Life's Ideology

I am not sure if the topic suits the body post but did not get anything better than that. This post is not written to hurt anyone's religious sentiments and post would be removed in case it is being asked unanimously. :-)

Suddenly why this topic came into my mind the reason was I had a discussion with a preacher who was talking on the good thing about his religion and it was good knowing about other religion. But in the end what left me in uneasy position was his question on my take on change in religion to his one. Though I gave some reason but guess real reason was left unsaid. But guess reason given was good enough though funny.

I have gone to few of the religious gathering and someway or other found them talking the same thing. Most of the preachers talk about following God,Allah, Bhagwan and their deity's saying and their holy books . And the funny part is in most of the cases it ends with discussion on life after death like Swarg and Narak in Hindu's, Haven and Hell in Christians & Jannat and Dozakh in Islam. What amuse me the way description about these places are given and life's definition. I didnot meet even a single preacher till now who gave importance to current life and told me to live it to full. All I heard was I have to be thankful to God(read deity of their religion from now on for word God) . And I should look forward for Haven (Read corresponding places for their religion ) and do good deeds and pray God, because life is very short and our 100 year life is just 2-3 minutes as per God's time. And life after death is infinite years of God time (think about it in our time and I suppose Avogadro number won't be able to define it). So whatever may be the religion round about things go in same fashion. And everyone defines the life after death as if the Haven exists is a concrete truth and over it the Haven is the place you need to be. If I go through various religion I see a myriads of religion and their corresponding hell and haven which make me think if these are different place or same. May be one is more affluent over another. ;-)

And irony is no one talk's about current life, rather than being a good citizen and a good person talk is given on what is best about their religion. I have a say over here - life which we are living right now should be the one which should be given utmost importance rather than giving importance to life after death, because no one have ever returned saying - Man!!! Its awesome out there, that's the place you should come man, this place sucks and things like this. So have party, enjoy life, be a good person. Rather then living under terror of Haven and Hell. And to be honest I believe its normal human nature to get bored with their current situation and place with time - for some its quick and for some its not so quick. And I don't think if the identity exists then the nature will not - it will be. So think about it, you are bored of Haven but you can't leave it and then you will realize - Sh*t I am screwed. So utilize this 2-3minutes as per God time in nice way so that it won't hurt you more when you are in Haven or Hell. ;-)

Now coming to reason for me not changing my religion - well I am Hindu and there are almost 0.33 billion (33 crore) Gods and Goddess - so I have opportunity at each point of my life to choose another God or Goddess if I get bored of one(though I pay a very little heed to it so chances are less).

And the reason which I did not speak was - I am a Hindu though do not as such follow it with GREAT attention, sometime gets frustrated with it and speaks bad about it. Never ever read about the religion, never participated in rituals and that too when I have so many opportunities to choose God's from. And definitely other God would help me through his/her sources to get into Haven or Hell. What will happen if I will change my religion to yours? I will say something after getting frustrated about it and there wouldn't be any other God to support and get me the esteemed position in God's nest. I suppose I will be screwed then. Bottom line is I do not care about life after death. And I am happily unhappy with my life and have no remorse. ;-)

Note:- I carry a very liberal attitude about religion and take the view that religion should not be something which would restrict you to some boundary, it should give you enough space for thinking, for doing work and other than normal social norms and one defined by law shouldn't take anything as sin. And holistically all religion have the same ideology.

P.S. - Again I was too lazy to check the grammar and spelling, if you find anything wrong then post it in comment area, I am not going to correct it anyways.

Summers

I never ever though that I will have a chilling Summer before coming to Belgium. Whoa!!! I am not sure how winters will be but definitely summers are not summers in Indian context, they should be called as Winters.

Contrary to the last post, I think Sun is definitely gonna be a important factor for deciding a day as good or bad. I shiver in this summer when the Sun don't show up for the day.

I feel in coming days I will start hating my job where I have to wake up early to reach office by 9 or people will start hating me for coming to office like I am still sleeping.

BTW one out of context text, I learnt how important the plastic money is, and how it makes people to spend more without giving any considerable thought.

- More boring posts to come

Richie Rich

I suppose Richie Rich will die out of frustration after seeing people around here(In Brussels). Now don't ask me who Richie Rich is, if you don't know than its awesome. BTW if not he, definitely I will soon and if not then Once I will be back in India, I will be called a hell of spendthrift.

