Hello all, back again after an eventful year. So much has
happened and so many things have changed. I sometimes forget that I have a blog
which I started in the hope of becoming a writer that I imagine myself to be in
my dreams. But this blog has some readers that I had no idea, existed.
The other day, a stranger tweeted to me asking me why I
don't blog frequently and that he loved my blog. Oh, really??!! And that's not all. A couple of
girls (oh yeah! ;-)) informed me that they had read this blog and liked it. That
really cheers you up even though I
personally feel that I was lame enough to write what I had written.
Yes, “lame” is the word. It means stupid, foolish, crippled,
etc. Now come to think of it, I had been so lame in the past. We all had been
lame at one point or the other. Looking
back, certain things seem lame but at that time, at that age, I was perfectly justified
in doing what I did and so were you all. We’ve grown wiser and we’re more
mature now and so the past appears lame.
Let me give you some
examples:
I remember I cried after my 7th standard
Half-yearly exams, not because I failed or something, but because I missed the
first rank by a whisker. LOL :-D So near yet so far. Now looking back, I laugh at
myself and say “How lame were you back then?”
Similarly, a friend told me that she cried despite getting
98 percent marks in her 12th board exams, as she had missed topping the school. LOL again :-D
I remember when I started this blog, I gave it some name and
later changed it to “Mandark’s Mind in Dexter’s Lab sans the Crush for Deedee”. OMG :-D What was I thinking? I have no idea.
Again the word here is 'lame'.
I’m pretty sure we
all have lots of such incidents to reminisce and ridicule ourselves. But this
lameness rewards us too. Yes. A very friendly teacher once told me that she was
lame to have done certain things at a
younger age but doesn’t regret them as they taught her so many things and that
she’s wiser now.
Very true. Appreciate
that lameness in you. It truly rewards.
Think about it.
Had Newton not been lame enough to explore a falling apple,
we wouldn’t have the laws of gravity today.
Had Archimedes not been lame enough to jump around naked in
a public bath tub, we wouldn’t have Archimedes’ Principle today.
Had Benjamin Franklin not been lame enough to fly a kite in
the rains, electricity may not have been discovered today.
Had Einstein not been lame enough to doubt Newton, we wouldn’t
have Quantum Physics today.
Had Edison not been lame enough to have kept fiddling with a
Tungsten filament, we may not have a light bulb today.
Had Tesla not been lame enough to challenge the theory of
Edison, we wouldn’t have Alternating Current today.
Had Bill Gates not been lame enough to drop out of Harvard,
we wouldn’t have Microsoft today. ( I can hear some of you saying that we would’ve
been better off without it :-)
)
Had Sergey Brin and Larry Page not been lame enough to think
that they could download the entire internet, we wouldn’t have Google today.
Had Zuckerberg not been lame enough to design a website to
compare two girls and find which one was hotter, we wouldn’t have Facebook
today.
And finally, had I not been lame enough to think that I
could be a writer one day, you wouldn’t
be reading this today. ;-)
LOL ;-) :-)
Cheers,
Ashwin Murali
PS: I promise for the umpteenth time that I will write more,
no matter how lame that post turns out to be :-)
