A drizzle
of monsoon rain on your crystal window or a splash of lazy shower in your
bathroom – whichever you could relate to, imagine that. For, I always believe that
there are two things you own – your imagination and your thought. Here is a poetic notion of my interpretation
of the water-clad, tiled walls; my muse for the day is the shower.
This morning, I got a good dose of philosophy from the newspaper. It isn’t very often that you get to read unique articles and this particular one definitely made my Friday morning a thoughtful one. It was the ‘World View’ column with the title “Pencil Erasers may be the ‘devil’” that caught my attention. It got me thinking about the process of unlearning taught to us at school. A lot of questions popped up. Why do we hide our mistakes? Why isn’t it okay to make mistakes? Why are we taught to make up for a mistake? Why aren’t we taught to look at the mistake and learn from it? Why do we erase a mistake? Why aren’t we being naturally ourselves? Why do we need an eraser? The last question is what instigated me to write this post. What if Edward Nairne had not invented an eraser by accident? What if we were never introduced to the concept of the eraser at school! I should admit that the little wad of rubber that undoes all the mistakes made by your mighty pencil is inde...
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DeleteLovely... Lessons learnt and taken :)
ReplyDeleteHey thanks :) Welcome to my blog :) Glad there was something to take !!! :D
Deletearey kitne dyan se dekhti hai raindrops ko ... wonderful lesson learnt :D
ReplyDeletePrincess kabhi kabhi yeh lazy mind ko feed karna padhtha hai :)
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