Here's a question - "What is the meaning of life?" - Would love to read your answers.
Friday, November 28, 2008
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Of Scintillations in a mundane life...
Grit, Grace & Gusto supports...
Next to my Pillow...
- A drawer full of chocolate coated raisins! YUM!
In My BookCase...
- Deck the Halls - Mary Higgins Clark (August 2009)
- The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans (August 2009)
- Klute - William Johnston (August 2009)
- Last Man Standing - David Baldacci (August 2009)
- Arousing Suspicions - Marianne Stillings (July 2009)
- The Alibi - Sandra Brown (July 2009)
- The Firm - John Grisham (July 2009)
- Master of the Game - Sidney Sheldon (June 2009)
- The Client - John Grisham (June 2009)
- The name of this book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch (June 2009)
- Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat (May 2009)
- The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant (January 2009)
- On the meaning of Life - Will Durant (November 2008)
- A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (October 2008)
- Illusions - Richard Bach (October 2008)
- The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach (October 2008)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (October 2008)
- Oh, Mind Relax Please! - Swami Sukhabodhananda (October 2008)
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (September 2008)
- Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle (August 2008)
- Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P. G. Wodehouse (August 2008)
- Chicken Soup for the Soul - Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen (August 2008)
- The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse (July 2008)
- The Prophet - Khalil Gibran (July 2008)
- Celebrating Silence - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (July 2008)
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (June 2008)
- The Secret - Rhonda Byrne (April 2008)
- Hornet's Nest - Patricia Cornwell (April 2008)
- The Word - Irving Wallace (April 2008)
- Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie (March 2008)
- Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham (March 2008)
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (January 2008)
- And Never Said A Word - Heinrich Böll (November 2007)
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (September 2007)
- Marley and Me - John Grogan (September 2007)
About Me...
'Pranjal' means 'pure' or 'crystal clear'. It's a name my father chose for me. I've had trouble getting people to pronounce it right and had my doubts about whether or not I identify with it. Ofcourse, the 'identifying-battle' is long gone. It's my name and I've grown into it.
I was born in a small district called 'Yavatmal' (sometimes spelled 'Yeotmal') of Maharastra, India. You might have a hard time locating it on a map. I was brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. I spent my first 8 years of schooling (Kindergarden to 6th grade) in a convent, after which I was moved to a Central School.
Following most students from my batch, I took up engineering at S. M. V. I. T., Bangalore. Having completed that, and after a brief stint with a Hardware Company, I enrolled into a Master's Program at USC, Los Angeles, USA. I returned to India in June 2005.
I took up a research project at IISc for a year after my return. I was then offered a job with a startup company, of which I was a part for 8 months. Following this, I started out on my own as an Independent Consultant and have remained so, worked as a Freelancer, worked with a big IT company and then went back to stay-at-home-mumma.
Life's been fair so far; I've enjoyed my happy times and struggled through difficult patches. I have a small but cozy circle of friends. I rarely meet most of them and hope to make up for that (...even now...).
I like adventure. I've tried para-sailing. Hopefully I'll get a chance to live all my dreams of travel and crazy sporting adventures. I'd also like to try my hands on photography and playing the saxophone guitar (turns out, my lungs can't hold enough air, and my fingers gave up following my mind a long time ago).
I love animals better than most humans. I've had dogs from when I can remember. I've tried horse-riding. I dream of bringing up cheetah cubs, orangutans, snakes and falcons/hawks. I would love to live in a jungle someday. It would be a 'dream-come-true' to have a family living among the wild.
For now, Bangalore's home Hannover is home. Making the most of 24/7! working from home. Much to catch up on. Life's unfolding itself bit-by-bit!
17 comments:
meaning of life? haha.. I wrote a story about it. read it if you want the answer
www.edson-dias.blogspot.com
Thanks for directing me to your post. Enjoyed the story. Hopefully will have more people telling me how they perceive life or what life means to them.
Meaning of Life? What I understand of life is that there is no specific purpose, no ultimate truth, no such fancy philosophical things. Life is just life. To live. To love. And to live to love:)
Whoa baby! What made me write that nonsense!
Hmm. Profound.
Here's another question - 'If one lives to love, should happiness, pain, right, wrong, good, bad (and all other nouns & adjectives for various moods), affect (or be included in) an individual's life?'
My reason for this question - these feelings or thoughts or experiences, seem to entangle us in our everyday life. With these entanglements, comes hope, desire. And the cycle of life repeats. So again, 'What is life?'
Hang on.. you say that "these feelings or thoughts or experiences, seem to entangle us in our everyday life."
If these feelings weren't there, what is the point in living the everyday life? What would you live for? Happiness, sadness, rights, wrongs are like signals that keep us from straying from the path of life while spicing it up. And wanting spice in life is not a crime. Life is controlling these spices of life and not letting these spices control you.
Life, according to me, is L + iFE. It has both real and imaginary parts. Life is a coin which has two sides to it - joy and sorrow.
Life is so many things. But to discover those, it is essential to live those things.
Like I said that was nonsense:)
@ deepti - Exactly my point - what does one live for? Happiness, sorrow, rights, wrongs, are all fleeting and are co-existing if observed from the stand-point of two people at the same time. There must be something permanent; something lasting. No?
@ eyememyself - Ofcourse not! Every bit of information helps. I'm thankful for your perspective :).
What is Life?....Hmmm Good Question..
Why is the post called "Visiting Relatives"... coz that's the most boring part of Life for me ;)
Thanks Smini. For asking :P!
I'm currently visiting relatives; and while that question's been doing rounds in my hypothalamus, I wanted to make sure I had some understanding of the question itself. Seeing these people in their day-to-day lives made that understanding more rigid I guess.
I brought a plant for company in my new home, watered it and watched it grow, three weeks down it had tiny lil sprouts growing around it for company. I have a smirk on my face every day I see it grow, a weird satisfaction of breathing life into something lifeless. To me its simple, its just what you make of it.
Hmm. Here's another question - 'Does this "make of it" include joy, sorrow, pleasure, pain, etc.?' Would you want to make it painful, sorrowful? 'Coz if not, then we're continuously striving for happiness, joy; and these like I said in a previous comment are fleeting too.
So I guess I'm back to - what is life?
I’ll be honest with you – you can spend your whole life and not have the answer or you can find it in almost everything you do. Given a situations 100 people react a 100 different ways – pain, joy, suffering are just a conscious or unconscious reactions we choose, certainly self induced. It is only more painful to learn the emotions you feel with a million bucks or years later are the same you felt with a 10 bucks or years back .. the choice is yours :)
Hmm. Profound, indeed.
LIfe.. is everything.
It was never been defined nor no one have been said that their explanations are the exact meaning of it..
Im Jo. Im still young but felt so old of searching the true meaning of it, I thought defining it will make me a better girl I've been wishing.
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