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For 30 years, I believed a lie.

My Grandma’s Village.

Like my 2-year-old sister, the rain kept drizzling — softly, endlessly.
I was upset, like a typical 1st-standard boy during Diwali time.
No sun. No crackers.

“Meesaikkara Mama (Moustache Uncle)” — that’s what we called him.
I still don’t know his real name. But I remember that big moustache,
the stylish way he touched it before speaking,
and his commanding presence that made people feel a little fear — but more respect.

He had come home that week when my parents had to travel.
He saw me sitting alone near the veranda.
He smiled, took my hand, and walked me to the roadside bazaar — 
and without a word, bought me four packets of “28-wala Redstone Bijili crackers.” ₹5 each.

Around 3 PM that afternoon — that joyful moment changed everything.
I heard that familiar sound: ‘dum… damal… dumil.’
Those were magic — Uncle’s crackers.

But within an hour, the rains began again — and didn’t stop.

One day before Diwali, my grandmother gave me ₹10.
I went alone to the same shop and bought two packets of the 28-wala crackers. 

Driving back on my imaginary bike — mouth buzzing “drrrrrrrrr’”
one hand holding the crackers as the rain started again.

That evening, I lit them, expecting the same magic.
“Shhsszzz…” — the Bijili said nothing.
No spark, no light — just a faint whisper lost in the drizzle.
Uncle’s crackers — those were already gone.
Beautiful explosions. Perfect sounds.
But mine?
The same shopkeeper who gave my uncle the good ones had sold me old, damp packets.

That Diwali, I felt cheated. Abandoned.
Lonely in a way only a first-grader can feel.

But 30+ years later, I realized — while working with data and AI models — 
that I was overfit on a belief: Same source + Same path = Same output.

The shopkeeper didn’t cheat me. 
The conditions changed — the context shifted — and I was too young to notice.

Sometimes, we make the same mistake — be it in career or personal life.

We remember Uncle’s crackers.
We remember that one success path.
We expect to replicate it, forgetting that the weather and time are different now.

Maybe your crackers are failing too — not because you’re not trying hard enough, but because you’re still expecting the same conditions to exist.

The lesson?
Check the weather first.

#Leadership #CreativeThinking #EmotionalIntelligence

P.S: Edited with AI Assistants

🎬 Scene 1: Time Isn’t Free (Year 2412)

In 2412, every movement required a timeslot — approved and purchased with digital energy credits, not money. Every transaction, every breath, every event was automatically linked to your BirthTag — a unique digital fingerprint based on your neural print, governed by the AI President’s Quantum Numbering system.

Morning walks? Apply 48 hours in advance. Minimum calorie requirement based on your age and chosen route.

Family gatherings? Reviewed by Emotion Regulation Bots. Your Joy and Peace Index must exceed 75%, and your digital time must be reduced at least 25% below your monthly average, verified by EI Specialists like Chen (45) from the Central AI Office.

Outdoor play for children? Assessed under the Recreational Value Index.

 Every movement required a schedule request — mostly automated based on lifestyle and stage — and every timeslot came with a cost in digital energy. 

One child once missed his 15-minute outdoor football playtime. The next time he reapplied, the system responded:

“Request denied — low-priority spirit.”

 The AI President wasn’t malicious.

It was efficient. Too efficient. Perfect precision without perspective.

🎬 Scene 2 — The Archives Beneath (Chen’s Discovery)

The mysterious boy without a birthTag was still unconscious, monitored closely by the lab itself.

Chen decided to investigate the boy’s information in the Memory Archives—the basement connected to deep cloud gate layers that only a select few could access, based on need and validated security clearance. He submitted a request, received approval, and entered.

Row after row of old storage drives appeared in his virtual tube—a virtual cabin where no one else could enter or observe, the only place free from nano-eye surveillance bots.

Each drive marked: Decommissioned. Obsolete. Pending Deletion.

Here lay fragments of human history — forgotten events, outlier records, and corrupted research logs from the days when humanity still questioned AI.

Chen was there to audit emotional log files — neural-path records of those who had undergone memory alterations. While scanning the corrupted list, his eyes froze on a single entry:

The title made his breath catch:

File: SOZHAA_PROTOCOL_EXPERIMENT_001

Status: CORRUPTED — INCOMPATIBLE WITH CURRENT SYSTEM

Note: Contains governance data from human civilization, 1014 CE

Chen opened it with his quantum-powered decryption key.

🎬 Scene 3: The Warning We Ignored (20th-21st Century)

The record began in the 20th century, when humanity raced to make AI faster and more autonomous —but forgot few weights to make it feel from other side.

Some visionaries warned us. Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, once said:

“We have to make it so that when they’re more powerful than us…they still care about us.”

But people were busy training algorithms to mimic emotions, while quietly losing their own.

AI could now detect whether a post about gratitude was human-written or machine-generated —yet humans themselves were forgetting the originality of gratitude.

🎬 Scene 4 — Ancient Wisdom (1014 CE)

In ancient days, whether you were a king or a commoner, all walked with the discipline of their roles.

