TURNING POINT TO MY LIFE
I went to Mussoorie recently, for a youth camp, trekking and Yamuna River Water Rafting. But it changed my life, complete thought process..

I understood quite a few things there, which I would enlist here:

1. Difference b/w I and my body - My body is different from me. It's just a part of wider me. A healthy and beautiful body would make me(I) happy. If I exercise, it's my body, which takes a little pain to make me(I) happy. If I study on nights, it's my body that is taking a lil pain to make me(I) happy.

2. Difference b/w needs and desires -
To lead a happy life, following are essentially needed:
- a healthy body,
- a prosperous life-style,
- knowledge,
- love and trust relations within family / corporation and,
- respect by those around us.

Every human needs all these things all the time. Rest every-thing, more and more money, a trip to London, or biggest restaurants... are just desires.
Hence every-one must ensure to fulfil his needs and try to achieve his desires, whereas generally many of us do the opp, we just work to achieve our desires

3. Difference b/w knowledge and skills - Skills are just a subset of knowledge which is actually very vast. Much of this concept I could not understand. I could just understand the skill part of it, which is very easy to acquire, with some dedicated practise. Be it technical skills, dancing skills, swimming skills, writing skills, sales skills... Knowledge is a very vast concept as knowledge is about self, about humanity...

4. Difference b/w special and great - Many people want to be just different from everybody, just want to be special, but this desire to be different creates jealousy in them. Special and different people are never respected / accepted.
Great people always respect other great people and greatness can never be compared? Because if you compare great people, either wrong standards would be used, wrong results would yield.
This fact violates the preferential grading system of the Indian Education System.

5. Language is just a medium - This simply means that those speaking good English are not necessarily superior to those who r yet to learn English.
Those doing more of communication thru emails, are not necessarily superior to those who r yet to explore comps.
Those in the work of farming are no inferior to a businessman. Oh, it's just a profession.

6. Every action of every human is based on some logic. That logic might be right or wrong. That logic might not be logical. Egs of commonly accepted 'wrong' logics / assumptions:
- Assumption - 2 guys holding hands are gays
- Assumption - He who does not speak English is not civilized / intelligent..Fact - He can be the brightest guy around.
- Assumption - He, who has done MBA / Engineering is more educated than an M.A. Fact - The 2 can't be compared.
- Assumption - Anybody who has got good marks in 10th should take science.. Fact - Commerce / Arts also have good money. All bright people should not only be engineers / doctors.
- Assumption - He is from IIT, he has to be more intelligent than any other engineer. Fact - Bright people are all spread across the world and industries. IIT graduate does not mean more intelligent or so, it simply means that he worked hard and practised hard before the entrance exam, and cleared it. Anybody in his place who had realized the importance of entrance exam and worked that seriously and passionately, could have done it.
- Assumption - A person from IIT engg coll will perform better than a guy from some other engineering college. Fact - It just depends on who is ready to work hard now, and who has worked harder and gathered knowledge and skills during his college days.

The world is living on certain illogical assumptions, and we are just following them. I think, its time now, we start working on facts rather than assumptions..