Tuesday, November 8, 2011

WHY DO HUMANS CATEGORIZE HUMANS??

What do people think when they are putting each other in different boxes .....the huge transfer flow of ideas and our need to categorize. Is it a inherent need for each of us to structure and group at a core level , is it something that is hard-wired and imbibed in our DNA . People around us are as unique as day and night itself the contrast is mind boggling and refreshing .

But what is this need for us to structure and categorize every person, group them together into one box which on a logical level is difficult to perceive since each one of is unique on so many different levels of our life.

I am sitting in a class today seeing my friends and classmates frantically discussing their ideas and opinions an i am thinking how exactly will they come to a common ground and why? the big question i guess that i don't think we will ever have the answer to unless we are GOD. I am looking at a class that is so mixed in all respect of life they are so different and here we are sitting together discussing all about different things and finding a common ground to go about it ......It is simply amazing how the mind works. we all are talking at a different level then where is that they find their common ground? and why do we compromise and accommodate? what people see and feel what is the mechanism behind it ? whatever it is , it is baffling as the mysteries of the universe itself. one would like to argue that it might be because you try not to be unique and stand out. But I think why not aren't we unique in every possible way there is to be. There might be likeness to what you like, two people might like the same things, but the depth of their feelings can't be the same. The way they perceive and see things will be so different at all the fundamental levels. so is it our obsession to categorize or is it just our need to be happy and make others happy find a common grounds maybe. How we achieve it is quiet interesting though. what sort of a unique mechanism we human beings are, so perfect yet so flawed. We will keep on finding structure to everything. NOTHING IS RANDOM. Our unique desire to see a pattern in everything RANDOM drives us.

"HUMAN BRAIN IS MAJESTIC 
IT 
IS THE GREATEST 
CREATION
THE BEST GIFT TO MANKIND" 

Monday, November 7, 2011

She Said Its Not You Its Me


She said its not u its me
all this was meant to be

He said don't go away
lets fight and stay

She said its not u its me
it is our destiny

He said don't go away
I would crumble and fray

She said its not u its me
my desire, is the way

He said don't go away
i would make the way

She said its not u its me
i wanna go, no more

He said don't go away
i will wither and sway

But she said no more
and he lived no more.......

                                          Anket Mohanty.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Lost in Glasgow (My very first day)



LOST IN GLASGOW

Now a days we people are all gaga about how the world has shrunk.. we say the world is a small place, that distances don't matter any more....but tell me guys does it really don't matter ???? i for one beg to differ a bit i believe its not the distances that keeps the world separate but the differences......We Indians still believe that going abroad is a qualification in itself ..i know many of u would be thinkin what! no that's not it,,,,It is no big deal .and i agree, recently i moved to U.K and till the very last moment it was like normal for me although it was my first time  traveling outside India...the moment my flight landed in London a crazy weirdness started to kick in  ..no more the idea that the world is a small place seemed all that appealing to me ....it was fear and excitement mixed together in a potent combination which gave me a altogether different high i was high on life it seems.......the fear of being in an unknown place and the excitement for the same is strange in itself...i was lookin around just for that small glimpse of the familiarity that i might have experienced back at home ....but i tell u there was none......lol.......but like everything in life it gradually seeps in .........anyways i cleared the customs and got on my flight to Glasgow....and i was all excited to see this new place that was gonna be my home for the next whole year.....let me tell u one thing that was clear to me the moment i set  foot in Glasgow, it is a beautiful place to be in if u can adjust to the ever changing weather here.....it might be a sunny day the very next moment it will start raining...u will fall in love with the place immediately .one of the reasons being, it is so differently similar and i mean it ..It has all the looks and flavors of a western country and yet it is so desi at heart......it is as same as it is different from India ....the city wants to party all the time....the people around are friendly and will help u out with everything they can.......

I stayed for sometime in a dorm called blue sky hostel .a fuckin awesome place i tell u not because they provide u with world class amenities or something but the warm welcome and the chance to mix with people from all over the world was a pleasure......people around u as scared as u r was in a sadistic way reassuring that u are not the only one alone lost in a foreign city. 

The police here is fast  those who don't know i am saying this from personal experience.....unlike back in India police will be knocking at your doors the moment somebody calls them even if it is nothing.........the very first day i landed i had the misfortune or the fortune i really don't know what it was still i got to meet the cops here( "they were huge" )..i was taking some pictures of a old Victorian style library and somebody was wise enough to call the cops.i was like is it crime to click photographs and they said "its OK mate we are here to inquire only"really dude hnnn..i tell u i was trying to put a damn strong face but i was scared to hell... but these guys turned out to be nice and saw the pics appreciated it and left....thank god for that....this place is bustling with people all the time and all they want to do is party .............its time for me to stop too i think i hear voices down there calling me to come, forget my worries and get lost in the crowd partying................

" We humans are a unique kind of lost, we are lost on everything, we are lost in identity, we are lost in relationships, we are lost on satisfaction, we are lost on differences but also we are lost in the only thing that makes this sanely insane world so lovable, we are lost in happiness on the smallest spec of hope"
WE ARE LOST