It's the Fall its final call to leave the nest in time. Stoke parents' guide their offspring to out open, in line. To win the skies and fly far away it's a matter of do or die. It's so unfair, if you care, as some birds can't fly.(1997 film) Like Dura, some stayed, with broken wings, his heart cried in pain. When brothers and sisters, said goodbye, he tried again in vain. Like Venesa with hope, how could she have, simply stayed so sane? When given no chance, and end is at the start, whom should we blame? I was sad, thought how sad, I cannot give them hope. I cried and cried, alone in my mind, as I couldn't give a helping hand. Now I realize, how strongly she stood, Venesa the brave heart. Past is passed, future cannot be touched, as life is packed in a second. Background: Some birds can't fly is a 1997 Yugoslav drama film directed by Petar Lalović. Dura- Is a stoke in the story who has broken weak wings. He remains in the nest when his siblings fly away from it to the safety of warm, as winter is approaching. Venesa - Is a girl with Leukemia, although she is pure and bright, she has sccumbed to the nature so early in her life. She is so matured and accepts her fate. Even when her mother tried to give some hope saying that Dura will fly away from his nest, Venesa disagrees saying "He won't, Some birds can't fly". Isn't she amazing?

"Life is the journey not the destination." An angel told me once the happiness is the movement, the journey, the in between. Then I took a walk and thought to myself. If life is a wave. Happiness is a movement of the buoy. If life is a waterfall. Happiness is the flight of a droplet. If life is wind. Happiness is a falling leaf. If life is a river happiness is in the flow of waters not stagnated pools of calm. If life is a lifetime, happiness is in years and dacades If life is a year, happiness is in weeks and days If life is a day, happiness is in hours minutues andseconds If life is a millisecond, happiness is an illusion in the mind Meaning: To catch the happiness before it hides The poem was triggered by a tweet highlighting "life is a journey not the destination". Ha ha ha, however I Lied. I really didn't take a walk, (Poets are allowed to lie in the context of poem) though it took me on a thought journey (Maybe I did not lie after all). Now you know what I thought and It really is difficult to catch the happiness if the life is just in milliseconds. However we have to go through milliseconds to go into seconds. So, what is happiness? Is it an illusion of mind? Evidence suggest so. Then what about other things, that we see and feel? Well, that is for you to think about. You can find more about time in my book and articles and poems throughout the blog. Happy hunting ! You may also like reading: What is time? a novel way

There is a doubt in the art world that whether AI art can be considered as true art. I have collected some thoughts about it and here are some. For the artist. Of course, for the traditional painter, time he spend creating art is a journey. As the famous saying goes "Life is a journey not the Destination". Similarly, for him Art is the Journey, not the outcome. And the quality is measured by himself. For the modern AI artist, who struggle with different prompts to bring out the perfect imaginary AI image, of course the time spent is less than a painting. However, we cannot say that he/she does not enjoy doing it. Remember when we were kids, some of us couldn't draw, it's true. But now we have tools for every one of us to enjoy. I believe AI artists do enjoy doing it, it's just a matter of individual's mind business. For the observer of the art For the observer of the art, if we are not prejudiced, it doesn't matter what method the pictures are made, if they speak to us. Imagine how many of us been to visit "Sunflowers of Vincent Van Gough" But many of us have seen his art and still admire it. In what format you have seen it. Digital? Printed? But its not the real thing! still we appreciate and enjoy it. So why does a picture should carry value only when it is physically represented at some corner of the world in some art Gallery? Maurizo Catalan and Banana on the wall - conceptual art The term art is very diverse. It's true that we love only some of these kinds. But there are wired types as well. Conceptual artworks are one such, where art is prioritized according to its concepts and ideas involved in the work. As an example, Maurizo Catalan an Italian artist conceptualized his banana on the wall art. Art consists of a description of how the banana is pasted on the wall and anyone can reproduce it, but the concept is the art itself. Some of us cannot get our heads way around this, however if you attend to a bar, or a fancy restaurant, you might see a bartender arranging specific items in specific ways and create art by himself. Of course, they do not get a certificate for doing that but that is conceptual Art after all. Final thoughts. As AI is advancing fast it is inevitable art world would be engulfed in it at some point. Will it suppress traditional art? We don't know. In a world no one enjoy painting it can happen. But still, we will have to live with our differences. After all AI do not think by itself. Artwork it creates is influenced by thousands of paintings, photos and artwork done before. Is AI art evolution or involution? AI is the inevitable evolution of art. Started with cave painting, only some were gifted to do. Today, its available at our fingertips of each and every one of us We should be proud of ourselves not jealous. Call yourself an Artist. I would. Don't be afraid!

