Man, it's Common Sense

"Common sense is not so common"

It's been told very often... Use you common sense. We have been hearing this whenever we do mistakes... well it's different thing that we never intend to do mistakes... it just happens.

Is Common Sense is really common or most uncommon is a part of discussion from a long time. And what exactly is this Common Sense.. let's understand this word Common Sense... Common (Public, means that with everybody) Sense (Feel or Sensation). So it is something that is perceived right by public... it is actual the obvious thing. So if you have common sence it means you are actually taking care of the most obivious stuffs while taking your decision.

Contrasting to the above I also assume that Common Sence differs from level to level. What can be Common Sense for somebody, may be intellect thinking for me. I mean knowledge seems a part of Common Sense at times... and we keep working hard to improve our Common Sense by adding more and more knowledge, experience and exposure. Sometimes it is again different, considering common sense a basis sense of taking decision while if we add knowledge to Common Sense it empowers us take decision more wisely as it generate greater wisdom in us. At the same time even if we have a strong knowlege of subject and not using our basis obvious thinking it may lead to greater stupidity.

I think we have started increasing the scope of Common Sense and bugging out logical thinking also as part of it, but may be it's actually the ability to use native intelligence with logic and proper reasoning is Common Sense. Now I can see that Common Sense is becoming so tough to understand and at the same time it is not a common thing for all for sure. So to execute common sense we need to consider and interrelate surroundings, do logical calulcations, give a big damn to obvious stuffs, involve our native intelligence, acquired knowldge, experinces and exposures.

The Sense is common to everybody however the degree of usage is different and depends on person to person. Somebody is able to utilise it more, however some people may hardly be. The magnitude of common sense keeps changing generation over generation, and the gravity keeps increasing.

Henry Ward Beecher... The Philosphy for one century is the common sense of the next.

Shivendra Singh

30 Sept. 2009

Keep the Change

Change... for the better... for the future... for the fitter...!!!

We all know change is the only thing that never changes... it is a fate... and we can not run away.

We sometimes, actually most of the time make ourselves standard and want people to change accordingly but to the highest degree we are not correct. Things around me is anyway going to change but what "I" have to do to keep altering "the situation" or "me", and that's the Bramhastra.

Why do we call today's world so fast, furious and fiery, it's possibly because the interval between the changes is quite short and rather frequent. One can not stay at the same level for long time to keep oneself at top, though the position is same however the efforts, energy and inertia keep changing. In spite of the fact that change will be there, we fear change, we avoid change and we try to flee from it. We have the fear of something that sometimes even we don't know. We have the resistance to change since we are comfortable now, we don't want to change as we don't need it. We have thousands of view points about "why to change"... sometimes it becomes an ego issue.

There are two angles that need to be considered when there is a change. First, how do we comprehend the change and second, are we actually prepared for change. Perception is all about our attitude, and preparation is all about our vision and pro-active behavior. Developing a good attitude towards changes and being agile will make life pretty easy in this electrically moving world. So don't change for change, but change for change.

I remember somebody said, If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. So Change is Inevitable but yes, it is Manageable.

Shivendra Singh
18 Sept 2009

Bear an Advantageous Comparison

We have been told many times to not compare ourselves with others. Luckily I read a similar article in ET yesterday under the one segment I love to spend time and muse around my thoughts,"Cosmic Uplink". It says that why should we compare ourselves with other? Each human being is different and has the different capability, skill, knowledge and traits, then why should we compare? May be there are many who like to go ahead with this logic however I don't find it very compatible to my thought process. In fact I think that comparison is required, it should be there and comparison only adds spices in life, it actually makes life more interesting and easy.

Now the million dollar question is how the hell comparing is better than not comparing?

Comparison is required as this world is full of billions of competitors. Every human being is competing with other on the grounds of some common skills, knowledge and traits. Comparison provides us the areas or scopes we need to work on, it provide us the update on how far the light is at the end of the tunnel. A smart comparison helps us to improve from our present level, and a stupid compare lead us to envy, jealousy and dire strait state. A comparison full of simplicity and common sense is what we need to work on to derive the correct leading or lagging edge. Now it’s all about your attitude how you take the out-come of the comparison… either cry for what you don’t have or strive hard to get the same. Don’t compare richest man with the poorest man, don’t compare lion with a mouse, and don’t compare earth with sky. Use your common sense and compare with the proper comparability.

I am a live example who believes in comparing and love to do the same. When I feel good after achieving something, I enjoy the moment but at the same time I compare my self to somebody who is superior than me to set my quick goal. When I am depressed and not happy I compare me with somebody who is not performing as good as I am, or not having what I possess, this gives me a quick relief from my pain, hurt and anguish.

Life shapes up with the decisions we take, and decision is taken on the basis of some facts, logic and vision. Most of the time comparison also comes into picture while taking some decisions, so it is required to do a smart comparison. When I feel high I should not be complacent as that may create hindrance to my growth, at the same time when I feel low I should not further depress myself. Comparison will help us to jump out of our entire problems and taking the right decision at right time. Mix right attitude with the right comparison and see the difference…!!!

So, the only bind we have to keep in mind,
That…We have the intelligent and smart…
Comparison shop…!!!

Shivendra Singh

11 Sep 2009

Happiness is Inevitable

I love driving my bike on the traffic-free roads. It gives me a great feeling of silence and peacefulness, unless some guy comes back and starts honking for pass or just because he got that habit to do so. I just hate the people who honk without any reason.

Anyway I am not writing this to tell what I hate but to tell what I love to do.

Driving back from office in the late evening always makes me to think exorbitantly. I think about my day, I think about my life, I think about helluva things and deep dive into my thoughts. It's just 10-15 minute drive between the office and apartment however this short duration is a sort of meditation for me. Each day I think about lot of new things, and whenever I think about something I always plan for writing those thoughts in my blog. I generally don't update all my ideas and opinion, as most of the time I end up sitting late over social networking sites chatting with friends.

Today while driving back to home I was pondering about "Happiness", I was thinking about me... Am I happy or not? Of late I am working late in the office, and most of the time found myself struggling around quite a lot of things, all the same I never found it boring, or something that is screwing my happiness. Happiness is not what we perceive happiness is, it is something else and what is that I really don't know. Some people find happiness in their daily work, some people give more value to the small happiness they are experiencing every day, some people love to find happiness in breaking the iceberg. If I talk about me, I am a person who loves to enjoy any moment that has any possibility to make me happy. I am happy being late in office, I am happy being busy, I am happy when I do some mistake thinking I learned something, I am happy when I get more work from my boss, I am happy when friends call me up, I am happy when I write my blog, I am happy when people support me, I am happy when I get up early in the morning and go to gym, I am happy when I speak to my family members, I am happy when I buy gifts for loved ones, I am happy praying to God everyday. So, I have various reasons to be happy. These reasons may bring happiness for few moments only, but they bring smile in my life. Smile does not mean we are literally smiling, literal smile does not entail we are happy and a sad face never says that we are sorry. Sometimes we are happy with a sad face, and sad with a smiling lips.

Happiness is something which is hard to define as it is not universally measured with the same standard and norms. It is different for different people, country and culture. It differs from person to person.

For me happiness lies in small things, it's inevitable and I create it for myself. For me happiness lies in self satisfaction.

You may check, what is your Happiness Quotient...!!!

Shivendra Singh
02 Sept 2009