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* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * *
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Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel
Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to).
Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet.
RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org
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MONDAY MUSE (5 January 2009)
REMEMBERING
The film “Ghajini” delves into a case of anterograde amnesia. The memory of the
hero is reduced to a recall of just fifteen minutes, following a violent attack
by the killers of his girlfriend. To avenge the past as well as remember his
present-day plan, the protagonist uses memory pegs in terms of Diaries,
Polaroid photo-images, permanent tattoos on his torso, scribbled notes and
memory alerts on his mobile. While the film takes creative liberty to tell its
tale of fiction, it has a lesson for us…
Consider our own predicament. There are times when we are seized with a passion
and a mission to respond to a challenging situation. It could be a brazen
terrorist strike… or a shameful act of corruption… or the murder of humanity in
a communal riot… or an exploit of exploitation… or a criminal lapse in
governance! But, as time passes our noble intentions begin to detach from our
consciousness… we suffer from memory loss of our own cause…
Righteous intentions need to be guarded against loss of focus… Like the
protagonist in the film, we need to use memory pegs… We need to maintain
dairies that account for what we are thinking, what we are doing and what we
are going through… We must document our dreams and plans through notes,
sketches, photographs, blogs, etc… We must surround ourselves with knowledge
resources like books, quotations, vision and mission statements, and the like.
Amnesia patients may have no choice but to prop up their memory with methods
and mechanisms… But for the rest of us, “remembering” is about making a choice…
We can choose to remember what we believe in or we can choose to forget to walk
our own talk…It is all about putting in the crucial extra effort to fasten our
thoughts, plans and actions with the glue of a convergent memory…
To BE BETTER at remembering what we tend to forget…
Peg in extra effort today, lest the future be one of regret!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
5 January 2009, Goa, India.
A life coach with a passion to connect people to their passion & potential,
PRAVIN K. SABNIS employs creative competencies in theatre & trekking in his
UNLEARNING UNLIMITED workshops conducted for leading corporate & other groups.
The MONDAY MUSE series (based on JCI-India’s annual theme) was started on the
first Monday of the year 2004.
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