Monday, December 25, 2006

whats in an Impression!!!!!!!!

Impressions of foot prints left on the beach side sand ….

Impressions of name stamps left on papers …

Impressions of a die left on a work item ….

Impressions of a great leader left on the audience after an inspirational talk ……..

Impressions of a friend leaving for a far away place ….

Impressions of lost ones (dead n alive...) ….

Impressions some times seem to have very impressive implications.

Good or bad, physical or psychological, very often, we experience impressions left on us or around us everyday.

The magnitude and nature of impressions is the big point of concern when experiencing the implications of impressions.

Some Impressions are good n some are bad.

Some Impressions are light/ superficial and fade away soon.

Some Impressions are heavy/ deep and last forever.

It is the stand of the impressing entity which decides the magnitude and nature of the Impressions.

Let me explain…..

We all should have played in the sands on the beach side at some point of time in our life.

You remember, those impressions of your palm you realize when you press your hand over that wet sand.

Not every time the impression is so clear, so strong, so similar to yours …..

If you have just placed your hand over the sands, then, only a light impression should have formed which is wiped off with the lightest breeze and should have disappeared after some time.

If you have pressed your hands over the sands with thrust, then, a strong impression should have formed, which stands even to the moderate breezes. You should have refined the edges of your impression and made it a good sculpture over the sands and returned home when it turned to be dark out side.

See, that impression which had been wiped off in no time; we had lots n lots of occasions in our life where we had wiped off impressions of past incidents and people in no time after those incidents have occurred or we have passed off those people. Those incidents and people should have left over the lightest impressions over us, which have been wiped off in no time.

See, that impression which had stood even to the moderate breezes and you left over when it was dark. The next day when you walked down the beach you see that impression still standing over there. You stop there, feel happy that its still there, just check if the sculpture is not disturbed, reset those edges, and remove that extra sand accumulated by the breezes last night. You see that it is set as you wanted it to be.

And then just walk down after a while.

We definitely should have had at least a few occasions in our life, when we had recollected the impressions which were left over us long back. When we pass across those impressions as we did the next morning on the beach side we remember the past, feel happy when we realize the significance of that impression in our life, try to experience the same, if possible, which is now an impression.

Most of the everlasting Impressions and those which our mind and soul frequents are of that psychological kind.

If you hear the whistles of trains and just become nostalgic ‘bout your childhood play ground near the railway tracks.

If you see a person dressed in a safari suit and just remembers your Dad who passed away long back.

If you…….. You are experiencing the implications of psychological impressions.

Imagine what happens, if you are uncomfortable\ abnormal about experiencing the implications of Impressions when you have to walk across those strong impressions frequently; you either want to avoid going across those impressions or wipe off those impressions permanently so that they are never seen again and remind the past which makes you uncomfortable. But, what if those Impressions are of psychological kind which you cannot wipe off permanently as you can do with that sand sculpture which you visited next day and want it no more a lasting impression.

As I said initially “It is the stand of the impressing entity which decides the magnitude and nature of the Impressions.”

The “impressing” entity/ person leave impressions over the “impressed” entity/ person. It is the nature of the impressions left over by the impressing entity/ person which makes the experience of implications of Impressions memorable, enjoyable, worth savoring, uncomfortable, confusing, disturbing….

As can be understood, not all impressions make the impressed entity/ person happier and comfortable while experiencing the implications of Impressions when the “impressed” had to walk across those Impressions. These psychological impressions which can’t be wiped off permanently and make the “impressed” uncomfortable or disturbing together with its magnitude decide on what is on stand for the “impressed” in his life. If the “impressed” can stand those impressions with self awareness, every time he had to walk across those impressions then he can make his life a beautiful one. But rarely will it happen that filling oneself with an awareness which can dominate those undying impressions which frequents to a level where the thought of one impression is still live with lots of questions and the next impression has already come on ones way with a gamut of unanswered questions and the next is just ahead on his way looking blurred at a distance and posing more blurred questions and ………….

Here to share a thought. Hope you will take it.

