Guilty Until Proven Innocent

IN the Australian court of law, and I’m sure in majority of other courts as well, everyone is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Yet the courts are often perceived to be a horrible place to end up in. In layman terms it means that if one is not convicted, they walk away free of any blame. For this presumption, I think courts are not as bad as they generally look.

Now, lets have a look at the world outside the courts.  Lets walk into the world of prejudice and social-stigmas, the world of stereotypes and labels. Suddenly we find that we are no more innocent. Even though nothing has been proven against us, it seems like we all walk as convicts. Everyone seems to have their own court, themselves being the judges. Everyone is tried in these courts all the time.  The worst part of this court is that the only real element is its judgement.  There never is a free trail. But the judgement and the consequences are very real.

It would not be practical of talking about a world with no ‘personal-courts’ and judgments. So it is through empathy that we can get any near to a free trail. Before judging anyone, wouldn’t it be great if we walked a mile in their shoes? The ‘paradigm-shifts’ would change the very way we think. We would learn to keep our thinking so broad that we don’t feel like an idiot after we have those ‘paradigm-shifts’.  

Lets learn something from the court of law. Let everyone be innocent until proven guilty. Lives are not as easy as they seem. Lets get ready for the blisters we get from walking in people’s shoes. Let empathy be the first rule

 

PS: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Personal experience and thoughts, a few judgements helped me write all this. Please ignore the writing style as I am not a writer.

Luck, Bad-luck and Destiny

Some genius said 'Luck equals opportunity times preparation'. In mathematical terms, Luck = Opportunity x Preparation. Most of the times it just sounds non-sense, but for me the key is always to assume that the opportunity is 1. So if you get one opportunity, your luck should be equal to your preparation (its basic math. If you don't understand ask the guy sitting to the left. The one on the right is probably a mathematical idiot too). For most of the 'bad-lucks' that we have, its probably lack of preparation. Its when you get the opportunity and you cant make anything out of it. Instead of blaming ourselves, we put the blame on luck. Good management skills!

But what happens when you are fully prepared to take the opportunity which you just thought existed. In fact it never did. Would it be called destiny? Or should we scrap the above definition of luck and go on to label it as bad-luck? Some of us play the blame-game in a different way. God takes the blame in this version. What ever the version is played, anyone but ourselves are to take the blame. This seems pretty logical as the existence of the opportunity is not always in our circle of influence. Taking personal responsibility in such cases seem quite hard or even illogical at times.

It is probably only after we give up that we look for someone to take the blame. Should we ever give up and start playing the blame-game? The answer probably 'no'. The answer being no, lucky people are the ones who never give up trying. Those who never start the blame game but keep on trying. Trying, sometimes however, makes no sense. It makes no sense to me right now. I feel tired. So I look for someone to take all the blame...

PS: I'm no writer. Its just an attempt to put feelings into words. Please ignore the short-comings. Some of the concepts are taken from various books that I've read and lectures that I've attended.