This post of mine is an effort to put down Laws of Life as I see them. They are simple, intuitive and inspired by my love for Thermodynamics as a subject. While discussion on thermodynamics is for a different blog, I have always been intrigued by its application to my daily life.
Zeroth Law: If A hates/Likes C, B hates/likes C then A respectively likes/hates B. This is an interesting one. Rarely I have come across two friends who have similar approach to life or similar interests etc. Invariably they are on the opposite sides. This is unlike inanimate systems who are governed by an exactly opposite law. A popular version of this is opposites attract
First Law: Life is a Zero Sum Game. While many of us would like to believe that this is untrue, this is as basic as the fact that we are alive. Career vs. Family, Wife vs. Mom, Money vs. Job Satisfaction, Democracy vs. Growth, Liberty vs. affluence are some of many choices we all are required to make at any point of time.
Second Law: With every passing moment, Life gets more Chaotic. This is simple and I am sure all of us can relate to this. Once we manage to get our hands on to something we want e.g. a house we wanted, we have a list of ten more things to do. If as part of organizational restructuring we create more internal positions to manage expectations of external customers then chaos increases due to internal alignment issues, If we were to cut down internal positions then chaos increases due lack of satisfaction at the end of external customers. There are many more examples but the plain simple rule of life is with every passing moment we face more uncertainty which leads to more chaos.
Third Law: Zero state of mind can never be reached. Its quite common for all of us to say that I would like to take a break from my life and go to Himalayas. The reason is something as simple as to get away from worldly matters completely so as get to what I call as Zero state of Mind. Its actually impossible, yes we do get closer to what we want but never exactly there. Another important point to note here is more we want to get closer, more chaos we create in our life in general. Imagine you were to go to Himalayas, it would bring a tremendous amount of change to your daily life, concern to your loved ones among other issues.
Above three laws sum up my take on Life, though I do not want them to be this way perhaps, this is how life seems to have turned out. As someone wise has said, What you get is not what you want but.......
Zeroth Law: If A hates/Likes C, B hates/likes C then A respectively likes/hates B. This is an interesting one. Rarely I have come across two friends who have similar approach to life or similar interests etc. Invariably they are on the opposite sides. This is unlike inanimate systems who are governed by an exactly opposite law. A popular version of this is opposites attract
First Law: Life is a Zero Sum Game. While many of us would like to believe that this is untrue, this is as basic as the fact that we are alive. Career vs. Family, Wife vs. Mom, Money vs. Job Satisfaction, Democracy vs. Growth, Liberty vs. affluence are some of many choices we all are required to make at any point of time.
Second Law: With every passing moment, Life gets more Chaotic. This is simple and I am sure all of us can relate to this. Once we manage to get our hands on to something we want e.g. a house we wanted, we have a list of ten more things to do. If as part of organizational restructuring we create more internal positions to manage expectations of external customers then chaos increases due to internal alignment issues, If we were to cut down internal positions then chaos increases due lack of satisfaction at the end of external customers. There are many more examples but the plain simple rule of life is with every passing moment we face more uncertainty which leads to more chaos.
Third Law: Zero state of mind can never be reached. Its quite common for all of us to say that I would like to take a break from my life and go to Himalayas. The reason is something as simple as to get away from worldly matters completely so as get to what I call as Zero state of Mind. Its actually impossible, yes we do get closer to what we want but never exactly there. Another important point to note here is more we want to get closer, more chaos we create in our life in general. Imagine you were to go to Himalayas, it would bring a tremendous amount of change to your daily life, concern to your loved ones among other issues.
Above three laws sum up my take on Life, though I do not want them to be this way perhaps, this is how life seems to have turned out. As someone wise has said, What you get is not what you want but.......
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