How many shipwrecks are there in the world? Does everything end up in graveyards of Indian cost? It is estimated there are over 3 million #shipwrecks in our ocean floors. And World War two alone have resulted in over 15000 of shipwrecks. Even for today, about 50 odd ships go missing all over the world, although the majority of them end up reused in ship graveyards. As captains of our own ships, we should be prepared for the worst after all, and the best place to start would be stories from the past. There are different groups of people who are interested in hunting down shipwrecks for a variety of reasons. Marine biologists, Treasure hunters, historians, even modern-day film makers and solo scuba divers, make a living out of these shipwrecks. After all it is not always negative to have shipwrecks. As we can imagine, since there had been ships and voyagers, there had been wrecks too, so the history goes even back into thousand years into the past. We will revisit some of these stories they have found over the years and learn what they teach us. Of course, there would be much more damage to the environment at the time of a giant ship sinking. It may be due to the fire, spillage of oil and harmful chemicals, which lead to loss of thousands and millions of big and small marine lives, even after decades of such damage. As an example, the Express Pearl ship which caught fire at the SriLankan coastline back in 2020 had released three containers each with, 26000 kg weight of plastic pallets, to the environment according to the Sri Lanka's Marine Environmental Protection Authority (MEPA). And some of them will end up in the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch in years to come and live there over many years as micro plastics, continuously threatening life. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest of such a collection containing an estimated 45,000–129,000 Metric Tons of plastic as of 2018. After initial havoc and the chaos in the deep ocean floors and sudden loss of life, ships become a part of the environment, and start to be engulfed and consumed by the environment itself. Over time the wreck itself provides a home for a large number of marine lives. Marine Biologists, and scientists still investigate how starting with microbiomes, the shipwrecks evolve into habitats of bigger and bigger animals, from crustaceans to schools of fish, from corals to mammals and sea turtles. #Nature seems to be engulfing and transforming everything it seems. If we return back to our ships, it is a matter of time, next disaster happens to us, and it is pretty unpredictable too. But when such time comes, let's hope that is not the end of the story and there will be recovery and triumph and life after each and every shipwreck. Together we can reduce the impact and fasten the recovery, which is inevitable by nature. Thank you for reading Positive and negative effects of Sunken ships and deep Shipwrecks You may also like reading: Near death experience in an airplane Lessons learnt from waves

It's a story about colors. simple and sweet first it was green Shoots and buds Powered by spring spree Dark green then turned yellow In a matter of months and weeks Some ended red, some brown and they fell down indeed Story so colorful as we are blinded by the hour As colorful as the story is I am shaking in fear As Next is White in line Dreadful times oh Dear! Thank you for reading Autumn Colors You may also like: withering lives in a gas chamber.( poem ) seize the day - carpe diem

There was a rose in my garden Waiting to be bloomed Surreal but nice (Notting Hill 1999) I call it an Autumn dream. In my imagination I could see it's future is so doomed I went there just there in rage, and crushed it of my own hands Thorns ran deep I didn't care it will not stop the bleed Sitting on a bench, with pain on my chest I cried for an hour and a half Thank you for reading : crushed rose bud You may also like reading: Near death experience in an airplane On embracing emptiness (Poem)

