The Whatsapp Stories...

Well, this isn't something out of the blue and I am sure that most of us have done it. May be out of sheer boredom or may be because you would do almost anything to get your mind off a presentation that is screaming "DEADLINE AHEAD" but you are in no way able to get the next slide in shape.

(Dear employers, I am not saying I am too over-worked but you know how it is!!!)

Whatsapp has become a part of our life-story

Nevertheless, I find a peculiar joy in scrolling through my contact list on whatsapp and  trying to read any status or enlarge any display picture that catches my attention. It is hilariously calming to see some happy faces while there might be ones that may dilute that joy. All in all, an interesting 10 to 15 minutes are consumed and you may think of getting back to what you had been doing.

I do not claim that the exercise is rejuvenating or mood altering all the time. In fact, if you are someone who keeps looking at your Ex's/a long lost friend's whatsapp profile and keep doing the 'math' to decode the 'philosophy' behind the words written in their statuses, you know you are going to end up draining quite a lot of energy and time in vain. Your mathematics can 'almost' never decipher the the lurking 'philosophy' simply because it doesn't work that way. That is probably the most visible side effect of the activity. Either have the courage to let go of your ego and send a Hello or don't bother drooling over their statuses/ citing 'online' on those chat windows. If you are mature enough, you can simply enjoy to melancholic feeling oozing out at that moment and smile away the fact that the name/ names was/were always at the top of your live chat list.

However, there is another aspect which is more comforting and joyous in nature. I would rather emphasize on these ones. They are the stories that make you smile. Most of the time, they are more comprehensible with just a look at the display picture and/ or reading a status. There are many life stories that are hidden in our whatsapp list and they divulge multi-faceted snippets from the lives of our peers or even acquaintances.

Since I just finished scrolling my whatsapp list, I would rather happily share some of the snippets with you and I am sure most of you would relate to these in your own list in some way or the other...

• Friends shifting to new cities, expressing their joy over the expected fun that might unfold or miss the life they have just decided to leave behind. Some are smart enough to put up their new contact numbers as a status. A smart way to dodge "Yaar tune number badal diya tha toh share toh kar deta.."
• The 'Newly married' or 'About to get married' are most easily spotted. 'The Couple' could be seen uninterrupted on their display picture with supporting statuses oozing all kinds of romantic expressions. Also, you feel that the person has suddenly donned a new personality which is way more attractive than what you could ever imagine when he/she was single.
• Also there are cousins, seniors and even younger teachers whose number are stored just because they were 'stored'. You suddenly see a cute new-born's pic with them and its a happy excuse just to drop in a kind word and congratulate them for the life changing event.
• A special category is of those who simply cannot resist to share with the world the feats that they have achieved in their flair for the hobby/ passion that they pursue. Be it the gym or the bike ride, you would know their latest regime or the new destination that they have set their eyes on/ recently visited. On the other hand, some simply express their love for the activity by strong emotional quotes and an appealing photograph. You know it in your bones whether these are just expressions of narcissism or genuine patronage.
• Please don't try and seek a story out of 'Pout-y selfies' and connected statuses like 'In Love with myself'. Although I like the oomph factor and the vibrations of positivism exuding out of such profiles, there is hardly any sense of achievement. The fact that the person is having a good time with the comrade of theirs whose pout is even more revealing theirs and I happy to see them happy, there is hardly anything else that I can say.
  (Yes, I know they don't give a damn about it and I have no right to judge them, which I am not either; but 'right to expression' gives me the liberty to express my opinion. Kudos that they are able to achieve the hardest feat on this earth, 'Stay happy' and 'Pout-y' atleast in the display picture. PEACE)
• And lastly there would be those (I guess not more than a couple of people in a contact list) who would change their statuses and display pics so often that you wonder if they are being paid on an hourly basis for this. I think it would be a mistake to link this activity to their mood swings although they might claim that there is always a connection. 

Towards the end, I am sure if you have shown the patience to read this, you either already have the habit of being a harmless stalker of 'The Whatsapp stories' (congrats if you have just realized it!) or would end up trying it. Try and be as open minded as possible while observing such phenomenon and you would wonder how much can a whatsapp profile say about a person...

