My Thought For This Friday (06/30/2017) - Real respect

Real respect is the reverence, adulation, being held in high esteem, admiration, etc., a person experiences even if they have nothing to offer in return, not in power, and not in control of anything. 

My Thought For This Friday (6/23/17) - Staying put

At times, doing nothing is a solution to a problem. You don't have to react every time you face a challenge (equivalent to taking a pitch in baseball or leaving a delivery in cricket). For example, answering certain emails at work, entertaining a child's request...of course, the challenge is knowing when to stay put.

My Thought For This Friday (06/16/17) - Achieving

If we consider failure as the first step of learning and don't treat success as the final step of an accomplishment, we will continue to achieve great things in life.

My Thought For This Friday (06/09/2017) - Wedding Anniversary

Today's thought is about my wife on our 26th wedding anniversary

26 year journey with my wife Sadhana Ravishankar. Looking back, I am most grateful that I can be myself and share willfully what I feel with you. Sharing this journey with you allowed me to gain confidence to say that: There is no secret/anger that I won't hide, there is no disappointment/low point that I can't share, there is no flaw/shortcoming in me that I don't disclose, and there is no goal that wouldn't be possible.

My Thought For This Friday (06/02/17) - Protesting

Role of a protesting visionary activist is to challenge our comfort zone and make us fight against unjust practices today itself well before it is going to be accepted by the society as wrong. That is what Gandhi and Martin Luther King and many leaders did in their day well before what they fought against are now considered unacceptable by all in a society.

(I thought of this when watching the movie Hidden Figures. In the theater, there were noticeable gasps and noises expressing discomfort on the discriminatory treatment of Katherine Johnson and other African American mathematicians in NASA. What is very uncomfortable and injustice in 2017 was totally acceptable in the 1960s. There in lies the vision of those leaders who fought against such ills in the society).