The secret to lasting love lies in gratitude. When you have someone special, resist the urge to look elsewhere. The grass isn’t greener—it’s simply a different shade of the same.
Cherish what you have, for love isn’t about flawless perfection. It’s about choosing each other, through the chaos, through the challenges, time and time again.
In a world where quitting comes so easily, a single argument or a rough day often leads to goodbye. But the most beautiful love stories are born from resilience.
They are written by those who stay when it’s tough, who confront their doubts, and who remind themselves daily how fortunate they are to share their lives.
Love isn’t built on ease; it flourishes through commitment. Be the story that endures—not because it was effortless, but because you held on to the magic that made it worth it.
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
—John Lennon.
Mumford & Sons – Ghosts That We Knew
Jim Rohn in one of his famous speech went onto say,”
Something my parent taught me that they practiced all their life. Now I practice.
Don’t Miss Anything.
Don’t miss the game.
Don’t miss the concert.
Don’t miss the performance
Don’t miss the show
Don’t miss the conversation.
Don’t miss the sermon.
Don’t miss the class.
Don’t. Miss. Anything.
Go.
Look.
See.
Learn.
Try.
Taste.
(With gesture of hands, suggests)
Let that Flavor of life be part of your lifestyle.
Elton John sings, “She lived her life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to, when the rain set in.”
What if you missed that?
See, that wouldn’t be good.
George Harrison used to sing before he died, “If not for you, the winter would hold no spring. Couldn’t hear a robin sing. I just wouldn’t have a clue if not for you.”
Again with meaningful gesture of hands re-iterates,
Go Taste.
Go Listen.
Go Enjoy.”
See, one thing is for certain.
Nobody is ever, never prepared for what is going to happen in our lives far into the future.
But the only guarantee that renders a glimmer of healthy hope, that this one time opportunity ‘life’ would eventually fold in a good enough episode is to actually plant, nurture and water the seeds of wisdom as it progresses.
Go explore Jim. He was the harbinger of a laying out his unique template for a practical, pragmatic and most importantly a good-enough life.
“Almost everything we experience is a zero-sum game. Just, don’t take the wrong medicine for the wrong disease.”
~ Musicpervs
Tu Chodiyon Na – Ronit Vinta
There is so much noise out there.
Almost everything we see and hear are a zero-sum game.
Almost everything cancels out each other.
So, is this bad?
Does this mean, we ought to just eat whatever we get our hands on, and learn from exclusive experience, and learn as truth unveils itself eventually?
Actually not.
The actualization and realization of this one fundamental facet of this infodemic era is in-and-itself a super power.
It calls for truth.
It call for not believing or giving in to things you’re exposed to, or influenced at will.
It calls for original thinking.
It calls for genuine curiosity and getting to the process of seeking truths and grooming and feasting over facts, facts and facts, and developing your ideas over those unfiltered, hardcore, for-real information.
Many people care more about being right than being happy
James Clear
sapientdream – Pastlives
I was the person with utmost respect for philosophy, ideals, principles and dead people’s quotes.
In the name of being true, honest, assertive and straight, I’d hurt many people. I’d walk over them many-a-times. I’d abandon those whoever didn’t agree with my view of the reality.
I was the Sherlock who always wanted to have the last say even though it meant at the cost of cold and bitter relationships.
I’ve learned my lessons.
And, just as Vicki Tidwell Palmer puts it:
Choosing to be happy rather than being right means you value creating understanding, or maintaining harmony and peace over insisting on being heard, making sure that other people “get” you, or teaching someone else a lesson.
Not everything in life is objective or more precisely, most of the things in life are subjective.
Lastly, David Hume best describes it in the opening line of his philosophical book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1748, where he says,
Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man
There are no cheatsheets to live a successful, happy, merry life. Life’s grind. ~ author
Jeremy Zucker – Cry with you
Yesterday it was my 5th interview for Bank of America, Charlotte, NC. Tomorrow we’ve one more scheduled for 2pm EST. It’s been precisely 5 months and 2 weeks since I started working for the bank as an Application Architect. However, little did I know, from the month of February, 2023, I would already start taking interviews for the new candidates across the bank’s many software development teams. Little did I know, from the 1st week of March, 2023, I would be an On-shore Dev Lead for an agile team I currently work at.
On one hand, It’s humbling to have trust of my manager, as well as the leads from other agile teams in the bank who’re also amongst the interviewers panel. While on the other hand, I’m also on perpetual spotlight; Where my actions, in-actions, my ways of communicating, deliberate listening, my ways of shaping the interview, my questions, my answers, every words I utter, words that I don’t, … generally my character as a whole is nakedly microscoped by the age-old, white-haired, wise and experienced employee of this giga-normous bank!
Side note: As of today, Bank of America provides service to it's clients from around 35 different countries with over 200,000 employees.
Little did I know I’ll have too much too soon on my vanilla, clean, scared plate.
Lastly, from someone who has taken 100s of interviews back home and already did plenty here, few takeaways for the prospective interviewee, plus a note to myself as well:
Caution: This is not TheTemplate; it's merely just one of many templates that works for me -- specially for technical/ coding interviews:
Don’t ignore non-behavioral questions. Too much talking is a bad sign. Not talking enough is also a turnoff. There has to be a right balance between the two. Qualities such as authenticity, confidence, preparedness or lack there-off always find ways to crack open if there’re any ingrained in the candidate on the table .
It’s always a good thing to dress well for the interview. Amplifies seriousness because the alternative genuinely sucks.
Can’t stress enough,”Be prepared” for the interview (Practice. Practice. Practice). Do not try your LUCK. Do not expect an easy way in.
Ask as many questions before diving into the solution to the coding problems.
Explain how you intend to solve the problem before even writing a single piece of code.
Write.Your.Code!
Show utter enthusiasm throughout the period of interview (this has to be driven by homework of healthy preparedness), and not to miss if you may give signs of willingness to grow at par.
One last thing i liked: If you’re unable to solve the coding challenge problem, tell the interviewers that you’ll get back to them with the solution. And, actually find ways to do it.
“… sleep is profoundly intertwined with virtually every aspect of brain health. Lack of sleep over time can lead to an irreversible loss of brain cells—yet another debunking of the myth that sleep debt can be made up.” ― Arianna Huffington, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
But as the science literature suggest ‘Sleep’ –is a real shit.
And so, I am committed to fix it.
That is to say that I’m giving my every best to get a full 8 hours of cumulative rest time.
Good news is :- for the last three days I average at around — at least 7 hours of sleep. On Sunday however, due to lack of sleep followed by a high intensity workout early in the morning, I almost blacked out.
I just returned attending Puku’s wedding reception.
Sleep deprived. Exhausted. Feet too cold because of a long bike ride and that too on Kolhapuri chappal.
Here’s a thing worthy a mention cum appreciation — As i opened the door and entered my room; I found that the room heater was on. Plus, my meds were carefully put on the table, beneath the lamp which was on too, so that i can see.
I knew, that’s my dad!
What made this episode more special is that he was bed-ridden himself from the past two days.
p.s. I’m sneezing terribly as i sit to write this short quick piece in company of mild fever.
p.p,s. I just want to seize the gratifying beauty of this unique moment painted by my beloved Father (not that this has happened for the first time).
Holy cow, what could’ve been a better way end to the day!
