Weakest Link

It is said, "A "chain is only as strong as its weakest link".

This thing happened with my lunch bag last week and it was such a live example...

In life, any system is only as good as that - its weakest link...

We don't compete, We complete...

Ok...it seems that humanoid robot Sophia landed in Kolkata yesterday after travelling 65 odd countries for an interactive session in India.

So, on news, I happened to listen to a snippet of that interactive session. To one of the questions from a professor - "So, do you robots compete with human intelligence?", pat comes the reply from Sophia - "No, we don't compete with it, we complete it!"

I didn't see that coming...I was like wow! To respond that way, the humanoid must have been programmed with a lot of emotional intelligence. It drastically changed the way I view robots.

Locking the memories!!

So, I watched some really good movies in the last two months. But you know right? Memories fade away. But, I didn't really want to forget the way I felt when I watched these movies first.

I've been planning to write reviews or whatever (not really reviews...but how the movies made me feel), but haven't been able to do that. I'm finally writing this post to serve as an obligation/reminder to push me to write. Watch out this space (if any body is watching that is!)...

I'll be doing it in stack mode (LIFO)...Doesn't matter but just wanted to say, don't know why lol!

Revelation of the day!!

So, I have been in a constant worry/grief mode for the past few weeks. Some or the other situation has been triggering me to feel bad and the spiral continued. So, I was just pondering today as to what's leading to all these things. I suddenly realized that of late I've been operating from a space of what others think of me, rather than from a space of what I think and believe about myself. I don't even know when exactly I got into this mode. I kind of knew that I was doing this, but did not pay much attention to it.

Today, I suddenly realized that I have been wasting a lot of time giving importance to what others think of me. I usually don't operate in life this way, but this kind of became a habit for the past few months I guess. It was almost like an epiphany - "Hey come on! What am I doing exactly!Why did I stray away from myself so much! So much time and energy wasted!"

As everybody would know at some point, you see, life gets so messed up when we start getting concerned about what sort of impressions we are creating on others. As I reflect on what led me into that mode, I realize nobody is an exception in life. When we go through phases of deficit consciousness, we tend to get into this mode, I realize. (There can be many other reasons why people do this, but I'm saying this is one of the reasons and the one relevant for me now.) I'm a human after all, so couldn't stay unperturbed by this deficit consciousness. Glad, I got aware of my situation :-) Life often comes a full circle...not once...but keeps spiraling that way...Life man life!!

Individuality or the lack of it!

We are purely a function of our consciousness and energy!

Now You See It!

It seems that is the title with which this article is going to be published in the print edition of  "The New Yorker"!

Right to Equality finally falls in place for the LGBTQ community!

This is an old news already, but writing anyway. Last week, Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized gay sex. Sec 377, a controversial British-era law that banned consensual gay-sex, has been partially struck down by this historic judgement!

The members of the bench that delivered this landmark judgement said that majority views cannot dictate constitutional rights and that social morality cannot violate the rights of even a single individual! Now that's so right, ain't it? The bench went a step further and even said that society and history owe an apology to LGBTQ community and their families! Wow, that's commendable...people speaking so honestly and accepting historic mistakes. More details here and here.

I don't really know the repercussions of this judgement (some do fear this will lead to increase in group sex and number of pedophiles etc etc), but on the outset, I feel it's a welcoming change for many of those who are in the closet. Things might not change immediately, it might still take a generation or two, but at least it seems like the beginning of a brighter journey ahead for many.