I wrote a 'path-breaking' article on life yesterday. After I finished the article, I left the notepad open and went home. When I came back this morning, I 'accidentally' closed the notepad. The poor thing asked me if I wanted to save the file. Something made me click on "No". The article was gone.
I don't think I can re-think all those things again. Will definitely try. But I am sure any attempt will lead to a new line of thought and all those thoughts are not going to come back in their original hue. Though the new ones may be better, they will definitely not be the same.
Long back, when I was in my 12th standard, I wrote a 2-page-long poem in Hindi. I had it with me for 2 years. Then I lost it. It was a wonderful poem. Came from the deepest depths of my heart. I remember a few lines of it. Once I also tried to reproduce the poem by combining the lines that I remembered with some new ones by recalling the message and emotion that I wanted to convey. But the result was not as good. Nor was I so much in touch with the feelings that I had experienced when I was writing the original poem, though they were very much my own. One can never revisit the exact state of mind one has at a particular moment.
We all seem to be travelling into future. When we say 'Time Travel', it essentially means travelling faster than others into future. We are all continuously going into future. It means Time Travel is natural to our existence. We are so much used to thinking of 'travelling' as in terms of distances that we cannot imagine what travelling in time could mean. Even our clocks have a distance-representation of time. It could be a 'hand' covering circular distances at a specific speed. Or a digital clock which shows numbers whose periodicity of change we relate to some periodic motion in a way. We don't realize this, coz since childhood we've trained our minds to do this spontaneously. May be the most basic correlations are the movements of the Sun, the Moon, planets...It may also be like identifying instants with a particular state or position of a particular object, like the Sun. Coordinates are again distances relative to fixed references.
That was just a thought. It may not be true.
I am just wondering what should be a better way of looking at and understanding time at a very basic level, and whether a different way of looking at it has any advantages. Any ideas on this?
Am enjoying the digressions. A friend just phoned me. He had a question which according to him only I could answer. It was - "Why do people like the smell of their own fart but not of others'?" For a moment I thought - "do they?"
Then I felt I don't really hate my own fart so much. So it's more like not hating rather than liking. A related fact is that people don't mind washing their own shit with their own hands. The reason, I feel, is that a person's fart or shit is his/her 'own'. They may be one's dirt or waste material. But like a person always accepts his/her bad qualities, ugly physical features, etc., similarly a person accepts his/her fart and shit without complaining. They are a part of one's existence. My friend found this answer pretty logical. But then, he had something to add. That some people even start liking such things of their own. Like another friend of ours who enjoys farting loud, coz that way there is least smell, according to him. So finally, we concluded that people definitely don't hate such things, coz they are their own, and some even develop a liking for them.
I think another digression is necessary at this point, otherwise whoever reads might get frustrated. I am bound to enjoy this coz it's my own bakwaas. Wow, the above logic seems to apply in a lot of cases!
I was named Fartu during my 1st year in college. Not that I used to fart a lot. I mean I used to fart a lot, but not literally. 'Fart' also meant useless bakwaas which I used to do in plenty during my first few days in college. But this name did not become very popular. Nor did I. Coz I was one of those Enthu-less, homesick Freshies who didn't take part in anything, didn't give gaalis, didn't attend lectures, didn't mix with the 'bad boys' and didn't talk to any senior. I think these 5 are the success mantras for any college student. If you do these properly, in a college good enough, you can hope to be short-listed by McKinsey. I may be exaggerating...not sure whether about McKinsey or about the 5 mantras...there are many other good companies...there are many other ways to succeed...hmmm...I guess that explains why I am not in McKinsey :D
If you want to speak like P.Chidambaram, it's pretty simple. Always start your speech with "There is a saying in Thhamil". And after that talk any gibberish like "un pondati seriyaana naatu katta - meaning winners do things differently". And then start your speech. Make sure there is no one among the listeners who knows tamil ;-)
I hate reading blog posts which start with "This is my first serious post" or "This is my first attempt at writing something serious" or "I am trying to write something serious this time" or "This is my first attempt at serious blogging" or something like that. It totally turns me off. I think it is best to leave on the readers to form their opinions and comment on the nature of an article.
