My name is Jaffar Hussain and I am an engineer, passionate about technology and businesses built around it. Although I write more about techy stuff now but anything may happen in these pages.
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We live in a system of exploitation and slavery. Education systems of today aim to produce better slaves and nothing else.
What education was actually supposed to do was to enable children to differentiate right and wrong; and develop the moral courage to choose the right way even if it means material losses. Education of today doesn’t do that anymore.
As a result, education has become a business, teacher has become an employee and students and their parents have become customers.
Love and Inability: that is what I am made of. I am unable to get to what I love the most. I am unable to do what I love doing the most. I am not what I would love to be the most.
Having to settle with what I have now and keeping myself content is for me the new definition of all that is right. There is a pleasure in being connected when it would seem by all means that I am disconnected. Being connected with something you cannot see, cannot feel seems to be the ultimate a human can achieve. Refusal to connect in a way which is even remotely definable in a physical or metaphysical and still being connected by the virtue of just a belief: that is love.
Distance with what you love while being happy is the ultimate means for reaching the nirvana.
Self congratulation is unprofessional for individuals and it is harmful for corporates. By creating an illusion of success in every single e-mail sent out, every meeting, corporates lose the chance to see what is wrong. The corporates become afraid to face the real challenges and the opportunity to correct things slips away. The big bosses wear masks of intolerance to mistakes and demand that everything be in order. The need to self congratulate every single moment overcomes the natural impulse to analyze things deeply, understanding problems and solving them gradually. And then, the innovation dies. Status-quot prevails. The drivers of innovation either move some place else or become quite contributors to the superfluous system.
An innovative corporate is found on the grounds of truth, courage to face imperfections and the acceptance that no matter how brilliant you are, you can make wrong decisions. With such flexibility and freedom, innovative behaviors kick in.
It had been a tradition of the East that no money was demanded in return of three things: water, knowledge and direction. Today, money is demanded for all three. In today’s era of capitalism, you can’t do anything without money. Everything bought has a curse of being of only limited use and comfort.
In such time of despair, when one looks for true happiness which cannot be bought or taken away, he needs to look inside. Symbols of the past which denoted peace and value, like water and love are no more. Our only hope is inner peace and strength.
Just a selection of roses I shot at Race Course Park in Lahore. It was evening and the sun was already down so images aren’t as sharp as I wanted them to be.
I loved painting when I was a kid. Unfortunately, it so happened that I got sucked into the rat race of becoming a profitable machine and ended up in engineering. Anyways, I happened to be at a book store last week and saw a cheap box of poster paints. I bought it and played around with it only today.
I ended up making this painting of a mother asking her fat child to handover the lollypop. Yes, the painting only shows dress and hair. That seemed kinda cool. Not so bad for a first attempt innit?
Internet has become incredibly boring. There are so many intriguing and beautiful things shared at all different sorts of social websites. But there is a limit to how much interesting things you want to see. At the end of the day, I end up feeling hollow and empty again.
We really have no time for ourselves. We keep ourselves busy with stuff that has little to do with us. What we think we like betrays us, we end up stressed and unsatisfied.
We should learn to really and truly relax our minds, not kill time by engaging our minds in endless stream of content. Inability to do so is simply sorry. We no longer have those morning walks in the park, we have cardio. We no longer have food we love, we simply eat a burger because a guy at TV told us to. We no longer have remedies to our distress, we have drugs.
We should learn to live the moment, slow down the pace of our lives and learn to be happy with stuff we already have. And then, our minds will flow and they will create amazing things. Without effort and without borders.
Taking a turn into the Beadon Road, I cursed all the guys walking in front of the car and all around forcing me to move an inch at a time. I wondered why wouldn’t they make fences on the sidewalks or something like that to prevent the morons from disturbing the cars. Anyway, I found a parking spot pretty close and I was out of the pain for a while.
Where It Happened
I started strolling towards Chaman Ice-cream, enjoying all the bright lights. Yes, typical Lahori enjoying lights! Until of course I had stretch myself to avoid a bike which swung past me. I wondered why wouldn’t they make a crowded street like that a no vehicle zone. They should make another parking plaza and make sure no car came near the walking people.
And then I remarked upon our inability to think objectively about ourselves and subjectively about others.
Just an example of things which come into existence when I am bored in meetings. Yes I know, WTF is that!?!
