Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Does this idiom fit todays world?I remember reading a story about this ,way back in school.This basically means never lose hope..Today world is heading towards a major crunch...with wars ,terrorism,recession..Such situations test patience and endurance of people facing these.But,does every cloud necessarily have a silver lining?Or are we being over optimistic?Does silver lining mean that we always should expect happy ending?Should we not be realistic and face our current situation with more realism?Probally olden days every cloud had a silver lining,but now world is full of clouds!Does Gandhi's philosophy of showing the other cheek still work?Or again dont we need to fight for whats's right?Oh,well..at the end of the day,optimism is the only tool to survive.Lets hope every cloud indeed has a silver lining.

Empathy!

I was just wondering what exactly this means?Just looked up on web and found this "Empathy is the 'capacity' to share and understand another's 'state of mind' or emotion" .Can we really understand anyone's state of mind?It basically means putting yourself in other persons shoes.I mean we are shocked by people's behaviour,but try and think what we would have done in the similar situation.If we come up with the same answer as the other person than our sympathy/admiration lies with that person.Else we shun that person away?Is it really the right attitude?I am always confused with these conflict of interests .It always goes without saying that we can never really truly empathaize.Its all is a myth,we might actually react as the other person in similar situation,but who knows our reaction is influenced by that other persons actions.I went to this soft skill session where we had an entire hour on this(whew..was long ago).Somehow the topic interested me,as i used to empathize with people subconsiously.(to be truthful,this was a new word in my dictionary).That day i started an experiment of empathizing with people in my day to day life.Found some interesting reaction differences/similarities.I dont mean we do this experiment in everyday life.Just that we can try and understand people by empathy.

Whew

Was in training this week..I was totally like "boink,zoink" .Training was pretty good,got some new technical stuff .I dont think in this era we will ever have enough to learn.Everyday something new comes up and you have to keep updating your skills.(tough task indeed..!!).But,i guess now the IT scene looks bad and all are gearing up to be updated technically.Offlate didnot hear of people having 5-6 job offers,quitting in 2 months of joining.Looks like we are back to 2001 era.Satyam was a shocker.Proves that nothing is as it looks.The IT boom has finally burst with a big bang.There seems to be no end to it.I was wondering what will happen to engineers produced every year in thousands of engg college in india?Future does look very bleak indeed,but we overcame y2k ..hope we overcome this too..