Funny place, this, if you consider dark humor.

A couple of not-so-interesting weeks I've had of late. 

Lazy, downright irritating, painful and a little satisfacory as it rounded the corner. 

Classes are mundane-r than ever, my note taking skills(if it even existed) has gone past the drain into the sewers now. The only class which seems interesting is Scientific computing but even that gets boring after a while. Lunch hour is the glue that holds the day apart. Seriously. If not for the mafia sessions, and the cow-bull games during class hours, I would have become interest-deprived. 

It is frustratingly painful if your ear hurts.Period. A sharp pan which goes away is even ok, but NO, this won't. This was the sort of nagging pain which never really ached much but always reminded you that it was there. Bloody frustrating. 

Time, the elusive temptress keeps running away faster than i can catch up. One day I woke up and before i know it I'm faced with deadlines in every subject. I somehow submit everything and I it is already time for the next. Meanwhile "To kill a mockingbird" and "Canterbury tales" wait in the wings. The pressure for results is at an all time high. One cnsiderable high was "Potterific" which went on smoothly and can be considered a success.

Four, five days back Dad, mom and me had gone to some temples in kumbakonam and the villages around it. The roads were narrow and rugged, but the lush green of the surrounding fields mor ethan made up for it. The temples, part of the 108 divyadesams, were almost abandoned with 2 or 3 people at each temple, some with not even that luxury. One such temple wa slocked and the caretaker explained to us the stories in a way which made us wonder why he wasnt the priest. And he only gets 400 rs a month for all this dedication and faith. The world is a funny place.

In another temple, a retired headmaster used his pension to build a house in that village and stay in the temple as there was no one to tend to it. He stays up and opens the gates and explains to anyone who comes at anytime. When asked why, he says he had the misfortune of going to a temple once and findig it locked, he had to wait there for 4 hrs and as a result, he couldn't go to a few other places on his plan. He did not want visitors to experience what he felt. And, yes there's more, he wasn;t going to attend his son's wedding the next day even, for the temple will be without a hand. Again I say, the world is a funny place. 

We live in a world where powercuts have become nuisances when we should be glad that we have power even. Yes I am irritated too, by these frequent absences of power in our neighborhood. This made me realise what the so called innovations have done to us. They've made luxuries necessities. Whatever is a luxury becomes a necessity after sometime. Then we seek other luxuries and the vicious circle goes on. As I sat in the absolute darkness I realised this is how it would have been when there were no bulbs and fans, no wires to carry the current and no apartments to shack up in. From that we reached the present state which is more advanced. From here, the scope for development is infinite, if we follow the same rule. But will it happen? Or will man settle down with what he has? 

At times like this, I feel grateful to a few people who remind me why I am here and what it feels like to be a human capable of feeling emotions. Those people, who remind me what I should do , those people who make me smile, those who frustrate me, those who make a difference whereever they go, those crazy people who stand on the steps of a bus with th e wind in their faces, happily looking at people passing by, the ones who cheer me up, the ones who feel the same way and need cheering up, the ones who live, rather than just come to college and go just for the heck of it, for there is a world of difference between the two. 

A friend of mine quoted Einstein's words. "I don't know when the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sticks and stones." Man is man's enemy. 

After all,

"We're all we got in this world. 

When it spins, 
When it swirls. 
When it whirls, 
When it twirls." 

-Eminem

Feels good to be back. :)