LIVING IN SIMPLICITY

Living in simplicity – is not that simple at all.
We all love and strive to be happy and hence make our lives complicated !!!

Look at the sub prime issue dogging the world financial markets, the hit taken by the savvy Citibank, the losses suffered by IT companies in hedging the currency fluctuations, The woes of option and futures traders after the gyrations of the stock market.

Earlier the trading was a simple bartering system. You get the things needed by you simply exchanging the things you had at your disposal. As we started protecting against calamities, either manmade or natural, we started devising monetary products.

The derivatives- futures and options, hedging funds, arbitrages are all devised to secure the future by overcoming the fluctuations of stock market, commodity prices, and foreign exchanges. But did it secure the future? Unfortunately the answer is No.

The point to be noted here is – the same kind of mistakes we make in our otherwise simple enjoyable life and get entangled like derivative operators.

We can dig out lot of our own life examples by contemplating the way we are living, the way we think we are living. So that it helps in making our life simple and enjoyable.

(We may ponder over the way we go about our livelihood, the act of ‘giving and receiving’)
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