Video Game

During my assignment at Future Group, one day I asked him spontaneously “ Tell me what I need to do to improve my work, these ads, plans are regular course of work and he replied with utmost ease and clarity “ Have you ever played a Mario Video game in which the guy crosses various stages, fighting obstacles, taking powers & so on, You need that power!

Though I had understood what he meant and it required immediate action, but at the same time I was wondering at his way of looking at Professional Life-Jobs, Office.

What he meant

1.In Mario ( there are 8 levels in the game with each level consisting of 4 stages with increasing level of difficulty) , Job is also like that there are hierarchy  the companies we work with responsibities increasing as we go up.

2. In Mario, every level is different with different types of creatures to trouble you, mountains, flying creatures and you have to escape and concur all of them, then only one stage will be completed, similarly at every stage in our career we have different people to deal with, different attitudes, egos and we have to pass all of them to clear that stage/designation.

3. In Mario, you get coins, if you collect 100 you will get one life additional, if you get star, who so ever you collide, he will die, if you get flower, you can throw balls at creatures, they will die, similarly in jobs you get your chances to prove yourself, opportunities, meetings where you showcase your mettle by presenting some new concept, betterment of any existing concept.

4.In Mario, at the end of every level, there is dragon stage, where you have to rescue the queen and at the stage 8.4,queens of queen is caged by dragon, You have to pass through flying fire, and then finally rockets by the dragon and as you escape the dragon by cheating him and pressing the lever, he goes, he goes in the line of fire and queen is yours, similarly we at the end of every stage have to prove ourself by the work we have done at every stage and convince the boss that we have added value to the team.

5. So in nutshell, Mario passes through lot of stages, hurdles, opportunities to get his queen while we also pass through same to get our goal.

What a interesting way to look at the Job, I was thinking aloud that weather Life can be viewed in similar fashion!

Rest in my next blog, share your views

Vikas Sachdeva

Different Emotions & temporariness

It was 4 pm while I was sitting in office thinking about temporariness of everything, yesterday only a earthquake had shattered many lives in sikkim, few days earlier blasts in Mumbai took place killing and Injuring many. So there was nature and well as humans dictating the terms telling me don’t be sure of anything, it may change any moment.

When we are happy or sad, we tend to attribute whatever is happening to us  to some reason, some cause.

I suddenly heard   the  conversations  between  Fear, Love, Sadness, Attitude, Heart and Mind. Though they tried that they are not heard somehow I managed to sneak in.

Love was as usual funky singing the song in the canteen loudly  “ ye reshmi julphen , hye sharbati aankhein”…..he made sure he was heard, everybody was enjoying it, he was teasing sadness who was just sitting in the corner reading the report on blasts. She was introvert from her childhood but yet opportunist to get the attention whenever she required.

While heart was enjoying the song by Love, Mind was just busy in analyzing don’t know what, he was pretending that he is doing something genius and would make difference to rest of people sitting around.

Attitude and fear had gone to take some snacks for all of them, they all were part of a group, really pulling each other’s leg always showing the importance but not meaning it.

Fear was the smartest person  among  them, he knew when to speak and when to be silent.

One fine day, when they all were drunk,attitude thought of playing a game with all of them,he made teams, Fear with sadness( sady was too attractive for fear!!, saat janam saath rehne ki kasamein khaa lit hi jaise),Love and heart ( amitabh and dhamendra in modern sholday!!) and he had himself paired up with Mind.attitude always had a respect for mind for his skills( Sachin and dravid)

They started playing  game  “ Truth or dare” whereby rotating the bottle depending on its direction one has to choose between truth and dare”

Bottle started spinning, first it stopped at love and heart team.

Truth or Dare, attitude asked!!

“Dare “shouted Heart (Love was clueless why why on the earth Heart did this!)

Attitude said “Go and speard yourself in all conditions, circumstances”

Love was clueless; he had to do what his teammate heart had put him into.

Love started being present in all conditions, for the starting phase he enjoyed the limelight, with time, he started to feel the pinch, since he was not able to be present all the time, he started pretending.

