Finally done with my internship. The only thing left was the presentation at the company head office. That happened today.
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When you remain alone and do something, you either end up performing better than everyone else or you end up performing worse than everyone else. When the first case occurs, you think you are the only smart guy out there in the whole universe. Deep sense of pride creeps in. When the second case occurs, you think you are the only loser out there in the whole universe. Depression creeps in.
Bottomline: Get out, get going. Find someone with whom you feel happy with. Stop being lonely!
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I am doing a very interesting course this semester. It’s called Infrastructure Planning and Management, and I thorughly enjoy it. We in class have been discussing about various issues regarding infrastructural systems like Power, Transportation, Telecommunication, Water and Sanitation etc.
Dealing with water has been the most interesting experience so far. Let me pose you a question to begin with. How much do you pay for a litre of potable water? The second question is, how much do you think the slum dwellers pay for it? Is it less or is it more?
You would be surprised to learn that, the poor living in slums (which mostly are spread over illegal land) end up paying way more than you do. The World Bank has data to prove that. And the reason is pretty simple. We can get pipe connections, which brings public water while they can’t get these piped connections since they don’t have a legal address to provide! How do they get water then? They have to buy it from private water suppliers who generally bring tankers to the areas. And by all calculations, these tankers charge way more than what the publicly provided water costs.
What a state of affairs! Do you think a solution exists?
I would also like to ask few basic questions, which if not answered in the beginning itself, won’t ever let you implement any change in the existing water and sanitation infrastructure in India and for that matter in most of the developing countries.
Who owns natural water? Is it the government? Or are they the common people? Or no one at all?
Is water a basic human right? If yes, does it mean it should be given away for free to everyone?
Let’s see what you guys have to reflect on this. I will carry on the talk with upcoming posts.
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Striking a balance is an art in itself. And I have come to realize off late that until one masters this art, one can’t really be happy. I have been generally happy this sem, bubbling with enthusiasm and being in control of myself almost all the time. Laziness has gone somwhere, and at times I even tend to forget about its existence. I wish it gets lost and never ever returns to me. Laziness sucks! It sucks big time! The good thing is that when you get used to striking a balance between the infinite tasks you keep endulging into, laziness dies a natural death. Look at me if you still don’t agree with this. Laziness was such a parasitic friend of mine. And now, I wonder where it is!
There are at least two more discoveries that I would like to share with you. The first one is that, you derive a lot of positive energy from those who have the capability to make you feel good just by being with you. The second fact is that you end up loosing a lot of positive energy while being with those who don’t feel good for themselves. A selfish thing to do would be to find some of the first mentioned type, feed yourself with all the positive energy that you can, and then start jumping up the orbitals of success. But then I have a question here. Should you really forget that there are so many guys around you, who fall in the second category. Should you avoid them? Or should you instead reach out for them, and make them feel good (of course at the expense of you energy)?
The answer to this depends on how selfish you would like to be. It also depends upon your relationships with the persons of the second type. I believe that, if the relationship is that of friendship, you should definitely go ahead and be there with those who are not so happy. Remember the law of conservation of energy? Though you loose yours, you are passing away at least a part of it to the needy. The only point worth being aware of even while not being selfish is that, in any case you have to find a source of energy which ensures that you don’t end up with a negative content yourself. Am I talking about striking a balance? 
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