Vipanchi

We want to shine. All of us need motivation in life. We have dreams. Some work towards fulfilling them. Some don't. But some do exceptionally well, and this post is about them! The Champions In any field of human endeavor, there is someone who stands as a torchbearer for the future generations. It is because of them, people get the courage to dream about their lives. They break rules. They show that impossible is no more impossible.'INDIA' as it is now, was unknown a few decades ago, the computer was the size of a room when it was invented. When Mc Cauley drafted IPC, minimum marriage age for a girl was 10 years. The USA destroyed Japan's future in second world war. A few decades ago, it seemed that India will be a socialist state. Women were seen as caregivers and nothing else! BUT Now, India is the largest democracy in the world. A 5-year-old  can operate the smartphone. Marriage age for girls is raised to 18 years, girl education and women empowerment are prior...

Today, I  encountered a question when I was reading a book and got stuck at that. This caused a plethora of thoughts to flock my mind and now I see a sense of taking another stride towards self-awareness.  It is a question of 'happiness'. What is your definition of happiness? The purpose of this blog is to solve this question. Happiness is an abstract concept. It is a feeling that every one of us experience. However, it is a feeling which most of the theorists or economists or placing it the other way, learned men are unable to define. However, there is a general understanding that mortal beings' ultimate goal is the pursuit of happiness. Aristotle put it this way " Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence". Is happiness the purpose or the purpose is happiness? As Aristotle said, it is the purpose of life to find happiness. Then there is another view which says, having a meaning and purpose to li...

I was a student once ridiculed by many, I was a broken heart, I was the one who thought that life is as simple as I plan.I was the one who cried over losing in exams.I was the one who struggled to keep up promises made to my family.I was the one who was least cared by my friends. So I feel that I am qualified enough to write about HOLDING ON DESPITE DIFFICULTIES. Life is always full of surprises  No one knows what is to come by the next moment.Yet many of us fill our minds with full of expectations.When our expectations are beaten by the challenges life gives us, we get disturbed.It is a common thing where people with dreams often are bogged down by smallest disturbances in their plans.Perhaps this happens because those slightest difficulties seem much bigger to them at that moment and they stop there.We often hear many students especially in intermediate stage committing suicides for reasons like, not getting good rank etc., Many youngsters end their l...

Hellow all, today there is something different from what I write generally. It is nationalism. Yesterday when I was watching the 'madras cafe' movie, these thoughts which were silently roaming in my mind started jumping out. They posed a question to me -"is the nation for its people or people for its nation?" These series of thoughts just broke all my conviction on patriotism, which was groomed carefully from my childhood.  PEOPLE, FOR THE NATION: To answer the question that puzzled me is not so simple. It requires a contextual understanding of the topic of nationalism. Nation-a utopian concept, though, holds a high place in the hearts and minds of people. There are people like the army men whose patriotism is undoubted. However, this concept of nationalism when interpreted in a wrong way lead to the severest of human crisis-world wars. It was ultranationalism that engulfed the humanity of Europe especially the Italians and Germans. It is that concept of nationa...

Happy women's day!!! Today when I was surfing through google my eyes got struck by this quote- " be a girl with a mind, women with attitude and a lady with class".  I felt the beauty of this quote and thought, I must definitely interpret this one. Girl with a mind: Here is something really interesting and something that is really needed. Many of the girls, teenagers especially, miss upon improving their skill set and focus excessively on their beauty. It is not their fault, of course, society wants them to do that. Though things are changing a bit, there are huge masses who emphasize the beauty of a girl rather than the ability of her brain. The beauty of brain is seen secondary. But it is to those girls whose mind is sharper and whose heart is stronger- Puppies too look cute, but what differentiates between a dog and a human is her mind!!!  So you know what you are. Women with attitude and a lady with a class: When you are a woman, you need a great character to o...

Hellow, today I have decided to make an impact on at least one of my readers to set a goal, to have a purpose in life.Let me clarify one thing here, why am I writing this? I know many people around me with greater goals, with bigger purposes in life.The same way I find even more people with no or little goals-mostly fantasies.Whenever I talk to someone, I try to analyze her value system and her orientation in life.As of my analysis, I observed 3 kinds of people. Great souls-They constantly learn, think and travel towards their destiny with sincerity, dedication, and commitment.Their purpose is very clear to them. Moderate souls- They did not discover their purpose yet or they have a purpose but do not know the path or they know both yet struggling to travel the path because of personality issues like lack of confidence, laziness, procrastination etc., Little souls-These are poor souls who do not have control on their lives.They are mainly guided by instinctive beh...

