సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్క్స్‌

ఏవండోయ్‌, ఇక నటించింది చాల్లేండి! లేవండి షాపింగ్‌కి టైమ్‌ అయ్యింది. నేనా? నటిస్తున్నానా? నిజంగా నిద్రపోతుంటే ఏంటే నీ గోడవ! అబ్బో, మీరు అబద్ధం చెబుతారేమో కాని మీ వాట్సాప్‌ (whatsapp) లోని లాస్ట్‌ సీన్‌ మాత్రం అబద్ధం చెప్పదండోయ్‌! అనే స్థాయికి సోష్‌ల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కింగ్‌ సైట్లు వచ్చేసాయంటే నమ్ముతారా!

ఇక పిల్లల విషయానికొస్తే స్కూలు-కాలేజీల్లో ఇచ్చిన హోం వర్కులు చేస్తున్నారో లేదో తెలియదు కాని అన్ని సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కులలో స్టేటస్‌లు (status), ఫోటోలు అప్‌డేట్‌ చేయడం మాత్రం మర్చిపోవట్లేదు. ఇంక అసలు ఏ పనీ -పాట లేని వారి గురించి చెప్పనక్కరేదు. పొద్దున లేచి కాక హోటల్‌లో తాగిన ' టీ ' దగ్గర నుంచి రాత్రి పడే 'డోస్‌' వరుకు అందరికి తెలియజేయడానికి ఈ సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కులను బీభత్సంగా వాడేస్తుంటారు. అలా అన్ని మంచి-చెడూ తేడా లేకుండా అన్ని వీటి ద్వారా చెప్పేస్తుటారు.

'మా బామ్మ చనిపోయింది' అని ఒక్క స్టేటస్‌ పెట్టి ఆమె ఫోటోకి దండేయకుండా నైనా సరే ఒక్కసారి ఫేస్‌ బుక్‌లో అప్‌డేట్‌ చేస్తే చాలు, ఓ వంద లైక్‌లు యాబై RIPలు అదేనండి Rest-in-Peace  కమెంట్ల రూపంలో ఎగిరొచ్చి పడిపోతాయి. ఇలా ఒకటి కాదు - రెండు కాదు జీవితంలోని ప్రతీ నిమిషం గురించి సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కింగ్‌ సైట్‌లలో పెట్టేస్తుంటారు. ఇప్పుడు కాలంలో ఓ మనిషి గురించి తెలుసుకోవాలంటే వాడి ఫేస్‌ ని చూడనక్కర్లేదు. వాడి ఫేస్‌ బుక్కుని బ్రౌజ్‌ చేసేస్తేచాలు.

ఈ మధ్య కాలంలో మనిషి దేవుడ్ని దర్శిస్తున్నాడో లేదో కాని మన గూగుల్‌ తల్లిని దర్మించడం మాత్రం మరవట్లేదు. ఈ సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కులలో ప్రాముఖ్యతను గాంచిన దేవుళ్ళు చాలానే ఉన్నాయండోయ్‌. ఫేస్‌ బుక్‌ దేవుడు, ట్విటర్‌ దేవత, యూట్యూబ్‌, గూడుల్‌+, యాహు అని చాలా రకాల భగవంతులను ఇంటర్‌నెట్‌ లో ఆన్‌లైన్‌ దర్శనం చేసుకోవచ్చు.

మన ప్రభుత్వం జనాభలెక్కల కోసం ఫేస్‌బుక్కుని పరిశీలిస్తే చాలు ఇట్టే అందరి వివరాలు తెలిసిపోయే పరిస్థితిలో ప్రపంచం ఉంది.

