'Lameness' and its rewards

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 7^th 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 12^th 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 :-)