Blessing or Disaster

Fall of Berlin wall and failure of 'Soviet Union' was a formal declaration of end of an era. Message was clear and loud. For the first time since 1917, we had accepted the unpleasant aspects of a market system—inequality, unemployment, injustice—as facts of life. It did not happened overnight. The collapse began ,rather oddly, in china when Deng Xiaoping adopted 'Socialist market economics' policy in 1978. Certainly it took the rest of the world a long time to grasp that a billion people had quietly abandoned Marxism. Y Kojaman writes, "The real collapse of the Soviet Union occurred after March 5, 1953, the day that Stalin died or was killed." Many socialists think, socialist-capitalist system of Soviet Union was accused for USSR collapse.

What ever be the reason, but, we accepted that a bunch of people, so called visionaries, can only get us out of poverty. We chose to be prosperous, and slave, rather than free and poor. But, remind you, the securing of maximum profit is the laws of capitalism. This system will sustain only till, there will be a chance of profit making. We know, most of constructions and development work has been already done in western society. Now Asian countries are working as a driving force of development, and hence growth for rest of world. Capitalism has its own limitation.

Sustainability of such system, i believe, would be really challenging. Capitalism would ultimately lead to a truly socialized world with no poverty. Transition, from a capitalistic world to a socialized world, would not be so easy. A little mistake in transition phase would do a disaster.

Freedom

Three dimensional world is naturally perceived. In contrast, forth dimension time is harder to grasp. I believe that people were not aware about this fourth dimension in old ages. They were mostly concerned about searching food to fulfill their appetite. They were not concerned about future. Slowly, they started thinking about future. Consequently, they started gathering food, and later on they started cultivating the crops. Unfortunately, We are still trapped in that phase. We waste most of our time in fulfilling our basic requirements. We need a system that will take care of our needs. Then, we will have all of our time with us, and our family. That would be a landmark for our civilization, and one step ahead towards "Freedom".

Money works

Most of the people work for money. But, money works only for few people. Let me put it in more direct way. Most people work for their livelihood. But, there are few people for whom money works. Money generates surplus for their living. They invest in real state, stocks, futures-options, or other potential areas of benefit. In return they generate the passive source of income. They do not have to work any more. These people are financially free, and enjoying their life in real sense. They are free to do what ever they like. They work for their happiness, their satisfaction, and because of their motivation. I wish, I could make money work for me someday!!

Conflict free society

The society that we live in is no longer the same as it used to be. Technology has changed every thing. Now, world is more flat than ever. I have always dreamed of a conflict free society. This is only possible if every body has equal opportunity to grow. But, I do not see it going there. We urgently need a correction in the direction to avoid the danger of India moving in the direction of being half California and half sub-Saharan Africa. It is not only government responsibility. Even private sectors, and individual would have to take responsibility. This approach worked for US. They were successful in bring the 'African American' in main stream. Now this is our turn.

Work on fundamentals

Few days back, I came to know about a paradoxical mathematical result. My brain was boiling with possible justifications. It was like, Grandi's series had awaken each and every neuron of my brain. I was being restless. I could not accept the result because it was challenging very fundamentals of mathematics. I had to figure out trick involved in solution. After a long brainteaser, I could understand the underline philosophy.

This incident taught me a very important lesson. Our daily observations and circumstances affect us a lot. Some events are astonishing, unexpected, outrageous, and shocking. It raise the question on our faiths, believes, and touch us so deeply that we often fail to distinguish between correct and wrong. This, paradoxical mathematical result, was one those kind. I began to doubt on the fundamentals of mathematics for a while. We can only overcome these situations, if we are fundamentally strong. Otherwise, we will take wrong conclusion, which may paralyze our future.

Solitary journey

My grip was tight on the ceiling bar. I had adjusted myself quite comfortably with support of side bars.  I spread my legs and leaned forward to counter jerks.  I was little excited. The feeling of moving forward was giving me enough strength to carry on this journey. Things were going as expected. I was packed in a bus with bunch of passengers. Space was just enough to fit in. Passengers were getting in and rolling down at stops. But, crowd was consistent. I enjoyed company of fellow passengers.

I began my journey with a road map provided by some trusted people. I believed that it will guide me to right way. But, lately I have figured out, it need correction. My destination is different. I need to figure out my own path. Now, Journey is going to be different. I am hoping, It would be more excitement and thrill.