Have you heard about bottlenecks? Of course, apart from its literal meaning, the term is used to represent a rate limiting step of a process, with many steps, or sub-process involved. There are many examples of bottlenecks of life Imagine you are a driver, a junction in your journey, a color light with traffic, can be a bottleneck. If you are climbing the mount Everest, the Hillary step can be a bottleneck. And if it is the K2 which is the second tallest mountain in the world that you are climbing, the most difficult part of the climb is actually named the 'Bottleneck.' Of course, if you are working in a factory, Assembly line of the factory can have bottlenecks associated with it. If you work with chemistry, a rate limiting reaction can be a bottleneck to the whole process of a chemical reaction. Even if you study biology, you will find 'population bottlenecks' where the population of a species is drastically reduced by some cause like a disease and a natural disaster. If you watch wildlife videos there will be bottlenecks where crocodiles hunt wildebeest who attempt to cross the river. It is important to identify these bottlenecks in any process, if we want to improve productivity. Especially in assembly lines which were popularized during the industrial revolution, identifying as well as finding the true cause was utmost important. As an example, in early stages of #Fordcars company assembly line, the rate limiting step ultimately became the time it takes the paint to dry! So earlier they had to stick to color black as it dried faster, until newer faster drying paints were available. To identify and treat the problems of bottlenecks the fishbone diagrams (Ishikawa diagrams) are used. There is nothing magical in this, as it simply means there can be a variety of contributing factors in an assembly line bottleneck, it may be an error in humans, tiredness, or slow supply chain, problem with machines etc. And try to solve all the issues. When there is a bottleneck junction in a big city engineers use flyovers, or bypass routes to diverge the traffic away from the bottleneck, even separating commercial cities away from schools and factories may be necessary. It seems unnecessary to talk about these high demanding problems, let it be an engineer's job, or the manager's job. But I suggest otherwise. Even we individuals can become stuck in bottlenecks in our lives that we feel like we are slow in progression and life seems just dragging on. Maybe it is time for us to draw a fishbone diagram and identify our root causes of problems rather than trying obvious unhelpful solutions that we have already tried. Maybe it's time to divert our route with a new flyover or create a new channel of motivation to keep up the work. Maybe it's time to ask help from someone with better knowledge and experience. Otherwise, the bottlenecks will consume all our time and everyone following behind us will get affected at the end.

Oh. I have been lazy. I should have talked about this earlier. But no time is there other than now to do something. "Better late than never". And this is the shortest article you are ever going to read about the mindfulness. I will quickly Introduce the mindfulness. Being aware of the awareness is the mindfulness. This is the shortest, and closest and most complete definition of mindfulness that I have come across. And these are not my words. These are from great people who practice mindfulness daily. But as we all know having known the definition helps but not completely. Being aware is not mindfulness. Just being aware is not mindfulness. As nothing can be done without being aware. We are aware all the time we are not sleep. We work, walk, talk and roll in an emotional roller-coaster throughout the day. But can that be called being Mindful? And we know the answer. But if you are aware of your awareness, then it is mindfulness by above definition. See the Suttle difference? Let's imagine you are a programmer. You are tired after six hours of work, and you are aware of your tiredness. That is not mindfulness. But if you see that you are observing your awareness of tiredness as a quantity itself. Then you are mindful. Mindfulness feels like a higher layer of awareness. But what is the importance of knowing this? It is obvious we are immediately starting actioning when we are faced by an emotion, like tiredness, love, greed, anger etc. That is if we are just aware. But if we are mindful of theses emotions, there is a gap between thoughts and actions. Instead of involved with these emotions, once they are objectified as things to be aware of, we naturally tend to get away from our impulsiveness. I can write thousand benefits of being mindful. But this may not the time or the place. I suggest there are thousands of blogs have done the same before. So, I choose not to. However, I will give you another principle to help you with this. That is, Mindfulness without wisdom is like a blind goose. That is true. You have read it correct. Mindfulness without wisdom is not going to go anywhere and it is going to do more harm than good. So, what is wisdom? Wisdom is the information we receive to guide our mindfulness with. I have given you some wisdom. here in this article. But there is lot more. Wisdom is shaped by our information. So, if you are prejudiced by your culture or religion, I suggest you go in front of a mountain and be mindful until your ego drops down to earth and, then mindfulness will take over. And it will generate wisdom. As information is always out there, whenever you hear or see or smell something. You may also like reading: Train of thoughts, and of silence C++ compilers, from programming to life