In this post, my aim is to put forth my deeper analysis on what makes one succeed.Though I am not successful yet-I mean I am on the way, I do not think it to be wrong to have some idea on how to succeed.Though this is not my intellectual property, I find no offense in stating these three quintessential for success. BURNING DESIRE: Everybody will have dreams, goals too, but those who succeed will have the burning desire.As Socrates once said, desire for something should be like craving for oxygen when you are under water.When you have a goal, you know you love it, that motivates you every morning to do what you have to do.That burning desire will do everything for you.It will make you plan accurately, help you work in the right direction and that will take care of your ego and over confidence too.No one with a burning desire ever feels satisfied and there will be no space for over-confidence in her. ALL SHE NEEDS IS VICTORY!! HARD WORK: Let me say this-nothing is possible without...

Hellow!!! TODAY IS TWO DAYS PAST MY FAREWELL DAY...............with lot of memories we left that place where we lived for 2 years, for some of my friends it is 4 years.It was time for us to remember all those funny crazy sometimes intelligent things that we did there, in our college.Those wicked fights with the management over ill-functioning geysers, those tricks which we employed to escape study hours, secretly maintaining phones...........wow!!! everything is funny now.As I think about all these things it makes me nostalgic.There is a lesson behind this occasion. DAYS WILL MOVE ON..................The lesson being, time will not wait, it moves on.It moves on to make your happiness brighter, your dreams nearer, friends farther and closer.It moves on to make you realize how much you mean to those fellows who lived with you all these days.It moves on to make your bonds thinner, and thicker.It moves on to make your troubles smaller and to make you realize that there are bigger troub...

Here is a write up that inspired me when I was in troubled waters.Hope this helps. There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be, all of the energy to do whatever you want to do. Imagine yourself as you would like to be,doing what you want to do. And each day take one step toward your dream. Though at times it may seem too difficult to continue, hold on to your dream. One morning you will awake to find that you are the one you dreamed of , doing what you wanted to do,simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and hold on to your dream.

I saw many around me feeling low after a failure and putting themselves on airs when the result is the other way.I too did this,which consequently made me to introspect .This made me realize that such behavior not only hurts others but also costs me immensely. I want to share this with you ,so that it helps in your personality building. It is essential to aspire for something big, and equally important is to work for it.Any body who  works so sincerely in the right direction will be rewarded in the form of a victory.There is no problem till this, because the ego which is sleeping inside will not wake up till your victory. But ,the real struggle arises when this dirty face lifts its head up so as to look down everybody else who accompanied you in the battle but lost,unfortunately.You will be blinded by this.It will not let you respect those who really deserve it-they were with you in your turbulent times.It makes you search for the new companions of "your status".It enjoys y...

The power of imagination is a wonderful gift that god has given to human beings.Any great thing or an innovation is once a dream in the world of a creator.It is said that who dreams a lot ,creates a lot. But.................there is a difference between dreaming and getting lost in dreams.You got to dream for sometime,stop it and work towards the path that takes you towards that dream.Many of us miss that and we end up as DREAMERS and not WINNERS.Often, those dreams remain as DAYDREAMS.  It is good to daydream when we have endless time, but the fact is we do not have that! Life is short we got to LIVE IT! I tried  many times to overcome this daydreaming mania, I found it hard, at times I slipped into daydreaming unconsciously , in the mid of classes. It is tough to overcome, because it feels really good:-).But this technique gave me strength and helped me overcome this. Make imagination as your strength. When you enjoy a lot in dreaming often with your eyes open ,it s...

