10 Lessons From Einstein

 
I came across these lessons from Einstein while visiting Paulo Coehlo’s blog and thought I should share. I visit his blog time to time when I can because of his short stories. They always have a wealth of meaning and inspiration.

1. Follow Your Curiosity “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
2. Perseverance is Priceless “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
3. Focus on the Present “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
4. The Imagination is Powerful “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
5. Make Mistakes “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
6. Live in the Moment “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
7. Create Value “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
8. Don’t be repetitive “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
9. Knowledge Comes From Experience “Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
10. Learn the Rules and Then Play Better “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Source: Dumb little man

Stories: Sharing is CARING!

This post is actually about friends or friend of mine. He is a man and as usual men have the most interesting things to share. It is about two married friends- men and a female. Let’s call the men Allan and Ben, and the female Cathy.
Allan works as an assistant to a friend of mine who is the manager. Ben is a friend to Allan and he frequents his place of work all the time. They are good friends, good enough to sin together.

Once upon a time...Allan was dating Cathy whom he got tired of cause of her endless demands. She was starting to act like a wife in short. One day, Cathy came to visit Allan at his place of work and Ben happened to be there. Seeing that he was fed up of her and short of outright dumping her, Allan decided to excuse himself from his office and came to mine leaving Ben to hit on Cathy thus taking her off his hands. Apparently Ben will hit on anything in a skirt.
As he told me this, I remembered a certain male friend of mine who told me, 'Sharing is caring'. At that time I thought it was just a quote until Allan came long with this story.
I was amazed to find out that this is how men get over girls, giving them to their friends after using them. Much as I was surprised, I could see why Allan was fed up of Cathy. She had become too demanding and was eating into his money for the family. A good time had turned into a burden and he was having none of that.
Whenever I hear such things, I always ask, ‘why do girls become demanding and dependent on the married men they date’. You have been independent without him, can survive on your own even with him around and yet, they decide to become more clingy and possessive than the wives to these men.
It is such girls that give the rest of us a bad name!!

Stories: Domestic Violence.

This post was inspired by a conversation I overheard somewhere I frequent.
It all began with a letter… A woman wrote in to an early morning Radio Show seeking advice (as they usually do) on what to do about her boyfriend. Apparently her boyfriend has a violent temper, the type where he hits doors, desks, pots and pans etc which made her scared for her life.
The consensus amongst the people I was surrounded with was; she should pack up and leave him because he will one day take it out on her and not the pots and pans. Her getting beaten or hit was an eventuality and not a maybe.  As majority thought over what they would do in such a situation, few shared there stories about domestic violence from the people they know…
A certain man said he has a friend who was once beaten up by his wife. This friend used to go out, get drunk and whenever he returned from his drinking binges, he would beat up the wife for no reason. One day, he came home so drunk, too powerless to beat up the wife that he just fell on the bed, spread eagled and slept. The wife woke up, got ropes, tied him to the bed posts and gave him a beating within an inch of his life! The more he fought, the more the ropes on the arms and legs tightened hence cutting into his skin. She beat him to the point of his clothes being shredded and the husband accepted. He therefore asked her to take him to the hospital which she did the next day.
At the hospital; the husband assured his wife how he was going to beat her up if she didn’t leave him. The wife got a truck, took all the stuff from her marital home and moved to a house that she and her husband were almost done building.
And then there were two…
PS: A Muslim when in prayer is not supposed to leave prayer no matter what or severe the interruption.
A certain woman talked about her cousin being in a violent marriage. She was being beaten by her husband every other day.
One day, the cousin returned home, bathed, got ready, prayed and decided to wait for her husband. When the husband returned home, he bathed, got ready for prayer. As he was praying, the woman decided to strike i.e give him a beating. Whenever he was bowing, she would hit him; once – he ignored, twice- he ignored, third- he decided to interrupt prayer and chase after her! Apparently the woman left that day never to return to him.
The cousin to the woman said if she were in such a situation, she would not retaliate because she hates confrontations and arguments. If her husband decided to beat her; once, twice, thrice- she’d pack her things and leave never to return. She no longer needs the man because she has a job and can fend for herself. And that in this day and age ,’Men are like buses you don’t need to chase after them. If you wait long enough, another one is round the corner.’


PS: I am in no way whatsoever condoning Domestic Violence nor an advocate for it. This story sounded shocking and funny at the time that I decided to share it.