Work hard to play hard

Have you ever thought, "I'll do it tomorrow", and you never found time to do it because some activity always came up? I've been there several times and I'm tired of not completing my tasks and jobs. In fact, sometimes, blogging also becomes a chore when I don't have any idea in mind. 

After much thinking, I decided to compile a list to make stuff better for myself and you, the reader-

1) Stop procrastinating 

Procrastinating is the act of delaying important activities for a later time. It mostly never gets completed.
People often tell me to make schedules or timetables to solve my problem of excessive gaming but I never seem to be able to comply to the table. There is no consequence for failure to do a task. My class, during value education class, discussed ways to prevent procrastination and we concluded that that we can prevent it by:
a) Downloading app locks which completely block opening apps on mobile phones for a while 
b) Tell parents to make consequences for failure in doing tasks or chores 
c) Do the worst task in the morning, forcibly if possible so you're free for the rest of the day
d) Crave finishing work to be free so that time does not seem to go by so 'slowly'

2) Set incentives
I've previously written a blog on setting incentives
Example: If you finished a chapter of economics today, you get to play video games for 2 hours or go out for dinner. if not, then suffer the consequences (1.b) 

3) Get proper sleep

This is, as funny as it may be, a real problem! I cannot study half the time because I sleep at 12:30 am and wake up at 6:30 am for school. My best suggestion is to come home and sleep for an hour or if you can, sleep during English literature or another boring subject.

4) Be enthusiastic 

Ryan thinks studying is fun. Ryan is cool

Make studying fun. Use highlighters of all colours, make jokes out of the things you study and make acronyms or sing the words of the definition of 'national wealth'. This is really helpful and also helps you sing better in front of the public.

summing up 

a) Procrastinating sucks so always finish your work first then do your time pass and even if you don't get time to play, Always remember that you'll be the only one who finished homework.

"A stitch in time saves nine"

b) Make your garden weed itself by setting incentives for you to work at and consequences for failure.

c) Sleep well because if you can't be awake, the day is as good as wasted

"Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite"

d) Enjoy studying. It is not as bad as it seems and the more you do it, the better you become. Studying harder a lot does not make you uncool or a nerd but it makes you rich.

Old vs new

As a 2010's kid, I can say that my decade is much better than the 2000s. We have the newest iPhones, newer Playstations, super fast computers, the internet of things, and a lot more technology. We also have better medical care, scientific advancements and a lot of activities to do if we are bored. But this is my perspective. If an adult is asked, he will surely say that the 2000s were better. So let us  compare a few offbeat points to show the real winner-

Socialising:
In the 2000s, there was not really a whole bunch of ways to socialise or go out with friends and family. There was no Snapchat or Instagram to get by. People would normally have to call others and remembering their numbers was a pain. Facebook was not so much a big thing back then as a it is today (even though it is slowly dying out) and transportation was not as advanced as today. There were fewer restaurants, clubs and social gatherings. Shopping centres were less in comparison to today.

Fitness:
Today there is a serious lack in fitness as compared to a decade ago. At least among teens. Mobile phones have ruined teenagers' postures and nobody goes to out to meet friends. A decade ago, instead of messaging friends, people would actually go out and meet them. Nowadays, you can do it at home via Skype, WhatsApp and other social media sites. This causes lethargy and a lot of children and teenagers are getting fatter.

Food;
We can all say that today's food is much better than the food a decade ago. However, there is a lot of junk food in markets causing various horrible ailments such as diabetes, obesity, heart failure, etc. A decade ago, Lays, Doritos, Gatorade, Maggi, cup noodles, and packet fried foods were barely, if not present at all. Today, every store has a stock of such foods and they cause the maximum of child problems.

Technology:
Hands down today's technology is better than a decade ago. Come on, the best game of the 2000s was Mario and today you have Overwatch, the Witcher 3, Dark Souls and The Last of Us. the best phone of 2000s was arguably early model of the iPhone. Today you have phones with 24 megapixels back cameras and phones which tell you the price and kind of shoes just by pointing a camera at it.

