A couple of days back I decided to take out all my old college books and move them. The main idea being that I could not find a couple of my old books and thought they are mixed up with those books. Fortunately I found the books I was looking for, but more importantly I found pieces of the past along the way.

Its odd that we spend so much time thinking about what is happening at the present and how to turn the future into something we want that we easily forget the times when we were far more happier. Picking up my old college notes and finding scribbles on the last few pages brought back such fond memories. Old assignments that were written as thought it was a punishment, old question papers that were important for just three hours…

I also found most of my old diaries… thoughts years old and more importantly clear. Thoughts that made me who I am today. Thoughts I dont think about anymore… not coz I moved on but coz I changed.

I found my old German notes too, the only other language I had tried to learn. I wasn’t the best of the students, I actually just managed to scrape thru while my friends simply excelled. Those were some fun days.

I found photocopied notes that were of the uppermost importance for those couple of days before the exam. They even had the logo of the shop where were we frequented just to get books photocopied…

I found copies of my first stories, neatly printed out so that my friends could read it and give me feed back. Notes from my first acting classes… ahh they feel like a generation ago My first plays and adaptations… Notes on characters and scenes… It felt like I had lived another lifetime.

All the way the mind was being bombarded by old incidents, old conversations and faces. Everything seemed like it just happened a day or two ago, but it has been years… things have changed… somethings havent

The only thing that makes absolute justice to this moment was the quote from American Beauty:

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me… but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life… You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure. But don’t worry… you will someday.

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02. How does your hair look currently?
short and unkept, I miss the days of my long hair

03. What’s new in your life right now?
Tickets to two weeks of awesome fun

04. How many colours are you wearing now?
three

05. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
I tend to hit the extremes depending on the ppl around me.

06. What was the last book you read.
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway

07. Do you nap a lot?
Yep when ever I can

08. Who is your favorite super hero?
No one specific, I do enjoy super hero movies though

09. Is there anything that has made you happy these days?
Gifts, friends and my dear sis are all partially responsible

10. What’s your current obsession?
Get back to reading books and keeping a strict schedule

11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
15-25 min from wake up to leave to office

12. What websites do you visit daily?
Livejournal, Facebook, Yahoo/Google mail, Bloglines, Friendfeed

13. Do you write fic? What was the last fic you wrote?
Yep, This was my latest one.

14. What’s the last thing you laughed about?
Hmmm… An episode of That 70’s show I guess

15. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
“Masakali Matakali” – Mohit Chauhan – Delhi 6

16. What’s the last movie you saw?
Ghajini and The accidental husband

17. Do you buy or download the movies you watch?
Download mostly, but I love going to the theater if the company is good

18. What is your least favourite thing to do that you did today?
Sleep for that extra 15min, totally ruined my morning workout

19. tag 7 peeps
Ahh anyone who feels like doing this is welcome to do it

Most of the gifts I received between the last two Christmases (ignoring the awesome watches)

Off late there have been too many coincidences happening around me. Some seem like fluke occurrences but some simply left me amazed.

One such thing happened a few weeks ago at the script writing class I am attending. There is a bit of history involved here so let me start from the… well ‘the start’. Last Christmas(2007) a friend of mine gave me “Fermat’s Last Theorem” as a gift. This is a book I had been looking forward for about a year or so to read. Ironically I only ended up picking the book to read only a few weeks ago.

The book is simply brilliant and considering the documentary with the same name and by the same author/director ended up winning the Pulitzer, so I wasn’t expecting anything less. The narration and the stories of the people and their dedication to mathematics was truly beautiful beyond words.

In the first few meetings at the script writing class, we were given a few scripts to read. One of them had to do with the life story of Ramanujum. The script talks about the life of Ramanujum from when he arrived in England until his death.

Everything seemed normal till I realized that one of the characters of the script was none other than Fermat himself! I was pretty amazed to find two pieces of writing I was reading to converge like that. But that wasnt all… I happened to watch this documentary about rare parts of physics and maths. That too touched similar topics and people as those in the two works.

Now if this happens once, you can brush it off and move on. But this kind of convergence of ideas has happened multiple times over the last month. Sometimes its movies or tv shows that point to things that are a major part of my life at that moment, sometimes its as odd as strangers with whom conversations drift away in that direction.

If you know me well, you would probably know that I believe in Signs. Lot of times I have made decisions based on random signs and they were almost always right.

Its not about the book or Fermat, this series of coincidences are pointing at something else… I am slowly beginning to believe that something big is right around the corner…

A dear friend of mine has been interacting with me for a cause for a while now. The concept sounded good and its quite easy to be a part of. If you are interested join in and give a hand

You can also be a part of the cause by joining the facebook cause page
Website: http://readforchange.in/