There are a lot of things from basic understanding of computer language which we can gather to understand the nature of what we see around us. Even if you are a non-programmer that is totally fine. I will introduce you to some principles of programming, in general which are not limited to programming itself. To understand and tackle with complexity of the program, there are principle of data encapsulation are used. Have you ever tried building with Legos? If you look at the process, simple Legos few types of blocks are put together to develop complex structures. You will see this pattern repeated everywhere. Even building of towers, assembly of a car, developing a software. In software engineering, to improve the process a layer of data encapsulation is used. In simple terms it means a well-structured piece of code, which has specific functionality. These pieces of code can be used wherever necessary without need to worry about the internal architecture input -> encapsulated code -> output fuel -> engine -> mechanical energy If you compare this to assembly of a car, it is like building a engine, Chassie, body, gears separately. Which has their own input processing and output. These items can be later put together to make a car. Most importantly the process is faster and smoother as each and every piece is optimized for the best of function by the experts. There is no way a single person could tackle the complexity of everything, otherwise, which is unnecessary as well. So, what message can we get from these programming principles (collections composition encapsulation) for life? I can give you a few. You can enumerate more as you would go along your journey. Imagine you are trying to build a complex structure. Maybe you are trying to write a novel. Maybe you are trying to understand a complex subject matter for your semester exam. Maybe you are trying to organize a party. Thinking about such a complex task itself is overwhelming. Only way you can tackle such a task is only by focusing on each piece separately and trust the process of encapsulation. The composition and complexity will eventually come later, and everyone will admire your handy work and even be amazed how you have achieved it. (However it is also important to try to understand the complexity in the outset as well- as in blooms taxonomy) More importantly when you observe things in life, we are just looking at the complexity and admire it as it is. However, we forget the simplicity has created it. As an example, we admire the Lamborghini, yet we do not see that it is a composition of tiers metal, plastic fluids, etc. which has less meaning and value if separated. Ultimately, we will start to lose the value in Lamborghini, at least lessen it. Why? you may ask. I will write that article later.-> (How things are valued) You may also like to read Are we prisoners of our minds?

