What are we optimizing for?

Here is what is an interesting problem with God. Mostly he shows up, in your face, hawking whatever the opportunities are. The problem is, everytime he opens the line with his second-hand-car-salesman-grin and says "Consider this your lucky day...", we shoo him away with a; *Not now pal, not interested in whatever you are selling...*

Or maybe, I hypothesize, that God is probably like a buoyant little kid, working hard on his creations, making magnificent things, jumping up and down like a exuberant puppy to show us what is in the making; unbounded; ecstatic..

Its just that we are too busy with our strange rituals called the "meetings" and "answering to emails" or whatever the heck we are presumably optimizing for, that we turn him down all the time.

A little gratitude may be in order? The poor little kid...

Oh, I only mean God as a metonym for Life. You would as well replace the word 'God' with 'Life' in this rendition...

What is fair ?

Life they say has a mind of its own. You may be the protagonist but not the hero. Dreams may not come true. Have tried and failed. Life is not fair.

But, Fairness has nothing to do with working on your dreams, even if you do not succeed. Standing up for who you are is one thing life cannot touch.

You know there is certain death. But will you stop living life ?

I am getting sore of hearing to excuses by well meaning people (whom i admire professionally) having amazing ideas and vibrant dreams which can change the world. Your If-only-this and but-only-that is harassing me in the arguments. Please stop. I can feel you dying a slow death. You are in pain. Is that fair ?

Show-up, walk the talk, live the dream. Get started. Now...

Welcome to the Jungle

And, if you need to learn the rules of the Jungle, you must live in the Jungle. Live, breathe and eat what the nature provides. You start with minimal resources anyway. The objective is to make good use of the resources provided by the eco-system. Learn the eco-system. The most important thing in the initial days is to get used to the eco-system. The new set of pathogens, different food, climate and creatures. It is these initial days that makes or breaks you. Once you weather the storm, you start getting acclimatized. The bacterias in your gut will change to accommodate digestion of different food. Your immune system will change.

Best of all, your so called intuition will change. You develop a Jungle sense of your own. You will be enamored with wild, rippling muscles and stamina required to participate in the eco-system. Your energy levels will be up. A brand new 'You'. It is this sense of feeling you must crave for...

The transition for some is painful. There is NO such thing as, "Ohhh, I shall go back to the city for some time and when I am feeling OK, I shall then return back to the Jungle...".

"Ohhh, I shall go back to the corporate life for some time and when the conditions are right i shall return back to start-up..."

I admit, its not this extreme (of course many die in the Jungle. But many more die in the city relatively... or live like deads...). I admit it does sound naive and yes your choices are always open. The metaphor is a different food for thought...