Best,

SS...

EQUATION OF LIFE(Demystified)

EQUATION OF LIFE(Demystified)

Life isnt as pretty as the poems and the fairy tales describe it to be.Neither is it that stormy and un-bearable as the cruel depictions in the everyday running news channels and newspaper.

My life for instance is a blend.It has, if not the right balance then atleast a part of every portion of human emotion.

Emotions are funny entities.They seem to topple you over like a small slip initially but as time passes, you realize that it was not just a slight shiver but a whole earth-quake that had the strength to bring the sky –scrapers of memories down just like a house of cards.

Memories are involuntary reminiscent of past activities that stay back after the incident.Ironically, the more effort you make to discard them, the firmer is their grip on you.

Past is the time of your life that no matter how much you would like NOT TO EXIST, it STILL DOES.And no matter how much you would like to GO BACK to,you SIMPLY CANT.it is like the BLACK HOLE, where at one time, everything converges into one big moment of eternal happiness and at the other, explodes out like the BIG BANG, leaving empty spaces of sadness and dispersing pieces of a shattered heart to every inch of the immeasurable universe.

Happiness is the antonym of sadness. But in reality, it is the abstract form of sadness that masquerades tears into a symbol of  joy, only to be unmasked in the tense of Past when they acquire theirtrue nature.

Actually, if we look closely at the starting word of every sentence, it sums up to be –

LIFE={PAST(EMOTIONS + MEMORIES)}/HAPPINESS.

On a closer examination, one may find the anomaly of not including parameters like sadness, stress, tension, etc etc.. in the above equation.This is because the above equation is an IDEAL CASE.

The practical case is, however, slightly different.The difference too is the result of the oblivious nature of humans towards the idealistic situation.Let us try to derive the PRACTICAL EQUATION OF LIFE.

Going by the accepted convention, we can easily say that-

HAPPINESS=1/SADNESS

Now the slight change occurs only in the denominator of the IDEAL EQUATION..

The PRACTICAL EQUATION becomes…

LIFE={PAST(EMOTIONS+MEMORIES)}*SADNESS.

Unfortunately, this is the PRACTICAL EQUATION which most of us follow.

However, this is only a simplified and most easily understandable aspect of PHYSICS OF LIFE. Lets explore the depth of it in a little more detail.

DUALITY AS APPLIED TO EQUATION OF LIFE.

Duality exists in every aspect of existence.Right from the atoms of either a living or a non living object, to the fastest moving light rays in the nature, everything comes under the realm of DUALITY.

In the Equation of life, we do not witness the normal duality of  particle and wave as in most other physical phenomenon.

The duality in life is of two forms-

1).Duality in the realm of time

2).Duality is the realm of perception.

1).DUALITY IN THE REALM OF TIME

It might sound confusing, but this is the easiest and most recognizable type.By time I mean not the physical time, which,until the reality of invention of a real, physical time machine; always progresses in a unilateral positive direction.

However, there is another, in built mode of time travel which was endowed upon us by the Creator.The power to time travel in our past through our thoughts known as Memories or Remembrances. Walking down the memory lane one can recollect every incident of the past, as if they were as real as the present, provided the intensity of the remembrance is upto the required standards.

It is however only a bilateral lane akin to simple duplex connection of a data communication network.

 Therefore the duality of PAST & PRESENT is always present at any point of  our life.The implications of our past have a profound effect on our present which eventually becomes our past again. To introduce certain corrections in the IDEAL EQUATION to make it applicable on instaneous sample period of anyones life is beyond my capability as of now.

Still, the only way to acquire acceptable and near to accurate esults is by pre-assuming the nature of tense in the sample period,i.e. whether one is evaluating the life of the PAST or the PRESENT. The assumption of PAST is way much easier, and if it’s a long time back, the results are expected to be most accurate. The assumption of PRESENT is slightly difficult and can be applied by taking PAST-->0(Read Past tending to Zero). This is the closest we can get to PRESENT by making our PAST as close to NULL as possible.

