My Second Wind

If you do not believe in Karma, you got to think again. If you think there are free lunches, then you must be living under a rock. Remember when Gmail offered 1 GB of MailBox at no cost. It was not just mails, it was a slew of utility in the form of tech, tools and apps that made our lives seemingly easier. We mailed, we messaged, we reviewed, we blogged, we vlogged, we trolled, we bought, we sold, we shared, we shamed, we lapped up the free internet with both hands and drank from the hose and as we kept drinking the ocean of soda-pop (internet) from one end, we were filling up the ocean with more fizz with every time drop of information that we put into it. This ocean of information is the super intelligence which manifests itself today as Gen AI- Open AI, Gemini, Grok… Simplistically, this is nothing but the sum total of all our collective Karma on the web. The Web that fed the AI, has the Ying and the Yang and everything in between. We are not far away from a day where we switch our...

  Everything is overrated - money, career, marks, success, failure, popularity, relationships, trends, fashion, sex... (especially sex - all the titillation thrust at us lifelong across all forms of media and entertainment. You just can’t get a break from the only formula some humans think that humanity needs. Now the AI algorithms think so too :)) If you think you are not scoring enough as yet on one or more of these aspects, do not fret. There is enough time for you to get bored with whatever you are desperate for today, just relax. So, what are we here for, anyway. The answer I liked the best so far was from a sermon that I heard from a monk recently. In summary, he said, we all are a part of the superpower (God) that created us. We have over a period forgotten what our origin is and what we are capable of being. We have relegated us to be human like when we are perfectly capable of being God like. Our aim in this lifetime is to get close to becoming one with The One. Almo...