tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27407771212611844252024-03-29T17:05:59.242+05:30Life is Like ThisA dose of entertainment, a lot of humor, a bit of philosophy.C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.comBlogger813125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-89455640032830853862024-03-25T15:50:00.004+05:302024-03-26T08:59:18.343+05:30A good leader?The problem with all advisers is that they very seldom tell me what I want to hear. Why is it that, whenever it comes to the sort of person I want to be in Society, it always gets bundled in with the qualities that I do not possess? And, what is more, these advisers very seldom offer me work-arounds. All that they can say is 'Tch, Tch! If you do not have them, why do you even dream of succeeding?C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-80195201025574719022024-03-18T18:04:00.000+05:302024-03-18T18:04:44.275+05:30Good and Wealthy?One sort of assumes that philosophers tend to be down on the wealthy. You know 'Easier for the camel to go through the eye of the needle than for the wealthy to enter Heaven' and all that. It is, therefore, surprising that ANY philosopher can be in favor of wealth, more especially from India where anything to do with the world at large is supposed to be considered illusory. (AND, yes, I have C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-34864909726214965732024-03-11T09:40:00.000+05:302024-03-11T09:40:26.660+05:30Win the world?This thing about timing is something every philosopher goes gaga about. Call it timing, call it luck, it seems all the same. The guy who loses out calls it bad luck that his timing was off. (You know, the product was ahead of its time and all that.) The guy who wind lauds his own ability to time his actions. Luck? There's no such thing like luck in the lexicon of he who succeeds! Even Billy the C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-38896321066861181232024-03-04T10:13:00.000+05:302024-03-04T10:13:13.843+05:30Blemishless?You know, it's a rather tempting thing for people to think that a leader is someone who can do no wrong. Leaders, too, would love to consider someone - a friend, a follower or a trusted adviser - who can be trusted to always be right in what they say. It is such a stress to always to assessing issues, weighing one person's opinion versus another's and so on. Much easier to be able to vest the C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-19904500161122505392024-02-26T08:00:00.001+05:302024-02-26T19:57:18.889+05:30Listen well, speak well?It's a rather archaic thing to be speaking of listening these days, I know. I mean, we are all engaged in shouting as loud as we can, expecting to go viral, that we hardly have time to listen to anyone. I mean, it's hard enough to hear yourself think above the din of your own shouting so where's the scope to listen to anyone else? So, yes, this is one of those pieces where we can all go, "So C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-68131740242444655502024-02-14T12:16:00.001+05:302024-02-19T08:52:16.905+05:30They exist but do not live?Life is a strange thing. I mean, in one sense, if you are not dead, then you are living. But a philosopher would make the distinction between your merely existing and truly living. In a sense, they have a point. If you merely satisfy the biological definition of life but make no more impact on the world than a stone or any such object; if your contribution to the rest of the world is based on C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-73344507547697912212024-02-12T13:16:00.000+05:302024-02-12T13:16:32.640+05:30Enter to excel?You know, there are these times when these great philosophers speak words that actually resonate with me. It happens rarely but it does happen. And, no, I am not lying. And THIS is the proof I am not for this post is all about advice that I live by.Tiru has this to say about how to choose your profession:Thondrin pugazhodu thondruga aqdilaar thondralin thondraamai nandru - TirukkuralEnter a C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-19420308099145817982024-02-05T12:48:00.000+05:302024-02-05T12:48:15.265+05:30Seek Critics?They keep telling you that good advice is normally bitter. It's like food, you know. Whatever tastes good is bad for health and whatever you truly hate the sight of is what makes you healthy. (Yeah, yeah, I know that you could find people who drool at the sight of broccoli and are revulsed by the smells of baking but, really, what are the odds?) In like manner, anything that is pleasant for you C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-82263195456525377672024-01-29T08:49:00.000+05:302024-01-29T08:49:40.861+05:30An eye for an eye?I'd rather not be talking as though I feel that everything that's being said today was said way back in India by our sainted ancestors. It's sort of become a standing joke...what, in the idiom of today, may be called a meme...when someone, especially someone my age, says anything that can be construed as something akin to 'We had drones and AI from the Ramayan times.'But...I mean, come on, C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-91853674776969157572024-01-22T11:47:00.000+05:302024-01-22T11:47:01.758+05:30The greatest power?You know, the strange thing about these philosophers is their odd ideas about things like wealth, power and the likes. I mean, when us ordinary mortals think of wealth, for example, we think of the BMWs and, perhaps, the odd island or two that we could own...simple things like that. AND, as you have seen in these very annals, talk to philosophers and they will prate of what's in your head -C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-87786497151223488672024-01-15T09:07:00.000+05:302024-01-15T09:07:53.481+05:30Good Parenting?Yeah, yeah, I know that you guys are sniggering at my writing anything at all about parenting. Though why you should is a mystery since I am certain to have been at the receiving end of parenting - good or bad. And, in all the whole wide world, the ones who are the most vocal about ANYTHING are those who perceive themselves as victims of that thing - administration, leadership, whatever - and areC Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-26048458262939792222024-01-08T10:06:00.000+05:302024-01-08T10:06:54.785+05:30Useless AI?Technology has always proved to be a huge let-down for me. They first talked up automation and, now, they are all talking up this Artificial Intelligence thingy. And I am sure that this is going to end up disappointing me the same way all the previous disruptive technology did. Though, yes, nowadays I couldn't care less given that the benefits which I sought from technology are, in a way, mine C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-84596812622681593152024-01-01T10:36:00.000+05:302024-01-01T10:36:25.025+05:30Worthy SilenceIn childhood, I used to always get told 'Children should be seen but not heard.' The problem, though, is