What makes me happy?

Smiles from loved ones

Unexpected nice smiles from people walking by (not the creepy smiles, from creepy people or fake smiles from nasty people)

Colors

Summer showers

Watching peacocks silhouetted on the huge rocks in the evening sun, behind Microsoft.

Gopichand academy in the evening…full of activity

Jogging at dawn

Driving down to the academy for aerobics

Balcony evenings: helping Mihir water the plants, watching the sun set over the rocks, drinking cold coffee

Smell of grilled veggies

Strains of Raaga Hamsadhwani floating in from the headphones kept on someone’s table …going back and searching for the same Raaga on Santoor played by Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and listening to it

My new Baggit purse

Shopping on Filpkart and adding stuff to my wishlist

Getting a call from Flipkart delivery people saying ” Madam, I am in Mailroom. Delivery aaya hai.”

Listening to Kya Khayal Hai with eyes closed.

Sameer and Mihir laughing and playing

Quote

Love must be proved by facts and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

- Picasso

Quotes from TED

“My wife could turn to me and she may say, ‘Why do you love me?’ And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, ‘Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.’” — Robin Ince

 

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.” — Alain de Botton

“Tony learns about the ontologically promiscuous, the epistemologically anxious, the ethically dubious, the metaphysically ridiculous.” — Damon Horowitz

 

“What’s it like to be a baby? It’s like being in love in Paris for the first time after you’ve had three double espressos.” — Alison Gopnik

 

“Self-control is not a problem in the future. It’s only a problem now when the chocolate is next to us.” — Shlomo Benartzi

 

You’ve just gotta fight your way through

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

— Ira Glass

Just read…

In Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia, a young girl at the turn of the nineteenth century turns to her tutor, Septimus Hodge, and subtly describes the second law of thermodynamics while examining her breakfast:

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?”

Perhaps it is odd for a twelve-year-old girl to consider the state of entropy decades before its invention, but in Stoppard’s play, all of its characters seem to obey some property of physics, bouncing around like molecules in two closed systems, heating up, dissipating, and eventually reaching equilibrium.

That’s not thermophysics, that’s thermopoetics.

Via: Brain Pickings