So long!! I have had avid readers all throughout..! You've read my stories.. and I am humbled with your attention and time..But now its time to move on! :)
The thing is, I am a new person now.. I am so completely changed (rather 'reformed') from what I used to be in this blog, that I am no longer able to associate myself with all these archives..:)) I used to be so depressed in life!! But something has changed my life.. Its a whole-new me, in a fresh new avatar!...
The something that changed my life is - "The Art of Living".. and the deep knowledge of my Guru - Sri Sri Ravishankar.. Ever after I joined the AOL, I am a much much happier person - thats what I feel, and thats what everyone around me has to say too! The problems in my life has not ceased to exist, but my perception towards them has changed..
So long, thanks for being with me, See you on the 'brighter side'!! :) Love Sugandh
Make the whole life a game..! - By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We want to find a reason for everything, a purpose for everything. We want to analyze and understand everything. People even try to understand their dreams. What is the use? Whatever dream you have had, so what? Whether you are sitting on horseback or on top of a train in your dream; whether you see a crow or a duck or a pigeon or swan or a mouse or a cat in your dream, what does it matter? Why do you waste so much time interpreting dreams, trying to know something about dreams? We call ourselves wise because we want to understand. We want to do something only if we get something out of it.
A fool is somebody who does something and doesn't get anything out of it. Their foolish acts, even those you can interpret into meaning and purpose, you see they do them without any purpose, without any meaning. Since childhood we have been told, "Don't be a fool." What is wrong with being a fool? What is wrong with standing alone, apart from the crowd? Let the crowd act however it wants. I stand apart from that. I act my way!
A fool is somebody who does something very unique, which is not accepted by others. All entertainment, including games, are foolish acts. Just think of a person from another planet, maybe Mars, comes here and sees a huge crowd watching a team of boys on this side and another team on that side, trying to fight for a ball and put it into a basket. It would appear absolutely funny! One ball in the middle, a team of boys here, trying to push it there, trying to push it that way. Why all this trouble? Why don't they just take the ball and put it in the basket? What difference does it make whether they put it in this basket or that basket? It is so foolish, playing soccer, playing basketball. For hours together other people sit there, howling and yelling and clapping. George Bernard Shaw said somewhere, "Cricket is a game where eleven fools play and eleven thousand watch." It is true. All games are foolish acts. A game is a game because it is foolish. If you find meaning, purpose, aim and competition, you destroy the whole game. If you are not foolish in your life for some time if possible all the time, if not possible, at least some time-you miss your life. You miss the joy in life. If somebody calls you a fool, how do you act? Your eyes become red. You start grinding your teeth! However, it is a great compliment. You should wait for such a compliment because this is very difficult to get. People may feel that you are a fool and they often don't say it to you. If some people, with great courage, come and tell you that you are a fool, you should feel happy. The greatest problem for us is being a fool. We try not to be fool.
All our life we resist and fear arises in us. A fool is one who acts with freedom, who has all freedom, isn't it? That is how he could be a fool. If somebody has not experienced freedom, he cannot be a fool. Freedom is behind every fool. God loves you being a fool. He doesn't love wise men so much. He is bored of their philosophies. He is terribly bored by all the books written about Him.
Make the whole life a game! A game means there is no purpose, there is nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. That is worship that is celebration. There is nothing that you do that will please God. There is nothing that you will do that will displease God. He is not waiting there with a staff, just waiting for you to do a mistake so He can punish you. Don?t have such cruel picture of God as someone who is judging, who is going to punish you if you do this or that. If He doesn't want you to do something, you can never do it. It is impossible. The very fact that He has allowed you so much freedom to do anything you like, means He says, Don't take anything seriously, it is all a game. It's all like a dream!
During a break at the plant where I'm employed, I walked by a friend who works with computers. He was sitting at his desk with his feet propped up, staring straight ahead as if in a trance. When he didn't stir as I passed, I asked, "Are you all right?"
He blinked, smiled and said, "I'm on screensaver." current mood -
You know, I love this game on facebook called Crazy Taxi!! Its so damn addictive! I love jumping over other cars and getting my way.. :)
There are so less no. of controls and not a very complicated game!...
I am the topmost among all my friends at a score of 55817.. but there are some geeks who have theirs at 206000 .. It amazes me how much of it have they played..
Basically the secret of winning in any video game, or better said, the secret of a rilly-rilly high score in a v-game is to be consistent and make NO mistakes! absolutely none! and if you are lucky, you can actually get to that high score, unless ofcourse there is some pop up window which disturbs the screen.. or someone comes looking for you and wants an urgent answer to their 'hello? how are you".. sigh.. it happened with me so many times, when i almost snapped at poor kinshuk.. :D
lol.. its nice.. i have had such addictions to a lot of games before this.. the biggest one being Tomb Raider!!! It was one helluva crazy time..! :)
However, i find these 'mission-oriented' games quite time consuming.. I like games that can get started in a jiffy.. and get over in a few minutes (unless it is your day to be at 206000!!) they act like a little catalyst-cum-steroid to get you a break from work, and make your brain a lil more active :)
if you think about it, then video games are quite a thing to be invented! how cool could someone be to have come up with the idea of a v-game!!
a little googling tells me this about the first video game -
"A device called the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was patented in the United States by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann.[2] The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948. It described using eight vacuum tubes to simulate a missile firing at a target and contains knobs to adjust the curve and speed of the missile. Because computer graphics could not be drawn electronically at the time, small targets were drawn on a simple overlay and placed on the screen."
all said and done, if you get a chance, you shud definitely try your hand at Crrrazy Taxi! its sure to get you too, get that extra kick! :D
