Inspiration

Dear Reader,

Lazying around in the morning today, I started surfing the internet. Before you start wondering if I have been fired (considering the current financial conditions), let me tell you that I am enjoying my 3 week holiday at home.

So in an attempt to keep my head busy, I dug into my book-shelf and landed up on my very old diary. I remember keeping this diary to scribble down my thoughts from time-to-time when I was a teenager. So this particular journal had some poems that I had written in 1996. I also came across an award for one of my poetries from www.poetry.com. :)

Now, out of pure inquisitiveness, I visited www.poetry.com. The site and other poets inspired me to gather the courage to share one of my poetries on the site.

Click here to read it and I'd appreciate your comments.

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Bored

Dear Reader,

Some days ago, I was accompanied by a colleague (may be I could call him a friend) to my car.

We sit in and pop comes the question "You listen to the same music all the time, when you drive. Do you not get bored?" Have you ever been asked a question that you do not comprehend completely but have to answer? This was one such question for me. I did not understand how "bored" and "music" could be uttered in the same breath!! Anyway, with a perplexed look on my face, I'm sure he could have sensed that too, I nodded "No".

Yes, I agree that I listen to the same tracks over and over again, until some such time that the CDs start giving in, but there's so much to listen for in a genre like heavy metal!!

Let me go on a tangential thought now. I was watching an episode of Greatest American Dog this evening. Dogs and their owners have to survive 40 days of incredible challenges. The dogs, they take the same set of instructions from their owners and follow the obedience routine over and over again but some dogs looked so much more enthusiastic than the others. It was more like them waiting to find out if there is something at the end of the routine apart from the "treats". They had a spark in their eyes, were keener, faster, performed difficult tasks and were distinguished. Needless to say, those were the ones that were more adorable. Those were the ones that I waited to see perform. Those were the ones who brought their owners one step closer to victory.

I wondered how a dog, whose attention span is lesser than that of a human, be listening to the same instructions and not be "bored"?

So isn't "monotony" an unreal, fictitious restraint that we choose to leash ourselves with? Breaking free from monotony is not about finding a new road everyday, it's about finding a new element in the routine. 

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