Rahul Gandhi is the Leader of Opposition, LoP, now in Lok Sabha. We have a Leader of Opposition after 10 years. Does it mean we hear more diverse views in Lok Sabha? LoP enjoys cabinet rank. LoP also participates in appointment processes of key posts such as CBI chief, Election Commissioners, National Human Rights Commission Chair, Chief Vigilance Commissioner etc.
We have an election for Speaker, maybe after 50 years. Om Birla versus Suresh. Om Birla is sure to get elected.
My friend K Srinivas Raju takes voluntary retirement.
Words can uplift, comfort, inspire, or wound, belittle, destroy. Can we speak words of kindness? Can we be kind? Can we see good all around, appreciate the intrinsic value of every one? Can we celebrate shared humanity? Can we share our resources with those who need them? Can we contribute to NextGen’s better wellbeing, sustainability beyond? We are not alone. We are part of our family, friends, team, community, society, world. Universe. We belong there. Can we be with them, can we let them be with us? We are not disposable. Human dignity and respect is not compromisable. Can we let us be repaired, pampered, cheered, saved? Can we care and help ourselves on one hand, and extend caring and supporting hand to the world around us on the other hand, simultaneously? Our beauty lies within, in our ability to love, connect deeply, be kind, be generous. This beauty grows with age, experience. Can we have, nurture, sustain this beauty?
There are 5-6 days in the year where we would consider thanking, from deep within, our gurus, teachers, mentors, institutions, gurukulums, communities, those who made huge, critical, fundamental differences to us. Buddha Purnima, Guru Purnima, National Teachers’ day, International Teachers’ day, Krsnaasthami, etc. How about Guru Purnima day? 21 July, Sunday. And how do we go about it? Should we visit and spend time with them? Should we have a day with them including felicitating them? Should we write, gift, so on and so forth. May we should do a portfolio of these and more. In unique ways for each one of them.
Getting into 100 days of fine-tuned plans for the meaningful, ambitious but risky action portfolio for the next important transition lasting 10-15-20 years. May be till amrt kaal. For deep within, for the team(s), for the local circles, and beyond – for the circles of influence. Being on the ground – 100 days a year. Travel across – 100 days a year. Can we club these two? Write, converse, and be with cohorts everyday, or 200 days a year. Job? Enterprise? Freelance? Partner? Investment – angel, venture, payback? We have 365*24= 8760 hours a year. If we take out 10 hours a day for life maintenance – sleep, food et al included; if we take 30 days a year, for catching up – we have still 4690 hours. Long-term assignment – job/enterprise may require not more than 2500 hours leaving 2190 hours a year for all the items in the portfolio. And 15 years may mean 30,000+ hours. These have to be planned, one by one. Too many small things that have been put aside, postponed for a later day. These have to be taken up. Plans have to be made with care. To be, live in harmony with N. To lead life in N.
Can we do this? Can we realize this? Can we transform these possibilities fully?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we leverage co-flowing. In N? karanayoga for 7L.
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