Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Few days back I had been to AR Rahman live concert. At the venue a booklet called "Know your india" was distributed. While reading that booklet I came across following poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Well all of us have come across this poem sometime in our school days. I am wondering when my country will become similar to the country described in this poem.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic wars;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Bing

http://www.bing.com/ A new search engine by microsoft. I liked it very much (Not because of its search results). The background image on that site , which is updated daily is always awesome. Here are few nice wallpapers taken from bing.com

The Last Lecture

Currently I am reading a book "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. Here I am going to mention few lines from that book, which I liked very much and why I liked them.

"Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier."
I have met a lot of people in last few years and I have a general observation. People who have nice personality generally don’t complain. I know few people who are always happy. This doesn’t mean they don’t have any problem or issues but they will always share good things/happy moments with you. Such people share their problems very rarely and keep those discussions small and to the point. I have observed that I love to spend time with such people and like to have friendship with them. That’s why I feel I should always share good things with my friends and not my problems and issues cause every one has his/her own set of issues. I am not unique.

"Watch What They Do, Not What They Say".
We are deceived by many people in our day today life. Many a times we need to determine who is lying and who is not. Well above statement is answer to the problem. But it’s easier said than done.

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
I feel luck is last the last hurdle to achieve the target. There is no point in blaming the failure to bad luck unless we have overcome all remaining hurdles.

"All you have to do is Ask."
Well I have experienced this many a times. You never know who can help you in which way.