I love the way engineering works. It can keep you busy enough to keep all your worries/tensions/troubles/concerns at a distance, and for just enough time for either the mentioned four to resolve on their own, or make you forget what they were in the first place. And just when you want time to think about life, the Monday to Friday routine make you believe you’re in some BA course (the workload, assignments etcetera is still not comparable though, but you get the point).
A certain “lost discoverer” asked me very simple, yet meaningful question at the start of this week, a question that actually kept me occupied for the remaining days. “Why do you think so much?”
Why do i think so much? Do i really think that much? Do i really have to think that much? Is it o.k. if i don’t think that much?
I have no clue. I do not believe i spend too much time on it anyways. Even if i do, i call it my personal time, time where i can be alone with my conscience to guide me(and a bit of instinct too). I think its a great mental exercise to be able to analyse people and situations comprehensively. Not only does it lend you with a variety of different perspectives, and therefore “open your mind”, but it helps you seek out the best attributes/traits which you can imbibe later.
As was evident from my previous post, and a few recent status updates on facebook, i have been thinking [:P]. And the answer to “what’s on your mind?” follows :
• Are we really that shallow that we tend not to care for those who care for us? Or do we pretend to be so busy that we take them for granted? On the flipside, is it imperative for us to be thankful to those people, and therefore “show” it rather than be discreet about it?
• Should loyalty be the only or major factor to consider while judging a person? (Strangely judging a person seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. We might come up with an answer, but we can never be sure of the reasons/intentions behind a certain person’s actions. Our “method” of judging might distort it)
• Can we ever be open to everyone about everything related to ourselves? Do we really have to be a different person with different subsets of people? On the other side, should the person termed manipulative if he/she does so?
• Is it necessary to wait and watch before you become good friends with someone? Waiting, to see if your instinct was right? Watching, closely to know that you can “be yourself” with him/her without apprehensions? Or is it fine to let go and let friendship happen from the start, without taking into account how things might pan out? (the latter idea often the case with most superficial and/or dwindling friendships)
Questions that do force you to think. Questions that conflict with your beliefs/thoughts/values/ built up over a considerable time frame i.e. two decades or so. Questions, according to me, that have no definitive, pin-point answer to, because their basis itself is diverse situations.
This quote from a former friend's status,lying dormant in my draft for the past 2 years, makes a whole lot of sense now.
"Sometimes i wonder if anything's absolute anymore. Is There Still right and wrong? Good and bad? Truth and lies? Or is everything negotiable,left to interpretation, grey. Sometimes we're forced to bend the truth, transform it, cause we're faced with things that are not of our own making.And sometimes things simply catch up to us."
PS - Happened to have enough time to actually go through a couple of more blogs in detail. “A lost discoverer” and “Be Serhiyass” seem to have me hooked. A special mention of “the one who has his own website” and his idea of “it’s time to take the stairs!”.
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