Being sick

Dear Krishna,

Sick with the flu. Have you noticed how one's brain stops caring about the random bit's and pieces of information that keep floating about when that happens? When you are sick only the most important things matter - you stop thinking about how you look or what the other person thinks of you or what are the consequences if you do this and so on. All worries and apprehensions connected with superficialities seem to vanish and a person can come back to the basics. It becomes easy to identify and separate the good friends from the rest. A person who brings you hot soup or invites you to play chess with him (knowing you are sick) because you are bored, are so easily the good friends.

The best part is simply that one automatically gets rid of the unnecessary clutter and inhibitions that clogs one's mind. That being said it's not fun to be sick for long. You miss out on doing so many things. Best is if you can take the learnings from being sick and apply it to when you are non-sick. Hope that makes sense :)

-Aditya

Beautiful Thorns

"Beautiful thorns await the man who is blindly allured by the scent of the sweet roses."

Winter is in the air. Another six months of sweaters, comforters and near total hibernation. And here I sit, at it's beginning, typing away. The last one and a half years have taught me a lot, stuff that is hard to put into words. Or at least a set of words that fit into one post. But no matter. I have enough time. The ice age didn't end in a day.