This morning (14 June 2008), driving thru my street (in Velachery, Chennai) on my bike was unusually much harder.
I was seeing one of my wildest dreams coming true. Almost there was no space on the street for the vehicles to move. Reason : Many cars are parked on the side way blocking almost half of the street.
This is unusual. Not sure, may be some function in one of the houses in the street
My thought was, what would happen if similarly all cars are parked on the street in every street? (Tata Nano is coming!)
Cars are getting cheaper. Adding to this, more international brands are coming in.
Result:
1. More and more cars.
2. More advertisements.
3. More money for the car makers, models and advertisers.
4. More money for the governments in the form of fuel purchase and taxes.
5. Lesser purity in the air we breathe and thus every one is loosing their basic right to inhale pure air (even cigarrete smokers influence this)
6. Lesser space on the road and people lossing their basic right to walk freely on the road (this has happened already in Chennai almost).
Government and people should already be thinking about all these things. Would be nice if something is done before worser things happen.
Coming to the question I asked : Who can buy a car?
Question 1 : How can a person be allowed to buy a car if he doesn't have money pay for registration and insurance?
Answer: Who allowed it? Have you gone nuts?
I'm Sorry, I should not have asked that question!
Question 2 : How can a person be allowed to buy a car if he doesn't have space to park his car at home?
Answer: ???
I would say if a person doesn't have space to park his car inside his house where he stays, he should not be allowed to buy a car (this thought should be developed well to fit well legally). Otherwise people will keep dumping their car on the street ways and will keep blocking others passing thru the way. Is this not encroachment?
Will government authorities look at this?
quoting from here
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it. (Author had a problem personally following this one)
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear [i.e. expensive] to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
Quoting from one of my readings ...
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other ' s cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn ' t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it"
Don ' t let the cups drive you.. Enjoy the coffee instead
Nicely said……
Through out our life we give lot importance to materialistic things….. and miss small events with full of life…
Worst part: very few people believe in this ideology…
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