Television:
In the 2000s, we had memorable shows like Friends, Two and a Half Men and a few more but in the 2010s, there are shows like Game of Thrones, the Big Bang Theory, Suits, etc (although some started in the late 2000s, they became really famous in the 2010s). You also have curved OLED and UHD television today compared to those boxes in the 2000s.

Fashion:
Needless to say, 2000s fashion was better. Today you have celebrities wearing clothes made of beef and steak. You have lady gaga wearing God knows what on every single occasion and 21 Pilots accepting a Grammy in underpants.

There are a lot more points which can be discussed but these are the most standing out points which are not too deep unlike finance, population and poverty which normally would swoosh past one's head. You cannot go back in time so you might as well enjoy today and hope your tomorrow has a real overboard unlike today's crap.

We stray away from God everyday

Coldplay came to Mumbai on 19 November 2016 and a man filed a complaint against Chris Martin because he mistakenly put the flag in his back pocket while singing a song.

The world is a crazy place and people are crazy. People jump to weird conclusions after a single act which normally doesn't mean anything. Here, the man blamed Chris to insult India by putting the flag in his back pocket.

People believe anything and go ahead with it. Just recently, a huge commotion arose when a bunch of women stood up and started protesting that the Wonder Woman movie's screening should only be accessible to women because Wonder Woman is a female superhero. Where is the logic in that? Does that mean that only men can go for the screening of male superhero movies? Feminism has truly gone a stretch too far. Women rise up for anything and protest. Even on the stupidest thing as a superhero movie. 

A man sued red bull for not giving him wings when he drank a can. What could he possibly expect? and which women would actually like wings on a man? Axe deodorant was also sued because when a man wore it, angels did not fall. 

Another woman sued McDonalds because her cup lid broke while she was holding it in her lap and filling sugar. 

People try to make money off literally anything. Any weird case presents to them is an incentive to make money.

A woman sued a man who helped her from a fire but held her arm. She considered that as sexual harassment. 

A burglar broke into a home and got an electric shock from an appliance and sued the homeowners.

This is the kind of things that make you question humanity. You also begin to question the newspapers which publish such news. Just a few months ago, a newspaper company posted an article when a man was caught by the police from a chase because he stopped to pet a few cats. 

How will this affect you? And what was going on in the man's had when he stopped to pet cats?

Charles Bukowski said, "People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." 

This must be soooo profound. Isn't it the same profoundness that a person will eat when they are hungry but duck when you throw an apple at their face? 

This is the kind of things one should keep away from. Keep this kind of nonsense out of your life because there is no way this will affect your life. 

There are also people who say that if you support gay rights, you must be gay. A friend of mine once told me that. I replied," I support animal rights. DO I LOOK LIKE AN ALPACA TO YOU?"

Please stay away from such minded people. They are bound to lower your IQ.
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previous blog-
http://bagriaanjaneya.blogspot.in/2017/07/the-times-of-nonsense.html

The Times Of Nonsense

Let me put it out there- I don't read or see any kind of news be it newspapers, journals, magazines, news channels or social media. Why should I? News today has almost no value. Coming on the news is fairly easy. All you need it a story- any story and on literally anything- and a wad of green paper. Pay a journalist and the next day or face could be next to Donald Trumps' Paris accord pull out. Newspapers don't have much value anymore. They post whatever pleases the readers and we cannot blame them either. They are a business and profit is the main motive of a business. So if Deepika Padukone's new gym attire interests people, you can expect shah rukh khan's and salman khan's outfit next. There is rampant competition amongst the newspaper giants and the quality of journalism is decreasing. Paparazzi is slowly taking over and real content is being obscured. Nobody cares about Tyga being spotted at an airport or Justin Bieber falling of a stage during a performance but journalists will speak of that more extensively than people dying in disaster struck areas.
Suppose your an Australian farmer. Will the floods in Bangladesh or the record sales of iPhones affect your life? No. But you will yet waste time to read it. There is a lot of useless information on the news everyday and 99.9% of it has no value to you. So why read it? You should rather spend time working or sleeping or even playing video games. A landslide in Lebanon won't affect a Chinese restaurant owner unless his party destination is Lebanon. People might say that you need to have a knowledge about the world but honestly it does not matter if there is turmoil in Tata Sons or the Campa Cola compound is getting destroyed. It may be a pressing concern but unless it affects my life in any ways, personally I don't go into depth of it. This may seems like a horrible habit but sadly, it's the truth. Do something worthwhile instead of wasting precious time reading nonsense especially entertainment news.
So go ahead. Delete flipboard, NDTV or BBC news network. It really does not have too much effect on your life.

