Shinkansen

www.inseadblogger.com Well for once i am on the train instead of the airplane. my second trip within Japan, once again for work. Looking outside the window my mind starts to travel, random thoughts about my life, my experience in tokyo, my next steps, my accomplishments. I look at the landscape. It reminds me that those trees and buildings were, are and will continue to be(bar a disaster) long after me, you and everybody else goes. Memento mori, do u know what it means? Kings used to have a dead skull in front of them to remind them their own mortality. The speed of the train, can be compared to the frentic rhythm life has taken. everything gets accelerated. Pace of change increases with geometric rates but humans abilities to cope with those changes increase only according to arithmetic rates. we strive for morwe and more speed, quicker and more efficient. Why? We live in times of change. why do we need to be faster? everybody tells me time is not enough everyboy is so connected with each other but humans have never been so alone. i am blogging on the train now through my smartphone( want to upgrade to the sony experia when it is out) instead of having a conversation with my colleague next to me. Well to be honest he is sleeping.... now he woke up and he is going through my article. People use social networks online to meet people they have never met before. they *accumulate* connections which most of the time are shallow and superficial. well loneliness some time is a gift. it helps people spend time on themselves and improve their skills and abilities, their health too. the constant bombarding of messages and socialinteractions, i believe, has eroded humans to acquire new abilities and at the same focus on the important issues. who can focus now? who can meditate now? i have seen many people with a short attention span or with a difficulty to synthesize abstract concepts. Thank you mon for taking me to yoga and meditation classes when i were 8(although i hated it then). i reap the benefits now. Back to the rate of change. I check my personal email every night and i reply to every email personally. Most of the emails are from business people thinking of getting an MBA. They send me their profile and ask me for advice, more about this in the next blog post. time to close the current one. Life is like a train trip. There is a start and a finish. Our memmories are the landscape we look at. once we pass a landscape it becomes a past event, a memmory. the train has stops and other services, but it always reaches its destination and it is always on time(well at least in most countries). I love blogging because i can put my eelings into words. well i wish i had more time to do that. last sunday i bought a voice recorder to facilitate the task of keeping notes. In the end I will write a book, who knows...

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