Reflections of Today

Okay so here’s something amongst the tooo many interests that I have, this is one of the oldest ones. Writing.

I want to churn out something out of me on a frequent basis. So there's accountability on my part, and your’s on consuming my thoughts.
Ideally a visual is much preferred, as the trend demands, but it does so with more energies and time, hence here we are.
Let's begin.

Does curiosity decline as we grow older?

As we grow older, its observed that we become lesser curious than we were back when we were kids.
Now is that because we see reason, or at least believe that there’s a reason for all the things?
Or is it that we have known the things around us, and we restrain from entering into unchartered territories?

Seeing through the lens of reasoning, it forbids the awe that we had once as kids.

Putting simply, once we believed in magic as kids. Now we don’t. We believe in reason.
Like all things, it is both good and bad.
Good because we may understand the true nature of something new, as we may link/reason it from other things we have already learned.

Bad, because we understand. But not get astonished.

My brain can’t store man!

Our brains are trained well enough to process.
Not so much for storing.

Earlier if I learned something new, it would in some sense be etched into me. It would be a difficult thing to forget. I may not even use it, but still remember; sure.
And not just the crux or the general idea of it, but knowing it right to the bones.

Now it's the exact opposite, I am exposing myself to so many things, whether its a song, a movie, an article, or anything at all. As long as there is no voluntary effort to record/note I am bound to forget the learnt aspects.
The general idea and the crux stay, but the specifics are missing. The bones are missing.

In some sense, I think it is the over-load of knowledge that we feeding our brains. Whether that’s movies, songs, social media, books we are constantly trying to pour information in it.
Not sure if all of that is even needed.

Time nahi mil raha yaar!

Another thing that I have noticed in coming in the 4th year of 5 year engineering course (yes, that's a thing. I am pursuing dual-degree) that time is the scarci-est quantity. Academic commitments have increased manifold than last time. Assignments, Projects, I guess my peers would agree here.

Now all the courses that I have taken, have been my choice and I purely love them. Each of them. But it has taken a major share of my life; something not so ideal.
It consumes much of my energy, and in some way takes me away from other commitments.

I think it is because of the underlying philosophy institutes function with. IIT Madras is known for its academic and research performances. The 85% attendance is just one such bummer. So is my branch in a sense intensive.

Perhaps it's just me, or just a few people around me.
Nevertheless, I have 2 more years in here, let’s hope I survive well :)
(the “in” here in the last sentence does not make sense, I miss insti. Much more than the word “miss” could carry meaning)

Of course, it seems amplified by the situation we are right now, no doubt about that.
Of course, it is because there are major other commitments like, Internship preps, running a startup (Resonect, you might have heard about us back in July Course Registrations :)

But yeah time has become a rare commodity,
like I haven't been able to converse with dearest of my friends in ages now.
(yeah dumbass Adhokshaj I am talking about you here. You may mention, * mentioned in Mr. Khandalikar’s blog * on your resume now btw:)

TOOO many good things to do

Here’s the thing there are,
- too many good things to do in this world
- too many ways to do things,
like for eg. Design right, you can go all-in alone, learn things on your own keep building, or else maybe join in a design school of some kind, or maybe collab with someone, etc.

And I am human (not sure if that is a just convincing or actually factually correct)
hence I have [[tooo many interests]], it becomes overwhelming and dissipation of focus on what to do, and how to do(because there are many ways to do things)

What I have come to [[realizations]] that,
I have too many colors in the palette
yes that's true, in some sense good too.

That gives you in a sense a larger share of the world to consume.
Except the latter part wherein it becomes overwhelming.

see there already plenty of good stuff that you wanna do,
Out of things that I wanna do this in life,the most critical/crucial aspects that I have found is that,
- have good people
- have good assets, majorly
- Money
- Health

your [[tooo many interests]]can be subdivided into 2 broad categories
- what you truly like doing (right now)
- what society needs and values

You might even line up with your truly liking wale things while doing the latter. hence the (right now) written there

Do that, earn the value, get the assets and you may align with the former then.
At least this logic says that aloud.

Sunday Evenings Done well

Amidst the chaos, there are certain good initiatives that people are indulging in and I am quite fortunate for being considered too.
One of those is a Sunday evening chat with strangers. It is hosted by Anugreh, a senior to my close friend Deepankuri.

The conversations run quite deep, (you may use that btw Deepankuri, like deep convos with Deepankuri :P )
and are centered around self-learning.

Attending 2 of the 3 sessions, we talked about the core reason why people need friends, are all human motives self-ish in nature, etc.
The best part about it is, that it is held with strangers. I know little of the other party so does he/she. There are so many hidden colors that just pop beautifully in the conversations.
Do ping me, if interested in!

Do we owe anything?

Lastly,
I found this as an outlet to many thoughts that kept revolving round my brain.
I have this notion that ‘I’ has no sense.
We are a product of,
- teachings of parents, teachers, friends.
- inspirations from environment that we consume

And just because of that I feel, when someone strikes on something he finds truly valuable, it only makes sense that the person in some way shares that and keeps the cycle flowing.

Essentially, you owe the world.
your beautiful ideas are meant to be shared.
that one thing you always wanted to do? Do that.
The world needs you. And your ideas.

A quote that I am pondering over,

“There’s no duty, we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- R L Stevenson”

Carpe Diem Folks!