Aah... finally, i'm at the 'edit' page; guided by Hiragana, Katakana and best of all Kanji. I can read a bit of Katakana and Hiragana. But its an effort that normally takes me to the brink of a burn-out! Now, at 1:23AM on a friday night I don't think my neurons have any sparks left. So, my writing this article seems to be an utter stroke of luck. Is it?
I had my summer internship in 2004 at a firm called WeP Peripherals. I prefered to call it Wipro e-Peripherals (thats what it is) as that sounded like a good brand name. Brands and employee pride - i'll talk about that some other day. My assignment at WeP was to improve the relationships and supply chain efficiency between WeP and the distributor. Essentially, interview a load of distributors and know what they need.
Guess what the tough part was - finding the adresses of those distributors!. Addresses in Bangalore were easy to find as everything was divided into blocks and numbering was uniform. But in other places, I was clueless. All I had was the area and shop name. Surprisingly, I found the distributors almost always - including the Kanpur distributor who had a double-barrel gun in his shop!
Thinking of it now, it surprises me how I was able do it. Though not a truly random occurence, it is close to one. I believe the enabler is 'the instinct'. If one believes in his instincts, one shall be on the right path. It might take time, as it happened with finding many a distributor. But the end result - reaching the target - will always be achieved.
So, instinct is the lighthouse. All one has to do is trust them. But how exactly do these instincts form? Aren't they also random?. I believe thats the case when one is just born - err - when Adam and Eve were just born. As one ages, the +/- ve feedback received upon instincts either reinforces or weakens the instinct quotient. A subset of these instincts should get passed on to the next generation by way of heredity. As such, our babies should no longer have random instincts - They have been refined through generations of feedback. The only random instincts may have been with Adam and Eve (in the real case - the first homo sapien) when they were just born!
Life is anyway more of a chance and less of aplan - "you've gotta be in the right place at the right time". Instincts are the best defense and offense. All you have to do is trust them. Especially, trust them more than anything when you are -
Making a friend
Changing the job
Finding a life-partner
None in life are more important than the above - and one has to trust the instinct for them!
Notes:
Katakana is for common English nouns; well, not exactly English - Jinglish is a more appropriate term. ex: Chocoretu (Chocolate); Fright (Flight), etc.
Kanji is the 'borrowed from China' - 'confused lines' - 'ultra complicated' - word set (not characters!)
Hiragana is a character set for Japanese - Kanji words can be expressed using hiragana characters.
