There's always a difference between the creator and the creation. The best example of it are we, the humans, who can be partial at times but God cannot be. In this post of Due Dreams, I would like to explain my understanding of what Steve Jobs once said in a speech given at the Stanford University in 2005. May be its not the exact meaning of what he actually meant to say but its only my perception of his phrase "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish". In one line if I say why this means a lot to me... its quite inspirational for those who want to do something exceptionally good in their life but the path is not very clear, and thus its inspirational to me. I will be using the word "Hunger" for different situations. Lets see how much I am able to describe what I actually want to.
Its never like that a person does not struggle in his or her life and struggle can be for anything. Struggle can be for his living, for his or her loved one's better living, education, for living for others (unknown people), for achieving expertise in something or for some other thing or reason. There is a long list of these things which depends from person to person. We see that in some cases, the person does not get time for himself i.e. to look after himself. He may have to work whole day and night simply to bring out some results from his struggle. He may be or may not be able to earn something for himself or the people who are dependent on him. Thus such people remain hungry. This hunger sometimes last for small time while sometimes it lasts for a longer period of time. These people remain hungry somewhat due to their destiny or for their thinking but they are not always supposed to.
There is still a very large number or I should say huge mass of people who rely more on their hard work rather than a smart work. Mostly the people who are not literate have this issue with themselves. Due to the lack of good or favorable conditions in which they live or have lived for a long time, they never got time to think that there could be better and more efficient ways of living as compared to what they are currently living. They still do not think big and in-fact they do not even try for that. I used to think that this thinking is limited to villages only but this can be seen at many places in cities also. Not even this, this is not profession limited as this can be seen in any profession. This does not result in providing them in getting true outcome of their work and thus they are not able to get what they deserve. These people remain hungry due to their lack of initiative and ongoing thinking which they never thought to revise, I have never been in favor of changing the way we think but time to time revision of thoughts is always necessary.
In the 7th part of Due Dreams "Relationships... Waiting", I talked about relationships and their importance to us. Do we know that few of the relations or relationships do not last long and this happens because, at times, considering the other person to be very dear to us, we often ignore their big or small mistakes thinking that the other person will realize it one day. When this expected thing happens, the relation or relationship grows but if this does not happen for any reason, relations get weaker day by day. Now this depends upon the relation whether it eventually breaks up or not. The period that we spend in waiting for the other person to realize for his or her mistakes is said to be a waiting period and that is what I actually meant by putting "Waiting" in its title. The vacant space that gets created when that other person leaves always remains as it is and the person who is left, now has a lack of a person in his life that he or she has missed. This vacant space can be considered as hunger for the left-out person as he is lacking something now which was with him or her earlier. These people remain hungry because they never give a second thought to their relations. Time has to change always and this fact cannot be denied but a change in person can take anytime and thus with this change, a change of thought for that person becomes equally important. If we are able to give a second thought, things can become better and better else things will go worse. Now we see that every person has his or her emotions attached to their relations which may or may not allow any person to take a decision of leaving the other person though the other person may leave him or her. We can say that there is a change in the thinking of someone but cannot deny the change that has taken place but despite of several reasons, no one takes anyone's place in anyone's life.
As a personal example that I can give over here is a very old incident of my college-time when I was supposed to develop a computer program that involved pretty much use of graphics which was very much new to me that time. I tried and tried a lot but could not succeed. Finally one evening I gave up and was about to call my friend telling him that its impossible for me. But no sooner that I dialed the number to call him, there was a power failure and I had to disconnect the call and had to divert my mind in the current situation. That made me feel that its God's indication to me to give it a one more try. I did and I succeed. Though it was not finally selected to be presented before the judges, for some reason, it was very much appreciated by my team mates. Since then, I believe that whenever we are about to give up, God sometimes give us indication which gives us enough strength to give it one more try, a more powerful try, irrespective of whether you will succeed or not but it will definitely boost your morale. Similarly, there is a solution to every problem in life if we give it a try. The only reason why many of our problems go unsolved is the lack of the number of attempts from our side that the problem actually requires to solve it.
According to me, Steve never meant to say that being hungry is not a good thing but the situation where you continuously have to remain hungry is not what should actually happen. Every person has some or the other skill in themselves which is enough to make him live a meaningful life and that should solve their problems which is here referred to as "Hunger". "Hunger" due to destiny, emotions, inadequate thinking or perception is mainly because of a period of time in which a sequence of wrong decisions are taken by us, for any reason, which result in making the situations worse than they are at any point of time. Thinking out of box is not always possible for everyone as many people don't even know what it actually means but at least we can give it a try to find every possible solution to our problems and try to implement it. One can consult to any number of people but final decision should be ours only.