HE HAD TO BE GENINUINE WHEREVER NEEDED AND PRETENDING WHERE THERE  WAS  A NEED.

As a result, Heart was happy when he found love acting true to itself and sad when pretending.

Bottle started rolling again and it was fear and sadness’s turn

Sadness who always was introvert spoke” truth”!

Amazed by this action, Mind really clapped!

Mind said” you both Fear and sadness have to be together ( fear was happy ) and you cannot pretend, but we will have control over you, I appoint Love as observer.

Fear was stronger of the two, he told to sadness” let me do my work, I will make people weak, I wil force them to think again & again, I will control them, sadness who could hear the devilishness of fear was not in agreement, she didn’t like what fear was doing, she decided to play separately.

Next was the turn of Mind and Attitude, being the eldest, they were controlling Love, Heart, fear and sadness so as they can come in phases and turn by turn, their job was to not to allow anybody dominate.

THEY MADE SURE ALL EMOTIONS WERE TEMPORARILY PLAYING THEIR ROLE.

Suddenly I woke up, wondering what these emotions were up to and why did I hear their conversation! But somehow I really loved the characterization of these emotions!

But I had found my answer, Role of each emotion, and TEMPORARINESS.

Rest in my next blog, Happy Reading!

Vikas Sachdeva

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your mother

Today is mother’s day, some times I really wonder the messages on facebook, SMSes, mails mentioning mother’s day are so high in number, do people really mean it or its just momentary ?

& we reply to those messages, like them and certainly agree with every line friends post.

How many of us have called our mother today in the morning & said “you are special”

Some people are lucky, they are together with their mother today in the same house while people like us who are out stationed are busy in our own schedules.


Just go back to your childhood, just visualize, your mother running after you with something in her hand running behind you to eat something?, giving you milk when you are back from school.

It was august 1990 when my Mom got a job, everybody was very happy, We all 3 kids were also happy not even knowing why we were excited ( I was then 8 yrs old, Vipul was 6 yrs old and Shelly was just crawling with 3 yrs under her belt)

Slowly things started changing, Mom cooking the food early in the morning at 5 am, putting the same in hot case, all house was empty at 8 am with all three of us in school and Papa by dropping all of us on his Bajaj Chetak and Mummy to school.

On returning, we generally found no body at home at around 2.30 pm, then taking food from hot case & eating without taste.

But financial condition was good, we were told to spend cautiously, value system was installed as it was hard earned money with lot of sweat and time that could have been given to us in the absence of school.


Mother’s are made to give, just sincerely look into her eyes & ask yourself, does she really need your money? Does she not happy with your accomplishments? Does she really interfere?

Yes, ways have changed and our thinking has changed, we really get panicky on being questioned a little extra. did you not ask same questions many times when you were kid and she responded the same no of times?

We generally think they don’t understand how much effort you have made in understanding them? Yes they live in small town and their thinking is limited to the area but you have come from that town only and it’s because of their sacrifices you are enjoying the uninterrupted life in Metros.




Parents have started getting intimidated from their own children

Wo kya sochega? Jaane do mat kaho use

Kahin bura na maan jaaye?


Kya zaroorat hai?


Friends, They really filter their feelings while speaking to us, they say those words only which only please us, sometime from your routine talks at home, just ask your mother , aur mummy aap khush ho na? Repeatedly saying this thing will really open her up and she will talk to her kid & confide.


At our age, Mother needs us more than we do; we really occupy ourselves with friends, movies, office and what about her? Her own friend for life is you!


Increase the frequency of calling in the day from just once at night of twice daily, this will make mom feel happy.

Always speak to your mom when you are lost, she will bail you out completely somehow or the other, god has given the powers to her, be it any emotional trap you are in.

You will always be kid to her, always, no matter how much you earn!


Just for a second imagine, people who have lost heir mom, what they are missing in life.


She doesn’t want anything from us, just our time which we have a lot for rest of the world, some daily conversations and care and affection.



Rest in my next blog


Vikas sachdeva