Wonder Notes

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet,sparkling with color,bountiful with life.Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble,an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked- as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings.To put it in the other way round,isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born?Who,with such a thought,would not spring from bed,eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?"

-Richard Dawkins in "Unweaving the Rainbow-Science,Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder"

During a read some lines brush my mind and disappear and some like these stay and kindle.Ideas creep in and time runs bizarre while I discover the little and big things within and out.It feels wonderful to face myself with honesty and ask what,why and how am I doing in all this living.There is always a good share between those wild shower and the happy feather moments.I make mistakes,I learn,I better as long as I am here.And like the past few mornings I guess I am going to wake up with this beautiful thought for a long time to come.

-R.

Story

 

'Never give up on something that you cannot go a day without thinking about'

Everything is possible is what I convince myself when I have to push my mind through an extra hour of study every night.There are times when I get completely out of the plot, a basic human tendency of procrastinating issues that matter the most.Some days I feel good when I read subjects that have always been my favorites but then I tend to overlook those weaker sections, the ones which I need to work on.Everything is important is what I try to convince myself again.It is difficult.

I am not a nerd.I say this unlike a bunch who know me quite well few days ago very contradictorily  mentioned,maybe because there is really nothing else that I reflect right now.I cannot prove this to anyone.I read because life demands and this is how it always will be.I am glad.Over and again it feels like a mad race but this is something which I will never give up,some other desires that I might as well bury.I spend hours with my books realizing how little I know and get to learn something new each day.

There are people, things and occasions that I have to let go for a while.I cannot keep pace and catch anything that is going around.It is amusing to see folks at home trying hard to obey the rules of silence that I prefer, then there are a few courageous ones who bear my swinging temperament.My only solace is that they know and wonderfully understand where this effort can take me.Sincere apologies to all the ones who matter.

There are things good and aplenty that I wish to and can do, alone and with the world.Places that I want to visit.Strangers that I want to know.In the coming springs maybe.For now, I am writing my story.


-R.

Relax

Hobbes: I really am tired, I deserve a break.Don't I?

Calvin: Relax.

Hobbes: I am not feeling well,but I am a strong tiger.I really am.Achoo.Ain't I???

Calvin: Relax

Hobbes: Boy,by the way have you done your assignments?

Calvin: Relax

Hobbes: Am I asking you a lot of them,I mean questions?

Calvin: Relax

Hobbes: Am I just a stuffie or do you think there is something more to me?

Calvin:Relax

Hobbes:If one fine day you stop imagining me what will become of me?

Calvin: Relax

Hobbes: You will not do that right,Calvin?

Calvin: Relax

Hobbes: Or will you?

Calvin: You!You silly foolish tiger!!!

Hobbes:Run....

PS: Thank you Mr.Watterson.