Blah Blah – I

As the time tells me from the right bottom that it is 9:24 PM on Sep 24th, I feel a lot of time is passed. In a golden way, I might say that lots of water has flown through the great river Ganga, though can’t comment about it in cubic terms. The life is going on slowly, nicely. So what’s the difference? Well, one, a big one, is first time in life after my marriage, I’m here in Florida, and my wife is there in India. What else? Nothing, everything else is same, but boy, that is a big difference. Once you are married, you get into habit of living life in a different way, a nicer way, at least for me, when you are miles away from your country.

So today, I just thought of writing a tidbit, rather than talking about a place, a happy moment, or anything in general. This came right from the heart without using any brains. Well, went to watch a real life story ‘Moneyball’. A nice movie indeed. Not a typical sports movie, where the story ends with a triumph of player or team or game against all odds. It was about management, a very effective one.

With my career spanning for a period of more than seven years now, I learnt a management lesson, which was very much visible in the movie also. If you have to decide about something, in fact anything, almost always research and analysis scores over instincts. Experience counts, but that also is, in a way, a different form of research and analysis. With time, brain has done the research, and that experience might result into instinctive decisions. But again the rule is experience counts only in your area of expertise, and for all others it is about doing research and analysis. Yes, the planning is very important as it can lead to desirables results more often than not. Genius minds are not that much into the process, but still process can help them to achieve more out of their brains.

All this is known well and applied well by many great men in the history of human. For now, I want to cut it short rather than writing a management lesson which is published in great details by thousands of men. There is only one sentence, which is knocking my head every alternate second, as of now. This is not entirely related to what I've put above, but I can't help if it is knocking at the door. Knock knock, who are you? Ae, you don't know me. You are an inglorious...  forget it, here it goes:

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword”.

- Neeraj Mathpal
September 29, 2011

एक पति - अपनी पत्नी के प्रति

कभी कहती हो तुम हो 'परफैक्ट'
कभी कहती हो तुम में हैं कई 'डिफैक्ट'

कभी कहती हो तुम ही बने मेरे लिए
कभी कहती हो कैसे तुम पल्ले बंध गए

कभी कहती हो पैसा कम कमाते हो
कभी कहती हो पैसा क्यों लुटाते हो

कभी कहती हो जीना मरना साथ साथ
कभी कहती हो दूर रखो मेरे हाथों से अपना हाथ

कभी फ़ोन पर घंटो बातें करती हो
कभी फोन को सर पर पटक देती हो

कभी कहती हो मेरी जान हो तुम
कभी कहती हो बुरी आदतों की खान हो तुम

कुछ भी तुम कहती हो, पर प्यार तो बहुत करती हो
मुंह से भले ही न बोलो, मन में तो मुझे हरदम रखती हो

तुम कभी हंसकर बोलती हो, तो बहारें आ जाती हैं
तुम कभी गुस्सा होती हो, तो रातें डूब जाती हैं

मैं क्यों गुस्सा होऊँ इस बहती जिन्दगी की मुस्कान से
इसी मुस्कान से मुझे तुम मिली हो, तुम्हें मैं मिला हूँ

तुम भी क्यों गुस्सा होते हो इस जिन्दगी के रास्तों से
जब हमसफ़र साथ है तो रास्ते भी खुशी से साथ दे जायेंगे

फिर चाहे मुझ में हो कितने भी 'डिफैक्ट'
और जिन्दगी चाहे जितनी भी हो 'इम्परफैक्ट'

- नीरज मठपाल

सितम्बर ६, २०११