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topic posted Tue, January 22, 2008 - 12:48 AM by  Navendu
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Birth.

About two decades of so called education which is today more a rat-race for learning tools to earn money rather than gain any true knowledge. Entering the rat race for about 40-50 years to earn money, at times selling your soul and then the obvious and unavoidable…..death !

In this non-stop, assembly line like transition from one end of the continuum to the other, relationships like parents, siblings, spouses and children and emotions like love, friendship and hatred, and, events like success and failure happen to us.

Whether or not we understand these dearest of relationships, the people we come across and claims to love, emotions, passions and events we encounter or the raison d'être of life itself is no more a concern in the rat-race for more, whether it be for money or material goods.

That joie de vivre is today nothing more than trinkets in malls and that we spend our lives running after something we will lose in less than a century along with the most precious of our gifts, LIFE itself,…is strangely enough not a concern for the PRAGMATIC and WORLDLY.

Where from we come, where to we go and why…the most logical questions a CEO of the biggest Fortune 500 may ask are not asked about the biggest projects of all…LIFE.

The reason for the brief event called LIFE…the reason for its joys and sorrows..the reason why we can never find what we are always REALLY after…that most elusive of all treasures…HAPPINESS…these are some questions we think of all our lives and never have time or opportunity to ask or ponder about...

This blog is an honest and creative endeavour to understand life and spread smiles on the faces of all those we rub our shoulders against by bringing along like minded people. This blog wishes to raise these questions on a platform which will bring on one stage …both believers and agnostics…men of God and men of the world…and a rare few who have bridged the divide to understand how LIFE ought to be truly LIVED.

The long term goal is to develop film scripts, TV serials and media entities which will espouse such ideas in an era of inane and mundane media.
This is a humble beginning in the internet era which has shown the power of ONE.

In the forthcoming blogs I will be discussing ideas for film scripts and TV serials, which I intend to grow into a movement with the sheer power of internet's bandwagon effect. In the future I also intend to include ads on this blog in order to start monetizing for the future endeavours.

So hop in and contribute if you too think out of the box and want a change for the better.

livenow-media.blogspot.com/
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Navendu
India
  • Re: A

    Fri, January 25, 2008 - 5:52 PM
    Why do you presume everyone is as unhappy as you are?

    I like being attached to this world. It happens to be the world that exists. I don't mind being in the "rat race." I also enjoy taking breaks from the rat race.

    Human life is what it is. I don't want to be happy all the time.

    For me, happiness is a direction, not a destination. A guide, not a goal.

    I don't seek detachment. I don't seek salvation. I don't seek abstract enlightenment or the approval of swamis and witch doctors for my lifestyle.

    The poetry of life is enough on its own. No one needs to sell it back to you. It's right there, thick on the ground.

    The one lesson I've learned that's worth something in this life: never listen to anyone who wants to tell you how to live.
    • Re: A

      Fri, January 25, 2008 - 6:24 PM
      If they want to tell me how to do a convincing carpet bombing of a zombie-infested city for cheaper, though, I'll listen. 'Cause THAT'S living!
      • Re: A

        Fri, January 25, 2008 - 7:11 PM
        Oh, hells yes...don't get me wrong. If someone's got good advice on how to SURVIVE, well, I'm all ears cuz as far as I can tell, we're fucked survival-wise.

        But once survival is secured, I feel pretty good about my spiritual life. I have my chakras rotated twice a year.
      • Re: A

        Sat, January 26, 2008 - 12:16 AM
        Edward, you had me at "zombie-infested."
        • Re: A

          Sat, January 26, 2008 - 10:27 PM
          Hee!
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            Re: A

            Sun, January 27, 2008 - 1:29 AM
            I don't really understand the point of this thread. All I have to say is that at my age, I am quite apathetic about a lot of things but I see that as a sign of realistic experience and knowledge and I am perfectly okay with it. Too much happiness tends to annoy me.
  • Re: A

    Sun, January 27, 2008 - 7:10 AM
    although i agree the tone above is a little haughty, perhaps the larger question is: do you need to agree philosophically with every project you work on?
    • Re: A

      Sun, January 27, 2008 - 5:03 PM
      Man, THAT can be the 64 thousand dollar question at times...

      Second only to "Can zombies break through this?"