M G Harish

Sunday, February 01, 2009

People and their Priorities

I recently started another blog, exclusively dedicated to technology and computer related topics. It is TechnoTweak.com. If you have liked the technology related stuff I've written here in this blog, you are welcome to take a look onto my new blog and also subscribe to TechoTweak feeds.

I had no intention of writing this post till I received this comment from Shubha. When I contemplated on that sentence, I found it very true. She has nicely put all my thoughts in one simple sentence. People change when their priorities change.

A few days ago, I watched Dasvidaniya in which the protagonist changes drastically when he gets diagnosed with stomach cancer. He completely changes his attitude. He keeps a list of things to be done before he dies, and eventually achieves them. A fine example to show that the people change when their priorities change, and these priorities change when something in their life changes.

I have seen some of my friends staying invisible while chatting. When asked about it, a common reason I get is that they are busy and don't want to be disturbed by some people. Crap & cowardice! It defeats the very purpose of chatting. When work is of utmost priority, one can put the busy status. But putting busy status on and chatting freely is a no-no. If used unnecessarily, it becomes another instance of the Tola-bantale-tola (For non-Kannada readers: It's the same tale in which a shepherd shouts about the arrival of a tiger when there wasn't any, just to make fun of the villagers and eventually becomes prey to a tiger because no villager come to rescue him when there was a real tiger) and people keep pinging you even when you have put busy status because, by then, they would have known how busy you would be.

If a person is pinging you when you are busy, ask him to ping later. Even then, if that person is adament and stupid enough to bug you and you are so keen on avoiding that person permanently, there is an option for that: block. Block the person who bugs you and he will never see you online. Invisibility cloak is good for Harry Potter, not for we muggles.

Coming back to the main point about priorities, ask yourself a question: do priorities in life change abruptly? Generally, according to me, no. Even if they do, such priority works are of short duration, which don't have any long term effects. So, is it really worth and necessity to change ourselves for the sake of those small parts of life?

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

How's Dasvidanya?!
And don't get bothered about people's statuses (?!)
You know you write rather well and should update more often...

Harisha - ಹರೀಶ said...

Nivedita, thanks for coming here.. I liked Dasvidaniya..

I would like to update the blog often, but time wouldn't allow me. Or, may be it isn't my priority!

Deepika said...

Hi Harisha,

Thanks dont update your blog too often, because you write well and I dont want to miss or skip and post... :)
I somehow make some time for myself to read and post some comment :)

Deepika said...

Some correction...
That is... I dont want to miss or skip ANY post :)

Thanks

Sriram Gullapalli said...

Hi Harish!

I really liked the movie 'Dasvidaniya'. I was been feeling sad with new kind of behaviors of my friends. It really hurts when the so called 'Close Friends' do this. Anyway, thanks for this post.

I surfed your new blog "Tech ! Weak". All the very best to you.

Keep posting.

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V.R.BHAT said...

Nice !

Harisha - ಹರೀಶ said...

@Deepika,
thanks for the encouragement :-)
I'll try to post more often.

@Sriram, thanks.. and yes, silence of the near and dear ones hurts more than anything else :-)

Harisha - ಹರೀಶ said...

@Future mantra & V R Bhat,

Thanks you :-)