Well my semester just got over and it was a good one. It went much better than any previous semester especially academically.
But well now it is over and the news is that I will be going to Ecole des Mines, Nantes, France next semester as an exchange student, something I am really looking forward too. So, I will be in Delhi over the summer learning French along with other exchange students.
News apart, now I come to what really prompted me to write this blog. Ever since the semester has finished, I have this feeling inside of gaiety and happiness that I haven’t felt in a long time, maybe since my first semester. I feel so enthused, revitalized and rejuvenated. Now that I don’t have anything in particular to do, I have all the time to whatever I want. And just this realization has awaken my enthusiasm that had been dormant for a while.I am enjoying my music to the full extent. At times I just turn it on, lay down, enjoying the beauty of it. I have also resumed reading the Atlas Shrugged and am enjoying reading just as I used to before I did a course called “Contemporary Fiction” . Like before, I am reading purely for the fun and thrill it gives me, without having to analyze the writing style, without having to think why the author wrote it thus, just reading it from the narrators point of view. Like before, I am able to associate myself to the protagonists and everything I read just connects with me. Apart from this, the most important thing is that I am enjoying every moment I live, without a hint of boredom. I am just hopping from one thing to other. In short, LIFE’S GOOD. Totally loving this phase. Will make sure this continues…
Signing off
Equivalence aka Abhinav
Contemporary Fiction was one of the best courses I have done.. So I was compelled to speak a little for it.
It’s good you enjoy the writing, relate to the protagonist etc etc. But literature as an art is appreciated due to the fact, the impact it creates on the mind of the reader, for which the whole credit goes to the writer.
The beauty I think in every form of art (including science also) lies in realizing how the artist thought of the innovation. For example, you may enjoy reading the chiclit novels or 5.someone, but I don’t think that was ever the purpose why literature was created, i.e. to be able to tell your story, with descriptions of sex and make a lot of money.
Anyways, best of luck for your exchange. I promise to be a better quizzer by the time you return, so that you won’t have to regret having me as a team-mate.
By: Siddharth Bhattacharya on May 10, 2010
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