl who wanted the exact same book I chose without realizing it was already taken also the moment we stayed in the car as there was a power cut. If someone asked me 20 years later, I would not remember anything about yesterday. Memory is a weak force. The power of it lies in record keeping. More importantly the mindful observation of ordinary things would let us make memories which are everlasting. I am sure I might not even remember as a day of a Power cut. But might remember how I spent times in the car with the kids due to heavy rain, while they were reading books still fresh from the bookshop. Flower: https://unsplash.com/@tsuyoshikozu Living a mindful day. Living a mindful day has enormous benefits. It is not for improving your productivity when you are working, but to increase number of entry points to your past day, which you will remember for life. Perhaps, you won't remember how many tasks you completed, what you ate, or what you were worried about. But an ordinary moment, a conversation you had with a friend, a bird that chirped at your window, a Moth that was stuck in your bedroom. We cannot predict which will be it, that we remember but have obviously will change who you are over time. You cannot do that without being mindful about yourself and everything around you. So, let's practice it today. Your daily mindfulness checklist. Here are five simple creative things you can do to improve your mindfulness during today. They do not cost a thing, and more than few minutes of your time. Close your eyes if you feel tired and listen to the sound. Let the eyes relax in darkness for few seconds. Feel the world like a blind man. Take a mindful shower, while recognizing the water flowing on your skin, trying to feel the warmth, or coldness of the water. Make a habit of watching the rain. How raindrops fall from the sky, on dry earth. How it starts to flow. Drink your coffee with nothing in your mind. Like it is the last coffee you would have before the doomsday. Simply try to watch a Post in your social media, without scrolling to the next.

Following is a part from the book "What is time ?". Hope you would enjoy reading. It is about understanding time in a novel way, so we are one step closer to the truth. London skies, where there are more airplanes than buses on roads. I was sitting on a park bench in south london, looking at the skies. Noticed an airplane running over my head, above the clouds making a shadow on clouds, took a sharp turn at the edge of the cloud and toward horizon, progressively lowering itself towards the airport and vanished from sight after flying into a faint shadow above low lying tree tops. Before it disappeared, I noticed another airplane, joining its path coming from the north from the far corner of the sky. Before it disappeared, another plane followed, one by one each following its path there were many each minute passing by. It seems that Gatwick is a busy airport over the weekend. It's a three day holiday and people are traveling. Even the skies are busy ! Fig 28. Even the skies are busy It brought back memories from my past. When I was a little boy, I used to play with my brother in a nearby playground. Among many games we used to play there was one in particular. We used to catch leaves which fall down from nearby trees into the playground. It usually happens prior to a rain, when clouds are roaring up, winds blow, signs of a typical monsoon rain, all the other kids who play on the ground have gone home leaving the whole ground to us ( we were living closest to the ground !). The old leaves of different sizes and shapes from tall trees start to fall one by one loosened from the gales. We jump here and there trying to catch these leaves, which is of course very difficult as it is very unpredictable to follow their path before they hit the ground. It was very challenging and exciting, as kids jumping here and there following a leaf is all that was needed to bring happiness and smiles. Since when has life become so complicated? Fig 29. Since when has life become complicated? This brings back to the question of linearity of the time. If we describe events of the ‘leaf catching game’ according to time someone would say, at time (event 0) the leaf got separated from the tree, and it traveled through air x amount of time until it landed on the ground (event 1 )or caught by the kid ( which is myself and my brother ). It gives a good picture of what happened, we can use it to describe it or write it down. But if we look at the time line there are a lot of seconds that we do not describe. And we can say something happened to the leaf at each and every second, and it did, otherwise it will never land on the ground. Fig 30. Leafline and numberline If we compare this to a number line, as you can see there are many other numbers between 0 and 1, an infinite amount of numbers. So, there should be an infinite amount of time intervals between events 0 and 1. If there is an idealist who wants to describe an event he should describe an infinite amount of information which happened over an infinite amount of time intervals. Which is impossible as we see ( it will take an infinite amount of time to describe what happened in half a second ), so whatever the descriptions we make about events which happened over time is fundamentally not the absolute truth. Its relative, its useful, it is necessary but it is not absolute truth because the leaf from the tree detached at time 0 and landed at time 1 are just two fixed points in a continuum. Is it a continuum? This gives us a novel perspective to explain. Let's imagine me and my brother observing the same leaf detached from the tree at time 0 (event 0). Until it lands on the ground at time x (event 1) there are an infinite amount of observations about the leaf which could be made by an observer. However I only made y amount of observations ( which takes k time ) and my brother made z amount of observations ( which takes l time ). If there is a finite amount of time my brain takes to make an observation and if y > z does that mean i have felt time passed more slowly than my brother? Does that mean time which we feel is dependent on the number of observations we make? And what does my brain do all the rest of the time, which is not observing. ( x- k). Did the time exist during that period of time? Fig 31. Leaflines for two observers What is time? Time is created in mind as a side effect of comparing two events in mind, in now. If the above is true, the more events we observe between two fixed events the more time ( gaps ) there will be. That can partially explain why children ( who are good observers ) will have more time than adults who do everything that has become routine rather than novelty. There are less and less fixed events in our days when we get older as we hardly pay attention to everyday occurrences around us. And it will explain why a traveler feels he has long fulfilled life as he has created opportunities to become more observant in what is happening in the world by traveling and its novelty creating more and more observations per day. But his grandfather in the garden doing some gardening creates the same number of new observations about his fresh vegetable plot and feels fulfilled about his day. Who can argue which is better. Either is relative. Fig 32. Grandpa in the Garden. If youLook at your life, when you describe your life to someone else. You will notice that we do the same. We describe fixed events from our life to give a picture of what happened. Which is never the truth. There is no system to exactly record all the events accurately and there never will be a perfect such system as infinity is unachievable. Although we feel time is continuous when we carefully examine time, we see it's just a feeling, we never feel a continuum, to experience time we have to jump from event to event, describe each event then the illusion of continuous time creates in our minds. The truth is we would never know whether it is a continuum, in the first place we are the creators of time. So if it is not continuous for us should it be not? Looking at the falling leaf simile, we can try to describe what is happening in the mind. When we get thoughts as the day unravels, jumping from one thought to the other, is the only way we can understand what is happening. We can never understand thoughts as a linear continuum.(Actually there is only a finite amount of thoughts happening during one day, and scientists estimate this number to be around 6200, it may be bigger or smaller but the fact remains it is finite ) It is impossible because there would be an infinite amount of information necessary to describe each day otherwise. Only way to understand it is to jump from one thought to another. Just like describing a falling leaf. But that is not the truth. That is not the true picture of what happens. We can never know what truly happens when a thought is processed in the brain. Fundamentally it is relatively true when we say we think, one thought and another. It is not absolute truth because that is not what happened exactly. It should be continuum but understood as fixed frames. (Recently I discovered that "time bending" is similar to above argument. Popularized by French Philosopher Henry Bergson, as pointed out by one of my readers. However, there are Suttle differences.- Part 2) Link to the book.