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The Fact of Life

Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Poorly...
Many of us miss some of life's best things while saying, "I don't know how to do that. If I were to try, I'd only make a fool of myself."

A fellow I know well tried to water ski - once. He tried to get up on the skis three or four times that day. Every time he tried, he wound up tumbling into the water. The three guys on the lake with him all coached. They also laughed at his frustration. "One last time!" he yelled. Then, when he was yanked into the lake again, he swam over to the boat. He was edgy for the remainder of the day. And he has never tried to water ski again in the 40 or more years since.
Perfectionists settle for nothing short of a first-rate performance from themselves. When they come across something that has to be learned through trial and error, they become intolerant of their limitations. They pile up points in the things they can do with ease and skill, while ignoring - and maybe even putting down - the things they do poorly.

People with this bent of personality can get depressed, for nobody is capable of premier performance in everything. They get so tense they sometimes botch even the things they are good at doing. They can't relax. They remove risks from life by narrowing their interests. They get in safe, comfortable, and boring ruts.

It's liberating for some people to find out they can make mistakes and still survive! If your new dessert flops, the world won't end. If you make a mistake at work, you won't die. If you can't master calculus or statistics, you can still be a good person. If someone hears you sing off-key, you won't become an outcast.

Thank God for mistakes. They let you learn. They mean you are still pushing out your horizons. They give you a chance to grow. They let the rest of us know you are still one of us.

If you were perfect, your life would be terribly dull. Nothing to learn. No more challenges. No relationships with peers. The rest of us would probably be too intimidated to talk to you, play tennis with you, or work alongside you. And you certainly wouldn't need for anyone of our inferior status to care about you.

So don't be paralyzed by your fears. Whatever it is that you want to do and do well likely will be learned through a process that involves some miscues and false starts. But, if it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing poorly at first.

Give it a shot. Take piano lessons. Write a short story. Learn to use a computer. Paint your bedroom. Water ski. Care about someone. At the cross, God showed us how creative he can be with what looked to all the world to be failure. Why not give him a chance with you?

Inspirational Quotation Wallpapers

"LIFE is ten percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"The impossible can always be broken down into possiblities."
"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation persperation & inspiration."

"Life is like a staircase. You have to go up each stair to reach the top."

"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

"When you are not practicing, remember... someone somewhere is practicing... and when you meet him he will win."

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve."

Beauty of Women

Faces I Cant Forget!!
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Struggle Stories Of Bollywood Actors

>>•• Shah Rukh Khan •• «
The quintessential struggler story, Shah Rukh's is the one that gives credence to the millions of starry-eyed dreamers who come to Mumbai in search of finding everything. Khan once legendarily looked out at Mumbai's sea-facing Bandstand area and announced that he would rule the city.

This was even before he camped in the houses of directors Aziz Mirza and Viveck Vaswani, as the television actor from Fauji and Circus slogged to get a foot into a cruel, insider-only industry. Yet Khan wasn't ready to accept bit roles, and refused to play Anil Kapoor's driver in 1942: A Love Story, even though he and wife Gauri were barely able to scrape together rent. Khan stuck to his guns. Today, his Bandstand bungalow is a tourist shrine and he's a far way from staying at friends' houses to put himself through.

» •• Rakhi Sawant •• «
Born to an ACP father who despised Bollywood, Sawant had a tough time for the very start. It took the strong-willed actress awhile to get herself into an item-girl slot, following which her father left the house in protest, and she now lives with her mother.

The real struggle lay in Sawant setting out to purchase the finest body money could buy, and amazingly being able to borrow funds to finance her plastic surgeries. Today, she's an icon in her own right.

» •• Mithun Chakravorty •• «

The basic struggle behind the iconic 80s star ensued from the fact that he was a staunch Naxalite in Bengal, and when he wanted to leave the Naxal movement after his brother was killed in an accident, the group made it harder for him because one was not allowed to just walk away from the Naxalite cause.

Yet Chakravorty soldiered on, and graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. He is one of the only actors to win a National Award for his debut film, Mrinal Sen's Mrigaya.

» •• Manoj Bajpai •• «
In a way, his struggle still continues. Hailing from Champaran in Bihar, Bajpai made it onto the the theatre circuit in Delhi, following which he struggled in various television serials as he searched for a big movie break.

Despite appearances in important films like Droh Kaal and Bandit Queen, his breakthrough role was in Ram Gopal Varma's Satya, where he played mobster Bhiku Mhatre. He's still around, and yet prominent roles continue to avoid him.

» •• Mallika Sherawat•• «
Born Reema Lamba, the Haryanvi stunner picked her new name so as not to be lost in a generic sea of Reemas. Mallika means Empress, and Sherawat is her mother's maiden name.

