New Sense

One of the biggest regrets of my life so far has been that I did not play enough sports. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my parents and peers were very busy comparing scores in academics that sports were considered only to be done when there was spare time. Honestly things weren’t that bad… it wasn’t like I was forced to study or something but there was that small void inside me that had a big tag of sports.

If I look back at the moments that I was the most happiest, it had to be on the soccer field. Ironically I played it only for about 15 months and even the days that ended in pain and loads of suffering seem really fun. The moments when you ran out of breath when you decided to give a little more for that one attacking sprint… or that moment when you stood your ground as the last line of defense and took on the opponents and pulled off that amazingly impossible save. Moments you spend after the game making fun of your friends over ambitious “moves” on the field or cheering again for a brilliantly synchronized set of passes that happened that evening.

So why all this talk about soccer and sports?
Earlier in the day I was watching a few kids getting trained in soccer. The coach’s voice and knowledge just got to me and I realized that I never experienced that… My coaches during my initial days of soccer were my friends and they taught me diligence… they taught me perseverance… they taught me to not quit and that the most important thing about learning is that if its not fun its not worth it.

This post is a small toast to my friends, to let them know that whenever I see a football or someone playing soccer, I will think of all those moments we shared. I will think of the lows and the highs, the physical pain and the euphoric joy… And truly know that I owe it all to you brilliantly amazing people.

The greatness of a person is in how ordinary they think they are and how extraordinary they truly are.

I have never had someone read back to me what I had written. A play read was the closest that ever came to that but even then we would be moving so fast between the lines that it hardly felt odd.

When you have a group of people reading and interpreting lines you wrote and that too for large periods of time… it gets very unnerving. Throw in the occasional compliment on how the lines are written and you just have no idea to how to respond. Its even more confusing when the lines weren’t written in a grandeur scale to be ever read back (tell me that it will be read back to me and i will most definitely write it differently… more comedy, less philosophy )

Its an amazing feeling when someone steps out and brings out a brilliantly different interpretation of the lines than what you ever considered. Its almost like the lines have life of their own… It makes you feel strong and helpless at the same time.

Photos from the recent trip to Kerala…

The trip involved traveling in train from Bangalore to Kovalm in Kerala. We had booked a houseboat which became our residence for the next 2 days

The boathouse was pricey but it was totally worth the cost We traveled in the houseboat from Kovalam via Alleppey to Cochin over the two days. We spent about half a day in Cochin before traveling to Pallakad from where we took the train back home.
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I loved the movie when I watched it a long time back and when I saw the book I just had to read it… I am glad I picked it up
Contact the book is very different than Contact the movie… Actually there is just so much brilliant stuff in the book that the movie feels like it was made off a short story

The book beautifully captures the lives of people who dedicate their lives for SETI(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) and the repercussions of a possible contact from a civilization light years away from us. What would happen if they are far more advanced from us? What would their goals be? Their reasons for wanting to speak to us? All that encompassed in a gripping story.

Some of the arguments in the book were excellent and intriguing… Especially the ones that deal with God got me thinking about possibilities I have never fully thought about…

This book is a must read for every atheist… and every one who ever looked up at the sky and thought if there is someone looking back at them millions of miles away.