Greed God

Today I want to talk about how greed can fog your righteous thought. I decided to start this blog to express all my inner thoughts without any inhibitions, care or worry. However the moment I saw a opportunity to make money, I was ready to give up my anonymity and thereby risk my independent thought.

As I finished my previous post-"Anonymity-The Superpower", I saw an opportunity to earn some bucks my displaying advertisements on my blog page. The opportunity came through Goggle's AddSense.

To register for Addsense, I had to provide my mail id, full name, etc. I think all this information is kept confidential by Google, but look how easily I was ready to divulge these information in exchange for monetary benefits.

So greed proved to be stronger than my need for uninhibited expression of thought. The previous statement if not completely true is definitely partially true. Greed definitely seems to be overpowering when in the thick of all worldly things. I see greed defeated or ignored only when I am at peace or am looking at life philosophically.

Everything seems to go in circles- I can overcome greed only when I am at peace; I will be at peace when I can overcome among other things, greed.

So how can I overcome greed? To put it very bluntly, be less ambitious. People sugar coat the previous statement with phrases like "count your blessings" or "be grateful for the good life". Put however, the bottom line is to be less ambitious and less aggressive. People use mild phrases to not go against success mantras which equates success with ambitions, aggression and big goals.

Sometimes I question all these mantras for success, power and material wealth but no peace of mind.

Coming back to my case, my application for AddSense got rejected (I guess my blogs had insufficient material or something). Thanks to fate, I was able to step back and do some introspection and get my head cleared. Don't deviate from the goal-Write your heart out.

Anonymity-The Superpower

Begining is my first blog (Dec 9, 2013). The funny part is that I began with a mistake (not new in my case and more so now-a-days). As you must have already figured out, I have spelled beginning wrong. The spelling is missing a 'n'. Like all things now-a-days, technology (spell check) helped me to figure out my mistake.
Usually I would have been very embarrassed by this and would have tried all tricks to cover it up. However thanks to the anonymity offered my this platform, I continue to carry on and see the funny side of my mistake.
It is really interesting for me to note that my stupidity can be funny to me as long as it is anonymous while public knowledge of the same can be heart and confidence shattering. So is anonymity a super power ? I can immediately think of cartoon characters who possess the power of invisibility. So yes, anonymity is indeed a super power. Imagine the things people could do because of the enhanced confidence due to anonymity. A very relevant example could the use of 'burka or head cover' by Indian ladies to escape the strictures placed on them by their families. Thus a piece of cloth around the head is turning into a liberator for Indian ladies. A parallel for men could be the 'hood' worn by many men in the western countries.
As we can somewhat conclude that anonymity is a power, I am going to use this power to do wonders for myself. I am going to use it and bring the best out of me. So watch out for more uninhibited blogs.