Life is a stochastic process

Well I was thinking about my life till now and the events occurred with me. I met many people, met many events (planned and unplanned) and now I realize that all what happened is a series of probabilistic events towards somewhat "destiny" (I think, somehow). It's like throwing a dice and get the number you want to win the game. It may be the same thing that might have happened with almost everyone in this world. There is no doubt that our lives (which you can consider as a book or a series of books like Harry Potter, who just lives in those books) follow different probability distribution or in other words, our lives starts with probability and ends with it. In the whole this life span because of these probabilistic events we do such things which makes us miserable (may be alive or after death). Sounds like technical?? chuck it, let me put in layman language.

I haven't read many books on life by well known authors, who might be famous because of their experience or their theory on life style or so but I do believe that there is a larger subset of human being to share a huge fraction that experience. It is just an initiative to put all thing together and present in a proper way and that's what these beautifully written books do. I bet, you open a book, there will be at least one thing you will find new.


Our life begins with the birth and then survival from many things with certain chances, in this modern world those chances of surviving has been increased (compared with past) from proper medical care. In our childhood (Chapter one of our life), we have fallen down many times during play or learning cycling or something. In schools, we met our best buddies with whom we still share many things, which had happened stochastically. I think we were never deterministic about choosing our childhood friends, at least. In college, we meet some specific kind of people that we like and become friends, that's a little bit deterministic (probably). Meanwhile (may be in school or college or both), most of us found someone special and feel the magic feeling called "love" and I have no doubt that this feeling is a true probabilistic. You can try to make it work but the result depends on the chance of your surviving in this feeling is all set by your actions and efforts. no doubt "Life is a stochastic process".

If you have to pick a few memorable moments of your life till now you will definitely pick things which you didn't expect or less expect or in other words "events with less probability". In any field, let it be engineering, doctors, lawyers, sports etc. the chance of success is always there, whether you like it or not. The winning with less success probability is what we call "luck".

Anyway, Life is what you can't bind with any word but itself so I will end this topic (for time being) with a famous law "murphy's law", which is 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong'. The advanced version is something like this "If you have managed to make 'One' thing right from wrong then there would be 'Something' that will definitely go wrong". So I wish you all to have engaged with the events/opportunities with higher chances of success and let you aware to have an eye on the events with "less probable events", which will make you more miserable.

New book - New day - New part of the same life

So here I am with my first blog, about what I think is close to our lives. It may happen that I won't write all the experiences, right now, in this post but I will try to put all the things under proper and meaningful titles. I was thinking for a good title for this one and one day my lab mate ordered a few books online and got it in lab by post. The smell of each book was different, so does the knowledge in each one. The smell of each day is different from the past days. even with a slight change. You can divide your days (and time of your life) into many aromas based on your memories, your attachment to some specific person or event etc.

I have seen many people who buy books with different tastes at different time. Mostly, they buy books according to their current emotion in their lives, i.e., love story, horror, suspense, self motivation, spiritual etc. Each book, we buy, becomes a part of the life. A subset of these individuals don't even share the book, which, I think, because they got attached to that book due to some knowledge or may be it (the book) shows a deep insight of their own. Same thing has happened with me a few years before when I went to my friend and asked for borrowing a specific book (not a syllabus book, of course) and the friend just said "sorry dude! I can't give this book to anyone". I was shocked to hear that from the friend who shared many things but not THE book. So what? I borrowed from a library and read it. Seriously, I got the reason why he didn't give THAT book to me. It was somewhat related to my friend and the book's name is "LOVE STORY" by Erich Segal.

Our life is also like that. When you are child, you have a pure fragrance of life and whatever you learn in that aroma stuck with you like forever. You grow up and meet some people of same age in school or in a play ground and learn how to interact to a certain level. This is the scent of being socialize which leaves an impact of knowing people from outside world.

In Hindu, There are 16 sanskars for a human. Those 16 sanskars are itself a new step towards the destiny. Each step is a new chapter or a complete new book of your life. Similarly, in Ashrama (old age.. not the modern ones) there are four stages of the human life (100 years) . Brahmacharya, the first stage, refers to student life. Till the age of 25 the person will seek for knowledge from guru and learn the way of living life with dharma (differs from person to person). This chapter of out lives is basically the root where shape of coming future is molded. Following this scent of learning comes the second chapter (stage) Grihastha, where person serves family and society and fulfill the duties properly till he/she becomes 49. The aroma of youth ends here and the stage is Vanaprastha (Retired life). This is where people share the experience and wisdom to others typically till the age of 74. Finally, the last chapter is Sannyasa (Renounced life) where people withdraw from the world completely and seek for the ultimate spiritual freedom (moksha).

As the life span of human is no longer 100 years, these chapters/stages time period has also modified. We start our jobs/business around 22 then get retire around 65 and die around 80. In this time frame (22-65), the fragrance of being youth remains there within ourselves because everybody wants to be younger as long as possible. Youth is powerful, dynamic, creative, energetic, much more than you can think of. The aroma of youth stays with you if you feed proper ingredients to it and for this people look for physical fitness, intellectual strength etc. For any of these (or other) ways, we like to know what people have already faced and try to get/do it in better ways in our lives.

We all find some memories to stuck with as long as we can. We recall those moments much many times in a few days. It's human nature to be like this, to stuck with some specific scent (memory).

I just realized that this one has no conclusion, no ending, but quite open blog, so is the life. If you don't open a book (if you don't open yourself to others), you won't know what's there inside.