ఒక నెలలో యూట్యాబ్‌కు ఒక బిలియన్‌ ప్రేక్షకులు వస్తారంటే నమ్ముతారా! ఏ టీ.వి చానల్‌కు కూడా ఇంత మంది ప్రేక్షకులు లేరు. మరి నేనేం తక్కువ తిన్నానా అంటూ ఫేస్‌బుక్‌ కూడా పది మిలియన్‌ యాప్స్‌తో అందరిని ఆకర్షిస్తుంది. ఒక్క గూగుల్‌ జూశ్రీబర లోనే అక్షరాల మూడువందల నలభైౖ మూడు మిలియన్‌ల వినియోగదారులున్నారంటే నమ్ముతారా!

మరి వీటిని ఇంతగా ఎందుకు వినియోగిస్తున్నారో తెలుసా! ప్రతీ మనిషికి తప జీవితం కంటే ఎదుటి వారి జీవితం మీదే ఆశ ఎక్కువ. ఈ ఒక్క కారణంతో సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కులు ప్రపంచాన్నే ఏలేస్తున్నాయి. మనిషికి తన జీవితంలో ఇవీ ఒక భాగమైపోయాయి.

మనిషికి నడకలు నేర్పిస్తున్నాయి. మనిషని నడిపిస్తున్నవి కూడా ఇవే! ఒక మనసుని - ఇంకో మనసుతో కలుపుతున్నవీ ఇవే ! పలానా కష్టం వచ్చిందని ఒక మాటలో స్టేటస్‌ (status) పెడితే చాలు వంద చేతులు మన కోసం వచ్చేస్తాయి. ఇంత బిజీ ప్రపంచంలో మనుషులను కలుపుతున్నది ఈ సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కులే. దూరాన్ని కూడా దగ్గరగా చేసేస్తున్నాయి.

అసలు మాట్లాడటానికి ఇష్ట పడని వాటి గురించి కూడా ఇక్కడ చర్చలు జరిగిపోతుంటాయి. ఒక విషయం గురించి ఒక్క ట్వీట్‌ చేస్తే చాలు లిప్త పాటు సమయంలో ఇది అందరికి చేరిపోతుంది. కొన్ని క్షణాల్లోనే మిగిలిన వారి రిప్లయ్‌లు (reply) రెస్పాన్స్ (response) లు వచ్చేస్తుంటాయి. ఎక్కడా వీలుకాని స్పందన - ప్రతిస్పందన ఇక్కడే సాధ్యమవడమే దీని ప్రత్యేకత.

ఈవెంట్స్‌కు ఇన్విటేషన్లు, బిజినెస్‌కు సంబంధించిన ఏవైన సరే ఇక్కడ మనక కనిపిస్తాయి. గేమ్స్‌, యాప్స్‌, లైక్స్‌, కమెంట్స్‌, గ్రూప్‌లు ఏది కాదు- ప్రతీది ఇక్కడ ఉంటాయి.

ఇంకోందరైతే కరెంట్‌ కట్టే పనిలేకుండానే సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కుల్లో షాపులు తెరచేసి నగలని, చీరలని, పిల్లలకు సంబంధించినవి బమ్మలని-బట్టలని ఒకటి కాదు రెండు కాదు ప్రతీది అమ్మేస్తుంన్నారు. ఎలక్ట్రానిక్‌ వస్తువులు కూడా మనతో ఇక్కడే కొనిపించేస్తున్నారు. ఇలా షేరింగ్‌ అండ్‌ లర్నింగ్‌  ఇక్కడే సాధ్యమని చెప్పాలంటే

లక్ష్మీ దేవి సరస్వతీదేవి ఇద్దరూ ఈ సోషల్‌ నెట్‌వర్కుల ద్వారానే మన ఇంటికీ వచ్చేస్తారు !

I AM GOING TO SEARCH FOR MYSELF

I want to feel free. 

I want to take that stupid corporate identity card strung around my neck, 

chuck it into the gutter and walk out of my damn office. 

I want to stop scrolling for a while.

I want to log out of Facebook and not give a damn that a website won’t remind me about the birthdays of my friends I don’t bother to remember anyway.

I want to delete my Twitter account and stop that nonsensical one-upmanship of jibes and jokes and rabble rousing.

