What’s Your ‘Ping’ To The Universe?

Venkat Ramakrishnan
2 min readJun 16, 2020
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Those who are familiar with the Internet technology would have heard about the term ‘Ping’. A ‘Ping’ is like a droplet. You ‘Ping’ to see if the other side responds. In Internet, you send ‘Ping’ packets to the other side and expect a response from them. If you get the response, you know they are alive; if they don’t, you conclude they are dead and take actions accordingly.

Now I am going to talk about ‘Ping’ to the Universe. Many of us believe that the ‘Universe’ is a far off thing several light years away, and the words evoke the images of faraway stars in different colors, mazes of clouds with planets, black holes and what-not!

Well, relax! The Universe is inclusive of yourself! Does that surprise you? It did for me too, and then I figured it made sense. If I am not part of it, of course, the ‘Universe’ would crumble. Every thing and every one is part of it.

Let’s talk about what it means to ‘ping’ the Universe. Our minds are powerful entities, and what we tell ourselves constantly shapes our destiny. If we tell ourselves ‘I am such a failure! This thing never works! The whole world is conspiring against me from achieving what I want to do!’, well guess what, you get exactly that as a result!

Whereas, if you tell yourself “I am so thankful to all I have got, but I want to grow, thrive, and be a positive influence on the world! I want my work to be noticed, and I want wealth, affluence, and abundance coming my way!”, guess what, you would get it!

What you tell yourself matters! Because it carries energy. Every one of us have that energy. How we use it makes us the angels or the demons! This tiny pieces of thoughts that we generate within ourselves are our ‘Pings’ to the Universe. We are all powerful co-creators of this Universe, and it’s a great responsibility!

So, what is your ‘Ping’ going to be, to the Universe?

I would love to hear from your thoughts! Please add them in the comments section. Thank you.

Love, and Love.

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Venkat Ramakrishnan

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