Free Water !

Look around yourself and tell me one thing other than air that is constantly present and wanted in order to survive, feel comfortable. Its water and many people don't seem to be appreciating it anymore, not nearly as they do to other materialistic conveniences. Certainly more that 70% of the Earth is covered with water but only a scant 2% of that is fresh water. My perception of the world is that people reading blogs have no problems letting the tap run for a shave or while washing dishes and even I consider that as petite lethargy but I can't put a blind eye to the millions of humans dying daily as a result of lack of water or a water related disease. I type this to give voice for my friends who don't have a page on social networks, who can't blog like we do about our life and the problems we consider to be problems. I don’t demand charity but I want to create a small sense of duty of being human and coexisting.

We don't see or even empathize with the 345 million people facing water scarcity everyday let alone the 3.4 million annual deaths due to drinking unsafe and contaminated water. We all unknowingly love water while others crave for it. There are places where having water separates the rich from the poor. In ancient times rain was considered a gift from the Gods and as the water droplets fell through sky people joyed at the fruitful occasion. It  was a natural source of irrigation, it cooled those scorching days and brought along it a cold and soothing breeze and no one minds the sight of kids playing in the rain because in materialistic terms it’s just people being happy with nothing.  Since the times humans evolved to intelligence they realized the value of water inferred that to make a city first they need to set up a water distribution system, that people need drinking water. They harvested rain, a lot ! They engineered ways to effectively collect the water and save it for later use. As compared to now, imagine if each and every house, building, shack, petrol pump have and effective rain harvesting system. I invoke for  a world in which we just save some by using our own and us saving a little when taken on a larger scale enables our government to provide to the unlucky. Only when you experience the need for water or see a fellow human crave, starve due to lack of water maybe then you will experience an epiphany. Sadly just maybe.

I love the feeling of drinking water, it makes me feel safe, something less to worry about. I wish I could share that feeling with others just lying in their homes thinking if they can have a sip, a proper bathroom routine, a proper meal. I just take care of my small responsibility to conserve thinking that if my tap runs then somewhere someone's tap wont. I want the community to re-realize the value of water. Just stop the tap when you are done, flush wisely ( felt funny writing that ), if possible use a bucket instead of shower. Do you even see that taking your car through car wash is a monumental waste of water and shows how lazy we have become. I urge for a community where health care and drinkable water is free and available in even the smallest possible ways. I'm disheartened to see that with the current economical status of some countries they still choose to line up vending machines of food and beverages but not those of free water and band aids. With this the community should be smart and not misuse, it is a must to be civil and keep the not so well of in mind.

There is 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of water on Earth, a healthy human needs a minimum of 8 glasses ( 2 liters or half a gallon ) of water per day and still so many die due to... well simply no water. Its not only us who needs water, we have so many pets in our community we and it is our responsibility to feed them, they aren't greedy like humans, they know how to coexist and a simple cup of water outside your house can put a smile to a dog's face. Think about it, think of your nation, think of the world. I am not encouraging any major donation, because there isn't the need if only people understand small steps are to be taken first and so even though we have 24 hour running water we should help the world by not misusing. We should encourage rainwater harvesting and if you tell me that rainwater is not drinkable due to atmospheric pollution making it minutely acidic, I agree. But then use it to clean your car, use it water some plants, connect the piping through to your bathroom or the best give it to the poor, it is still distilled water. Indeed, charity begins at home. 

I Like Your Smile

We all long happiness, whether we long it for ourselves or for loved ones. We all pray for happiness , pray for a solution to our problems and when we overcome the problem we all undoubtedly feel happy even if it’s the faintest sensation in the deepest corner of our heart, we will be happy. There is a sign of happiness which we all learn even without acknowledging the fact of learning it, there is a simple majestic beauty in this sign which when shown by any life form conveys a  warm gesture. This sign we call a smile. Its conveys acceptance and happiness, doesn't even take much to achieve, it is the first thing you did when the first time you felt the sensation of being happy. They are mutual such that happiness would bring a smile and smile would bring happiness.

