This post is inspired by a movie called "Dead Poet's Society". In it Robin Williams inspires his students to bring more randomness in their lives and he tries this through poetry. All of us sometimes feel this urge to break out of the shell that seems to have blanketed us and made us apathetic to the beauty & wisdom of the world around us. But how do we get rid of this blanket and cry out loud to the heavens to shower us with this mysterious rain of emotions and discovery? The feeling does not lie in feeling the felt, reading the read, seeing the seen but going out of our limits that we have created for ourselves. We have to bring forth the little Einstein or little Whitman or little Lincoln or little Premchand or little Presley inside of us and let it flow free for at least some time during the course of our mostly mundane lives. Only then can we truly enjoy what we're doing and create/achieve something new in our lives. The more frequently we make these small "discoveries" the more quality we would be able to bring in our lives. Then we won't wonder sitting on a sofa about "How on earth did that guy do that thing?". Because during the course of our small discoveries we might stumble upon something that could change the course of our lives. So till that day we can only perform trials and errors.
"Surreal but nice" that's what Hugh Grant's character managed to blurt out, mesmerized by the beauty of Julia Roberts (in the movie Notting Hill ). And this was the exact thought that was running in my mind as I was rising from a depth of over 35 feet under water in the Arabian Sea near Goa, India. I had just finished my first dive (rather second dive of my first dive) with grouper fish, tailor fish - and many more - knelt at the bottom of the ocean floor and touched a ship wreck that sunk more than sixty years ago! It was a surreal experience that has left me with a feeling of self-satisfaction as well as endless curiosity. The two feelings very rarely take a house together in my mind. Probably the last time they shacked up together was when I got an admit for my Master's from State University of New York . The feeling of gliding underwater among the fishes, water pressure trying to burst your ears drums, flying over huge boulders of rocks under sea; like an un...
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