How Not to Waste A Day?

I am a very big fan of the personal development thing. They tell us to make the best use of our time. Make your every second count. Spend your time for something worthwhile. Give time to the things you value most, regularly, consistently. But, what I do is the opposite. I think I’ve become an expert in doing the opposite. I’m consistently spending my time by doing the least productive thing possible.

My contractual job is BUBT finished on May 31 this year. Before that, I thought it’s the regular works for which it is not becoming possible for me to do something fruitful. But, now, when I’ve nothing to do, no class, no deadline, no pressure, I’m doing nothing. On May 31, I thought this is Ramadam. Let’s start my good day from July 1 after Eid. On June 30, I was very motivated to start a good day on July 1. I’ve planned to wake up at 5, go for morning walk, read something and do other good things. I thought I will ace that.

Okay, you know, it didn’t turn out as planned. I probably woke up around 9.00am. Sun was up and I was in my bed. I thought this is not a good time to go for a morning walk. I left the bed, washed my face, and ate my breakfast with bread, egg, and tea. Then, I went to the table. I thought I should read something of value now.

I took the book “The Idea of Justice” by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. I was waiting for a long time to read this one. I started reading and after 1 page, I didn’t find myself motivated to read another page. Another thought came in my mind. Let’s check the internet thing. What is going on around me?  I logged into Facebook and started scrolling the timeline.

Many interested things were happening. One friend cracked an egg on his forehead, some had shared their old pictures. Oh! That’s interesting. A cat is sleeping. Please click for more. I clicked and I was directed to YouTube. I watched the cat video. Then, I went to the home page and many videos showed up. There were Ellen Show, OWN TV, True Tv, and many more things. Those looked interesting too. So, I thought, I should not miss those. I started watching and watched till 1.00pm.

After that I took my shower, did my prayer, and had my lunch. I ate a lot, so, I was feeling little drowse after lunch. I thought I would take a nap. I set an alarm for 20 minutes. This is a good time for power nap. But, 20 minutes turned into 3 hours. I don’t know how. After that, I did my prayer and took snacks.

Evening is the best time to find people online. So, I was again in Facebook and was there till 10.30pm when I was called for dinner. I took my dinner, watched TV and went back to my laptop after that. I started a group chat with my friends. I talked, talked, and talked. I talked a lot. Not so much about good things. Rather time wasting things. And it was around 3.00am when I stopped and went for bed. That’s how my day turned into a pile of wasteful things. And, now, almost everyday is turning into one like this. If you want to be successful, make sure your days don’t look like my one. Have a good day! 

My First Blog Post of 2017

Last 1^st January I wrote a blog about my goals for 2016. But this year I don’t have any goals. So, this blog is not about my goals.  It is rather written to declare to myself that a new year has come. I don’t know that I will get from this year. But I am hopeful. I will keep writing blogs, reading books, loving people, experiencing dreams.

Nurturing Creativity in Our Drawing Class

This thought came into my mind when my sister told me to buy a box of color pencil for my nephew. Suddenly, I remembered about my childhood and playing with colors. I was never good at drawing and still I am not. But that is not my concern now. My concern is the “WHY” of drawing class? The purpose? I think the purpose of drawing class is to nurture creativity among the students. But is the drawing class fulfilling that purpose?

Why Did No One Help Sanin Hasan?

Sanin Hasim (30)

Many may have seen this news. It is really shocking to know that when the miscreants left the place the rickshaw-puller asked for help to take Sanin Hasim to the nearest hospital but no one responded. You may say that those people lacked humanity. But this might not be the case. It may be because of “bystander problem”. 

This human behavior first came in media in 1964 when Kitty Genovese of New York was chased for half an hour and stabbed while 38 of her neighbors were watching. No one called the police. That incident led to the identification of a critical aspect of human behavior- How do people respond to an emergency situation? Numbers of researches have been conducted and the common conclusion was whether one will offer help in an emergency situation largely depends of the number of people witnessing the situation.

Happiness Demystified

How to be happy? A question that is passing over generations. Everyone is rushing toward it and few people are seen actually getting it despite all of their desperation and sacrifices.  I, personally, find this rush for happiness a bit confusing. Should we truly reach a level or get a particular thing to be happy? Can’t we just be happy in present moment with all of the things we have now? Is it really essential for someone to cross a mystical boundary of unhappiness to be perpetually happy? When we see the people who have already reached our desired our level and find them still unhappy with life Can’t we just question ourselves what is the problem? These people should have been in the throne of happiness by now.

It's Your Reaction, Not the Situation

This is a story of two brothers. Their father was a drinker and tortured their mother every night. When they grew up, one boy become a photocopy of his father and others become the opposite. When a man asked the first boy why he has become like his father. He replied what do you expect!!! When the same question was asked to second boy, he said I have experienced what it felt to be one like my father and I chose not to be like him. The morale of this story is it doesn’t matter what you’ve experienced in life, the thing matter is how you interpret it. How you react to a situation? The situation may be not in your control. But your reaction is.

Expectations from Me in 2016!!!

Last year, I made resolutions and nothing happened after that. I had lived the way, I was used to living. Wise man says, you’ll get what you deserves, not what you want. My resolutions were my list of wants. I did nothing about those. I didn’t strive for becoming the person who deserves to have those things. So, at the end of the year, I had nothing in my basket to show up.  And, what’s interesting about this is I’m not shameful about that now. The commitments were to myself, the writings were in my personal notebook, and now, no one knows about my failures.

Thank You 2015 !!!

So, another year is going away from my life. I know life is uncertain and strongly believe, life and death are always in the Hand of Almighty. But, to my wonder, I always think about living to my 60 and, according to that expectation, standing on this day, I’ve around 36 years in hand to live in this earth. In the past 24, I’ve experienced a lot of wonderful things, was loved by a lot, and hated too. Nonetheless, I lived a happy, peaceful, and joyful life. But, what about 2016?

Relationship: The First Visitor

First thing to clear about is I’m not a that level of thinker to give you something valuable to take with from this writing. You may just read this as an act of kindness to my effort. 

The Beginning......

Finally, I've started  writing blog after long years of thinking and procrastinating. I always have the interest in writing. But, was sure that my writing is crap. Worried about how people will react and many such lame things to keep me away from writing.

Today, I was reading a piece of James Altucher and thought-thousands of blogs are written in everyday and around 90% of them go to trash. So, there's no problem if mine one goes into that everyday.