Let Go!

What a powerful word.

Why did i choose this as a title of my blog and what on earth am i going to write. Read on.

As humans we are packed with emotions, this emotion is what ticks the world. Without these emotion's we would be mere machine.

That being said , this emotion is what brings all the peril.

Its quite clear that we crave for things be it happiness, love, care, affection , new gadgets ... the list is endless.

This emotion defies logic , sometimes we know we cannot get it but still we crave for it. Why? we never think why, i know i cannot get it but why am i craving. Why is there no application of Brain, why no commonsense?

A classic example is a failed love. The person in question knows that its a lost case and she will not be back but the heart still craves for her. Its emotional trauma. Completely oblivious to the fact that the world around him is moving on , this emotional trauma crushes him with no end in sight.

I took the above example as its much easier to explain and put it into a context.

Its pointless to keep staring at the phone to see if that 'sms' would come from her. We just sit there and waste time all in the name of emotion.

Emotion to the right level is perfect, a step too far can be detrimental. I mean detrimental in every sense of the word.

Sometimes as often said, we need to step back and say ' let go'. Its easier said than done but it works magic , lightens the heart and gets the senses back to normal from illusion.

Once an individual let's go of that emotional attachment, all the pain starts to disappear slowly. Iam not saying that world will change upside down but its a step forward in the better direction.

Letting go of something hurts , ask any couple they would explain that to you , ask a child how much it felt seeing to loose the most cherished toy, ask a parent how much it meant marrying the daughter away, ask a person how much it means to loose a friend.

The answer in most case is always - ' This is the single biggest pain in my life?'

It hurts but lets come to reality and face it . Let go of the emotions and we should be fine and clear in our head .

Let's be more practical and not be tied down to the clutches of the sheer emotional bonding.

I dare not say that we shouldn't have emotional bonding at all but all i say is that we need to have it in the right quantity.

Some times in life , we need to say ' Let Go' . If you purely cherish it , things would come back to you.

Doesn't this contradict the statement ' Chase your dream'. I think it does slightly but when you let go of things , one gets more energy and clearer thoughts which would enable one to achieve their ultimate goal.

Am sure lot of people would have a wide view on this and most importantly i am unable to put my thoughts convincingly. It is quite apparent that the flow isn't too coherent and i could see holes in my logical break down of this problem but i think i have done reasonably well to put my thoughts across.

Don't get crushed under the weight of emotion, LET GO!

Have i tried it in recent past - YES . Did i succeed - No, would i try again - Yes.

Chaos

That word brings great emotions to lot of people , i want to write about the beauty in Chaos and the opportunity that it brings.

Of course realms has been written about how the recent financial crisis played out and how the chaos presented nice opportunity to players such as JP Morgan and Barclays.

I don't want to write about that but i actually want to write about the beauty of chaos in a ' market'. Some could argue that its no different from financial markets but for me normal markets are the mother of any other markets and i would like to focus on a day to day markets also called Mandi's.

Yesterday evening i went to buy my weekly groceries, i went to a large up-market super market store. Everything was in order, i could see signages and one could not miss the item that need to be bought.

I had a list of things that i had to buy , just went into the market and picked up the things , came off to the counter , paid the bill. All done in less than thirty minutes.

I just thought that was nice and easy, while i was just coming off, i just took a wrong turn and wandered off into a long corridor. When i came off the corridor, it was all chaos all that i could hear was frantic shouts and lots of people walking up and down.

I was taken aback , i could not understand what this was and why are so many people here and what is this noise all about.

Little did i realize that i had stepped into one of the largest weekly markets. I watched in utter dismay the voices that rose and the increased decible levels.

Even in the chaos of a free market , i could spot some savvy dealers forging very good deals, be it in selling old mobiles or selling few kilos of potato's. I could clearly see traders charming the buyers with improvised verses and also saw people who had already done great bargain deals.

It was commotion in short but not a sort that one need to be alarmed to but one where there is raw power of buying and selling.

As i stood there , i was just wandering off in my mind to villages in India where such weekly markets were the norm , i understood how much those markets were making India tick.

Its small in comparison to big supermarkets but i think i have fallen in love with the raw selling power of the merchants and the intelligent buyer spotting opportunity to make that extra savings.

I really did like it and i was watching the whole fun for almost an hour.

It was chaos all the way until Five in the evening , when order returned in the form of closure of markets for the day when all merchants had done the deals and many people were happy that they got what they wanted and even in those chaotic moments, there was beauty and opportunity.

It was true reflection of human spirit. Boy did i love it and left shaking my head with a big smile on my face.

Pure reflection of free market forces in action where supply and demand are the king.

Free market theorists would love this post!!!