Dreams of mine have left me
To the darkness in my soul
Never have I found peace
Restless I've been, for years
Since my birth I searched around
For that elusive illusion
Of peace; but never found it
I feel now that it is a mirage
Peace can never be
For struggle is life
Every movement of life
Is a struggle; though we aim at peace
Life draws life into the vortex
Of a never ending struggle
Believing peace is at the end
But never reaches it
Peace is just an illusion, a mirage
For peace is death
And life is war
Saturday 31 October 2009
Random incoherence
I'm the laziest student at the Academy - this is what my friends there feel about me. I'm the quintessential backbencher there. Vanishing into thin air when a Professor whom I do not like comes to take class has become a hobby of mine. I sit near the door, just in case...
Then comes the issue of my notes. I've got the full notes of the subjects I like most. Sociology, my first option, is my favourite. I can't help marveling at the subject - so comprehensive, so vague, so logical and still so dumb at the same time. Maybe that is because it is the study of the man and the society.
The funniest part of it is when we study about the psychologists' views on man - specifically Sigmund Freud. Loved the guy - never knew we were all so 'perverted'. Well, pervert is a wrong usage - you can't blame fellows for the chemical reactions in their brains, right?
I've got an agreement with one of my classmates, who has Sociology as her second option. At the end of this course, she'll give me notes of all the classes I bunked, and I'll give her my Sociology notes. Now that is what 'social contract' actually means. Ending 'the condition of despair' to enjoy the fruits of life.
Read recently somewhere that the most confusing fact about man is that this warlike species, doubtful of anything and everything under the sun, came to trust their own members to create what we know as societies. Everyday we trust others to fulfill our needs. Talk about the giant leap of trust!
What an incoherent post! Still, this is the way I think. Sometimes, you just have to go with the flow. Listen to what your inner self says unto you - to find that elusive inner peace we've been searching for centuries.
Then comes the issue of my notes. I've got the full notes of the subjects I like most. Sociology, my first option, is my favourite. I can't help marveling at the subject - so comprehensive, so vague, so logical and still so dumb at the same time. Maybe that is because it is the study of the man and the society.
The funniest part of it is when we study about the psychologists' views on man - specifically Sigmund Freud. Loved the guy - never knew we were all so 'perverted'. Well, pervert is a wrong usage - you can't blame fellows for the chemical reactions in their brains, right?
I've got an agreement with one of my classmates, who has Sociology as her second option. At the end of this course, she'll give me notes of all the classes I bunked, and I'll give her my Sociology notes. Now that is what 'social contract' actually means. Ending 'the condition of despair' to enjoy the fruits of life.
Read recently somewhere that the most confusing fact about man is that this warlike species, doubtful of anything and everything under the sun, came to trust their own members to create what we know as societies. Everyday we trust others to fulfill our needs. Talk about the giant leap of trust!
What an incoherent post! Still, this is the way I think. Sometimes, you just have to go with the flow. Listen to what your inner self says unto you - to find that elusive inner peace we've been searching for centuries.
Saturday 10 October 2009
Life is funny
For the past two days I have read news headlines about some 'waves', got two or three e-mails requesting me to send the senders an invite if I am on the wave. And I was wondering what was wrong with the world. A U.S President gets a Nobel Prize just a few months after swearing in, the lit prize goes to someone totally unheard of. And people are talking about 'waves' instead of serious issues.
It was only today that I read about the 'wave' in detail. And I'm dying for an invite now. It is cool - to have conversations. for collaboration and doing any group-work in the world. Kudos to Google for thinking such a thing up. Now that I think of it, I just wonder why people had taken such a long time to hit upon this idea!
P.S: If you have received an invite, please send me one too!
It was only today that I read about the 'wave' in detail. And I'm dying for an invite now. It is cool - to have conversations. for collaboration and doing any group-work in the world. Kudos to Google for thinking such a thing up. Now that I think of it, I just wonder why people had taken such a long time to hit upon this idea!
P.S: If you have received an invite, please send me one too!
Friday 2 October 2009
Smoking life away
I have finally decided to get fit for the umpteenth time. However, unlike previous times, this was MY decision, which probably means that I am going to lose weight. I walk five kilometers everyday now and it feels really good. I really feel free - some kind of happiness I have never felt over the years and there is a huge bonus too - most of my old favourites are getting back into the wardrobe from the almirah I used to dump them in when they grew too small for me. In fact it feels like heaven.
The only problem I face is this - every day I walk, I find more people smoking in public places. And I'll bet that the number is increasing, and increasing rapidly. Thankfully, smoking in public is not back to the level of the pre-ban days. Still it can be easily verified that people have started ignoring the law, even if it is only a small minority of them.
Educating the masses is not really a great way to stop the people from smoking. It is addictive. Once you get the habit, it is difficult to kick the habit. You cannot ask the addicts to quit smoking simply because it 'kills' them. The people have tougher hides now and it would require a diamond blade to make a scratch on those! If all people behaved perfectly rationally, this planet would be having a different name. A lot of my classmates smoked, knowing well the ill-effects of smoking. It is the danger that accompanies the cigarette and the tobacco that makes it more alluring to people. And ours is the most insane species nature ever produced. Our name should've been Homo Eccentrica or something like that.
So smokers will not easily quit. The best thing we can now do is to politely tell the people who smoke in public places: "My dear sir, I appreciate that you have chosen to commit suicide and I, as a fellow being, fully agree that a person such as you who chose bravely not to understand commonsense, deserves an early death, as you will soon know; but I request you not to harm other fellow beings who are doing no harm to you (and that includes me.)"
How will that be?
The only problem I face is this - every day I walk, I find more people smoking in public places. And I'll bet that the number is increasing, and increasing rapidly. Thankfully, smoking in public is not back to the level of the pre-ban days. Still it can be easily verified that people have started ignoring the law, even if it is only a small minority of them.
Educating the masses is not really a great way to stop the people from smoking. It is addictive. Once you get the habit, it is difficult to kick the habit. You cannot ask the addicts to quit smoking simply because it 'kills' them. The people have tougher hides now and it would require a diamond blade to make a scratch on those! If all people behaved perfectly rationally, this planet would be having a different name. A lot of my classmates smoked, knowing well the ill-effects of smoking. It is the danger that accompanies the cigarette and the tobacco that makes it more alluring to people. And ours is the most insane species nature ever produced. Our name should've been Homo Eccentrica or something like that.
So smokers will not easily quit. The best thing we can now do is to politely tell the people who smoke in public places: "My dear sir, I appreciate that you have chosen to commit suicide and I, as a fellow being, fully agree that a person such as you who chose bravely not to understand commonsense, deserves an early death, as you will soon know; but I request you not to harm other fellow beings who are doing no harm to you (and that includes me.)"
How will that be?
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