my musings...

I was never a people person Talking to someone always sounded fearsome I remember the recesses when the kids used to play on the playground And I would be sitting near the window Watching them go round and round. Mind you, I wasn't sad I enjoyed my own company People never noticed me And that is how I preferred it to be. But then, nothing ever lasts long How long could I have stayed alone? As the years went by I made some friends to remember me by. They were all good souls Adding to my life some Rock N Roll They became the reasons for the fun I had Maybe, life with friends isn't all that bad? I slowly came out of my shell Realized new things about me as well All the while the friend circle grew The person that was me, was born anew. I could be myself among my friends Laugh, joke and speak utter nonsense It was all in good spirit, they knew No one started a sentence with "People like you..." But maybe along the way I crossed a line som

When I first came to know that the catholic church had banned Copernicus' book because in it he suggested that the earth revolves around the sun, I thought 'What!, its so obvious'. Maybe it was because I already 'knew' that the earth is not the centre of our solar system. But now I can understand why the church did what it did. When we hear something getting repeated or experience something everyday, we tend to think that this is how things are. And when we encounter something out of the ordinary it comes as a rude shock. We have been wired to think about ourselves a lot, it's how we have survived as a species. Of course we think about our families, our friends, relatives and the society(this one is unnecessary most of the times). But we think about all of them from 'our' perspective. For people living in cities, this becomes a more acute problem because we have a very strict routine and few (meaningful) human contacts. So we are always concerned with