Respect in life is everything

There was a session by Kiran Bedi (IPS officer) in SAP Labs a month ago. Although SAP organises lots of these kind of sessions by different personalities like Sunil Gavaskar etc.. But I didn't see so much crowd that I had seen in Kiran bedi's session. It was full town hall meeting. Even people were standing behind the stage. And simple reason behind this amazing gathering is respect. We all respect that lady a lot, that's why we were excited to just see her and listen what she says. In IIT also lots of famous personalities were invited like singers, poets...but I didn't feel so much excitment from inside. It was just ok to see them. It doesn't mean that I don't have respect for them. It is different kind of feeling. If one can earn this much respect, then I think he/she doesn't need anything else in life.
In this session people were just whistling on her jokes and laughing with her but next moment there was pin point silence when she started discussing some serious issues. She was perfect mixture of strictness and softness.

And important thing is that she is very simple person. I saw her again on bangalore airport when I reached there to see off my brother. As I turned back she was just behind me. One old man and a little boy were there with her, they came to see her off. I was continuously looking at this scene. What I saw, is not explainable in words. I can clearly see plenty of respect and politeness on old man face for her. Generally when we see off our parents or brother and sister, we either touches their feet or hug them. Because this old man was not any of them for her, so it was obvious he can not greet like this but how he expressed his feelings, was amazing. I think I would say it was better than touching feets. It was appearing like his expression is saying, mam, you are great and I feel very proud to be with you at this moment. It was just for 2-3 seconds, but I think she also felt that. She smiled and moved from there. I was still there, thinking whether I should approach to her, atleast for saying good morning mam. But I was just nervous, because of her personality and I thought, may be she would not like meeting strangers like this on airport. So I stayed back. But honestly it was nice feeling to see her so closely.

You can never earn so much joy or satisfaction by earning crores of money, that's what I think.

Feeling Guilty

I was returning from office. My office is in whitefield, bangalore and this place is 28 km away from home. We moved few meters, all of a sudden bus stopped. I saw outside from windown pane, and I saw jammed road, full of traffic. There is no place even for a cycle to move. Just for 10 km, bus took 1 hr 15 min. Yes this is frustrating, instead of feeling frustration with this traffic I was feeling guilty. Why this kind of weird feeling suddenly started haunting me. When I don't see any solution for a problem, this feeling comes because I don't see any contribution from my side so I don't have any right to blaim anyone.

This feeling didnot stop there, I started thinking more weird things. I was thinking, I am s/w engineer, can I develop any software which can somehow manage or reduce this junk. But unfortunately any s/w cannot solve this problem. So I started thinking about any solution which I can propose or give to anyone who is authorized to implement. But after lot of brainstorming I came back to the point where I started, no solution from my side. So this feeling of guilt continued.

Not only traffic there are hundreds of issue we are facing daily -
What am i doing when a traffic police takes bribe openly ?
What is my action when a bomb blasts in my colony koramangala?
Why I am not joining politics if I know they are noy doing their duties honestly ?
What...

There is no end of this 'what' and 'why' list. But honestly speaking I am just looking whatever is happening around me, I can escape by saying what can I do , I am working in different field, and I don't see any way to help and people are there to do and they are not doing properly. But I know this is not an excuse.

life is waste without music...

Keyboard is the only instrument for which I have always shown interst in learning. In college also I tried a lot to get classes, but somehow it could not be possible, because I never saw a city worse than kanpur where you can not get a institute nearby. One teacher came for 2 days and left. For guitar there was no problem. Any way finally after a long time I found a nice place in bangalore.
Although I like other instruments also but this is different than others. It has already been 4 month, I joined classes. Interestingly I didnot miss a single class, infact you can say single minute. I like to go there and forget about rest of the world, just enjoy that 2 hrs. This is very good school nearby my home, where lots of 5-12 yrs old kids come and learn keyboard, drums etc. When I joined, there were only kids and few more person with me. This was very frustrating, not a single person of my age. Almost 2 months I used to go and spending as much time as I can with teacher, because there were less junta so it was gud for me to personally sit with teacher and learn. In few months ppl started coming and now class has good strength, all kinds of person. But I feel like I am also a teacher, because in terms of learning I crossed others who joined before me. So now after 4 months, it's like my own place, may be in few months I will be able to help others too :)

shocks

Before going to germany, I used to get amazed by hearing that on western highway from pune to bombay, 100 km/h speed is normal and I used to think..wow.
But when I travelled 100-120 kms from frankfurt to mannheim, I was stunned when I looked at meter, it was showing 180 km/h and we were in third lane, means slowest lane. And in the cab we were not at all feeling that we were going at that speed. 180 km/h and still the driving is so smooth.
and some BMWs were crossing more that 200 km/h speed through first and second lane...it was insult for highways, if we drive at 120 or 140.

I was shocked second time, when I went to munich, i came out from train station. As we see in india, cabs or taxis just outside train stations. I found around 50 mercedez as a taxi. This was really shocking to see...

Trains are like heaven there. I was in first compartment, first row with my friends, means just back seat of driver. There was a glass door b/w driver and us. This train was not electicity train because it is for small villages and hills stations, so it was moving very slowly...and there is an instruction written, whenever u want to get off, just press a button above ur seat...nice

About people there, as far as i felt in mannheim, 12 days in trams, ppl out there are very responsible, means even if there is no checking in trams for tickets , but no body catches tram without ticket...it was gud to see.