So, let’s leave a strong impression on people around us, which would make them savor every impression we left over, with happiness and make them come by those impressions frequently to make themselves cheerful with joy even very long after we left them….

At least let’s not leave disturbing/ bad impressions on people around us. Its quiet natural to have few disturbances with people around us in the daily life, but it makes us more beautiful persons at heart if we can clear them and make good ones before we have to pass away (may be just from their lives or permanently leaving this world ) leaving an impression on them. Its definitely uncertain to say when one would pass away, so lets all leave good impressions on the people around us and make the implications of Impressions we left, more memorable for the “impressed”.

When an Impression is faked it’s even lighter than those impressions which fade away for the lightest breezes and can never be lasting impressions….

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Dynamics of Relationships!!!!

Have you ever observed, rose petals falling off the flower.
Have you ever observed a wall poster peeling off the wall.
Have you ever observed a scholar leaving his high school for higher studies to some other place.
Have you ever observed an employee being honored with a farewell at your organisation.
Have you ever observed a Giant Join venture company failing to go together, and one of them taking over the other..
Have you ever observed a marriage falling apart which was promised to be forever.
Have you ever observed blood relatives estrange each other.
Have ever observed some one whom you know for quiet some time had passed away.

You should have defenitely experienced atleast one of these situations, first hand.
May be each of the above situations cited above are different in their being but they all share the same instance of a situation. Each of the above situations mark the instance "stop being together". The inviduals/ entities leaving apart share a relationship, which is different in each case. They are all different, some of the individuals/ entities described above are controlled by laws of nature, some by the laws of physics, and some by the psychologies; Yet all share the same dynamics in their life cycle of relationship. That is, the way they formed the relationship, the way they built the relationship being together, the way they grew/fall in the relationship, and the way they part away from the relationship.

Here are pieces of my work on the Dynamics of relationships:
Every relationship in this Universe has a purpose, and there is also a time frame attached to every relationship.

For example,
The relationship between a doctor and a patient is only till the illness is cured.

The relationship between a teacher and a student is only till the course of education is completed.

The relationship between a lamp and a person in darkness is only till the arrival of light..........

Every relationship has a purpose, as you can understand, what is the purpose of a patient as well as doctor to come together or the purpose of a teacher and student to come together. That is, a patient might have approached a doctor so that his illness is cured and a student has approached a teacher to gain knowledge. The doctor might have served patient for Remuneration or it may be his passion for service and same with the Teacher. Usually these relationships come into existence after a proper decision making by either entities/ individuals planning to get into a relationship. It means a patient finds out who is the best doctor for his illness; a student finds out details of the best teachers in his subject to get in touch with. Not often, it happens that these relationships are made without a thought...................

Each relationship has a time frame, which might had been decided before hand or decided by the situations the relationship grows/ falls into. Usually, the time frame is till the purpose has been served to either one or both the individuals involved in the relationship. Usually it happens that when one individual/ entity‘s purpose is served, the relationship is continued till the others’ purpose is also served; only in the case of self-interested individuals/ entities it may not happen, who leave the relationship once their purpose is served..........

However there are relationships which don’t have a purpose but has another characteristic called Passion (there are more of this kind characteristics which are described in detail in other places of the book) which decides the time frame and the dynamics of relationship. When a relationship is bound by Passion, it is taken to be an open ended or eternal relationship. These relationships driven by Passion also do have a purpose, but these purposes have a forward orientation. To put it more clear, in the example of doctor and patient relationship, they both have purposes which benefit them back which is oriented back to each one of them, but in the case of the Passion driven relationships, the purpose is to benefit (may be give comfort, give happiness, give support) to the other individual/ entity in the relationship.........

The time frame may be sometimes uncertain, In the case of death of an individual due to accidental reasons, it is true that the relationship is no more live. (although few types of relationships which are committed on emotional and psychological lines will not agree on this point, but it is true that realistically the relationship has ended due to the law of nature.)............................ more

Frendz, the work above is only based on my thoughts aroused after different experiences and the message may be different for different individuals.