Following is a part from the book "What is time ?". Hope you would enjoy reading. It is about understanding time in a novel way, so we are one step closer to the truth. London skies, where there are more airplanes than buses on roads. I was sitting on a park bench in south london, looking at the skies. Noticed an airplane running over my head, above the clouds making a shadow on clouds, took a sharp turn at the edge of the cloud and toward horizon, progressively lowering itself towards the airport and vanished from sight after flying into a faint shadow above low lying tree tops. Before it disappeared, I noticed another airplane, joining its path coming from the north from the far corner of the sky. Before it disappeared, another plane followed, one by one each following its path there were many each minute passing by. It seems that Gatwick is a busy airport over the weekend. It's a three day holiday and people are traveling. Even the skies are busy ! Fig 28. Even the skies are busy It brought back memories from my past. When I was a little boy, I used to play with my brother in a nearby playground. Among many games we used to play there was one in particular. We used to catch leaves which fall down from nearby trees into the playground. It usually happens prior to a rain, when clouds are roaring up, winds blow, signs of a typical monsoon rain, all the other kids who play on the ground have gone home leaving the whole ground to us ( we were living closest to the ground !). The old leaves of different sizes and shapes from tall trees start to fall one by one loosened from the gales. We jump here and there trying to catch these leaves, which is of course very difficult as it is very unpredictable to follow their path before they hit the ground. It was very challenging and exciting, as kids jumping here and there following a leaf is all that was needed to bring happiness and smiles. Since when has life become so complicated? Fig 29. Since when has life become complicated? This brings back to the question of linearity of the time. If we describe events of the ‘leaf catching game’ according to time someone would say, at time (event 0) the leaf got separated from the tree, and it traveled through air x amount of time until it landed on the ground (event 1 )or caught by the kid  ( which is myself and my brother ). It gives a good picture of what happened, we can use it to describe it or write it down. But if we look at the time line there are a lot of seconds that we do not describe. And we can say something happened to the leaf at each and every second, and it did, otherwise it will never land on the ground. Fig 30. Leafline and numberline If we compare this to a number line, as you can see there are many other numbers between 0 and 1, an infinite amount of numbers. So, there should be an infinite amount of time intervals between events 0 and 1. If there is an idealist who wants to describe an event he should describe an infinite amount of information which happened over an infinite amount of time intervals. Which is impossible as we see ( it will take an infinite amount of time to describe what happened in half a second ), so whatever the descriptions we make about events which happened over time is fundamentally not the  absolute truth. Its relative, its useful, it is necessary but it is not absolute truth because the leaf from the tree detached at time 0 and landed at time 1 are just two fixed points in a continuum. Is it a continuum? This gives us a novel perspective to explain. Let's imagine me and my brother observing the same leaf detached from the tree at time 0 (event 0). Until it lands on the ground at time x (event 1) there are an infinite amount of observations about the leaf which could be made by an observer. However I only made y amount of observations ( which takes k time ) and my brother made z amount of observations ( which takes l time ). If there is a finite amount of time my brain takes to make an observation and if y > z does that mean i have felt time passed more slowly than my brother? Does that mean time which we feel is dependent on the number of observations we make? And what does my brain do all the rest of the time, which is not observing. ( x- k). Did the time exist during that period of time? Fig 31. Leaflines for two observers What is time? Time is created in mind as a side effect of comparing two events in mind, in now. If the above is true, the more events we observe between two fixed events the more time ( gaps ) there will be. That can partially explain why children ( who are good observers ) will have more time than adults who do everything that has become routine rather than novelty. There are less and less fixed events in our days when we get older as we hardly pay attention to everyday occurrences around us. And it will explain why a traveler feels he has long fulfilled life as he has created opportunities to become more observant in what is happening in the world by traveling and its novelty creating more and more observations per day. But his grandfather in the garden doing some gardening creates the same number of new observations about his fresh vegetable plot and feels fulfilled about his day. Who can argue which is better. Either is relative. Fig 32. Grandpa in the Garden. If youLook at your life, when you describe your life to someone else. You will notice that we do the same. We describe fixed events from our life to give a picture of what happened. Which is never the truth. There is no system to exactly record all the events accurately and there never will be a perfect such system as infinity is unachievable. Although we feel time is continuous when we carefully examine time, we see it's just a feeling, we never feel a continuum, to experience time we have to jump from event to event, describe each event then the illusion of continuous time creates in our minds. The truth is we would never know whether it is a continuum, in the first place we are the creators of time. So if it is not continuous for us should it be not? Looking at the falling leaf simile, we can try to describe what is happening in the mind. When we get thoughts as the day unravels, jumping from one thought to the other, is the only way we can understand what is happening. We can never understand thoughts as a linear continuum.(Actually there is only a finite amount of thoughts happening during one day, and scientists estimate this number to be around 6200, it may be bigger or smaller but the fact remains it is finite ) It is impossible because there would be an infinite amount of information necessary to describe each day otherwise. Only way to understand it is to jump from one thought to another. Just like describing a falling leaf. But that is not the truth. That is not the true picture of what happens. We can never know what truly happens when a thought is processed in the brain. Fundamentally it is relatively true when we say we think, one thought and another. It is not absolute truth because that is not what happened exactly. It should be continuum but understood as fixed frames. (Recently I discovered that "time bending" is similar to above argument. Popularized by French Philosopher Henry Bergson, as pointed out by one of my readers. However, there are Suttle differences.- Part 2) Link to the book.