You may disagree that smiling can bring happiness by pointing out countless cruel situations when you might be alone and disheartened, sadly possibly crying and say there is no point smiling, that it won't get them the happiness they long. But my character of being a realist which is sprinkled with layers of optimism says that in such dire situations smiling won't bring happiness but it will surely calm the feeling of your heart falling unendingly and change your perspective. Its not easy but if just simply remembered to smile  you choose to overlook the dull side of any situation and you accept the present. A smile at those times is your personal helping hand, shoulder and a sign of courage from the aching heart. Its as beautiful as phoenix rising from fire. Such smile now days are indeed rare. People have an ideology of smiling because they are happy and not smiling to bring and spread happiness. Its so heartwarming to see a person smile as the interaction, however lengthy, comes to a conclusion. After you meet someone maybe completely new, if they leave with a smile note that you made a difference, you made the difference of making that interaction a kind one and not a one where two people meet with blank expressions, ideally achieve the aim of meet and then leave as emotionless as their meet or even make it worse by being rude. You at that point choose to make it a kind, fruitful meet and you achieve this by very small gestures such like offering water to a the mailman on a hot day or saying thank you to the gloomy immigration officer at the airport or simply by smiling and walking through the street someone would surely take a glimpse of your happiness and would choose to be happy rather than bland.

Its All About Respect

There is a feeling in us which tells us to do good deeds and help a living creature and on completion of this such an act we don’t feel content or proud. We call such an act an act of respect. Just  the sheer amount of respect displayed by a person can indicate what sort of life he as been going through and how strong his will is. It is not just in humans as science has observed authentic acts of respect displayed by all sort of animals in all sorts of situations. All over the world different nations having different cultures have a certain method to convey a sign of respect. Showed naturally to convey acceptance of a newer more powerful, dominant leader in society, shown naturally at the sight of a good deed or that of extreme compassion, it's naturally expressed by individuals toward something or someone who would be a reason for motivation and epiphanies. But now there is a majority group of people who take respect for granted and have forgotten that all aspects of life should be respected.

A society where people respect their work, respect all forms of life especially respecting their neighbor would be an ideal utopia. It is something that is not to be taken lightly and should be the first priority when someone meets or simply interact with another. A peaceful clam mind is vital for such a behavior. Its not the point of you have to give respect to get respect, people who naturally are respectful do seek it in return. Society should see that if you respect your profession then you would naturally work hard for it. Take example of a small hotdog salesman, if he respects his profession he would genuinely take care that sells the tastiest hotdog but along with that if he naturally respects people, respects every human equally has he would for his father then he would also take care that it’s a healthy, unadulterated hotdog and would genuinely be kind to customers. Naturally he would be popular only because in today's generation there is a majoritarian belief that to get respect you need to give respect. Is say differently. I say don’t be respectful because your parents taught you so, don’t be respectful because someone else conveyed to you a sign of respect but be respectful because it is the basic, I mean 1st lesson to having a successful life. Now imagine a multinational mobile phone organization, in order to be successful the path is the same, respecting their profession they would have a profound instinct to be ahead of the market, providing the best mobile phones having a software that maybe wont promise the latest features but will be of quality, its hardware wont be of cheap materials as with respect would also come a sense of pride. They would work with integrity to deliver a long lasting, flawless product. When they respect their customers not because they are a source of income but because its in their nature, there won't be any false/tricky advertisements, they will tell the customer exactly what they are buying before they are buying. Such a combination can do wonders for people, companies, society. No matter how bad situations get people won't consider murder because they know the importance and blessing of life, there would be anything to be scared of. Gore movies would be termed fiction rather than based on real life and they would be scarier than ever because the production wont miss a chance to scare people off their feet ( they respect the audience's wishes to be scared if they choose to buy the movie ticket).

Imagine a world which is free of cost. Imagine when you didnt have to work for money. Before reading on i want you to idealize, picturize and realize this place. Think of all the way in which you can live without having to do a job but simple follow what you are interested in every day. I am not telling you to imagine your 

Save Our Home !

What do you call home ? Do you call the roof above your head home ? Do you call the area where you live home ? Do you call your country home ? Time to time you have called all these things your home but I ask you that how many times in your life have you said, "the Earth is my home and that is where I live". Well I'm sure to say you never considered it your home, and why should you ? You cant consider a round piece of rock a "HOME", you have never even seen it ! So do hell with Earth, You'll just keep your house at most your neighbourhood clean because you have to walk through it everyday.
I have a personality that craves to empathize, not because I care, but to find a universal datum of sanity. So lets see why shouldn't we save the Earth. Firstly what should we save it from ? There is nothing attacking it. Some environmentalist comes and says, "Humans are attacking it". What a fool. We are just using what God gave us aren't we ? If he left us a huge (limited ) bundle of oil and natural gasses aren't we supposed to burn it and use it for our progress ? Sure there is a sun hovering above us with unlimited untapped potential for energy and sure there is something called hydroelectric power, but do we really want to reinvest money after spending billions in making oil factories on land and sea. I say let the coming generation worry about that. Look, the estimated time left for our solar system is some blah billion years and you and I have just a mere 100 years. So why not enjoy ! Trash up this place, use all the natural resources, cut the bloody trees down and make a mall ! But wait, didn't some guy say every action has a reaction ? Hmmmmm what reaction would there be to cutting trees down or burning the natural resources ? A little global warming and pollution here and there. Not our concern, our residence is neat and dust free. Lets clear off the forest area and make a city, some economic benefit  of the land,  trees just standing there lifeless, nothing to our gain.