Hailing from Haryana, Mallika didn't have it easy with her parents opposed to her acting career, and there have been unconfirmed murmurings about a marriage she allegedly walked out of. Entering Bollywood too wasn't easy, the actress first appearing in a music video for Bhangra singer Surjit Bindrakhia. Then, after a cameo in Jeena Sirf Mere Liye, Sherawat popped up in Khwahish, after which she shook the industry with her aggressive sexuality and unbridled tongue. Once Mallika entered Bollywood, she made sure nobody could ignore her, smalltown girl or not.

» ••Jackie Shroff •• «
A Mumbai youth, Jaikishen Shroff didn't have it easy, and going by most reports, the boy took to the wrong side of the tracks and entered the acquaintance of local ruffians. For a while, Jaikishen became Jaggu in South Bombay's Teen Patti, a small-time dada.

Still, there must have been something inherently magnetic about him, because despite his disastrous movie debut - he played a side-villain in Dev Anand's Swami Dada, his second film, Subhash Ghai's Hero, was a smash hit and made him a star overnight.

Then came a string of films pairing him with rising superstar Anil Kapoor, and the Shroff-Kapoor duo was phenomenally successful through the 1980s. Shroff kept at it since, and continues to surprise with the occasionally powerful performance.

» •• Govinda •• «
Govinda's story would have been much smoother. His mother Nirmala Devi was a famed classical vocalist from Banaras, while father Arun Kumar Ahuja was an actor in the 1940s. All was well until the one film Ahuja produced turned out to be a flop, and Arun's health deteriorated.

The family moved from Bombay's swank Carter Road area to the far-flung Virar suburb. Govinda graduated studying Commerce, but wasn't able to get a job. Around this time, Govinda watched Saturday Night Fever and worked hard to make a VHS tape promo of himself. Soon a couple of TV ads came, after which the film floodgates opened.

» •• Farah Khan •• «
Khan's mother Menaka was sister to Honey and Daisy Irani, but her father Kamran Khan passed away while Farah was still young. She soon became the breadwinner of the family, raising her brother Sajid who went on to become a television host (and more recently, director) while she became a top-rung choreographer.

Farah waited for three years to get SRK's okay on her first film, Main Hoon Na, which turned out to be a massive success -- eclipsed soon by her superhit second film, Om Shanti Om.

» •• Akshay Kumar •• «
Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia did it the hard way. A boy from Amritsar, he was raised first in Chandni Chowk before living in Mumbai's Koliwada area. He was always good in sports, and the boy went to Bangkok to study martial arts. This was a time when he worked as a chef abroad.

He started teaching martial arts in Mumbai on his return, and one of his students was a photographer who suggested Akshay look at modelling as a career option. He realised that modelling was a much more financially viable option, and films were a natural progression from that. His second film, Khiladi, was a smash hit, and the rest is ongoing history.

Google's Work Environment

We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously .. as shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light.

Moving Around: A slide allows quick access from different floors, there are also poles available.
They are similar to the ones used in fire stations.

Food: Employees can eat all they want from a vast choice of food and drink.

Station: Each employee has at least two large screens. There are 4-6 'Zooglers' per office.

INOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because "ideas don't always come when seated in the office" says one of Googles managers.

LEISURE: Pool tables, video games etc. are available in many areas.

Communication: On each floor, there are private cabin areas where employees can attend to personal affairs.

Technical Support: Problem with your computer? No problem, Bring it to this area where drinks are available while it is being fixed.

Health: Professional masseurs (eusses) available.

REST: This room provides massage chairs that you control, While you view relaxing aquariums!

Ambiance: There are many books in this library. Even some about programming!

17 Rules Between Men and Women

1. The Female always makes THE RULES.
2. THE RULES are subject to change without notice.
3. No Male can possibly know all THE RULES.
4. If the Female suspects the Male knows all THE RULES, she must immediately change some or all of THE RULES.
5. The Female is never wrong.
6. If it appears the Female is wrong, it is because of a flagrant misunderstanding caused by something the Male did or said wrong.
7. If Rule #6 applies, the Male must apologize immediately for causing the misunderstanding.
8. The Female can change her mind at any given time.
9. The Male must never change his mind without the express, written consent of The Female.
10. The Female has every right to be angry or upset at any time.
11. The Male must remain calm at all times, unless the Female wants him to be angry or upset.
12. The Female must, under no circumstances, let the Male know whether she wants him to be angry or upset.
13. The Male is expected to read the mind of the Female at all times.
14. At all times, what is important is what the Female meant, not what she said.
15. If the Male doesn't abide by THE RULES, it is because he can't take the heat, lacks ackbone, and is a wimp.
16. Any attempt to document THE RULES could result in bodily harm.
17. If the Male, at any time, believes he is right, he must refer to Rule #5