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The most beautiful things come out when you don't think...

Post by - Samridhi Maheshwari
Just Sitting here on the corner of awesome and bombdiggity.: This post is as random as throwing a die and getti...: So I had my Driving Test today. While I waited for my turn to come, I did what I love doing the most. Read quotes, thoughts, poems which ma...

Creativity

We are so blind by abstraction that we forget the most beautiful things started out binary!

Procrastination is the thief of time! Really?

Let's consider a typical Indian Engineering student example. We have our submissions after every 6 months, and it should not be a panicy situation because all you need to do is submit all that you have done in the past 4 or 5 months. No big deal? But the truth is the majority of the population never completes an assignment on time and months of work load is scrambled in just a few days ( and ohh the feeling of pride if you survive the heat).

Okay, we all know if we did our work on time, we won't have to go through such pressure in the end, but another way to look at the situation is, in this process we manage time better than we ever would.

Apparently time is not uniform. Some times it appears to flow swiftly and some other time it is just stuck(remember those last boring lectures when your watch mysteriously seems to work slow!! Damn!).

Your work spans according to the amount of time available. So you keep the potential of completing an assignment in one hour if the submission is tomorrow, but if it's in the next week, the assignment is coupled with a movie and chit-chat and takes away your 4hrs.

Remember though you are quite unlikely to get the best results if you shrink weeks of work to days.
So, is procrastination good or bad? Well it's for you to decide. It's your life ;) 

Abstraction

What is the basic goal of every living being on this planet?
Biologically speaking, it's survival. But...
as a human race, we go a step further and ask ourselves...Why? What are we all doing here? Why do we wake up in the morning, freshen up and work(or cuddle(:))! Maybe that's the way we see for survival(prosperous survival), but there's more to the story.
Though the human race is one, and yes history says we do what we do to survive, when you ask someone, 'what do you want to do?', 'survive' might be the least likely answer.
So we 'the homo sapiens', don't just survive, but we tend to explore, discover, invent, care and love. We don't just live life, we try to understand life... Here is where the race splits (with a wide overlapping region).
Lets see a day from each of the 3 types ---
Type 1 - The inventor -
Case 1 - Woke up in the morning at 8. What if i can control how much i sleep? If i could make some device that would wake me up... and we have alarms(with snooze buttons :P)
Case 2 - The Lovely inventor / Altruist - Why do we hear the news? To stay updated? Increase our GK? What good is that? What's the point in making myself better? I need to do some thing for my friends out there.
Such software developers are making the productivity apps you find on playstore. They work hard to make a change and though often underappreciated, they don't mind. It's important to be good and if enough for you to know that.

Type 2 - The discoverer -
Curiosity. Every human is born with it, only the levels vary. Very few of us are able to stop ourselves from doing something if someone simply says 'Don't do it'. You need to give reason - why not?  We spend time on You Tube, searching 'how stuff works'. Sometimes our brains don't process all the input but we try and then we try again. These are the people who might not be the brightest sparks, but the knowledge they share makes the inventors life easy.
Type 3 -The Lovers -
The most common of all.

So which ever category, you may fall in, just take a minute from your life and think of how much you owe people. If it wasn't for them, we might be sill be out there in the jungles, clueless from where we came and where we should go and the only thing that emitted light would have been the sun and the moon... So what do they expect from us? Nothing, but won't if be nice if you look up in the sky and say a humble sweet 'thank you'?
P.S. - The draft isn't edited properly for publishing, but i hope it conveys the message.

Long Gap...

Some very interesting - not so common - things happened in the past few months. For the first time since 10th, i had a feeling of homesickness(i even called mom to stay here for a few days...moms rock!!!). Frustrated by the problems after shifting to a new flat among other things and the most of all all this was happening when i really had the chance to do what i always wanted...
SE IT was meant to be the start of my new awesome life(and now it is). Yes, there were some ups and downs but now it all seems to settle in place. I finally get what i wanted and i have to strive to keep it that way.
I would like to call this a perfect life but unfortunately some issues never resolve. What once seemed to be the best thing that happened to me, now brings me down. Some times things don't work out the way you want them, but it's okay. It's life move on.
Flashback - Had an amazing time with Atharva and Dinesh at Sinhagad, lost my best friend even when i never had her and made some new friends at SE9. I wish this didn't sound so cold but i don't see other way of putting this. Everyone has emotional problems and most of them are due to not speaking up, hiding. It's all a part of life, but on the positive side i never lost focus on what i really wanted to be. May sound a bit selfish, but the motivation is - 'it's for the grater good '.
 P.S. - I know there are not many readers here, but if you are one of the few, don't read this post twice, instead power off your device and go hug the person whom you love the most(and by person i mean a person, not a mirror).