The reality being as harsh as being told you have terminal cancer. If you still don’t consider the Earth as your home, don’t waste your time reading my views.

The Earth is our home, it was our parents home and would be our children's home. If we continue using up the natural resources and don’t create alternatives for the future then the next generation could possibly be the last. Animals don’t care about oil, they would survive because nature always survives. Global warming has reached an alarming point and yet we put a deaf ear to it. And just to be clear global warming refers to the difference in average climate change that is caused by human factor to the average climate change due to natural events. I don’t have to point out what would happen if all trees are cut down or the air gets polluted, nothing you but your children would surely suffer and wouldn't see the beauties nature had to offer but would experience a planet of chaos. So many species have gone extinct because of humans, he have literally scarred nature and still she would heal but only if we let her. Ultimately humans might even cause their own extinction….. Nature will always prevail.
Let me put it in my way of understanding the 7 sins  -

1.Lust - It is being addicted to pleasure, not just sexual pleasure but any sort pleasure and luxuries. Humans have been hurting the Earth only for one main reason, that is to make their stay more comfortable. Our ancestors were not used to air conditioning or auto mobiles or even plastic bags. 21st century people are full of their mind with technology and are handicapped without these, so called basic needs. We just want to be comfortable. I'm not saying having a car is bad, but do you ever see the big picture of you polluting our common home just so you can go a mere kilometre. I walk. Not because I have abundance of time because the entire day I feel I just stare at a computer screen, just dedicate 5 minutes to your body.

2.Greed - It is human's tendency to be overwhelmed by the need of materialistic power and control. Basically we all want to be millionaires and we want be that whilst doing what we love. Even if we choose a profession that brings meaning to our life, we want to be rich in that. Its not bad to have money, we all have to pay bills but do we really need a 10 digit bank account credit ? We don’t care about the implications of burning oils, cutting trees as long we make money. The chemicals used to make products cheaper and making food tastier, the amount of trash created with every item we buy, every small thing has its implications and consequences.

3.Sloth - We are smart and aware of the consequences of global warming. We feel a climatic change and have personally seen almost all global temperature records reset in our lifespan. That is not normal and we know. Why don’t we act, why do we still choose to just do our job, earn our bread and leave the earth ultimately. We don’t care. We know by instinct about our short lifespan as compared to the earth and so we sit back and relax. If we relax who will manage our home ?

4.Envy - We envy nature for its brilliance. We envy each other for infinite reasons. We let it get the best of us and as has been seen throughout history, envy brings destruction. Humans don’t want some flora or fauna to control the lands. We want to control it, even if it means killings thousands of living creatures. Each and every city that has ever been built was done so by snatching the habitat of plants and animals. We want to dominate Earth and yet we don’t call it our home.

5.Pride - Watch any human documentary and it will without doubt paraphrase - Humans are the most intelligent species on the Earth. We defined intelligence in a way that we are at the top. We wont consider how animals pre know about natural catastrophes, we wont consider that a dog wont eat poison just by smelling it and we might. We don’t consider anything intelligent but us. Yet we are dumb enough to discriminate on color, sexual preference and religion. We are full of pride. If animals don’t obey us, we will kill them.

6.Gluttony - How many of you are non-vegetarian ? How many of you ever thought about the flesh you stick your teeth in into ? Or you just assume humans are natural carnivores? Even I cant answer that. I do know what an industry we have created, how animals are mutated to be more fat, give more eggs basically born to die for us. Also please don’t refer to plant as life in this argument against vegetarians because they don’t eat plants. They eat fruits, which are natural food given by nature, and the seeds we get from them it is our responsibility to nurture life from it. Instead we mutate animals to become tastier.

7.Wraith - We lack it. The seven sins are not only sins if someone possess abundance of it. It is also wrong if you lack it. How angry would it be if someone comes to your house, kills your dog, cooks it and eats it and then liters all over, pollutes it, pollutes the air of it, ultimately making it inhabitable for you. The Earth is the largest house we all share, polluting it entirely would take time but humans are slowly achieving it. You are doing this on every day basis . You need to be show your anger and make it stop. This is our home, realize.