What is that one thing that shows that you are growing? How can you understand about your growth as a person? Is it professional achievement? My answer is a big "NO". I cannot leave an answer without explaining why, for I am a staunch believer in "reason". For growth as a personality it is quintessential to understand your situation......your rank on the growth scale, so that you can improve upon it.Then ,"professional achievements" seem to be a very satisfactory answer to this question, but when you examine them in the long run, that will be proved wrong.For many professionally successful people, life is still unsatisfying, uninspiring and some times frustrating too.One of the reasons for this is they never last long, because  any great achievement will be great until somebody challenges it.If someone accomplishes something bigger than that of yours the game is over.You will no more be great . So the answer is "SEEKING INSPIRATION".The h...

What is beauty? Is the question that I always face.Since my childhood I saw people saying "you look really pretty" and some point at my defects.I always measured my beauty based on the compliments and comments that I get from people.So naturally, my position on the ' beauty meter' often fluctuated.A frame of reference to enhance my beauty was heroins in movies.Given my ability to imitate others, I always tried to imitate heroins and I could do that.Thanks to my mom for not allowing me to use any cosmetics at that young age,or else I would have ended up by spoiling my skin. I felt really happy for my beauty when someone praises it,and of course sad when someone comments .The latter having more impact on me.This screwed up my business.Then it happened to me to know about these people: They transformed my way of looking at things.The very meaning of beauty got redefined. I remembered my mom telling me that" Beauty is not all about looks ,one day that will per...

From my child hood I have been listening about the stories of successful people, rather great people.I was wondering , What is greatness? How can people achieve that? May be in the process of pondering on those questions, I got some answers.I figured out some of the qualities of great people.....in fact What made them great. Dream: Any human being living on this earth will have dreams.Successful people always have dreams.They imagine themselves as the one they want to be like a child does,when s/he dreams about being a power ranger.They never stop being children. That enthusiasm,that fearlessness,that innocence never leaves them. Vision: May it be Abdul Kalam or Steve Jobs or any other successful person, the only reason for their dreams come true is the vision they had. Their ability and readiness to transform their dreams into actions.Their zeal to lay down a path and travel in that path. Hard work: As someone say , "A dream doesn't become a reality through magic; it...

I am here with another piece of truth that is to be acknowledged while we swim against the tides in this sea of life. I would like to start this with a line form my favourite telugu song: " intavaraku yendu koraku vinta parugu ani adakku gamaname ni gamyam ithe bata lone brathuku doraku,prasnalone badulu viunde gurtu patte gundenad ugu". It goes like this "don't question yourself for where you are, why are you running(living).If the journey itself is your goal you will find the answer in that way itself".  This song inspires me all the time .It hepls me  keep myself motivated when I feel low. Life is a marathon.To live life  is the greatest challenge before humankind. I often encounter in myself about what life is.What is my purpose in life ? What can I do to add a small drop of mine in this ocean of human kind.From all these days of   deep thinking I understood that it takes a  a life time to answer.When I was a child my outlook was limited and so my purpos...

All these days I  was searching for a topic that would better suit my blog, which  reflects my innermost quest for truth, on my way of self exploration rather, self improvement. The other day I read a book on self improvement by Robin Sharma, "Who Will Cry When You Die". That book had a magical spell on me.I rediscovered myself, while my eyes walked through the pages of that book.Thanks to Robin Sharma, I found a topic on which I can think deeper and add value to my life. Have you ever recognized that we human beings ,the social animals, always want a companion to express our feelings? I wonder how those relationships that we claim to be selfless : friendship, love etc., are built on TRUST. The trust that the other person will be there to hear me in moments of distress. The more we express to others the more  will the bond be strengthened, is the generally understood notion on building a relationship.But as we observe, we can  learn that human relations, built...

We the humans are worry worms! we worry and worry and worry . We bother less about the things around us , everything makes us happy ,everything looks wonderful when we are kids.But as we grow worry worm inside us grows year after year.The moment a worry worm takes birth in us is when we are put into a school.There it gets nurtured.Going to school leaving mamma is a worry.Facing the terrific teacher in class is a worry. As we climb up the academic ladder worries also climb. Doing homework , wearing uniform,sacrificing a dress that we like ......................................... WORRY. Set goals ...........worry about not achieving them. make friends ............worry about loosing them. Study well ................worry about getting 2nd rank?! Love a guy ...............worry about parents. love parents.............worry about not making a love. Don't have a good dress, don't have more money ,don't have a good job,don't have a better partner......... ...