Success

Can anyone define success?

It is rather an ambiguous, unobtrusive word as it lies completely upon the discretion of the person as to how he/she envisions success.

Webster's dictionary defines it as " achieving something desired or attempted". This might be the correct definition of success as far as I can reckon.

But we humans have a proclivity to compare one's success with another individual.We try to please others rather than pleasing ourselves. This leads to dejection, unhappiness and lack of confidence. Life is too short and in the long run we fail to chance upon our innate abilities, thus wasting our precious life.

It's not a prudish practice to disregard one's success. For a poor person, success is getting a square meal each day, for some it might be earning money, be it black or white, for some it might be getting a respectable post, for a religious person, adhering to religion defines success and so on.

But there are some people who undervalue other individuals' meaning of success. It is not a wise thing to do as the world consists of varied people with multitude versions of success and every person's version of success should be venerated.

Lastly, there is a quote saying that "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." We should always do what we want to rather than comparing ourselves with others.

Is it Revolution?

Once upon a time when we were kids, we used to think of a future that will be dominated completely by computers and technology.

But nobody ever surmised that within a span of 4 to 5 years and not decades,the degree to which advancement in  computer technology fulminated will transform it into a preeminent part of every person's life. 6 to 7 years back I once said that in the future computers will be a necessary household device for every other person. Instead of computers,we now have the tablet pcs. Mini pcs like Raspberry PI chips are increasingly becoming popular. This is the era of technology explosion, the era of computer revolution. From the blue collar people to white collar,every person is dependent on technology. Almost everything today is linked to computers in some way or the other.

I was inspired to write this blog because today I was baffled by the utilization of computer technology in even paint shops where I was able to decide the color of my room through a software . It would not have been possible to find a better combination of colors to decide upon had it not been the computer software.
Proud to be a software engineer.. actually a sophomore of the department of Computer Science and Engineering..