Life's Ideology

I am not sure if the topic suits the body post but did not get anything better than that. This post is not written to hurt anyone's religious sentiments and post would be removed in case it is being asked unanimously. :-)

Suddenly why this topic came into my mind the reason was I had a discussion with a preacher who was talking on the good thing about his religion and it was good knowing about other religion. But in the end what left me in uneasy position was his question on my take on change in religion to his one. Though I gave some reason but guess real reason was left unsaid. But guess reason given was good enough though funny.

I have gone to few of the religious gathering and someway or other found them talking the same thing. Most of the preachers talk about following God,Allah, Bhagwan and their deity's saying and their holy books . And the funny part is in most of the cases it ends with discussion on life after death like Swarg and Narak in Hindu's, Haven and Hell in Christians & Jannat and Dozakh in Islam. What amuse me the way description about these places are given and life's definition. I didnot meet even a single preacher till now who gave importance to current life and told me to live it to full. All I heard was I have to be thankful to God(read deity of their religion from now on for word God) . And I should look forward for Haven (Read corresponding places for their religion ) and do good deeds and pray God, because life is very short and our 100 year life is just 2-3 minutes as per God's time. And life after death is infinite years of God time (think about it in our time and I suppose Avogadro number won't be able to define it). So whatever may be the religion round about things go in same fashion. And everyone defines the life after death as if the Haven exists is a concrete truth and over it the Haven is the place you need to be. If I go through various religion I see a myriads of religion and their corresponding hell and haven which make me think if these are different place or same. May be one is more affluent over another. ;-)

And irony is no one talk's about current life, rather than being a good citizen and a good person talk is given on what is best about their religion. I have a say over here - life which we are living right now should be the one which should be given utmost importance rather than giving importance to life after death, because no one have ever returned saying - Man!!! Its awesome out there, that's the place you should come man, this place sucks and things like this. So have party, enjoy life, be a good person. Rather then living under terror of Haven and Hell. And to be honest I believe its normal human nature to get bored with their current situation and place with time - for some its quick and for some its not so quick. And I don't think if the identity exists then the nature will not - it will be. So think about it, you are bored of Haven but you can't leave it and then you will realize - Sh*t I am screwed. So utilize this 2-3minutes as per God time in nice way so that it won't hurt you more when you are in Haven or Hell. ;-)

Now coming to reason for me not changing my religion - well I am Hindu and there are almost 0.33 billion (33 crore) Gods and Goddess - so I have opportunity at each point of my life to choose another God or Goddess if I get bored of one(though I pay a very little heed to it so chances are less).

And the reason which I did not speak was - I am a Hindu though do not as such follow it with GREAT attention, sometime gets frustrated with it and speaks bad about it. Never ever read about the religion, never participated in rituals and that too when I have so many opportunities to choose God's from. And definitely other God would help me through his/her sources to get into Haven or Hell. What will happen if I will change my religion to yours? I will say something after getting frustrated about it and there wouldn't be any other God to support and get me the esteemed position in God's nest. I suppose I will be screwed then. Bottom line is I do not care about life after death. And I am happily unhappy with my life and have no remorse. ;-)

Note:- I carry a very liberal attitude about religion and take the view that religion should not be something which would restrict you to some boundary, it should give you enough space for thinking, for doing work and other than normal social norms and one defined by law shouldn't take anything as sin. And holistically all religion have the same ideology.

P.S. - Again I was too lazy to check the grammar and spelling, if you find anything wrong then post it in comment area, I am not going to correct it anyways.

SpiderMan

All those who have seen the movie Spider Man surely know this dialog.. with great power come great responsibility but I am sure spider-man would have liked to say something more than that, but couldn't say to avoid the supercilious censor board. If he would have got the freedom he would definitely have said - Great power comes great responsibility and also loads of chances to get screwed topped with the bloody load of work and people expectation. Its tough to be a super hero.

Well well well... why did spider man came into my mind? Its a short and simple - Front Office SPOC in software industry and super hero are more or less comparable when you take the disadvantage part. Business expectation and work done by the back office. Covering the incomplete work of back office to business and patiently hearing the business is not easy. And why should you? Most of the time you will get escalations for which you shouldn't be called responsible. But NO - the Industry thinks differently. Here Business will escalate because the work is not as per there expectation and back office will sought why there is too much of work load, manager will sought on the escalations sent by business and leads will think there s no proper channeling of communication. At the end of the day everyone will be in peace except the poor FO-SPOC. After reaching this position, I realize its too easy to be a team member and too tough to be a lead, because you don't need to be worried much if you are a team member. You just have to manage yourself. But for lead other then managing himself s/he has to direct the whole team which is not a good experience if the team become in-cooperative or the business become stubborn. Team members can take leave any day can leave anytime, but the leads - poor leads, they can't take leaves without planning everything earlier and intimating all the parties involved. For coming late s/he need to drop mail. Well there are few lucky souls who enjoy in any role - and when I say enjoy it means those who do nothing and come to office just to complete the quorum.

Super heroes would be dead after one week of work in software industry if they have to go through the mental agony rather then the physical pain or if there villains would have had been a project manager asking them to review the code (which was written in worst possible mode) rather then creating nuisance by doing sci-fi act.

Note:- Above post doesn't have to do anything with my team. Everything was written on lighter note with no serious objections on anyone's activity.

P.S.:- Post looked incoherent while I was reviewing it, but did not made any changes as I was too lazy to make it.

P.P.S.:- Contrary to my expectation I am having tough time here with my role and place too. Guess both will take sometime to come to normal stage and are coming too. :-)

Summers

I never ever though that I will have a chilling Summer before coming to Belgium. Whoa!!! I am not sure how winters will be but definitely summers are not summers in Indian context, they should be called as Winters.

Contrary to the last post, I think Sun is definitely gonna be a important factor for deciding a day as good or bad. I shiver in this summer when the Sun don't show up for the day.

I feel in coming days I will start hating my job where I have to wake up early to reach office by 9 or people will start hating me for coming to office like I am still sleeping.

BTW one out of context text, I learnt how important the plastic money is, and how it makes people to spend more without giving any considerable thought.

- More boring posts to come