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Success
Success seems to be the basic purpose of our existence, judging by the way we live life here on this planet, . And that too, only individually! Growth, and growth, and still more growth of me and mine; that is what the motto of my life has narrowed down to be! First I shrink myself within a very narrow cage around me, and then I try and try and try like mad to inflate the size of my cage bigger and bigger and bigger! Why don't I simply open the door of the cage and come out in the boundless spread under the sun and the stars? I have turned into a cancerous cell in the body that humanity is. Even humanity has turned into a cancerous cell in the body that life in Toto is. The bug of growth has bitten both into their psyches.
Have we gone crazy? Don't we know what cancer does to the body? And also to the cell! It bursts and kills both of them! We have been killing ourselves since long. First inch by inch by inch! Then foot by foot by foot! Now mile by mile by mile!
What have we done to our environment? Do we know that it is our uncontrolled growth that has been responsible for the greenhouse effect paving the way for the fatal devil to come, that global warming is? It has already opened its big mouth to devour its first big bite - a few hundred millions of us! It's going to be a step-by-step devastation throughout the world. Havoc all around! A tragedy unwritten since no one will be there left to write it for the dead! It is the result of rash driving of the car of success that humanity is speeding up in so irresponsibly, even without a license (!) at its behest. Look at a newspaper report dated the same, as the date of writing these lines: Melting glaciers: Flood of troubles [5 May, 2007 l 0158 hrs IST l TIMES NEWS NETWORK] It's not just the Gangotri glacier that is receding. Actually, thousands of Himalayan glaciers are shriveling up in varying degrees. The Pindari glacier is receding by 23 meters a year, Bara Shigri by 36 meters a year, Dokriani by 18 meters, Meola by 35 meters, Sonapani by 17 meters, Milam by 13 meters, Zemu by 28 meters - to name just a few.  Cumulatively, this melt could change the way we know our world. If global warming isn't arrested, rivers will first flood and then dry up; seas will rise and fertile lands will turn barren. Until recently, such talk seemed the prattle of doomsayers. No longer. The devastating impact of melting snows, rising seas and drying rivers is virtually upon us. Within the lifetime of many of us, the Ganga could be a pale shadow of its current glory; shoreline cities and towns, including Mumbai, could be compelled to build dykes to keep out the invading seas; agricultural yield in the fecund Gangetic plains could become insufficient to feed our billion-plus population. That is, unless we act now. Here's how the disaster scenario could pan out. As temperatures rise, glaciers will melt faster and receive less snowfall. Snowfall in the upper reaches of the glacier adds weight on top, and the pace of melt at its mouth creates a delicate balance, keeping the ice mass in place. When this balance is upset, the glacier either recedes or comes forward dramatically or simply bursts. Any which way, it's a calamity.  At one level, accelerated glacial melt will initially cause excess discharge of water in the rivers. A study has been done on the behavior of 100 Himalayan Rivers. As an illustration, let's take the Ganga. At Uttarkashi, the river level is expected to rise 20-30% within the first two decades and then gradually recede to 50% of its original level over the next decade, signaling that the river is drying up. Glaciers cover nearly 38,000 sq km of the Himalayan Mountains, which, in turn, accounts for 800 cubic km of water flow annually. This nurtures the great Indian civilization, as we know it. Rapid melt of this snow mass is expected to cause floods initially. But within two decades - by 2030, to be precise - when glaciers would have significantly melted, the situation is expected to reverse and several rivers will become a mere trickle. The impact of this on agriculture is apparent - the lack of water will reduce arable land and that, in turn, will have an adverse affect on our food security. nitin.sethi@timesgroup.com The run of success has done this to us!
Can something be done immediately to undo the wrong done at the hands of this growth and development bug? The impending danger has come imminent! Not only in India, but in the more advanced nations (materially) as well! America, China, Africa and Europe alike! The lurking sword of devastation on our heads will not only ruin the entire structure that we built so meticulously, but leave us along dead as well! Our values have turned poison for us. This is what cancer does to the body. Have A Morale-boosting Story To Tell About Your Successes And Failures In Life? We, individually too, are making the same mistake that our parent body - the humanity - did, and as a result has started falling prey to its own growth bug. I want success at any cost, whatsoever. Be the cost yours or be it my own! At all costs including the suicidal ones for my own personal health!
I overwork. I over-rest. I over-indulge in entertainment. I over-indulge in sex. I overeat. I over-assert myself. I over-earn. In fact, I want to earn the entire wealth of the planet. I want success - a big one for that matter! But the problem is that you too want the same - as big as mine, or even bigger than that if possible; and even if not possible too! And you over-earn too. And then we over-spend unnecessarily. In the pursuit of over-earning and over-spending, we over-spend our own self that eats us up from inside and leaves us sucked of all the energy so necessary to live life with joy and passion! We turn dead men walking! (Dead women too!) I propose stopping hero-worshipping successful people around the globe. I don't know why, but whenever I come across a wo/man who has achieved a lot, I go skeptic because I have a faint sense somewhere in my experience that success, in general, comes not; but for corruption whether of this sort or that.
Even if not so, why making them heroes still? That conditions our mind in the very childhood, inspiring us to follow her/his footsteps. We lose our originality and creativity, and turn artificial just to achieve success in life. We do not contribute to the world what we could have, by being original and creative. We want to give none but get all, and that is what the attribute of success is considered to be as well as given respect throughout the world. But if I go rich, it is always at the cost of making someone else poor somewhere on the earth. One man's success is the other's fall!
If I get all the movies simply because I am the most successful super-star in the movie world, it is corruption on my part at more than one levels; as well as it is corruption on the part of those who have made me the most successful super-star and now flock around me to get my autograph. In fact, personal success beyond limit (that is what we call real success here on earth!) in itself, being cancerous in nature, is corruption; and should either be discouraged or looked down upon! Shall we be able to train our as well as our kids' psyche like that? The earth will be a much less competitive place; and life, a much more enjoyable experience to live then! Do you feel things should change in life, on earth? If yes, why sit passive? Let's be in the active vanguard. Let's try to change the world! Even trying is its own fun in itself! Here is The Super Mind Evolution System that claims to change your personal life, so if you feel the system is good too - like I do - it may be a humble beginning in the direction of changing the way we live! Just watch this video to check for yourself:
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