Of all human mind exercises, to be nostalgic evokes some of the most mixed responses… every time it evokes a new feeling in a new setting… maybe the same thoughts at different instances makes one feel happy, sad, desperation and often brings about an appreciation of beauty… it makes one often reflect about life…
Right now its raining, the beautiful sight outside my window , looking out into the open green, the hazy picture being painted by tiny droplets of water, coupled with an Anjan Dutta song, today has brought about in me a sense of long lost romanticism…
One of the unfortunate aspects that seem to come across in most B-Schools is the lack of time that one has for oneself… Come to think of it, what kind of people is the normal B-School creating??? A person who can work for 18 hours a day for a week, 2 weeks and maybe in the ‘best’ B-Schools maybe a month??? But is that what we really want want???
Coming from Presidency, grilled through IITK, I finally seem to have found some peace here in XIMB… Amongst the innumerable hours of projects, assignments, quizzes, somehow this place has something above all… It has ‘Real’ people… People to whom life matters, the emotions count, and who on any day are not afraid to remove their masks and let the world see them as they see themselves in the mirror… Thus as I can proudly say that after an year at XIMB I know what the vision of the institute to create a manager with society in mind really means… Is it really important to work against your wishes for years on end without thinking about oneself… Being a rationalist I strongly believe that one life is all man has … One really exciting, beautiful life… Must we really sacrifice our self to mint money and then realize one day that there is no way in which it can be spent to bring happiness…
Going back to 10th standard Shakespeare, Nerissa explains to Portia in Merchant of Venice , how the happiest people have just enough… It is unbelievable how ones memory holds on to a few learning… she says “Superfluity comes sooner to those that have not and them that have too much”… Society would have truly been a lot better had everyone been satisfied with just enough…
We still have time… time to reflect, time to change…
I have been through many experiences, Presidency opened my eyes, IITK shook my self-belief yet strengthened my confidence… However XIMB has always seemed just right… It allows one and all to sharpen their personalities, strengthen their character, does not necessarily try to change any of that… What we learn is to ‘live’ life, and let others around us too… While most people just ‘lead’ their lives, I must say this is what contentment and happiness is derived from… To be at peace with one’s self and one’s surroundings…
Those of you, and I am sure there will be many, thinking about the apparent hypocrisy in my statements, I can safely say that enjoying life, without causing harm to the environment, is what makes us human… When all lower life forms are searching for resources to keep them alive, we can take a quite afternoon off and reflect on life, on society and the universe… Believe me as Feynman said life can never be futile simply because of the beauty it allows you to see…
Coming from the land of Tagore, and most lazy and brilliant romanticists I must refer a song ‘sokhi bhabona kahare bole’ an eternal song about love… love not tainted by being towards just an individual but love for all that one sees… In other words freedom of choice or free will is ‘God’s’ greatest gift to mankind… All the great poet ever asks for is some time to be happy… happy to just be… happy to realize what it means to be alive…
In the times of bomb blasts and acts of terrorism everywhere, I must say if the people with power and resources would just help to channelise what they have into the good of mankind, tomorrow will be a better world to live in… There is always enough to feed all… Before we decay as all civilizations have before us, we must consciously choose our path to freedom…
Signing off with Anjan Datta… “Shunte ki Chao tumi shei odbhut besuro sur, phire pete chao shei aanchan kora dupur???” or, “ Do you want to hear that weird piece of untamed music, get back that mysterious extraordinary afternoon”…
1 comment:
Mate, nice to see you have found some "peace" and have started to value "life".Your views are debatable though and I pity I cannot present before you the one who would scream his lungs to contest every line you have penned.
But then, vaszt ist deist? "It depends", don't it?
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