Desire Lasts a Dozen Days...Passion Prolongs a Few More...

This is my vain attempt at translating the tamizh saying "Aasai Arubathu Naal Mogham Muppathu Naal". Now that the initial enthu has died and the despo guys have gotten back to their work, life in this part of blogosphere returns back to normal.

If you pay special interest, you will notice that this saying applies to almost everything in life. Take internship or grad school for an example, you initially think that it is the most exciting thing in your life. You put in lots of applications, attend strenuous interviews and make tough decisions. Life is exciting for the first few days, you see new people and work on new things. Once the "Honeymoon" is over, its time to send your Honey to the Moon (HeHe..just some spice). You feel the monotonicity setting in, you do the same things everyday, meet the same people, work on the same thing and feel like a machine. In fact you may even retrace the steps that you take every day and find that the standard deviation is epsilon.

Some people take solace in weekends, they spend their weekends differently and break the shackles of their boring life. For the not so fortunate, there are not many options for weekends. Some of them spend the whole day on the net, some sleep all day and many go to work (I am not kidding !!!...Talk to a grad student and you will know). People think that having a great weekend will rejuvenate them for facing the next week. Its like the initial enthu, it pushes them through the first couple of days and they spend the rest of the week waiting for the weekend. In fact If you step back and look at this from a higher altitude, you will notice that this is again a cycle that continues for ever and is as monotonous as anything else.

This brings up an interesting question, Is it ok to have a monotonous life? In my personal opinion :Yes. Everything has been statically scheduled to some extent in this world. Life has the same cycle, birth, youth and death (Atleast in most cases...). Animals have the same life literally every day. Although we may work on different things, we have a simple cycle of sleep, breakfast, lunch, dinner, sleep (Grad students excluded...). I think the reason that we have started cribbing about monotonicity in life is because of our desire for different things in life. Self-content may be the greatest way to feel happy in life. The lone-farmer may be the happiest man on earth though he does the same things in solitude every day, just because he is contented with his life.

Its friday and I guess I am looking for my weekend already....How different is my weekend from my weekly monotone? Well I have plans for saturday and back to work on sunday....
So see you next time....Until then....This is gumbalagumbalak signing off....