Dry Lemon

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One early morning, I was on my routine walk. Alone with no one near to me, the day had just started and still sun was about to shine. on the way, I saw one dry lemon just lying unnoticed. I hit it forcibly with my leg, then it moved straight and stopped after some distance, I again hit , same movement second time. After hitting thrice the lemon changed the road and placed itself in some corner on bit height. Now, it was not feasible and good for me to go other side and hit the lemon fourth time. So I just left it there itself and moved away in search of another such lemon whom I can hit, dislocate and satisfy my frustration. I was thinking that the life is also like this. we are dry lemon initially lying on road with no direction, no mission, no focus and wait for some one to hit us to move further. When we are hit we repent and run far away without changing the direction. It happens many times till we understand that we need to place our self in such place where no one come to hit us intentionally and we can see the world from height. We learn only when we are hit severely and that too many times. But it is also fact that like lemon we need some one to be hit again and again till we are forced to change direction and place itself on bit height so no one hit again. When he reaches there, the competition is less, opportunities immense and reward tremendous, till then we are dry lemon lying on road, unnoticed, directionless. When with experience we are placed on different direction at some height, we become an orange full of juice. Remember, Juice is our experience and positive attitude.
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About 8030 days (22 Years)ago, I got married finally after long wait with Shashi. The life as a Bachelor is always different with no responsibility, no maturity, no discipline. One need not worry about every thing except for career. After marriage the life changes drastically. Both boys and girls have to change a lot after marriage. Marriage brings in lot of responsibility, maturity, discipline and happiness in life. A man completes himself only after marriage.It makes him father and gives stability in life. Gradually he becomes highly social animal but lost his originality completely, only good for the family and society.
Marriage creates family and family brings happiness and pleasure in life. The life partner is needed more and more as we grow older. This partner is the backbone of life and helps in handling every challenging phase in better way. There is some one with whom we can share every thing, who knows our weakness, strength, character, nature and so on. This is good and bad both because you can not hide any thing from life partner.
I am thankful to the God for giving me such a nice partner and wish it would go long long way. She not only helped me through out the life post marriage in handling all the difficult situations but also gave me happiness, reputation, fatherhood (of Nikita & Hitisha)and social status which was impossible without her support. God bless us with long, healthy, wealthy, happy and purposeful married life ahead.
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The phase of idleness is always uncertain. We remain idle because there is nothing to do or if it is there some thing to do then it may not be right time to do the desired things. Idleness also numbs the mind to some extent and the zeal to do something gets severely affected. We may like it or not, but the situations push to the situation where whatever we do back fires and hence nothing remains to do. When such situation passes, we repent for not using the time properly. Ideally, whenever such situation arises, the activities should be increased or enhanced.
"A small story which I recently gone thru:
In a society some people were grudging about their problems and were trying to convince that their problems were much more challenging than others. Finally the leader of the society suggested to every one to write the challenges of life on a paper and drop that paper in nearby box. Soon every one started writing problems and challenges in detail and dropped in the box after folding it. Now the leader said, I know every one of you has serious challenges and problems in life but there is a good option to it. He now mix the papers in box and put on the stage. He called each person one by one to pick up the paper from the box and take away the problem of others. People came , picked up the paper and started reading it. After reading they thought that the problem they had was more manageable than the problem now they taking it to home. No one was ready to take the others' problems instead of whatever they were facing, because they could manage the existing challenges in better way. Leader said, God would give all of us some problems, some challenges, some happiness, some satisfaction etc. etc. only to the extent we can manage. He would never give you some thing which can not be managed and hence never grudge about the challenges, rather try to find the solution."