I want to take my phone and shove it into a vat of hot chocolate and say “Screw you, you Candy Crush enabling piece of shit!”

And after that, I will eat every last piece of that chocolate and love every moment of it. 

I want to follow my dreams.

I want to do whatever the hell I want.

I’ll become a sail boat captain. I’ll go teach orphaned children. I’ll buy a pack of crayons and doodle on a big ass piece of chart paper.

I will go get a block of stone, a chisel and a hammer, carve out the shittiest sculpture the world has ever seen and make my friends clap for it.

Because it’ll make me feel happy.

I want to travel.

I want to go to the most secluded place I can find nearby and sit there for hours.

Once I’m there, I want to do nothing but let the wind caress my "ugly" face that all the commercials on T.V say should be "fair and pimple free and perfectly toned."

And away from all that consumerist bullshit, let nature tell me, “You silly bastard, you’re fine just the way you are. I made you this way.”

I want to go on an adventure every month.

I want to climb Mt. Everest. And then brag about it to the next douchebag that shoves an iPhone 56 into my face and see him try to top that.

I want to bungee jump from somewhere really high and dangerous and feel the adrenaline rush as I scream out all the air in my lungs. 

I want to scuba dive in the Andamans because I can’t afford to go the Great Barrier Reef.

And there, I’ll  high-five a fish. Because I fricking feel like it.

I want to get to know my family better.

I want to sit down with my Dad and ask him about what he did in College.

His biggest achievements and his biggest disappointments.

Hopefully, I’ll be counted in the former.

I want to thank my Mum and hug her. Every single day.

And ask her to kiss me on the cheek because I need her love.

Because nothing else in the world can make me feel as special or as wanted.

I want to live my life.

For the precise reason that it is mine to live.

You do not own it. You cannot claim it. And I will not let you dictate it.

I am going to fill it with love, travel and the search for myself.

And that is all that matters.

It Only Takes 66 Days To Change Your Life, If You’re Strong Enough

There’s no denying that we are, indeed, creatures of habit.

Our minds and bodies are dependent on stimulants, actions and patterns that come to define who we are. Our habits are our security blankets, enveloping us in their consistent presence and comfort of familiarity.

We do them unconsciously, sticking fingers and cigarettes in our mouths and cracking our knuckles only to find that we can’t remember when this habit began.

According to Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit,” habits are not born, but created. Every bad, good or insignificant habit starts with a psychological pattern called a “habit loop.”

Duhigg reported to NPR, the “habit loop” is a three-part process. The first step is the trigger that tells your brain to let a certain behavior unfold. The second step is the behavior itself, or the routine it creates.

The third step is the reward, or “something that your brain likes that helps it remember the ‘habit loop’ in the future.”

Once we’ve formed habits, they are hard to break because, many times, we forget we’re doing them. Because of the habit loop, we are able to do other things without thinking about our habit.

We will be working on something else while simultaneously biting our nails, not realizing the moment we put them in our mouths.

We become slaves to our habits. They become inhibitors and some have the power to control our lives.

Though some substances we use have addictive qualities that make the habits almost impossible to break, there are ways to replace those bad habits with good ones… and all it takes is 66 days.

In a study released in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Phillippa Lally and her team of researchers surveyed 96 people over a 12-week period to find exactly how long it takes to start a new habit.

Over the 12 weeks, the participants chose a new habit and reported each day how automatic the behavior felt. At the end of the period, Lally analyzed the results and found the average time it took for the participants to pick up a new habit was 66 days.

While her results were focused on the time it takes to create a habit, we can look at it inversely, and the time it takes to kick an old one and pick up a better one.

If a habit does not include addictive additives or stimulants, which make the withdrawal and brain processes different, who’s to say it won’t take you 66 days to cut out all those nasty habits that have been overtaking your life?

If you take the habit out of your life, the same way you put one into your life, you will find yourself free of the unconscious and, many times, detrimental patterns that habits cause. You could replace those old bad ones with new good ones.

