Musings that Amuse Me.....

A friend of mine posted an interesting question in FB a few days back - Is Self motivation learnt or inherent ? Probably, it applies to every virtue that we can think of. Take enthusiasm and energy levels in a person. Are we born with it ? Or do we learn over our course of life that it pays to be energetic and enthusiastic in life ? My mom travelled for 22 hours and had not slept for 36 hours continuously when she landed in San Francisco last thursday. It was another two hours before she reached home. She is 67. I was feeling so bad for making her go through this gruelling journey. Within minutes, she freshened up and made her way to her world [ the kitchen ] and took stock. Ten minutes and she had a list of things to be bought and she was ready to go out and get them. Now, this levels of energy is amazing. I don t even have on percent of this energy levels. I am very lazy, tend to postpone things and I am almost always fighting fire at work. So much so that at the end of day, ...

What happens when you hear or meet someone after eleven long years ? Do you still connect the same way ? I met my school friends after 17 years and hit off from the first second. Today, I met JK, my classmate in MBA , after more than a decade. Jayakrishnan [ JK, as we used to call him !!] is still the mountain of information he was during my college days. Amazing knowledge of companies, their products, their strenghts, as before. Crystal clear analysis of world economy, its perils, what India should do and not do to deal with China... JK did not change one bit from what he was during my college days. Of course, he was wiser and just like yours truly, had a receding hairline and expanding waistline. But, the connection was just as perfect. Our quest for information connected us then . It is still a factor that kept us involved for six long hours this evening. As during our college days, this was unplanned as well and it just happened when JK was browsing our group mails. Thank heavens, ...