A Modern Day Twain Story

Once upon a time, a beautiful angel visited a youth's room whilst he was asleep and woke him up. Groggily, the youth woke up. The angel introduced herself as a being who had appeared to grant him a wish for his life was abhorrent with poverty and no friends. The angel told the youth that she would offer him five choices and out of them the boy would choose one and that would come true. The angel offered the youth: love, wealth, fame, wisdom and death. Almost instinctively, the youth chose love. Soon, he met a girl and fell deeply in love with her and so did she. They were married within a year and lived a very happy but modest life. However, one unfortunate day, the lovely lady was caught in a car accident and died. The youth wept and wept. Finally he wept no more but inside, was very numb. The beautiful angel appeared before the youth and told him that love is just a feeling. She told him that love is not something which goes beyond the grave and that love is just temporary. She assured the youth that with time, his wounds would surely heal and decided to offer him another wish for the youth was in a depression as deep as tartarus. The boy chose fame. Soon, the boy began to be known by many in his neighbourhood and in a week, the whole city knew him. Within a year, he was the most famous person in his country with over 50 million followers on all social media. Wherever he went, he was engulfed with fans and admirers. Paparazzi flowed in and out of his house and his face appeared on every magazine's cover. He met with famous people almost everyday. But the youth still felt very empty for he had not accomplished anything in life and realised that his life's leading to a very sorry future. He could not bare the fame for it was too much pressure and longed to go back to being a normal person. In a few years, the angel appeared in front of him and he begged for a new wish and the angel smiled and offered him the other three. The boy chose wealth and almost instantly, his bank account was worth more than any other person in the whole world. The boy retired in comfort and took up have gambling, alcoholism and abused all the drugs known to man. Within 30 years, he was reduced to a middle class person and longed to have forgotten his rich past to which he couldn't ever return. What first world problems were these! He longed for the angel to return and when she did, he begged her for wisdom for he was a very foolish person. The senior was now engulfed in books and within a decade, he was the wisest person to ever exist. he knew the secrets of life and the reason for the very existence of man. he knew everything about the world. Years passed by and the man was now ensured that all of his wisdom was of very little use for him. He knew that he had made many mistakes in his life but the worst was to have met the angel. He regretted everything the angel had granted him. Suddenly, the angel appeared and told him that it took him 70 years to realise that the one thing in life that was inevitable was death. Dust we are and dust is what we return to. Love, wealth, fame and wisdom may seem like a rosy life but in the end we will all be washed away by the same hand that washes away beggars. We will be subject to the same judgement as political and war criminals. We will be judged the same as Adolf hitler and by the same person who judged him- God. Being rich or famous has no worth and wisdom just opens the curtains to truth. Love is a very pointless feeling for the person you love, in this generation, will most probably leave you for someone better or richer. Hearing this, the old man felt ill and dropped to his knees and begged the angel for the last and final wish: death.

teen culture

Teen culture has evolved massively over the past few decades. Teenagers no longer hang around rollerskating and eating popsicles like was the case in the 1970s. Today, teenagers spend their time listening to hip hop music and electronic dance music. Artists like Future, G-Eazy, Lil Uzi Vert, The Chainsmokers, Major Lazer, etc. are brand new teen role models in 2017. Gone are the days when teenagers picked up a book to read. Instead, nowadays we wile away time playing Call Of Duty, Battlefield, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto, amongst several others. Bethesda, Ubisoft, Activision, John Green and Veronica Roth have replaced John Grisham, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and others famed and classical authors. Today, teenage girls love reading about sad love stories with no cultural value and boys don't really read anything. 