- Taxi Drivers are so rich that they drive Mercedes which cost a whooping 40 Lakhs Rupees in Indian currency and you can see the car only in posh area with affluent people in India. And Taxi driver will definitely be dead next day with Car gone in parts across the globe if he is caught using Mercedes as a Taxi, and moreover why he will be a taxi driver if he have enough money to buy Mercedes. ;-)

- What a pity, Mercedes are used as a TAXI!!! India at the max if people will think they can take only Tata Indica and recently Logan as a Taxi.

-Finally I came to know what Burger Index is, you can definitely judge the spending power of people and even economy too on the basis of Burger cost. 7 Euro's for Burger!!! Think in Indian currency and you will die out of horror thinking to eat a 500Rs Burger on a road side shop(definitely I am not talking about 5 star hotels).

- Beggars? I am thinking if I should call the people who are asking as beggars here. It will be a dream come true for an Indian Beggar to get a Job as a beggar in Brussels. What a life!!! Even I think a mid-level s/w employee in Indian firm would like to have such a fantastic life of Beggars which are here. Have you ever seen the beggars who are sipping beers and having french fries asking for alms and that too in nice cloths? They made me think that if there is a PROFESSIONAL uniform for Beggars too. Come to Brussels you will see that. Even I envy them now, getting 40-50 euro daily(tax free) with french fries is not a bad job where I don't have to do anything ;-)

- On hearing that I am from India, first think they say is.. aaha!!! TajMahal, bloody hell!!! I have never seen real TajMahal and they are mentioning it as they are using it as their home and are acquainted well with it. But guess this is how people start the converstaion anywhere in the world. If you are within the boundary of the colony.. aaha!!! You are in that house, and then boundary of town comes with comment.. aaha!!! that colony? And like I stay in Bangalore and always used to get the comment on saying I am from Bihar... aaha!!! Lalu Parsad Yadav as if Lalu Yadav is her/his chum.. Guess - 'that house', 'that colony' and 'Lalu Parsad Yadav' are replaced by 'TajMahal' till the time I am here in Brussels!!! And to be honest - I just love it. ;-)

Well well well.. don't think that's the only thing I came here to see, but I am not writing any travelogue. So definitely not going to mention the places, its just the people and their behavior comes in my list for writing.

- More of funny comments to come, so keep reading!!! Will be back soon..

Note:- You may see grammatical mistake, spelling mistake here and there because I am not editing anything and posting whatever coming in my mind. So its kinda an unabridged version and you shouldn't complain but if its blunder do post it in comment area which will NOT be corrected definitely. ;-)

Great News for thieves

Few more thing:-

If you are interested in stealing motor parts then welcome to Belgium, you will get all design and make of car parked on road, pick whatever you like. I understand the only time ANY car have a home is only when they are in put up for sell(I mean in shop) or in manufacturing units. Else, starts from Mercedes, Hummer, Ferrari, SUV's name it and you will definitely get it parked on road openly all the time (including nights). In India if you leave expensive car outside the Garage, and you will not miss the talent of thieves I bet. That's called the guts to do adventurous thing. ;-)

Why people drink beer all the time in Belgium instead of water? Why shouldn't they - if you get beer, water, coke all @ 1euro, why one will drink water.Same like 'Super Nirma Advertisement during DD1 days' - jab kam dham mein wo mile to koi ye kyon le.. and mann gaye deepika jee... aapki parki nazar or belgian beer dono ko.. (translation won't make much sense to non-Hindi people or those who did not see the ad ever so not giving it, let me know if still look for it)

I never new that sunlight was so important in your life that the day become great or gloomy depending upon the sunlight. If its sunny - then you will see people with happy faces around saying what a beautiful day it is and when its cloudy or cold suddenly they will become sad and say its a bad day. Come to India or shall I say directly to Chennai? Yeah Chennai sounds better - come to Chennai and enjoy the GOOD days.. and I hope you will never be gloomy when you won't see the sun.

- Enough for today, more to come

Reached Belgium

My first trip on air craft and my first trip to any foreign country were supposedly had to come together, and I reached Belgium. Interesting experience. Will be coming with the experience soon. First expression of this place as below. Mostly coming with tidbits -

- Its wrong to say that people smoke here, here people breath smoke like we breath oxygen in India.
- People are friendly and helping, if you will ask for directions they will almost not leave you until you reach the destination skipping their important works.
- People don;t roam around much and very quite place.
-Evening comes around 9:30PM to 10PM(during summers, I mean now) and morning starts from 4 to 4:30AM, little weird when you compare with normal Indian schedule where evening starts from 6PM and morning from 6AM.


-more to come..