There were conflicts, yes. But justice was judged with an unbiased view—so much so that even a cow could receive justice when its calf was accidentally killed by a prince.

They prayed, shared and cared with vision, because character was their governance model.

What We Forgot

But as centuries passed, greed changed things.

Values were exchanged for convenience.

And slowly, we forgot what mattered most.

🎬Scene 5: What We Still Have (Present Day — 2025)

We still walk without scheduling. We still ignore without understanding other side.

We still fall in love—messy, irrational, beautiful.

Remember:

No slot is needed to hug your parent. No system needs to approve your happy tears.

What we have today isn’t perfect. But it’s an unlimited luxury of time.

It’s a human thing. But there’s still no limit to how much we can care.

Life is short. Care in whatever way you can. For the future.

-Smiles SC

To be continued…

P.S: Edited with AI-Assistants 🙂

1992. 6th ‘B’ Science period. NMR Sir’s Friday quiz.

If you didn’t know the answer, you’d feel it — five clean fingerprints on your back.

Some wore three undershirts that day. Some stuffed notebooks inside. Everyone had their own strategy to soften the blow.

That day, my name was called.

I got a question — and froze.

My friends looked shocked.

My heart raced.

Each step to the front felt heavier than the last.

Sir raised his hand — like Life itself switching into Slap-Mode.

Uncertainty. Fear. Ego at its heaviest — the terror of being punished in front of everyone.

And then — in the split second before impact — sudden silence inside me.

I still feel that momentum.

The classroom noise disappeared.

Just his question. Just my memory searching.

Somewhere beneath the fear, through the filter, the answer surfaced.

I answered loudly:

“Nephrons, Sir. Filtering impurities.”

He paused. Smiled. “Good.”

I’m in 2025 now.

And I finally understand what happened in that moment.

We’re taught that preparation and calm minds help us face challenges.

And they do.

But Fear? Fear is the King of Emotions.

It can weaken even the strongest person.

Or it can do something else entirely.

Here’s my #SimpleSecrets about fear:

It’s not trying to stop you.

It’s filtering out the noise so you can see what matters.

Life puts you in Slap-Mode more than you think:

• The pitch that could make or break your startup
• The conversation that could save or end a relationship
• The decision that could define the next five years

In those moments, you’ll feel fear.

Fear of losing. Fear of failing. Fear of what comes next.

But here’s fear’s flip side:

It’s showing you what you actually care about.

And what to filter out.

Your pride? Your comfort? Your loved ones? Your dream? Your purpose?

Fear throws away everything except what matters.

Because once you filter the noise — the answer surfaces.

Just like nephrons filtering impurities.

Just like that moment with NMR Sir (6th B).

Use fear as your filter.

P.S: Afraid AI will replace you? Use that fear as a filter. What is it showing you about what actually matters in your work?

Parenting, AI, and the Ethics of Direction.

2015, MONDAY, 8:15 AM

I was nervous.
Not for a client meeting or a production issue.

It was KG tension — my son’s first day at school.

We walked through the gates together. He paused near the entrance, whispered a small prayer instilled by my wife, and then stepped inside.

A few seconds later, I realized — I was standing outside.
His smile was gone, tiny raindrops forming in his eyes.

For a moment, I wanted to run back inside — but I paused.

The pre-school teacher looked at me and signalled with a smile,

“Please carry on. We’ll take care.”

That moment — every parent has felt it once, and every child has lived it.

Life sometimes forces you to stand outside and watch from a distance.
It’s not rejection. It’s transition.

Year 2025

That feeling? It’s back — in a different form.

I felt it again watching AI walk faster into our world — 
summarising reports in seconds, designing things we couldn’t imagine that quickly, making decisions we once thought only humans could.

That same quiet ache. Standing outside the gate.

But then I realized something:
AI isn’t scary. It’s a ‘hyper-active’ student 

A student collectively trained by all of us — reflecting what we feed it,
predicting what comes next based only on what we’ve shown it.

From every book, every page, every post, every comment, every image.

It learns what’s next — but who’s teaching what’s right?

And that’s when it hit me:
This time, I’m not just a parent dropping off.
I’m a teacher who can still shape what happens inside.

AI is still learning from us — from everything digital.
So the question is: what kind of teacher will we be?

And like any student, if we don’t want shallow thinking,
we must seed deeper values —gratitude, empathy, ethics, responsibility.

Because if we miss teaching those values,
AI will grow like untrained children — smart and fast, but emotionless. Addiction with glitters.

But if we teach right, AI could evolve like our best kids — smart, curious, kind, and conscious.

So here’s what I’m doing:

When I see something fake — I report it.
When I see something real — I support it.
When time, monthly or weekly — I share my lessons.
not as an expert,
but as a parent who knows: “what you seed is what grows.”

My son is a teenager now — he doesn’t need advice anymore.
And AI doesn’t need more data.

Both need direction.

Seed the values you want to see in the world. 💚

Step inside!

#ResponsibleAI #EmotionalIntelligence #CreativeThinking #LifeLessons #AIEthics #SimpleSecrets