I need to make sure none of my own posts start like that :D But then, my 'own' posts cannot turn me off (by that 'fart' logic). And I don't know if it turns others off as well. Please let me know...(if you answer this question, I'll know that you've read the complete post :-P)
I don't think I can re-think all those things again. Will definitely try. But I am sure any attempt will lead to a new line of thought and all those thoughts are not going to come back in their original hue. Though the new ones may be better, they will definitely not be the same.
Long back, when I was in my 12th standard, I wrote a 2-page-long poem in Hindi. I had it with me for 2 years. Then I lost it. It was a wonderful poem. Came from the deepest depths of my heart. I remember a few lines of it. Once I also tried to reproduce the poem by combining the lines that I remembered with some new ones by recalling the message and emotion that I wanted to convey. But the result was not as good. Nor was I so much in touch with the feelings that I had experienced when I was writing the original poem, though they were very much my own. One can never revisit the exact state of mind one has at a particular moment.
We all seem to be travelling into future. When we say 'Time Travel', it essentially means travelling faster than others into future. We are all continuously going into future. It means Time Travel is natural to our existence. We are so much used to thinking of 'travelling' as in terms of distances that we cannot imagine what travelling in time could mean. Even our clocks have a distance-representation of time. It could be a 'hand' covering circular distances at a specific speed. Or a digital clock which shows numbers whose periodicity of change we relate to some periodic motion in a way. We don't realize this, coz since childhood we've trained our minds to do this spontaneously. May be the most basic correlations are the movements of the Sun, the Moon, planets...It may also be like identifying instants with a particular state or position of a particular object, like the Sun. Coordinates are again distances relative to fixed references.
That was just a thought. It may not be true.
I am just wondering what should be a better way of looking at and understanding time at a very basic level, and whether a different way of looking at it has any advantages. Any ideas on this?
Am enjoying the digressions. A friend just phoned me. He had a question which according to him only I could answer. It was - "Why do people like the smell of their own fart but not of others'?" For a moment I thought - "do they?"
Then I felt I don't really hate my own fart so much. So it's more like not hating rather than liking. A related fact is that people don't mind washing their own shit with their own hands. The reason, I feel, is that a person's fart or shit is his/her 'own'. They may be one's dirt or waste material. But like a person always accepts his/her bad qualities, ugly physical features, etc., similarly a person accepts his/her fart and shit without complaining. They are a part of one's existence. My friend found this answer pretty logical. But then, he had something to add. That some people even start liking such things of their own. Like another friend of ours who enjoys farting loud, coz that way there is least smell, according to him. So finally, we concluded that people definitely don't hate such things, coz they are their own, and some even develop a liking for them.
I think another digression is necessary at this point, otherwise whoever reads might get frustrated. I am bound to enjoy this coz it's my own bakwaas. Wow, the above logic seems to apply in a lot of cases!
I was named Fartu during my 1st year in college. Not that I used to fart a lot. I mean I used to fart a lot, but not literally. 'Fart' also meant useless bakwaas which I used to do in plenty during my first few days in college. But this name did not become very popular. Nor did I. Coz I was one of those Enthu-less, homesick Freshies who didn't take part in anything, didn't give gaalis, didn't attend lectures, didn't mix with the 'bad boys' and didn't talk to any senior. I think these 5 are the success mantras for any college student. If you do these properly, in a college good enough, you can hope to be short-listed by McKinsey. I may be exaggerating...not sure whether about McKinsey or about the 5 mantras...there are many other good companies...there are many other ways to succeed...hmmm...I guess that explains why I am not in McKinsey :D
If you want to speak like P.Chidambaram, it's pretty simple. Always start your speech with "There is a saying in Thhamil". And after that talk any gibberish like "un pondati seriyaana naatu katta - meaning winners do things differently". And then start your speech. Make sure there is no one among the listeners who knows tamil ;-)
I hate reading blog posts which start with "This is my first serious post" or "This is my first attempt at writing something serious" or "I am trying to write something serious this time" or "This is my first attempt at serious blogging" or something like that. It totally turns me off. I think it is best to leave on the readers to form their opinions and comment on the nature of an article.
I need to make sure none of my own posts start like that :D But then, my 'own' posts cannot turn me off (by that 'fart' logic). And I don't know if it turns others off as well. Please let me know...(if you answer this question, I'll know that you've read the complete post :-P)
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