Friday, June 17, 2011

Puzzle from google

This is some news... Google has started a new daily puzzle challenge which will task your googling skills and eventually leading Google mastery. Very nicely done to improve your googling skills... Check it out in your free time. The link is given here - http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/06/a-google-a-day-puzzle-for-friday-june-17th/

Thursday, June 16, 2011

The story unfolds

Mother: How's your result?
Son: I managed to get 80%, mom.
Mother: I told you many times to study hard. Now what are you going to do with those marks?You won't get admission in any good colleges.
Son: Mom, I know what's in future for me? And I think I'm finding the glimpse of the future very intimidating.....

The mother didn't say anything more but knew inside her heart that the long standing prediction of her son might still come out to be the truth. But still she doesn't want her son to go into the untrodden path. She knows there's still a chance that the prediction might just remain an untrue prophecy. But her motherly thought never let her those words of the holy man and his forecast some 20 years ago.......

Days went by and her son went to search for Glory in the land of Hope and thus starting the long journey to self-discovery and the realisation of the truth. Little did she know that the very education they are willing to provide to their son, will one day take away their son from them. Little did they anticapate the events which is going to turn along the words of the Holy man.

Fours years of professional studies have made the son a totally radical and logical person who won't accept anything just by face value but has begun to ask questions which can dampen the spirit of many a scholar. During the four years that went by, untrue to the words of the Holy man, their son began socialising very often and slowly the fear of the mother was suppressed. She was always tormented by those words of the Holy man. She knew that no matter how hard her son tried, he won't be able to carry out the tasks assigned by birth. The mother now knew she need not worry anymore.

With time, the son started earning but never came back home to his parents. He was at last independent and free to take the world by his hands but somehow something seems to be binding him back. In this time of loneliness and independence, he started feeling the pressure of being bounded by relations. Though his thought went back to his parents, he never felt emotionally or spiritually connected to his parents or his brother or his sister. So he kept earning much wealth than he actually needed. Deep down inside his heart, he feels every relation will die some day or the other. There was no unhappiness in him. The realization freed him from the untempered bond of love for his near and dear one.

This went on for years and his life had become the story of one of the greatest money maker in the society but still he felt something was still missing. Somewhere down the line he had missed some experience which makes him think every night. The question why he he feels like he's being called by someone. Here he is, after 40 years on earth, one of the wealthiest man alive and still neck deep in all vices of the world. But every night, he feels someone's calling him, someone needs him.

On a july night, watching rainfall on the leaves of the tree in front of his windows, a wind gushes pass his shoulders and reminded him of the letters from his mother when she was on her dying bed. She had not told him anything about the fear she had about his future but soon after her death, she knew the letters will narrate the truth and then God only know where the truth will lead him. Standing near the window, as the rain drops hit his face slowly, a feeling of loneliness surge through him and he felt like crying but the feeling bewildered him. Why all of a sudden, he wants to cry. For whom he wants to cry, he doesn't know, why he can't explain.
As he turned back to his rooms, he sees the letters from his mother. After a long time, he was finding time to read those letters. As he started reading the letters, he was startled at the revelation. But he was not ready to accept the truth and leave everything behind. Was all that he had built up till now just to be left behind for unprofitable tasks in life? He didn't accept anything in the letters except that her mother had given those letters to him at her dying bed.
Some day he will decide what decision to take but not tonight. But deep down inside, the voice which was guiding all these days seems to tell him to leave everything behind. He was now feeling more lonelier than ever before and he didn't know whom to turn for this decision. He knows that his friends will ridicule him for the way he was thinking because of some letters.
He continued living as usual but the words in the letters kept haunting him. He wanted peace of mind and a place of isolation to think in peace and to decide what to do.