God gave us one home. Humans came up with the seven deadly sins ! I just brought out a new meaning to it, these sins are termed the rules of life, well see the bigger picture my friend. You sin in your home and you don’t even know it. Please save Earth.

      

The Universe Is All About Music

Art is defined as the expression and application of human creative skill, typically in visual form such as a painting or sculpture. We call the a beautiful sights of nature we seldom see  God's work of Art. But we live in a time where art can be anything that makes us smile and gives a warm satisfaction because, at that point we relate to the inanimate object to our ideology of life  and we naturally comprehend this relation. There is a form of art which to my belief we are naturally inclined to for some reason, and also I believe ( without evidence ) would be the first form of art to exist in this universe. This form is called "music".
The dictionary defines music as an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. That’s just bullshit. Music is pleasure and harmony through sound. It is always with us even though we don’t realize it and has helped soothe our minds in times of tension and grievance, has shown certain obligation to be present in times of contentment and ecstasy. Even while we walk down the street we hum a tune or actually put on our earphones and listen to pre-recorded music not only occupy the walk but because by instinct we love music. It is an escape from the monotony of life, the same old boring talks we have we change into rhythms. I am not exclusively talking about music with background beats along with it, I am also including poetry that was there without instruments. A criminal locked in a cell for life would undoubtedly sing a song or quote a poem or even create his own work because he would find natural joy and peace while being deprived from all other social needs.
There is a different and subtle beauty in poetry, much different than that of music. Music can be tuned to sound like a poem but not the other way around. Mainly because I consider poetry to be a rhythm of words and music to be poetry sung shadowing acoustical instruments. But both utter the same emotions. We don’t dance to poetry we dance to music and we listen and learn the deep meaning of life from poetry.  Music can be as simple as tapping your foot whilst humming alongside and can be done by a cat also, and can also be as majestic as Beethoven's symphonies . Poetry on the other hand is written by the greatest thinkers, literary scholars and artist of the respective time. Poetry touches the mind and body a very different way than music. As much as they are art of the same form, they are different.

Now there are 7.3 BILLION people in the world which mean there are 7.3 completely different perceptions and personalities and it would be right to assume all would have a unique taste in music. Old people don’t like what the young generation head bangs to and young people understand to what are the old people smiling to. For me Eminem is the God of music in our time but my mother still considers ABBA to be better. We cant judge a person's taste in music because as humans have evolved so have their creativity and it is the newer generation which is brought up along these new forms of music and hence their brains get accustomed to the new tunes. I say if you know what kind of music someone enjoy you can get a faint idea about their personality. I don’t judge the book by the cover, but knowing their musical interest can tell you if the book is a fable, fiction, work of literature etc.

Laws Of the Universe

Undoubtedly there is an unknown harmony behind everything. Such a harmony cannot be created my humans. By harmony I refer to the laws of science. They are perfect and flawless and there hasn't been a single moment in history where there has been an exception in the laws. If there is an exception found, we consider the law to be flawed and then we revamp the whole theory and come up with a theory which fully satisfies the phenomenon's occurrence. We do this because we have always come up with a satisfying solution, even if it took generations . This has always amazed me, that you can do the most random thing possible and it would be possible as it would be governed by pre-set laws. We have a saying "the devil is in the details", have you ever thought how detailed this universe is and who gave the details ?
Lets start from scratch. The building block of matter, as we all have been taught in 2nd standard are atoms. They are small, very small so small that we learnt of their existence  way before we saw them and the first human to actually see them was in 1955 after 2 million times magnification. Being so freakishly small, they still adhere to laws of science just like you and me and the car and the moon. I mean, if we consider ourselves as one single body, we are wrong. We are Sagan's of atoms working together and just like society and culture are a set of laws we follow during our lifetime, these atoms also come with governing pre-set laws. The newton's 3 laws of motion, the 3 thermodynamic laws, the laws of gravity and magnetism and so many more are not something human's have made after coming to the earth. They are predefined by a higher power.

The Soul

Life is a beautiful and mysterious concept. Life is the period during which something functions. I used to believe that humans are nothing more than stardust and are just bags of chemicals which came to be because of random chances . There are so many forms of life that we know of some live on land, some in the sea, some we cant even see. Now in a new epiphany and after lots of self contemplation what I believe is common to all of them is the "soul". The soul is what makes all life possible and this fact has been known since the early intelligent species first studied life. The soul is half of the mysteries of life, it is in our bodies and is presumed to be God's way of telling us that he exists. No one can deny the fact that a soul exists and if you ask for proof, read on.