Instead of watching Netflix before bed, you make yourself read a book. Maybe instead of soda with dinner, you make yourself drink water for 66 days.

Whatever your motives, this research should be the catalyst you need to kick those bad habits and start picking up some good ones.

Because there is no better time to turn over a new leaf (or habit) than in the fall.

Be Obnoxious (Days 1- 22)

Shout about it. Tell your friends, family and coworkers you are on a mission. Enlist them as officers to patrol when you’re slipping back into your old ways or not keeping up on your new ones. Tell them you want them to yell at you, bother you and constantly remind you.

Add extra pressure on yourself. The pressure of disappointing other people and going back on your word will make it that much harder to go back to your old ways.

Because sometimes it’s easier to disappoint ourselves than it is other people.

Self-Analyze (Days 22- 44)

Take a good look at your life. This is the time to really dig deep and do some soul-searching. What do you want in life? Why are you doing this? How do you want to represent yourself?

Whether you’re quitting a bad habit or picking up a healthier one, get to the core of why you’re doing this and how it’s going to affect your life.

If you can find that reason buried deep in your unconscious, you will be able to carry out these 66 days much easier. You will have an internal force pushing you.

Find The Light (Days 44- 66)

The third stage is the final push. As far as you’ve come, you still have to make it these last 22 days. It’s easy to burn out, get tired and forget why you are doing this. It’s easy to revert to your old ways because, up to this point, you have yet to rid yourself of the habit.

At this stage, you must find something to hold on to. Something that will that push you to that final goal. It’s the last 22 days that prove how strong and willing you really are.

At this point, it’s about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s about realizing that though you can’t see the other end, you can still see glimpses of it.

Treat Yo’ Self (66 +)

The only way to solidify the end of an old habit or the birth of a new one is to celebrate it. Throw a party, have some champagne, shout it from your Brooklyn rooftop. Make a day of it or call up your friends and have a swanky dinner party.

If it’s a habit people have been hoping you would break they will be more than willing to celebrate with you. Who knows, you can even make it a yearly tradition.

Fish Story For Our Life

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish.

But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades.
So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.
The further the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish
If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh.
To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats.
They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea.
Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.
However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish and they did not like the taste of frozen fish
The frozen fish brought a lower price.
So, fishing companies installed fish tanks.
They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.
After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste.
The fishing industry faced an impending crisis!
But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan.

How did they manage...?
To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark
The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move.
The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull....?
Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active.
If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy. Your challenges keep you energized. Don’t create Success and revel in it in a state of inertia. You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.

Put a shark in your tank this year and see how far you can really go....

Law OF 70%..

Law OF 70%..
The day we pass away, our money will still be in the bank...
When we are alive, we feel we don't have enough money to spend.

When we are gone, there is still a lot of money not spent”.

A Chinese tycoon passed away.
He left for his widow $1.9 billion in the bank.
The widow remarried her young Chauffeur.
The Chauffeur said,
"All the while I thought I was working for my boss.
Now only I realize that my boss was all the time working for me!"
The Moral?
It is more important to live longer than to have more wealth.

• Strive to have a strong and healthy body.
• In a ‘high end’ hand phone, 70% of the functions are useless.
• In an expensive car, 70% of the speed is not needed.
• In a luxurious villa, 70% of the space remains un-occupied or un-utilized.
• In a whole wardrobe of clothes, 70% of them are seldom worn.
• Out of whole life’s earnings, 70% stays behind for other people to use.
70% of talent is not utilized
So, How to make full use of our 30%.?
• Go for medical checkup even when you feel fit.
• Drink more water even if you’re not thirsty.
• ‘Let go’ your ego, whenever you can.
• ‘Give in’ even if you are ‘right’.
• Be humble even if you are very powerful.
• Be contented even if you are not rich.
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Sachin Tendulkar is a one man army...........

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