Into the Wild

The video above is a beautiful song,  'Society' by Eddie Vedder from the movie, Into the wild. This movie is the real life story of Christopher McCandless, who abandons all his possessions and sets out for a journey to Alaska, to live in the wilderness. At the end of the movie, McCandeless come across the self-realization that true happiness can only be found when shared with others. Indeed a good watch !

I felt that the movie underlines every word that was wriiten in the previous post in this blog!

Change

Ability to see things in its totality, awareness on your thought process, two qualities that you can gain from reading good books. But books dont have the ability to change people. Change can happen only through a rebellion at an individual level. A change will happen only when a person puts into practice those ideas with a complete clarity of thought. I repeat the phrase 'clarity of thought', because if that is not present, the man who is striving for change is just a non-conformist. He is nothing more than a mad man who decides to walk into a burning house just because he want to be different from the crowd. A true rebel is not goal-oriented, he is like a calm lunatic and he lives and dies as a nobody.  True rebellion is difficult and so difficult it is  the change that you long for. The wonderful illusionary future you dream about is non-existant.The best day of your life is today.

- On Reading Philosophy, Dreams, Search for happiness, Revolution | Talking non-sense over the phone with Thepan and Srank.

Mediocrity?

About an year ago, a good friend of mine,a brilliant young man from Bengal was leaving our company, pursuing his bigger career ambitions. He was asked to comment on his 6 years of experience in Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. He gave his answer in a single word - 'Mediocre'. More than a friend, he was a mentor for me and at that point of time, as a fresher I had the same opinion about this industry. But one year since, I find this popular opinion wrong.

Nothing is Mediocre, let it be any profession, software engineer or a street sweeper. Being mediocre is a matter of perspective, a matter of personal choice.