Try trying with a believe in yourself will never lead to a failure... but remember to be honest with yourself, your decisions and your goals.
Its never like that a person does not struggle in his or her life and struggle can be for anything. Struggle can be for his living, for his or her loved one's better living, education, for living for others (unknown people), for achieving expertise in something or for some other thing or reason. There is a long list of these things which depends from person to person. We see that in some cases, the person does not get time for himself i.e. to look after himself. He may have to work whole day and night simply to bring out some results from his struggle. He may be or may not be able to earn something for himself or the people who are dependent on him. Thus such people remain hungry. This hunger sometimes last for small time while sometimes it lasts for a longer period of time. These people remain hungry somewhat due to their destiny or for their thinking but they are not always supposed to.
There is still a very large number or I should say huge mass of people who rely more on their hard work rather than a smart work. Mostly the people who are not literate have this issue with themselves. Due to the lack of good or favorable conditions in which they live or have lived for a long time, they never got time to think that there could be better and more efficient ways of living as compared to what they are currently living. They still do not think big and in-fact they do not even try for that. I used to think that this thinking is limited to villages only but this can be seen at many places in cities also. Not even this, this is not profession limited as this can be seen in any profession. This does not result in providing them in getting true outcome of their work and thus they are not able to get what they deserve. These people remain hungry due to their lack of initiative and ongoing thinking which they never thought to revise, I have never been in favor of changing the way we think but time to time revision of thoughts is always necessary.
In the 7th part of Due Dreams "Relationships... Waiting", I talked about relationships and their importance to us. Do we know that few of the relations or relationships do not last long and this happens because, at times, considering the other person to be very dear to us, we often ignore their big or small mistakes thinking that the other person will realize it one day. When this expected thing happens, the relation or relationship grows but if this does not happen for any reason, relations get weaker day by day. Now this depends upon the relation whether it eventually breaks up or not. The period that we spend in waiting for the other person to realize for his or her mistakes is said to be a waiting period and that is what I actually meant by putting "Waiting" in its title. The vacant space that gets created when that other person leaves always remains as it is and the person who is left, now has a lack of a person in his life that he or she has missed. This vacant space can be considered as hunger for the left-out person as he is lacking something now which was with him or her earlier. These people remain hungry because they never give a second thought to their relations. Time has to change always and this fact cannot be denied but a change in person can take anytime and thus with this change, a change of thought for that person becomes equally important. If we are able to give a second thought, things can become better and better else things will go worse. Now we see that every person has his or her emotions attached to their relations which may or may not allow any person to take a decision of leaving the other person though the other person may leave him or her. We can say that there is a change in the thinking of someone but cannot deny the change that has taken place but despite of several reasons, no one takes anyone's place in anyone's life.
As a personal example that I can give over here is a very old incident of my college-time when I was supposed to develop a computer program that involved pretty much use of graphics which was very much new to me that time. I tried and tried a lot but could not succeed. Finally one evening I gave up and was about to call my friend telling him that its impossible for me. But no sooner that I dialed the number to call him, there was a power failure and I had to disconnect the call and had to divert my mind in the current situation. That made me feel that its God's indication to me to give it a one more try. I did and I succeed. Though it was not finally selected to be presented before the judges, for some reason, it was very much appreciated by my team mates. Since then, I believe that whenever we are about to give up, God sometimes give us indication which gives us enough strength to give it one more try, a more powerful try, irrespective of whether you will succeed or not but it will definitely boost your morale. Similarly, there is a solution to every problem in life if we give it a try. The only reason why many of our problems go unsolved is the lack of the number of attempts from our side that the problem actually requires to solve it.
According to me, Steve never meant to say that being hungry is not a good thing but the situation where you continuously have to remain hungry is not what should actually happen. Every person has some or the other skill in themselves which is enough to make him live a meaningful life and that should solve their problems which is here referred to as "Hunger". "Hunger" due to destiny, emotions, inadequate thinking or perception is mainly because of a period of time in which a sequence of wrong decisions are taken by us, for any reason, which result in making the situations worse than they are at any point of time. Thinking out of box is not always possible for everyone as many people don't even know what it actually means but at least we can give it a try to find every possible solution to our problems and try to implement it. One can consult to any number of people but final decision should be ours only.
Try trying with a believe in yourself will never lead to a failure... but remember to be honest with yourself, your decisions and your goals.