Month of December has just started. It is the last month of the current year but in many sense it is first. This month brings the coolness in atmosphere. It is beginning of winter in Ahmedabad. It brings healthy environment full of new vegetables. This weather gives good digestion capacity and opportunity to enjoy the life. I wish great winter season.
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Learning some thing takes time and may be boring too some times. The process of learning goes through visual, audio, experience and so on... The learning needs to be memorized to avoid mistakes in future and to do something similar or different in future. Harder the way of learning, better the memory of learning. Learning may cost some time dearly and if you don't memorize properly and need same learning in future, it may be devastating. So learning has to be memorized properly and that would be very much helpful in future. We learn from the time when we come out of the womb and till we breathe last. There is no time frame or age for learning, it has to be all time and for every one. Learning builds our destiny and character, we take decision on the basis of whatever learnt in life and the destiny also depends on such decisions. But learning also develops prejudice, selfishness, preconceptions, over smartness, over confidence, arrogance, rigidity and proud in a person. Also the business decisions and strategies are mainly affected by learning.
Although learning is crucial part of human life but sometimes Unlearning becomes more important. Unlearning can clear the mind and heart and help in better life ahead whether in business or social or personal. Unlearning is very tough process and time consuming too. Whatever we are today is based on learning and future would also be based on that only but it can get boost by unlearning. Our methodology of work, thinking and behaviour can be readjusted through unlearning. Unlearning can help in rectifying many mistakes of past and help in moving further in better way. In my unlearning should be a regular and important part of the life.
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Difference between Tweeter and Blog is same as between 20-20 and test match. Twitting is very convenient and short where as blogging needs real mental exercise. Last couple of weeks were more devoted towards family matters. I visited Delhi twice to settle both Nikita and Hitisha for their internship.
Professionally last 4-5 months were not very eventful due to dull market conditions, political environment and uncertainty all around. Share market is in tight grip of bears and it would take some more time to get released from that space. Now post Diwali the vibrations are bit positive and it seems every thing would normalise soon. Whenever there is recession in the economy, new opportunities generate and hence I believe,soon new avenues would open up for higher growth. It is time for introspection and self analysis. Corruption is key issue these days in general discussion. It has surpassed weather and politics after generations. Since birth I used to hear the discussion either on weather or politics in general and never ever any issue could surpass them that too for such a long time. Casually Cricket takes over them but not for too long time. Corruption is never justified legally or socially in any sense but would not absence of corruption lead to non performance? Those sincerely working and those not working at all would be equally rewarded. If there is no reward for better performance, initiative and extra efforts, what will prompt a person to out perform others. Probably the job should have some space of incentives in addition to bare minimum salary.
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Recently finished "I have a Dream" by Rashmi Bansal. This was the third book by Rashmi Bansal, an IIM-A Graduate after "Stay Hungry, Stay foolish" and "Connect the Dots". The trend followed by the writer is same. In first book she focused on 20 IIM graduates who have succeeded in life mainly by entrepreneurship. In second book another lot of 20 people were non-IIMs. In this third book, she has written about 20 social entrepreneurs who changed the lives of many people in the society. Like other two books, this book is also quite interesting and worth reading.

The momentum in activities post Diwali is yet to come as far as Gujarat is concerned. This Diwali vacations gave me chance to visit Agra, Mathura, Vrundavan and Bharatpur alongwith native Jaipur. Fatehpur Sikri was very interesting place to see where Akbar accommodated his three queens and built huge mosque.
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Yesterday early morning, I had been to Airport to receive my Brother. The gathering outside the Airport was full of capacity with passengers, receiving & seeing off relatives, transport operators. Being international airport, people were waiting for their relatives to come out of the airport. The happiness, tears , cry, hugs every thing was in air. People were virtually crying with both cheeks wet in tears on seeing their nears and dear ones coming out of the arrival lounge. I could see many parents waiting for their kin to come out, may be after years. Old age parents were virtually running and jumping to receive them. There were many other people just waiting for their kin to come. The wait was unbearable but still they were doing as it was not in their control. Many people were carrying the flower bouquets to welcome. Other side on departure lounge, tears and hugs were there but not of happiness but of grief and sorrow. young couples, parents-kids were parting may be for long time. They were just trying to stop the clock , but in vain.

I was just thinking why we people quarrel when nothing is static?, why we do not sacrifice some thing for our own friend or relative? Whey we fight with same people when they are around us? I don't think these would be answered any day by we social creatures. We humans are most developed animals on this earth, it is said so, but when we notice the tears, fight, quarrels, partition, it is clear that we may have developed in some areas but are still worse than any other animal in many ways.
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