Harison Xavier

Talking with elderly people is always mind blowing. It is a very humbling experience to talk to them, listening to their stories and getting the glimpse of the wisdom they hold. The following are 8 lessons I learned from an old friend of mine.  Aging and death are a fact. With a little mental preparation you can deal with it with confidence. 1. Loneliness  As we get older, the number of people we need will continue to decrease. The parents and the generation before them left. Many of his contemporaries were exhausted and deprived of opportunities. The younger generation may not have time to look after their parents because of the hustle and bustle of their life problems. At this point many life partners may have passed before they can expect it. That is when loneliness and emptiness take hold. So this is the first lesson. Love loneliness and learn to live happily alone. 2. You will be forgotten  As you grow older, society will begin to forget you. No matter how ...

  August 5, 1888: Weisslock, a small village in Baden, Germany, is approaching noon. Their children were playing nearby. Then they saw a sight. A woman in a black gown was riding in a horse-drawn carriage with her two children. But what surprised them was something else. There were no horses in front of the chariot. At that time a woman sent her child to the next priest as soon as they heard about the sorcerers who were kidnapping children. The church bell rang and the priest gathered the people. They were ready to face the witch. But suddenly the car stopped. The woman got out of the car. They checked the vehicle. Then they walked towards the nearest hospital. They did not see anyone there and they went to the next bar. They asked for 10 liters of ligroin . Ligroin was a petroleum product. It was used to remove stains from clothes. They poured ligroin and started their journey. This was the first road trip in history. Wife of Benz, a fan of motor vehicles. They were Bertha Benz an...

  This happened at Indian Independence Day celebrations 2020 at Tiruvannamalai district Tamil Nadu. The district collector Mr Kandasamy IAS awarded a lady inspector Mrs Allirani, who carried a person, died of Covid 19 while his near and dear refused to come near to his body.  After awarding the lady inspector, the collector requested her to stand in his place, he came down the dias several steps and Saluted her.  It was not just a mere salute, he was saluting her for almost 20 secs. Hats off to Mr. Kandasamy for showing us this great example.  Apologize for the poor video quality. 

Credits: The movie: Shutter Island           If you have watched the movie Shutter Island, you might have seen the above shot of a board that is kept at the cemetery which reads  "Remember us for we too have lived, loved and laughed" . I always wanted to know who came up with that. This sentence touched me, I feel like there is something more than just those words in this sentence. I see a whole life of a human being.           I am writing this blog post in memory of a not so known soul in my home town. It is about Sebastian. We don't even have a good picture of him. He was a gardener, construction worker, garbage collector and so and so he did all kinds of jobs. He didn't have much friends. He didn't have that fancy career. He didn't even have a regular income. Everyone in our home town knew him yet he was invisible.  "Is there any work chetta (big brother) ? " Not now.... We will reply  "Seri chetta ....(okay ...

Life, you can’t subdue me because I refuse to take your discipline too seriously. When you try to hurt me, I laugh — and the laughter knows no pain. I appreciate your joys wherever I find them; your sorrows neither frighten nor discourage me, for there is laughter in my soul. Temporary defeat does not make me sad. I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song. Your tears are not for me, for I like laughter much better, and because I like it, I use it as a substitute for grief and sorrow and pain and disappointment. Life, you are a fickle trickster — don’t deny it. You slipped the emotion of love into my heart so that you might use it as a thorn with which to prick my soul — but I learned to dodge your trap with laughter. You tried to lure me with the desire for gold, but I have fooled you by following the trail which leads to knowledge instead. You induced me to build beautiful friendships — then converted my friends to enemies so you may harden my heart, but I side...

Only a short distance away An old woman sat with lot of bags next to a young woman who was traveling in a busy bus. With all these bags, most of the people on board felt angry.  Why don't you respond? Why didn't you tell the old woman to put those bags down? The man who sat opposite to them asked. Then the young woman replied with a smile, Why should I give so much importance to such a small thing? Want to get angry or argue? I'm getting off at the next stop, and we're only a short distance away from this trip together.  In fact, in that answer, the young woman said something relevant in life, which should be written in golden letters What is the significance of a dispute and a quarrel when we are only a short distance away from this journey together?  What if each of us realizes that our lives are so fleeting and short that we should not be overshadowed by quarrels, unnecessary arguments, gratitude, or impatience? Has anyone broken your heart? Forgive them, because thi...

     Once I had a great opportunity to make a presentation on "Self Directed Team and Organizational Development" to my teacher and a great mentor  Girinarayan G , one of his favorite subjects is organisation development. I always see that energy and the passion he has while talking about organization development (OD). I gained invaluable insights on how important is human resources (HR) in any company.  There is a general ignorance towards the HR department as they are non production departments in the company, yet these are the very same people who hire the talent needed for a company.   During our sessions on OD, self directed teams was one such topic, I was chosen to make a presentation, after learning about self directed teams, I remembered back in the initial days at Caerus Skillmatic when I experienced this without knowing about its benefits.      This is a story of how our small department in Caerus Skillmatic got introduced t...

Read this as if you are reading a fiction story. You do not have to believe this.   I am going to share about two experiences that I got which cannot be explained with any scientific evidence. These experience are so unreal I don't know if it is worth sharing.  I grew up in a religiously strict family. My mom used to go to church everyday and she is very religious, she have the strongest belief in God our family, she never used to complain, she always depended on God for help for any troubles in life . As a custom she used to send me to retreat centers once or twice every year. It is was very important for her that I have a spiritual retreat and be close to God.   I really didn't like it. I will have to go away from home and stay at a place for a week and pray continuously, it was boring.   First experience - Angel Valley Source : Google Maps I was 11 or 12 of age when visited Angel valley for first time. I liked this place very much away from the city, so ...

Image Credit Artist : A.Fairy  Introduction   I have a great love for art, I don't know why but I love to stare at paintings for a long time. I wish to know the meaning behind every art and see the story but my primary school art teacher Shajee Chelad   said that " the aim of an art or an artist is not to tell the meaning or the story, it is to showcase a medium where the viewer can visualize his or her own story by themselves. The story the artist see will not be the same as the story the viewer have. "  His words made a great difference in the way I viewed art.            The freedom of an art. A single art with explanations that are multidimensional.  The same picture or painting that have so many stories to say. Is there something like this that can say multiple stories at a single time?  I always tried to draw and paint pictures and it all ended up ugly, I will need more practice. I forgot most of the things Shajee si...

                                            If you have read my previous post related to  Artificial Intelligence : Our Future  ,  20 Predictions For The Future  and  20 Predictions For The Future  Part 2 , you will see that I am having a highly positive outlook toward our future. I wrote it that way because I like to see the positive side of things all the time and then examine the negative side. There is always a negative side for everything.    There is a sleeping dragon behind innovations. It is important that we are aware of it and never wake him up. The dragon must not be disturbed or be in the hands of evil.   In this post, I will be diving deep down on the negative sides of artificial intelligence and our future. However I wish that the following will never happen or ...