Collecting memories with an Amateur Hand

The view from my room

I miss 'em

The Blinding Silver Lining that begins to emerge - atop the flag showing our presence

Now your know what I did in my loo the entire day

With flowers like these in the spring 5 feet from my bathroom window!!! Who would'nt like to spend more than the usual time in there?!

Spot the Weaver Bird pls...

View from the Loo

No matter how long one sat admiring the front lawns- it would never be adequate!

The pictures could never justify the view

And nothing can beat the shimmer on the lake!

Recognising the endless world of Perception.

I always tell my Mother that for me in life the most important thing to remember is 'Perception'. How we percieve things! And to always remember that no 2 people can have same perceptions.

And it is not easy for one to be aware of this fact at a subconcious level, it is only in later life that we hear the elderly saying- he thinks like that so.......!!! I dont know if this is a kind of reconcialation or what it is, but this I know, that it is an understanding that seeps nothing but wisdom into a person.

When I was in college, one thing I yearned for as I spoke to a confidant was 'understanding', I was so full of vigor that even the things that came out had no head or tail, so I wondered what I wanted. Did I only want a listener?

No, I wanted to be understood, and it is not something only I want, as I see people around me I see that this is what alot of people yearn for.

And in trying to be understood I realized that the first step is to understand.

This may seem very basic and simple but when one experiences it one realizes that it unleashes a power, power to control!
As I began to understand the psyche of others, I was able to put my feelings in a way that I knew they would understand, and that gave me a sense of satisfaction, knowing that what the pther person sees is what I want him/her to see.

Of course I am only begining to understand this, and I am sure there are people way ahead of me in understanding and mastering the skill, but none the less I put down my thoughts to crystallize them!

Man - a social Animal (Random Thoughts)

In Pune, minus the constant dose of social company, is no dobt making Jack, or in this case Jackie a dull girl, that ofcourse would be me, many a time I have exploded with feelings of being alone, fought with the odd ones around, tried doing odd things, engaging myself in other things, but without company I feel like my mind is rotting!

So the usual whirling thought clouded my mind and for some reason I began thinking why it was so, why do they call only certain animals social, I mean elephants are supposed to be social, ants too but I havent heard anyone saying. And there are as a matter of fact degrees of sociability, I wondered how, and why......

Finally, I had a eureka moment, the more developed the communication skills are in any organism the more social he is! :)

And so is concurrent in movies with aliens with advanced technology some how have uniques ways of communication....... e.g. telepathy!

So well Man being an intelligent being, thus having a developed aka advanced set of communication skills is naturally more social that other creatures, not disputing ofcourse the fact that we have not discovered and still are about the communication of other animals.

Who knows we may not be as intelligent as other creatures!!!!

Depth of Perception

 The glimmer of opportunity, faint yet there, visible in the light of the cool moon which may be understood as a state of mood; in which each one of us flow with the torrent of life, battling between the silver lining and the dark spiral of the euphemistic side of life that tends to attract our attention due to the sheer uncertainty of it, illuminating the dark yet hidden (by us) nature of man; and ironically we do not fail to look to proceed.........

The hidden talent that we are all afraid to give way to, unsure by limited limitation, where we then curl up into the safety of the fetal position and the only view left is that of darkness. This ballet dancer can if chooses to steer away from the corner to look to allow talent to remain bouyant and not hide it away.... look for the sparkling shoe.

  A time comes in the life of each where darkness seems to overshadow the little light, the only solace one finds is in giving up, forgetting that after each night comes day.

Reminds me of Milton's lines in Paradise Lost- "Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
871: Nine dayes they fell; confounded CHAOS roard........
Taking a fall into the material world in vain, strips man of the ensemble of that that has/gives meaning to the spirit. And yet the nature of man can be appreciated in the beauty of the knaivity of man that I see as an expression and facet of the notion of 'being human'.

The light hand of day need only to be felt by the realization of its existence.

Journey of Life - A Thought

As on one end the world virtually becomes a more concise idea due to the various modes of communication and fast modes of travel and the will and interest of man to learn more about others of the same kind, interests tend to shift as we advance.

Although natural selection that occurs in the primitive state of it, I i think it none the less does happen in a way that we are unable to comprehend at a conscious level, but it is important that one notices "it", as "it" is like any other piece of information that plays no role when one is ignorant of it, and when one is aware it tends of influence certain decisions of ours at a concious level.

The reason why I am putting down my thoughts as crude as they may sound, is because I hope that when I, in time decide to do my phd in psychology, perhaps I will consider this as one of things I would like to test. My interest stems from incidents in my life.

About 5 years ago, my parents went to Terry- a counselor at Xavier's- my alma mater, to get their IQ tested. On the day the result was to be told, Terry asked my parents if they had had a love marriage, and I know how much that is far from the truth, the reason for him asking so was because their IQ's were very close to each other and on a higher side. Ofcourse this at the time seemed to be an incident of jest.


As I dated people in college and out of I some how was not happy in my relationships and of course they in no time fell apart. And I began thinking why it is so, what does it take for a relationship to work.
I began thinking of all the pieces of advice people give, "you need to work hard in a relationship", "relationships are not easy", "relationships need more effort that even your JOB" - that was the most amusing I heard, because was'nt a relationship keep you together in times of even a depression in the cycle of your career. Why were things so contradictory?!!

Coupling and tripling events that I have experiences including my current relationship and observing people around me. People with certain backgrounds tend to get together, people with similar families get together-(talking exclusively of India- will attempt to deal with this at a global level perhaps in the next article) and so on.

Considering, location (area of residence, college time, work place etc) I noticed that people who are on a similar platform as far as one's intelligence level is concerned seem to have more successful relationships in modern India. This probably makes communication and interests converge at some level, and at a discreet unconscious level I think we may be selecting people who match our intellect or in the least challenge it! In essence we tend to look for matches that we can relate with on an intellectual platform.

Further, I would even not fall back from inclining towards the thought of- one's emotional level also perhaps having a very similar effect on Us choosing our partners.

Into Emotion (www.kira.net.au/intoemotion.html)

(I really wanted to capture what it felt like to fall in to the inky black depths of emotion. Sometimes it’s so overwhelming you just fall into them. Really tried to capture that renascence feeling through the colour and the flicker of the cloth to really push that falling into emotion is beautiful and has gone on for countless years. I used a woman because she represents the female emotional side to really dive home the helplessness that emotions induce. Taken as it is from the site of the photographer as an ironical inclusion in the article)

So, the persons having a higher intellect choose similar partners and produce children with higher intellect, and this may be applicable to the other spectrum of intelligence, this basically ensures that natural selection does take place, perhaps with a display of intellect instead of physical strength.!
The dimmer population does not have to be eradicated off the earth, but are kept aside in a natural way.

(The above article are developing personal views and does not consider and formal influencing factors and does not intend to offence anyone)
(The article does not use the term Natural selection in its biological sense)
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