Sunday, August 12, 2007

Ctrl + Alt + Del Version 1.0

Some one said, " Life would have been much better had I known the source code "..I'm sure everyone knows what a source code is..But for the dummies..Source code is the basic programming written for any computer application to be working on a specific functionality..

Remember Uncle Scrooge and his three nephews,Huey,Dewey and Louie from the Walt Disney's Duck Tales ?? One of the lines in his comics read

"Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for Christmas to pass! Bah! That silly season when everybody loves everybody else! A curse on it! Me—I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!"

You may be wondering as to what has Uncle scrooge to do with a source code..Einstein took time to prove his relativity theory to the world..And so will I..

I happened to attend a session on work life balance at my office..The speaker said life is programmed..and that got me thinking..Life is truly programmed..Every thought, action and deed is carefully planned and programmed.But like every program, even these have bugs. Bugs not created at the start but thrown in during the course of life.Bugs in the form of distress due to failures,impacts due to an incident, conclusions without firm reasons , stubborn in decisions , perplexed judgements, fear of failure , lack of ambition are a few of them.Some people spend time thinking so much on their negatives that they seldom realise that the mere thought of a negative is in itself a negative.

Living a purposeless life is as good as living death.Look life beyond its source code.I believe the creator to be a customer of Microsoft.He has loaded in us a proprietary software for which only he holds the license and can upgrade whenever he likes to.But it is up to you to decide whether you keep the system as it is and live with the bugs,or whether you install a proper antivirus in you or have the courage to format and re-install yourself to be working fine.

My take on it is simple.We all know the keys Ctrl, Alt and Del on our keyboards.Pressing them together invokes the task manager that can help you to add remove processes working in your computer and also give you the performance of the CPU.In this era where the keyboard is made to do the typing rather than the pen do the writing, life can also be viewed upon as an entity that can be made better with proper understanding of the Ctrl,Alt and Del theory.

  • Ctrl-(Control) : Control on your life is solely in your hands.You are responsible for you.Decisions taken , priorities chosen should all be done keeping in mind YOU first, because ultimately,its your life.Believe in self-worth rather than the net-worth.
  • Alt-(Alter) : Alter things you don't like.Be frank in telling people what you want and what you ought not to do.Strive for the better you..firstly within you and secondly for the you among others.Build the walls of optimism.
  • Del-(Delete) : Delete from life anything which you feel uncomfortable.Remove the mask of uncertainties.Get rid of the poignant laziness and eradicate the underlying doubts about your abilities and strengths.
Coming to uncle scrooge, he had this "all-the-money-in the world" tag to himself..but the fact remains that he was always a crude character..tensed up about his money and enemies..and always alone cursing himself..Had he been a more smiling character like his nephew Donald,i feel he would have enjoyed life better ! .

I am no counselor to preach bookish wisdom on life..nor have i any experience of a psychologist..Its just my view and my opinion of looking at it..And i say all this keeping in mind the underlying fact that it is difficult to put into practice than preach.

I like the status message "Message from God..Rebooting the world..please log off". It makes us realise that some day..every one of us has to log off..But unlike in our computers, we cannot switch users ..nor do we have the password to re-login again..

" I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than in a cause that would ultimately fail " - Woodrow Wilson.