Hope and retained earnings account

Yet another year is over and everyone is getting ready to celebrate ... I think why? yet another sun set and another morning will come .. but then my mind answers my brain... this is the book closure of all good bad , happy sad moments ... where god has given us opportunity to move all profits and lossses of life in the 'retained earnings' account and start afresh a new book of memories... thank god we have this day called 31st dec...

Falling statues and collapsing pillars

Today i saw the news of 'statue' of 'Dadoji Konddev' - guru of sivaji (now people are questioning that also just like sivaji date of birth) taken down .. and then a random thought came in my mind ... what do statue indicate? a faith , respect, a thought... then why are they taken down? may be it shows change in society's beliefs and idols ... what worries me is the kind of statues replacing them..
Indian democracy stood strong on 4 pillars - strong governance,fair judicial system, uncorrupt military, honest media ..who have power to control each other of one of them goes off track .. but by looking at the scams in recent past.. like the radia tapes, 2g scam, common wealth or adarsh society.. we can see a sad and corrupt nexus of all these pillars which should have stopped others from going wrong .. but that is not visible and we can see all of them falling apart..
That makes me think .. will we survive these falling statues and collapsing pillars of our society ?

"Proffessional Life" and Friendship Reverse Pyramid

     I still remember a day in college when I was busy in somewhere and my parents suddenly visited. I had so many friends taking care of them. In fact by the time I reached the canteen where they were sitting with my friends, I was really tired to hear from everyone that they had come.....
     I still remember the day when my room partner was hospitalised and we all had spent night sitting next to him in turns even when we had exams the next day.....
     I still remember the days when my room partner used to sleep near the shoe stand, as we used to have many friends in our room for group study ....
     I still remember the day when we left our college and started a new life ... so called "Professional Life" .... when I moved in to a new friend circle .... having fun in office and after office hours too ...
    I still remember the day when I used to go to office to work on the week ends so that I could meet the friends and play table tennis after the work ....
    I still remember the day when I started leading my first team and had a group few leads with whom I could share the joy of work ...
    But now ........ after so many years of "Professional Life" and moving across different roles .... I feel I miss those memories... surely have few good friends still  left , but they are so less that I can surely count them on fingers ... otherwise can see a lot of people around who are very warm when there is work ... but don't even bother to say hi when the need is over ....

Is it just my experience or is this a reality that as you keep riding the  "Professional Life" pyramid you keep moving down the Friendship Reverse Pyramid too ?

Economic poverty vs emotional poverty

Last few days i am getting opportunity to travel by train .... that
too second class , may be after a long period! Then i realised the fun
am missing rhe friends i had when it was my regular mode of
transport.. The news papers shared across, the water bottles passed
and the rotation of fourth seat !
Now i travel in private bus with so called high salaried IT
professionals, who feel sharing a smile will make them lose a fortune.
Not sure who is really poor!

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Trying out blogging first time

Many a times a lot of random thoughts come to my mind, and often i find it difficult to express them on the small "what do you think?" fields on facebook or orkut. Hence trying the blogging for the first time.

To start with ... everyday I read news to find out that most of the times the headlines are "Bad News" involving crime, corruption, anti social elements or terrorism. This makes me think, has the good ness really gone out of the world? Can we not have one good news per day on the news papers or news channels or news papers ? Or is it so that we have lost emotions to look for good things happening around us?

Do other people think on similar lines?