Musings of an Idiot

Rainy Weekend

Yesterday's dinner was really cool..I think everyone had heaps of fun and my cooking did not turn out as bad as I was expecting it to be. I had lost my sense of smell because I caught a cold and everything that I cooked was according to my guesstimation, so definitely feeling relieved that it tasted OK (the worst case scenario being no one had the courage to tell me that the cooking was crap :D }.

It has been raining all weekend and it just feels a little bit soggy. I biked to the cycle shop in the light drizzle and dropped off my cycle for servicing and will be getting it back tomorrow evening. I was really lucky though that it stopped raining completely for the time it took for me to walk from Takapuna to my house {about an hour} and it hasn't stopped pouring since I got back home. It was such a great feeling walking that I have decided that I will walk to work tomorrow morning and will bike back home after picking up my cycle. Walking is nice because things really slow down and it gives you time to think in a non-linear way, which let's you explore different thought processes - not necessarily related to work or mundane things about life. I think the world would be a lot better place, if people slowed down a little bit but thats asking for the impossible in a pressured, fast paced society.

I recieved an email a couple of days back from one of my friends and it was a forwarded email - I opened it with reluctance but what I saw shook me to the core. The photograph below is a 1994 Pulitzer winner by Kevin Carter, taken during the famine in Sudan. Click on the image to get a bigger image which contains rest of the details about the photo. And if you are even slightly moved by it - then I hope that you realize how lucky we are and that we do something/anything to make this world a little bit better to live. And if you think that this is some kind of stupid propoganda or image manipulation etc..and that this is total crap and how some people are bound to their destiny and no other person can do anything to help their cause, then I am afriad humanity is truly dead, the concept of society is then a big sham. A single person can make a difference to the world.


I can't get myself to write anything more really.

Signing off for now.
Amit

posted by Amit @ 7:13 PM