The world is only as good as its Engineers

A person who says he is an engineer is always underestimated, especially in India. There is no value for a person who is trained to tame metal and energy to his will. I have a very different opinion that a country is as good as its engineers.
We live in a generation of smartphones and easy commuting. A 1000 years ago if a man wanted to go another city for work he could forget about hearing from his family for months and just to get to the other city he would have to ride a horse in the blistering sun, a mere 10 miles a day. He would not have ready made food nor would he have ample amount of water, and flying to your destination was something which we envied from birds. Who gave us all these miracle gift ? How does a car move when we tap our foot down or the screen slide when we swipe our fingers across it ? If a person 1000 yrs ago saw a simple motorbike traveling faster than their most prized horse for  0.01% the effort, he would instantly call us God and start praying to the bike.
An engineer is simply a person who understand how matter interacts with energy and how we can use those interactions to our benefits. Steve jobs and bill gates are possibly the most well known engineers in our time and why shouldn’t they be. Alexander graham bell is credited for giving us telephones, Hennery ford is called the father of modern age as he made personal automobile possible. For any industry to advance and prosper, first they must invent more advanced tools and that is what the humble engineer provides with.

The true birth of life

As you all know, everything comes to an end. Every living thing must die and every non living thing does decay, so its right to day everything existing has a time frame. We know the usual like you throw away an apple and after some time it'll decay to nothing, plastic is also naturally degradable but under normal circumstances it'll take more than 1000yrs to decompose a small amount . Even the stars, earth, our galaxy and even our universe has a time frame. Science has discovered what happens these things at the end of their time frame and it is beautiful !
In layman's language i hope to convey a message about the beginning of life
Most of you have heard about the famous " big band theory " , not the tv show, the theory which says that the everything in our universe, all planets, stars, nebulas, black holes, every single thing floating in the dark void above us was once ( 13.8 billion years ago ) packed tightly together in something which is much much smaller than a hydrogen atom ( 0.0000000000592 meters ). That singularity with our whole universe inside it then exploded and with that big bang, our universe came to being. Don’t imagine a huge explosion out of which the planets and stars came out wholly  but imagine a normal bomb going off, spreading outwards with gasses  in all 3 dimensions. The leftover of this unimaginable explosion was ginormous amounts of gas clouds ( these were composed of hydrogen and explaining why just hydrogen gas clouds would require a more scientific approach which you are surely not interested in ), which travelled at astounding speeds and finally settled a few 100,000yrs later. This realm is the baby universe, there are no stars no planets just huge gas clouds called nebulae.
Believe it or not these gas clouds are factories manufacturing stars through the forces of gravitation. In these huge clouds, lets say a lump of hydrogen atoms coalesce together due to their random motion. Now this lump has a higher gravitational pull than other atoms and hence pull them towards it. The end result is like a snowball rolling down a hill, the more weight it gets the more faster it rolls but in this case the more molecules it attracted the more stronger its gravity got and so it attracted even more atoms. This keeps on happening till a point is reached when so much amount of hydrogen stuck together by gravity reaches a temperature so high that nuclear fusion takes place. Just to be clear, fusion is when 2 hydrogen atoms combine together to give a product of a single helium atom along with enormous amount of energy. That released energy then goes on to help other hydrogen atoms to make more helium and more enormous amounts of energy. That my friends in simple terms is how all stars work, including our beloved sun.

A nebula giving the birth to a star

Take Care !

Humans are known to be the one of nature's biggest enemies. But little do they know, the further they go from nature, their chances of having a future with prospering generation diminishes. We all have been watching a lot of movies about global extinctions and people have been pretty creative about their ideas. There is one movie which's idea particularly interested me called "Children of Men". Its basically about humans being overwhelmed by the power of science,  ultimately reaching the brink of extinction only because they turned their naturally evolved bodies into sacks of chemicals. What the movie give us an insight on is the true possible future for humans on Earth. It depicts a place where humans are unable to give birth.
Industrial revolutions refers to the late 1700's and early 1800's where the a transition took place from hand manufacturing processes to machines manufacturing processes, also when the steam engine was introduced and people went ballistic to obtain coal to power the engine, instead of wood and other traditional fuels. The perspective the whole world we lived in changed, and humans considered themselves God's of Earth. They didn't acknowledge the possible consequences, and there were a lot of possibilities. That time, even now, everyone wanted money and power and the best way to do it was to be a major industrialist.  But one thing this to be noted, our bodies were strong ! Humans have been hunters and gathers since ages and our bodies were naturally fit, also because most of the population would be in the army. Now see people fail at ice bucket challenges. Soon when industries became global their main aim became to be the dominant company in their sector and this only done by having the best quality and cheapest product.