Monday, February 1, 2010

Random thoughts....

Its the time of the year, when we students burn our midnight lamps, forcefully or voluntarily. To all those who believe that we seriously study for those 3-4 hours, I would want them to actually see us studying. Studying in the night is a very useful way of making your parents believe, that you have actually studied. The fact that no one is awake at night to see whether we are actually studying, is the biggest advantage. Our poor parents and teachers think that we study till 2 am in the night, but actually we only stay awake till 2 am. Do we ever study then at night? *Conditions Apply. If we have finished dreaming about girls, sports, TV serials and GETTING 90% MARKS, we MAY sit to study. However, it depends from student to student. Some people like me, get the inner feeling to study and we do. But the besharams are up watching TV or making khayali pulav.
All those students who did not know this technique, can use it because it is quite useful. Your parents can ask you no question about when you slept, and they can't doubt you either because you can always tell them that they themselves were not awake.
Talking about midnight, the place where I sit to study (which is contradictorily the place where I also sleep. i.e my bed) gives me a great view. I get a very rare view: that of the canopy of the trees against the black sky. It is really a rare view nowadays to look out of your window and see the sky. Nowadays, we only see other buildings when we look out of the window. It is really a great sight to look out of the window at the moon in the sky. Especially yesterday, when it was full moon day. It is also a great factor for disturbance. But then you can't concentrate fully on studies every time.
For almost a week, about 2 months ago, an owl used to sit on the tree near my window at 10pm. I and my sister used to sit regularly till the owl would not leave our building. Looking at the owl, I used to wonder, why it was considered as a bad omen. The owl is a majestic animal and was considered to be the wisest bird, mythologically. The owl is very serene and majestic. The first time I saw it, I was awe-struck by the sheer magnificence and respect that the bird commanded.

2 comments:

  1. Conditions really do apply....coz the way in which different students study differs to a great extent. Of course, while a lot of kids think that they can easily lead their parents to believe that they've been studying, when actually they've been doing everything but that;what they forget to realize is that their parents were once kids and teenagers themselves and in all likeihood, would have done the exact same things.It's a cycle, which keeps going on and on.

    Of course, even though there are a million things to distract us when we have a serious task at hand, we need to really think of ways and means to stay focussed. It's difficult but important, especially when we have aims and goals in mind that we want to achieve. Dreams are of no use if we don't put in the effort and work towards achieving them.

    Guess what, I was talking about Owls just this morning in the 9th, coz they have a lesson na. Nice coincidence that you've also written about the same thing.

    Nice post! Keep writing but let it not be a source of distraction.

    -Ms. Lynette

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  2. Don't worry miss,
    I just update my blog once in a week: every Saturday.
    So it is not distracting me.

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