In the end...

Nope..i am not writing about Linkin Park. The other day, it just struck me what is it like at the end of this long journey called life. I might do my graduation, masters, work on some other degrees, have a job, have a family, and all that normal stuff.

But to think of it, should it be that way..??? Has nature created such complex beings called Humans (with BRAIN) to do this routine stuff. I am not saying that all this routine stuff is unworthy; all these degrees require decent amount of brain and understanding. But is der some other side to it..?? We might have great technomlogies, great engineering expertise but somehow i feel that mabbe this is not the only stuff we are capable of developing. All these materialistic things cant be the only entities that we can think of. Mabbe the greatest developement we can acheive is to develop one own self. We might know how a satellite works and how to reach MARS but whats the point when we cant reach within our own's selves.

Within me, I somewhere feel that things like flashy cars, huge buildings all distract us from the main purpose of Self-Development. The other day i was just thinking of it and suddenly a convertible merc passed which instantly distracted me from what i was thinking.

But does it mean that we shudnt enjoy all the great inventions created by man and nature. However i dont think while enjoyin nature we get distracted. Closer we are to nature closer we feel with ourself. I dream of being on beach, in the wild many times and i guess it will take me closer to myself. But the chances are while doing so mabbe we keep aside the actual purpose of human birth. Or why cant we strike a balance between two.

Mabbe everyone has to think for himself. I am still in the process of thinking and havent reached any conclusions yet.

Process vs Result

Many times i have wondered what do we study for. Most of the times the answer i get is grades. However it is not always that. While in the beginning of the semester, studying something which interests me, is not for grades. But as the semester progresses and exams start impending the focus shifts from knowledge to grades. Mabbe der is sumthing wrong with examination pattern which prefers testing the information than knowledge while grading..i dunno. 

Why suddenly as the deadline draws nearer the outlook towards the job at hands changes..??

Mabbe we have a  feeling that gettin the result is more important than doing the process right way. Mabbe in this world the result means more than process or at least we think so. Sumhow we try and get the job done and u have the results. But it dosent give that sense of satisfaction.

Such a thing has happened to me a several times. Recent example would be of a course in which i hardly learnt anything as compared to Masters standards then too i got an A. However i still feel i could repeat that course under some other prof. 

Anyways, the point is what should we give importance to..?? Process or Result. 

But to think of it..shouldnt a proper process be giving proper result. Yah it should !! But it takes time. And living in such  a competitive world everything has to be done in such a narrow time frame. If you dont strike at proper instant you loose the opportunity. However steep deadlines process is bound to be altered for the sake of result. I might sound like a Bell Head who wants everything in place before putting the product into implementation. But we can alter the Bell Head approach to divide the work into phases and then carrying out each phase using proper process. That is what IP (Internet Protocol, pardon the slang) guys do. 

Thus i draw the following conclusion: when given a job at hand, layer the job starting from the basic layer follow the process and go ahead layer by layer. Mabbe it will be slow in the beginning but we can compare it to a building; once build taking everything into consideration, you dont have to worry about it later..I personally wud certainly prefer having knowledge about lesser topics than having information about a lot.