The Problem is not the Problem , The Problem is your attitude about the Problem

                      At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky.The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but …it landed on another lady in the group.Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

   

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue.In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt.When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondeing, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies.

I realized that, it is neither the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife nor the fear of exam or results,that disturbs me, but it’s my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting,that disturbs me.It’s not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.It’s not the fear of exam or results that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the Exam and results that disturbs me.

More than the problem, it’s my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood, I should not react in life.I should always respond. The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands.

LIGHTS OF POLES

          The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south..

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        Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.

The Northern Lights are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral colour, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.

The connection between the Northern Lights and sunspot activity has been suspected since about 1880. Thanks to research conducted since the 1950's, we now know that electrons and protons from the sun are blown towards the earth on the 'solar wind'. (Note: 1957-58 was International Geophysical Year and the atmosphere was studied extensively with balloons, radar, rockets and satellites. Rocket research is still conducted by scientists at Poker Flats, a facility under the direction of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

The temperature above the surface of the sun is millions of degrees Celsius. At this temperature, collisions between gas molecules are frequent and explosive. Free electrons and protons are thrown from the sun's atmosphere by the rotation of the sun and escape through holes in the magnetic field. Blown towards the earth by the solar wind, the charged particles are largely deflected by the earth's magnetic field. However, the earth's magnetic field is weaker at either pole and therefore some particles enter the earth's atmosphere and collide with gas particles. These collisions emit light that we perceive as the dancing lights of the north (and the south).

The lights of the Aurora generally extend from 80 kilometres (50 miles) to as high as 640 kilometres (400 miles) above the earth's surface.

Northern Lights can be seen in the northern or southern hemisphere, in an irregularly shaped oval centred over each magnetic pole. The lights are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south. Scientists have learned that in most instances northern and southern auroras are mirror-like images that occur at the same time, with similar shapes and colours.

Because the phenomena occurs near the magnetic poles, northern lights have been seen as far south as New Orleans in the western hemisphere, while similar locations in the east never experience the mysterious lights. However the best places to watch the lights (in North America) are in the north-western parts of Canada, particularly the Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Alaska. Auroral displays can also be seen over the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland, the northern coast of Norway and over the coastal waters north of Siberia. Southern auroras are not often seen as they are concentrated in a ring around Antarctica and the southern Indian Ocean. Areas that are not subject to 'light pollution' are the best places to watch for the lights. Areas in the north, in smaller communities, tend to be best.

Researchers have also discovered that auroral activity is cyclic, peaking roughly every 11 years. The next peak period is 2013. 

Winter in the north is generally a good season to view lights. The long periods of darkness and the frequency of clear nights provide many good opportunities to watch the auroral displays. Usually the best time of night (on clear nights) to watch for auroral displays is local midnight (adjust for differences caused by daylight savings time)

Forest man of INDIA

            While for most of us, maintaining a small home garden is a herculean task, this man here single-handedly planted and nurtured a whole forest.  Jadav Molai Payeng was 16 when a massive flood in Assam devastated the green cover. As a result, Jadav noticed, wildlife like migratory birds, snakes and other animals were rapidly disappearing. He took his concern to his village elders who told him that since the green cover was disappearing, the animals were losing their habitat. And creating new forest areas was the only solution to save these animals. 

Worried by the loss of the flora and fauna he was witnessing, Jadav approached the Assam forest department. This, as expected, proved of no help. Instead, they asked him to plant tree himself. Little did the administration know that Jadav would do exactly what they told him to! 

          At the young age of 16, Jadav started this next to impossible task. He started by planting a sapling on a riverine island, on the banks of River Brahmaputra. He continued with the act of planting a sapling every day for the next 30 long years. 

The area was vast, and Jadav was at least hundreds of men less to water the saplings. But he didn’t stop. He built a bamboo platform on the top of each sapling and placed earthen pots with small holes in them. Water continuously dripped on the saplings for weeks through the holes before eventually emptying. In 1980, he joined hands with the social forestry division of Golaghat district for a scheme of tree plantation on 200 hectares at Aruna Chapori. When the 5-year-long project ended, he chose to stay back even when other workers left. Throughout his stay, he planted more and more saplings. Today, almost 30 years later, what Jadav started is now a massive 1.360-acre lush green forest which is home to Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceroses, over 100 deer, rabbits, apes and several species of birds, including a large number of vultures which is almost extinct. Jadav lives in his homegrown forest with his wife, three kids and three cows. While he sells milk for a living, his heart is still set on widening the forest area.

Jadav’s utterly determined selfless act brought him tremendous media attention and eventually, JNU vice-chancellor Sudhir Kumar Sopory  named Jadav Payeng as “Forest Man of India” and named the his forest ‘The Molai’ forest.