Re: [nukkad] choices and more

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Anna Morawska wrote:
> 

indian rediff on choices:
> > Actually, I would choose a third ever-available alternative. And that is to drink hemlock.<

> It's over-Socratic and sort of escapist. I'd rather continue drinking from the cup of life.
> Sometimes solutions turn up unexpectedly.
> Anyway, hope I'll never face such a choice.

When you have set up your entire life rotating around a friend or
a lover, his/ her sudden disappearance is bound to leave you
lost. You are not able to imagine the world without him. You are
not able to find how you would live without him.

Thus, the primary thrust that keeps other people going through
the day to day chorus goes missing. and to overcome loneliness,
you decide to leave the world in which he is not there.

In such a situation, a higher purpose is required, much higher
than the individuality or pain of the bereaved.

There is life after the separation of the beloved ones. There are
ways in which you can end up your identity (in a positive sense)
without ending your life.

Live for others. Help them not undergo the same pain that you had
gone through.

> What is Navratri?

It is a nine day festival during the months of Oct or Nov. It
precedes Dushehra festival which symbolises Lord Rama killing
demonic Ravana.

Nav: nine
Ratri: night

This festival is for praying the godess Durga and her
personalities. It is traditional to dance in a big big big group
in front of the statue of the godess to express your devotion. In
the state of gujarat, it is traditionally also consider a meeting
opportunity for younglings.

The times have come when this is being utilised for finding one
night stands to quench more basic desire, thus the reference of
condoms in Soumyo's mail.

> Yet, the information is quite limited if you read just what you are FORCED to read.

Once you are attuned to reading, you would automatically go ahead
to read other things.

> Well, to me it's slightly different. Reading certainly contributes to your self-development[if you're able to use it for that sake] but to become fully beneficial it ought to be 'catalysed' by interacting with other people, which often proves to be of higher value.

I would say that it is also a version of reading. You read books
then you graduate to reading people. The thoughts expressed in a
book make you curious about the thoughts other people might be
carrying which have not yet got printed.

Some people do remain busy in books, and ignore interacting with
people altogether. They are missing a lot of reading.

> >Whenever I meet a well-qualified person who does not like to read, I feel sad.<

> So do I. How long can you keep up the conversation based on professional stuff only?

And as the person ages, it becomes more and more open that he is
not a well read one. The topics of discussions. The duration
taken in understanding the thing, and in responding.

If you observe an unlettered villager in a city, you will find a
peculiar look in his eyes. When he looks at the things, first he
gets fascinated, then so much fascination looses its edge, and he
starts ignoring things. Then this look comes that you find him
looking at things without understanding them and without even
wishing/ trying to understand them ever. It is more like that the
image of the object is created in his ratina by the laws of
optics, but he is not actually "looking".

On the other hand, if you look at the face/ eyes of a person who
is able to understand what it is all about, there is a different
look.

> My summer greak is still on so I'll try and make a search.

What is that.

What are the longitude and Latitude of Poland at your place?
Which are your seasons and which recess you have at school?

How you spend you recess.

> Nukkad is somewhat silent today.

Is it khamoshi after yesterday's toofan, or is it toofaan ke
pehle ki khamoshi.

Toofaan: tempest, storm
khamoshi: silence
baad: after
pehle: before

> Perhaps everybody's deep in thought on true friendship
> and profound love...
> Which is certainly worth it.

For less romantic, they are plain exhausted after yesterday's
high.

I am really afraid of the day when I might have to select between
a true friend and a profound lover. Oh God! spare me that.

-Rawat



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