When it comes to IT products, don’t believe the hype, ever.
- Ganz

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

I still don’t get it, why do smart people pay top dollar for IT products that become obsolete in a year’s time. Haven’t they heard that products get better?
- Ganz

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

I am not sure if there is such a thing as destiny or the fact that it applies to me. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of those people who made a difference in this world. I don’t even care if people remember my name because what good is praise to the dead but what matters most to me now is that I managed to do something really good and great for someone special.
-Ganz

I haven’t been blogging regularly because I am having an eye infection all week long.

I already saw the eye doctor thrice and the good news he says, I am recovering well.

The bad news he says is that I am among the few in population that has oily eye lids and that so much so is the culprit. He told me that regular cleaning of the eye lids is recommend and that I should not strain too much.

Funny, you are telling this to guy who has a motto on his shelf that reads, You can rest when you are dead.

Guess God does have a sense of humor

By the way I am not weaning my glasses or contacts right mow. It’s such a pain not being able to play Metal Gear Solid 4 since I paid good money for the game and guide.

Oh well, like it or not, life marches on without us.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
– Ken Kesey (1935 – )

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
– John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
– Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
– Hyman Rickover (1900 – 1986)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

My life is a one boring sequence after another.

Actually most people are bored with their lives. Some have realized it, others either refuse to see the truth or are too ignorant to even comprehend it.

That is why I have started the Ganz Initiative. a plan to make my life achieve three major goals.

1) make my life as simple as possible
2) as fun as possible
3) and as enriching as possible

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it’s seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It’s taken me a long time to realize that.

I am taking some time off to rest my eyes.

My eyes water whenever I look at the computer screen or any bright light source.

I guess it’s probably due to the fact I don’t rest my eyes as instructed or I am developing sensitive eyes.

If a super computer which is a logical system was fed with a self contained program, with no input and output, there is but only two possibilities.

The super computer will either stop and say it has finished the calculations and come up with the answer or it is never going to stop and is going to go on calculating forever, without ever finding the answer. It’s one or the other.
Now comes the real problem, how can we tell if a program we are running is never going to stop? Or which program is extraordinarily difficult or fundamentally unsolvable?

The answer is we can’t. There is no systematic way in mathematics to find which problem can or cannot be solved.
And this is Alan Turing’s version of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

So why is this so important? Because if we were to find happiness we need to at least understand what is the human limitation on understating happiness.

Human beings are a kind of logical systems much like the super computer. And if a human being was fed with a problem, like the super computer he or she has only two possibilities. They can either find the answer to the problem or they will spend their whole life looking for the answer.

Now since each human being in this world is a special and unique individual, each one of us will yield a different answer to that problem. So what does it all mean?

It simply means that some of us in our lifetime will find the answer to Happiness. But since the answer is subjective it cannot be wholly accepted. Since we cannot accept someone else’s answer we tend to find our own answer without actually finding it.

Why? Unlike computers which are only logical systems, human beings are opinionated individuals with logic. It is because of these differences in opinions and perspectives that ultimately allow an individual to accept or reject the reality he or she is living in.

So what drives our opinions and perspectives? well it’s attitudes. The attitudes we adopt ultimately allows us to find happiness.

So Is it any wonder, then, that many of us have, consciously or not, turned our lives into quests for happiness? We may jump from one job to another, maybe even spouse to spouse, looking for fulfillment.

We might change flats and hairstyles. Perhaps we repeatedly buy the latest electronic toy and the newest book. We may obsess about building up our portfolios and biceps. But the quest always ends in failure.

Here is what I believe – You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Yet we keep on searching, despite, and perhaps because of, our continuing unhappiness. We keep on banging our heads against the wall. We think happiness must be just around the corner, in our next job, at the bar, or with the person we’ve met through work.

Part of our problem today, one reason we so readily look for happiness through materialism, is that we confuse pleasure with happiness.

Pleasure, whether it comes from eating a fine meal or listening to a brilliantly performed song, is a physical sensation. Happiness, on the other hand, is a psychological sensation of fulfillment and satisfaction. Pleasure, by its very nature, is transitory, while happiness can be permanent.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for pleasure. In fact, I suggest you get as much of it as you can. I certainly do. In no way am I suggesting you give up the things that bring you pleasure. I haven’t and don’t intend do. There’s nothing wrong with buying a new pair of shoes because they tickle your fancy or drinking a can of beer if you’re in the mood. Life is short, so if you can afford to indulge a bit now and then, go for it. What matters is you realize these indulgences won’t bring happiness.
Instead of looking for happiness, you need to start listening for it. Close your eyes and open your ears. The simple truth is, nothing external will make you happy. Nothing you can see will bring fulfillment to your life.

W can lose all the weight we want, find a wonderful life partner, get a fabulous job that pays us an incredible salary, buy a magnificent home and furnish it with everything we’ve dreamed of, and we’ll still be unhappy.

Yet we can have none of these things and still be happy. We can get pleasure from external factors, but happiness is an inside job. It requires listening to our heart and soul. It has nothing to do with the physical facts of our life and everything to do with your attitude toward life.

There’s real suffering in the world. There’s pain and sorrow and misery and guilt and grief. Lots of it, in fact buckets and buckets full of it. A new attitude may not be able to change the world, but it can change your world.

Let’s face it, your unhappiness isn’t anywhere near as profound as the agony experienced by someone who saw a loved one die or has suffered some other terrible trauma. Some of us may be feeling that kind of pain, but for most of us, feelings of unhappiness stem from a dissatisfaction with the circumstances of our lives.

Still, psychological and emotional pain can be as debilitating as physical pain; battered self-esteem can be as incapacitating as a broken leg. Unhappiness is never good. Whether we’re feeling miserable because of some type of actual physical trauma to us or loved ones, or we’re depressed because we feel somehow inadequate, it’s essential we free ourselves from the grip of unhappiness.

There is a way to make our unhappiness go away, to show it no tolerance. Whether we’re unhappy about how our life isn’t measuring up to expectations, or we’re depressed because we received a bad grade, we can be happy right now. We already have all the tools we need inside our head, and it’s never too late to find fulfillment.

We are told that the devil is next door and we should not speak or listen to him. But you go, not in the cover of darkness but in broad daylight with a marching band to sleep with him.