parents very seldom stick to their own rules. I mean, I was all for remaining silent but then they would call on me to recite 'Baa Baa Black sheep' or some such crap. What happened to the virtues of silent children then?Tiru comes around also preaching the virtues of silence but sort of offersC Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-49892847107968936592023-12-25T11:51:00.000+05:302023-12-25T11:51:31.574+05:30Desiring sufferingYou know, I am not aware that, anywhere else in the world, philosophers were so down on desire. A stray chap, here and there, may have sort of moaned about desire being the root of all evil but he generally got drowned out by the cacophony of others shouting the opposite. In India, though...I mean go to Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever and, sooner or later, up pops a diatribe about desire.Can Tiru, C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-14436566688669587212023-12-18T11:33:00.000+05:302023-12-18T11:33:10.348+05:30The limits of fortuneThis question of Fate and Fortune is a never-ending thing with none giving a satisfactory answer. I mean, if you are fated to lead a certain life and achieve a certain level of success, then why bother to put in effort? On the other hand, if everything is dependent on your own efforts, how do you explain the role of luck in it - the chap in a bad mood who denies you a bulk order which leads to C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-18894044249246524812023-12-11T08:56:00.000+05:302023-12-11T08:56:11.931+05:30True charityNo matter how little you think you have, there is always someone who has less. This is especially true of anyone who reads my blog, I'd say. If you can truly spare the time to read patiently through my verbosity, I'm sure that you cannot be a starving morsel of humanity.So, when Tiru talks of charity, you are not likely to approach it from the point of view of the recipient of charity. Which is C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-84041691303872206052023-12-05T09:50:00.003+05:302023-12-05T09:50:56.294+05:30Not stupid even when wrong?To be wrong is to be stupid, isn't it? That is if you are not actually villainous. I mean, come on, you are either lacking in knowledge and/or understanding OR you belong to the others who are in opposition. What can be clearer than that?Yet, Tiru actually thinks that some people can be wrong and, yet, not stupid. AND, in his time, they were not enlightened enough to consider anyone who differed C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-38184584392897313872023-11-27T10:38:00.000+05:302023-11-27T10:38:32.558+05:30The certain destroyerThe biggest problem with all this sage advice is that it is seldom something that can conveniently be shoved on someone else to do. I mean, come on, why can't they give suggestions about how your neighbours or parents or someone else can sort your issues? It is ALWAYS about how your character is the reason and how you should change it for things to go well with you. As though people find it that C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-32951523549437642462023-11-20T09:28:00.000+05:302023-11-20T09:28:29.596+05:30Love begets friendship?The idea of love begetting friendship is probably anathema in today's world. I mean, it sort of gives vibes of being permanently friend-zoned, which spells L-O-S-E-R in caps for most of today's youth. But THAT is a consequence of reading only one meaning for 'Love' - romantic love.Romantic love is not exactly what Tiru is thinking of when he said this:Anbu eenum aarvam udaimai; adhu eenum nanpu C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-74828358416583148342023-11-06T10:12:00.000+05:302023-11-06T10:12:04.777+05:30No EQ or SQ?"You know what your problem is? When they were distributing EQ and SQ, you were on a bathroom break."THAT is not my biggest problem. My biggest problem is that I have friends like this who come around telling me about the problems I have when I was quite content with life and not aware that I had ANY problems. Maybe THAT is a sign of low EQ and/or SQ - the fact that I end up with friends like C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-69587244177015944172023-10-30T10:40:00.000+05:302023-10-30T10:40:36.655+05:30Impartiality and successYou know, there are some words that automatically link themselves in your mind with certain type of jobs. Like this 'impartiality'. You automatically think of it as associated with 'judges' and, by and large, you care two hoots about someone preaching to you about how judges can succeed. After all, issues relating to other people very seldom interest us; it is OUR success that we care about.But C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-72116377627920174442023-10-16T10:23:00.001+05:302023-10-17T09:40:35.642+05:30The greatest good?By and large, all those who dispense advice seem to hand out advice which is easier said than done. No wonder, Oscar Wilde once said, "I always pass on good advice. It is very seldom of use to oneself" or words to that effect. Which the meme-makers and forwarders of the day follow assiduously by passing on all the good advice that they receive. Thus Wilde's advice about advice proves better C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-87851006541547894512023-10-16T10:22:00.001+05:302023-10-23T12:49:02.601+05:30Why be bitter?There are times when I surprise myself. Like, it is sort of usual if I hold the exact opposite idea of the world as compared to the wise. I mean, well, they ARE the wise, aren't they, and I am probably as far from wise as you can get while still counting as human. But then, there are those times when my ideas vibe with theirs. Possibly, like a clock that has totally stopped, I am allowed a coupleC Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-14321928624926816752023-10-09T11:33:00.000+05:302023-10-09T11:33:47.456+05:30Timing is everythingThe importance of the right timing for every action is something that one keeps hearing over and over again. This is especially true of ideas. Ideas can be ahead of their times and fail on that account. Or you could fail because someone else took the first-mover advantage and you ended up having to unsuccessfully play catch up.It is not merely in ideas or in new ventures that timing is important.C Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2740777121261184425.post-65119837536625142192023-10-02T11:59:00.000+05:302023-10-02T11:59:32.709+05:30Knowing limitsThe moment you talk about limits, you are necessarily seen as an old fogy. I mean, it is generally the aged who start feeling limited in what they can do. The young generally feel that there is no limit to what they can do. Which, by the way, is not untrue of me, after all. I am no spring chicken, no matter what they say about 'Sixty being the new twenty' or whatever is the catchphrase theseC Sureshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447144019185253116noreply@blogger.com0