Philosophically, this is the ideal state which is not attainable practically by most of us.The words like THE ENLIGHTENED ONE, THE WISE SAINT or te GURU are close approximations of the same. Hence, as is visible from the above description, the DUALITY IN TE REALM OF TIME is an elusive phenomenon but it cant be ignored or ruled out of consideration at any cost.

2).DUALITY IN THE REALM OF PERCEPTION

 This is again one of the most intriguing as well as enigmatic aspect of LIFE EUATION.This is a judgmental aspect of human mind and differs from person to person.Its importance lies in the fact that it is the deciding factor on the parametrs of HAPPINESS (+) or SADNESS(-).

Key points to be noted here are-

a).If the Perception has a positive value , it always ranges betweem 0 and 1 ( as is evident from the fact that Happy Moments are usually shortlived)Therefore,

If Perception= positive,

HAPPINESS=(0,1]

b).If Perception has a negative value, it always ranges from (- infinity) to 0, both excluded(as is evident from the fact that even the smallest period of sadness seems to last long enough).Therefore.

If Perception=negative

SADNESS=(-Inf, 0)

c).Positive values beyond +1, i.e. (1, +Inf),are applicable only when PAST=0, which is the state of ULTIMATE WISDOM, GREATNESS etc.This however, is beyond the scope of an average human being and hence it will be discussed separately.

d).At te point where PERCEPTION becomes 0, the values of PAST becomes a NON ZERO CONSTANT,and HAPPINESS=SADNESS=0, and the Life becomes-

i)Either NOT DEFINED (HAPPINESS=0)

ii)NULL (SADNESS=0

Both imply the same thing in terms of  existence i.e. LIFE CEASES TO EXIST or the subject is DEAD.

APPLICATIONS/IMPLICATIONS OF DUALITY  OF PERCEPTION

CASE-I- When PERCEPTION = POSITIVE

LIFE={PAST(EMOTIONS + MEMORIES)}/HAPPINESS

Since the value of HAPPINESS is positive and lies between (0,1], the value of LIFE increases considerably.

(Implicit implications are left to the reader to evaluate and apply practically.)

CASE-II- When PERCEPTION = NEGATIVE

LIFE={PAST(EMOTIONS+MEMORIES)}*SADNESS

Since the value of  SADNESS is negative and lies between (-Inf, 0), te value of LIFE plummets to trenches of gloom.

(Again, it is for the readers to decipher th implications which are “clearly visible in disguise”)

CASE-III- When PERCEPTION = 0

LIFE=[{PAST(EMOTIONS + MEMORIES)}/(HAPPINESS=0)]= NOT DEFINED

OR

LIFE=[{PAST(EMOTIONS+MEMORIES)}*(SADNESS=0)]=0

Both invariably imply simply that without PERCEPTION, a LIFE HAS NO VALUE AT ALL, i.e. LIFE=DEAD

IMPORTANT NOTE- PERCEPTION=0 can be attained only once!!!

CONCLUSION-

Life is a complex phenomenon and the complexity arises due to its constituents.The aspect of DUALITY makes it even more difficult to obtain a stable, constant graph if plotted against time.

In fact, the graph of life is one of the most peculiar sorts where probability of predicting the points  of inflections correctly are next to impossible.Also,there are no limits to provide a boundary to the maximas and minimas  when PERCEPTION has a NON ZERO value.

Also, as soon as PERCEPTION attains ZERO, PAST becomes NON ZERO CONSTANT and we can take sample period of the PAST as a whole or divide it as per our requirement to suitably give pseudo values to PERCEPTION’(read Perception dash, the imaginary or assumed perception of a dead being) to gauge the previous values of LIFE at that particular sample of the past.

In general, PERCEPTION’ values are rarely assumed and applied on some other persons equation, but they hold importance when the value of MEMORIES in the equation of a certain being exceeds the critical limit.This limit is variable and depends on EMOTION as well as other intangible factors.

There are some other aspects of variations in EMOTIONS and MEMORIES which shall be discussed later.

Finally, one might find the article obscure and bewildering to say the least.However, the points raised are substantial and need an in depth understanding of the related matter.

Thanks.

SAM...

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