Being a procrastinator of the highest order, it took a lot
of efforts and determination to finally come up with a new post; some credit
goes to my friend Ankita (a very enthusiastically absurd yet awesome person).
So we were chatting on BBM and we realized that we hadn't posted anything on
our respective blogs since a long time. And thus began the quest to write a new
blog post.
As
soon as my college reopened after a week of Christmas, I was bombarded with a
million assignments (actually only 8 assignments but I’m a fan of hyperbole,
you see!). Some assignments were interesting and others were pretty drab. I've managed to complete 3 assignments till now. This means another 5 to go. Damn!
Still a long way to go. They say that internet was meant to help us and make
things easier. Darn right! Whiling away time has become so easy and it has sort
of helped me to get over my boredom. I’ve been doing everything but completing
the pending assignments. Also I have realized that when you have a lot of
things to do, sleep comes to you without even trying. Since I’m huge patron of
an incredible slumber, I never reject its proposition.
Besides sleeping away to glory, I watched a couple of
movies. I saw Lost In Translation which truly made me question my existential
crisis and ennui. I understood one thing from that movie – If you don’t know
what you are supposed to be, it is absolutely fine. Most of the people are lost.
We all get there eventually – “Charlotte: I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.
Bob: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you." Another movie that I saw was by Josh Radnor called Liberal Arts. It managed to touch me because I could relate.” to it. There was a dialogue in the movie – “A liberal arts education solves all your problems.” - being a student of English Literature, I knew how true that was. Liberal arts set your soul alight. It takes you to places where you’ve never been before. Solace is what I find in it. The movie had many things that I like such as – books, cafes, letters, bookstores, etc. Also, the movie has one of the best soundtrack lists ever. The next movie that I watched was The Breakfast Club. It’s a brilliant movie about five high school stereotypes pouring their hearts out during detention and sharing their adolescent crisis and fears - “Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time to impress people.”
Bob: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you." Another movie that I saw was by Josh Radnor called Liberal Arts. It managed to touch me because I could relate.” to it. There was a dialogue in the movie – “A liberal arts education solves all your problems.” - being a student of English Literature, I knew how true that was. Liberal arts set your soul alight. It takes you to places where you’ve never been before. Solace is what I find in it. The movie had many things that I like such as – books, cafes, letters, bookstores, etc. Also, the movie has one of the best soundtrack lists ever. The next movie that I watched was The Breakfast Club. It’s a brilliant movie about five high school stereotypes pouring their hearts out during detention and sharing their adolescent crisis and fears - “Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time to impress people.”
Other things which have shifted my focus from my assignments
include reading novels and poetry, reading blogs, finding funny memes on
internet and writing letters to my friends (about which I shall elucidate
later), re-arranging my study table which is already clean, etcetera, etcetera.
I started reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
So far, I quite like the book and his writing style. Coming back to letters….I
adore hand written letters. I have an unhealthy obsession with pretty
stationery which I use to write letters. In this age of emails, there’s
something about letters which makes me happy.