Today I am going to share a story with you. It is hilarious now when I look back and think about it but nonetheless it is still a near death experience as it is. And the lessons learnt are still valid. I had to travel in an airplane few weeks back. I had a little cold for a few days prior with a mild frontal headache. I didn't mind that as I never had any problem travelling. 6-hour travel after busy day of working, on top of that I couldn't even sleep on the night before. As usual and as often happens, flight was delayed one a half hour! Well, that is for the background. Flight was smooth, nothing abnormal, I was in good spirits. However, I could not sleep still. At 40000 feet I was really fine, then the pilot announced we are about to descend. And slowly but steadily it started a down slide. Then I noticed a sharp headache on half of my forehead, which has never been there, like I was struck with a club. That's strange Sharp severe pain 9/10. My initial thoughts were maybe it is a sinusitis and blocked ear causing nerve irritation. (later happened to be what it is) Or a stroke. Latter was fearsome. A worst place to get a stroke! Am I going to die? Are these my last minutes on this life? And I panicked. I palpated my pulse and felt its slowing down. I could feel my heartbeat slow down. For 15 seconds I believed I am going to die. I told the stranger nearby that I feel ill, and I lost my consciousness. And I woke up. for 2 minutes I didn't know what happened. And a kind flight attendant helped me with some water, and I processed what happened. Pain was still there, and my heartbeat was fine. I had a Vasovagal attack! There is more to the story. But I will not drag you on that lane as I really like to keep the post short and let you scroll through the cat stories in the web. Lesson one: For 15 seconds that I believed I am going to die, I reflected my life. And I knew I have wasted it on unnecessary things. Family, money, my job, stress, work did not matter. I really did not know what is on the other side. And I regretted the way I have spent my life. Lesson two: The only one person that could help me was the one who sat next to me. That was the most important person. I will end the story here. When I reflect It may be not a true near-death experience in an airplane, yet I did believe it was. Some of you may have near death experiences. True ones. Please feel free to share your lessons in comments. For rest of you I suggest imagining. Imagine before it happens. What insights science and philosophy can provide us about Near-death experiences? You can read about it here. You may also like to read, puddles of life, rain rain go away.

You may have heard of chaos theory, may have watched the movie 'the butterfly effect' or at least heard that the 'weather is unpredictable', so much so our national weather institute cannot even predict weather for the next month, even few days ahead. And the simple explanation to the weather problem is chaos theory. In simple terms, chaos theory is ' in a complex system, small changes in initial starting state can lead to unpredictability of the system over time that it can result in large variations in outcomes.' Ok, maybe that was too harsh. We will first dissect it slowly and then when we have enough knowledge, look back at our lives to see, if there any use we can apply this knowledge in our lives. What is a complex system? Our atmosphere and weather are a complex system, we can understand why with all its clouds, winds, temperature, ice glaciers, ozone layer and global warming, it is a complex system. However, even three objects in space moving relative to each other and having gravity effects on each other is a complex system. Even three simple gravity balls in space! is by definition complex. And by establishing chaos theory, there will be marked variation in position of these gravity balls which is so unpredictable if the initial positions are changed even a small fraction. If positions of three balls are unpredictable over time 'by definition of chaos theory' now we can understand why our weather departments struggle so hard to predict the future. But hey, they do a pretty good job right? Chaos theory and fractals Forget mathematics, still our forefathers knew there will be monsoons, or four seasons of weather. If the weather is so unpredictable, why do we observe these patterns in the weather over time? Edward Lorenz who first came out with chaos theory, while he was investigating weather systems noticed over time in complex systems, there are patterns start to emerge which can come back again and again, due to some forces, hence given the name Attractors. And these patterns will lead to infinitely complexity but self-similar across all scales- which are called 'fractals' in mathematics. Now let's slow down. We stopped learning math long time ago, why do we have to revisit, 'fractals'. The truth is we do not have to. If we look at nature (which is another complex system) there are examples of these fractals. And oh boy! there are so many so that mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot had written a book about these observations in the nature. The Fractal Geometry of Nature 1982 Can chaos theory explain our life? So, how are we going to explain our lives with chaos theory? It is clear that we are living in a complex system, not only the weather, even our minds are complex enough, the outcomes can be unpredictable over time. Even a spark of a single thought you are getting by reading this chapter can lead to change in thousand lives and even the weather in 100 years to come! What can we do with this knowledge? Imagine you are around some 'Lorenz attractors'. Your life seems predictable rotating around same people, same routines (fractals?), however if you look carefully there is variation, and nothing is repeated. If you try and get out of complex patterns, of course you will be back into a chaotic life and be blown away. But after some time, you will be attracted to some other 'Lorenz factor' and there will be a flow. And that is the nature. And I suggest you have faith in chaos theory after all and the take the leap of faith, which you have been trying to take your entire life. Thank you for reading : can chaos theory and weather explain our lives. You may also like to read: What is time? a novel way to understand. Pyramids or mighty pyramids, lessons from blooms taxanomy