{"id":40,"date":"2003-08-01T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=40"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:01:37","slug":"if-its-ok-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/08\/01\/if-its-ok-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"If its ok with them&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">it seems the quest for happiness is dogging everyone, (read wonderbug&#8217;s post today)&#8230;like i wrote a couple of days back, &#8216;true happiness&#8217; is so dynamic, that we only have just enough time to experience it, so defining it is way way off&#8230;.Carrying on from yesterday, with most &#8216;sparks&#8217; from the book i am reading now&#8230;..i doubt if our generation can produce a bhagat singh&#8230;..who would die for a cause&#8230;. just a thought, who knows what his intentions were, maybe he measured his happiness by his martyr status, and made a gamble&#8230;.but i doubt.. i am still a fan, and believe in the nobility of his intentions&#8230;we have produced individuals who would endure for a cause they believe in, the cause is usually money&#8230;the college dropout who is the richest guy in the world, the petro giants whose dad started out as a petrol pump attendant in yemen&#8230; only stating the rule, not the exceptions&#8230;. not taking anything away from their achievements,but the motive..and so it is that most heroes today are industrial giants, and not gandhis and nehrus&#8230;again the rule, not the exception&#8230;.so , society has changed in terms of aspirations and therefore motives&#8230;i am not talking of sailors who went in search of treasures, i am talking of commonfolk&#8230;where did it all start, hmm, not here, though we had our tatas and birlas, the industrial revolution really happened in europe and america&#8230;is that why we always look for endorsements from there&#8230;why we compare our quality of life with them, love the coke, mtv lifestyle&#8230;dont mistake me, i am not talking swadeshi here, just wondering&#8230;.prof. amartya sen lauded kerala yesterday for its high life expectancy, low infant mortality rate etc..but with all that, kerala is on a downhill now, the attitude hasnt undergone much change&#8230;kerala does have all the indeces of quality of life in a position, where it compares favorably, even with the west&#8230;but&#8230;..to be continuedmeanwhile, all you guys interested in a kind of lateral thinking, check out <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorming.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">this <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">have a great weekend, everyone, not before you check out<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">manuscrypts trivia<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">&#8220;You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.&#8221;~ Albert Einstein<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it seems the quest for happiness is dogging everyone, (read wonderbug&#8217;s post today)&#8230;like i wrote a couple of days back, &#8216;true happiness&#8217; is so dynamic, that we only have just enough time to experience it, so defining it is way way off&#8230;.Carrying on from yesterday, with most &#8216;sparks&#8217; from the book i am reading now&#8230;..i <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/08\/01\/if-its-ok-with-them\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,6056],"tags":[687],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-society-culture","tag-happiness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15141,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/15141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}