Its been a long time I have been wanting to do this. For the heck of it, I wanted to go for a jog in the campus before 5 am in the morning. So this post is to validate that achievement.
This is how it went. I am in the middle of a BITSian night out. (A BITSian night out last from night time = 1 am to morning time = 9 am) Its 4.30 am I have just finished watching the movie Peaceful Warrior (primarily the reason that I got so adventurous later) And now I have nothing to do. I don't want to sleep now, so put on my shoes and take a walk around campus at 5 am in the morning. Now it wouldn't have been amazing had it been some other place. But 5 am in BITS, is like mid-night.
I wonder how lazy the system has made us BITSians. The funny part is there is an occasional sight of people out jogging by 5.30, but there is not a single student in sight. And it has to be the faculty! Those 40 year old professors know the importance of discipline and good health. Its weird, that a profoundly ambitious BITSian population doesn't get a clue of this. I really wonder sometimes how much discipline, health, or more generally the "quality" of life mean to us in face of the over-flowing challenges and opposrtunities that we come across, and more often than not, mistake them to be stress-generators. Is it that our negligence towards the quality of life makes us fighters or is it that this self-induced thirst for challenges and opportunites converting into stress-disorders is the primary effect of that cause, that we don't emphasize on quality?
Never-the-less coming back to how beautiful the morning was, I got to see an emptier Patel Chowk, where I could sit in peace for a long time, and more peaceful institute building, and the fact that 99 percent of my fellow-mates were asleep at this time gave me a high.
One thing more is that you can actually see how noisy and ugly chirping birds can get in the morning. It isn't all that poetic to see birds chirping till their throats go sore, and for no obvious reason they fight in the trees. All you can see is the rattling of the branches and aleaf falling off here and there. You, see there is something more that can be taken out of this. That poetry also about making ugly things look beautiful sometimes. Or is it that in their intense moments of happiness, poets fail to see truth?
I wonder how lazy the system has made us BITSians. The funny part is there is an occasional sight of people out jogging by 5.30, but there is not a single student in sight. And it has to be the faculty! Those 40 year old professors know the importance of discipline and good health. Its weird, that a profoundly ambitious BITSian population doesn't get a clue of this. I really wonder sometimes how much discipline, health, or more generally the "quality" of life mean to us in face of the over-flowing challenges and opposrtunities that we come across, and more often than not, mistake them to be stress-generators. Is it that our negligence towards the quality of life makes us fighters or is it that this self-induced thirst for challenges and opportunites converting into stress-disorders is the primary effect of that cause, that we don't emphasize on quality?
Never-the-less coming back to how beautiful the morning was, I got to see an emptier Patel Chowk, where I could sit in peace for a long time, and more peaceful institute building, and the fact that 99 percent of my fellow-mates were asleep at this time gave me a high.
One thing more is that you can actually see how noisy and ugly chirping birds can get in the morning. It isn't all that poetic to see birds chirping till their throats go sore, and for no obvious reason they fight in the trees. All you can see is the rattling of the branches and aleaf falling off here and there. You, see there is something more that can be taken out of this. That poetry also about making ugly things look beautiful sometimes. Or is it that in their intense moments of happiness, poets fail to see truth?
1 comments:
Must be a serene experience...
I now have one more movie to add on my list of movies to watch.
Of disciplines and stresses and the quality of life, well it will be one great topic to discuss on...
Lets meet up and have a chat
And about the poetic justice...
well here's a saying "There is no such thing as the absolute truth" so if you do say... that the poets get blinded by the magnificence of nature.. then it might actually be beautiful... what say?
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