An Aimless post at an Odd hour
2:06 PM Posted by Krishna
The time shows 3:36 AM and after a very long time, I thought lets write a blog. Watched a movie (The forbidden Kingdom) and then played for sometime on my system and then suddenly realized that my Second Sem exams are about to start in just a week. Like a studious geek, I opened my group mail, copy pasting the time-table and the chapters from book of a few subjects in the sticky notes, a feature which I always think of using as a reminder to study, but till date have (un)successfully implemented. The future what is bound to happen you never know. But I decided that for the very immediate future, the studies can wait until the late noon.(Again a big uncertainty).
MBA - Masters in Business Administration, so far has been a decent journey and a great learning experience (Absolutely nothing on the academic front, say for the exception of Economics, which i relished studying, thanks mainly to Mr. Chetan Chitre).
My 1 year or so in Nasik has led to "Many firsts" in my life. For the first time i was (and still am) staying away from my home for such a long duration. My first experience with something called as hostel life (Which I am thoroughly relishing, thanks to my roomies, and the entire 4th floor of BH1). If someone ever asked me an year back about dancing on a dance floor, or having an occasional peg of vodka, I would have replied "Noooooooo Never ;)". Now I am equally comfortable doing both (if I say occasional, it is occasional and it is just vodka - nothing else, for ppl out there in chennai, nothing to get hyper about! ;) ). My love for nature has increased since my amazing trek to Brahmagiri (again my first real trek), the feel of wind, hitting on our faces and trying to offset our balance after a hard trek up, gives me an refreshing feel even at this hour.
The most interesting thing, for the first time in life, I have developed an interest in observing my fellow beings. And this has been the most wonderful (and sometimes dangerous :P) experience/learning till date of my MBA life(and i guess the dangers and adventures will continue for another year). Even the likes of Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin and Wilhelm Wundt would be bamboozled and pleased to observe such a wonderful and dynamic ecosystem and Me being just another me in this system is no exception.
I have had a plethora of emotions, (some very refreshing and some emotionally sapping) during this wonderful voyage of learning and I am listing down a handful of inferences.
The manner in which people handle the most complex of issues in the most simplest manner leaves me in awe.
- How the simplest and silliest of things are blown into the most complicated disasters is a bigger conundrum, for which I doubt, I will be able to zero in on a major reason.
- People know a lot and yet love to be ignorant, which reminds me of an adage "Ignorance is bliss". But is this ignorance good? I am still pondering.
- Humans love being praised and hate being criticized. Even if we realize we are wrong, it is sad to see that we love defending our wrongs, just because it is OURS. We just hate genuine critics and brand them as jobless, good for nothing a**h****.
- And equally so, Humans love being critical. It is just so damn hard for us to praise others, even if it was the most amazing achievement. We have this typical attitude of "Oh thats nothing, Even I could have done that".
- And talking about criticism, Most/Majority of these are doled out at the back of a person. We generally lack the guts to say on the face "a wrong as a wrong", Humans have this wonderful potential of smiling and saying to a person "Wow that was nice" and go behind his/her back and say "That was nothing".
- We are brilliant at pointing problems and hardly try to zero in on solution, because we feel that finding problem is our only job and there is always another creature lurking round the corner to give out solutions. Or maybe we think that God will dole out solutions as a freebie for having created us!
- We love taking things and people for granted. No explanation needed on that front i believe.
- We are incapable of taking "No" for answer. We always need "YES" and love to force others to say YES and amazingly manage to do that and that is because people don't want to step up and say NO as an answer. In short we hate to listen to and say a "NO".
- We are so diplomatic, that we can kill someone smiling on his/her face and he/she would feel like we are Gods granting them a boon.
- And here goes the last one which i can state safely followed by one free advice. ;)
- If we are angry at someone and try blasting him/her out, thats the only time, we really speak our minds out about the particular person.
Free Advice : It is always wise to listen to an angry person, because thats the time, when he/she unknowingly speaks loads of truth (which is a summation of all the negative thoughts a person has in his/her mind about you) which would never come out.
I know a few people will read this and many will never accept it, saying what was written was a piece of bullshit, which after my list of inferences would be surprising only if "if this piece of essay was not termed bullshit ;)".
I would love to finish this post with a quote my friend and roomie (fortunately or unfortunately ;) ) Aniket here "I don't mind. You don't matter".
Till my next post, adieu.
KP - TheDevilzAdvocate
PS: If you think, that this article is based on you, then you may be absolutely right(PUN INTENDED)