Socialising has become the most important thing in a youth's life and everything is a fight for popularity. Being unpopular or unknown is not accepted. Everybody is expected to have the latest gadgets and fashion senses. Everybody's private information is publicly revealed on social media sites. Our minds are relentlessly controlled by corporate media like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. We are enslaved by society and peer pressure is our largest enemy. While everybody's mind only revolves around socialising with friends and attending parties, other important aspects of teenage life are being suppressed such as finding out who you are, reading, studying, planning your life and exploring the world around you. Society today is slowly building a generation of average working people who may never get out of the rat race. On a macro level, productivity will be low and debts high. Leniency in grading test scores has increased over the years making undeserving kids achieve new heights.

Teenagers have a mind of their own. Nobody can stop them and those who try to are insulted and condemned. Internet culture has also imposed several problems on teenagers. Brain melting jokes and memes are replacing science and math is being considered a subordinate to YouTube.

Art as taken a massive blow because it has been replaced by R&B. 

When individuals like Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kylie Jenner, and Drake lead the world today, we face a cultural decline.  People who spit on fans, promise to stand for presidential elections when they are 33 million dollars in debt and make make up which ruins the skin are bound to lead the world to hell for they are being rewarded for their fame. Anybody who speaks out for the ruin of culture today is jeered and shunned and told that 'everything will be fine'. But how will everything be fine when the future president of the free world might be an insolvent rapper and the most famous teen in the world is known for lip syncing all his concerts and being a jerk to all his fans and friends.

My only prayer is that we spend some time everyday to do things that actually matter instead of wasting time to get a relationship or a couple hundred Instagram followers. We are the next leaders of the world and we surely can't blame selfies for our ruin.

Falsas Ilusiones Históricas

History essentially is the study of all events and occurrences in the passage of time. History is everlasting and can never end. It is the study of evolution, man and also sometimes even words. so it is a large mix of Etymology, Anthropology, science, even Ornithology and Orology in some areas.
Throughout the course of history there have been different beliefs in people. For example, today people believe in technology and that the government actually helps us daily.
381 years ago people believed that the way to enrichment was by the trade of tulips.
375 years ago people thought that the way enrichment was by putting all their trust on a gambler, influential, bankrupted man called John Law.
79 years ago people thought that the way to enrichment, power and fame is by depositing trust into a dictator who was a drug addict, a racist, a sadist, and surprisingly short.

We are full of delusions. We are still enslaved by political, social and cultural dogmas and traditions which we cannot change unless we try. Back in the olden times, a woman called Mother Shipton predicted the fire of London and London flooding. A couple of astrologers predicted the world to end on 21st December, 2012. People believed the best way to heal sword cuts was to take a magnet, place it in soil with seeds and the water used to clean the wounds must be used to water the seeds. Can you imagine that today?
But today we are in much more serious delusions than scimitar wounds. We trust technology a little to much. Take the coming of driverless cars controlled by programming. What is a driverless car? It is a car controlled by a computer. One can hack a computer no matter how strong the firewall is. All it takes is one ISIS tech genius to hack into the computers and soon several cars will drive off cliffs. Death Valley will seem like a Japanese cherry blossom festival form that point of view.
We believe whatever is ear candy for us. take India for example. For the last elections, so many promises were made but India has hardly shown any increase in two years. It is not easy to judge but a population of 1.3 billion only producing 50,000 crore Rupees per annum in taxes is very sad. But then again, a lot of the population does not pay tax due to minimum income requisites. But what is more annoying is that an insanely large part if the tax payers do not pay tax as well. Due to this, the Prime minister had to demonetise the currency and remove 500 and 1000 Rupee notes to irritate the black markets. But one way or the other, humans always, always, always take situations like these, make them incentives and take advantage and all measures to beat the incentive. This has worked very well and someone or the other always finds loopholes in plans. That is the reason Murphy's Law states,' In any field of endeavour, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.' also,'Nature always sides with the hidden flaws.'

I hope we can overcome this blind faith in delusions and political bureaucrats because they will be the cause of our undoing. Before believing in people, assess the situation in your own way and in you own sense. Don't count on anybody to help you in life or make you money. The world is cruel and everything is fair. The word 'honour' is found amongst thieves and pirates only, even though it seems to be ironic. Even if fifty million people tell you something, it can yet be wrong and don't expect zebras when you hear galloping.