Reporting post exam!

I am back, lots to write...
sems got over yday and boy! what a sem it has been!
While the sem was on, especially when exams were nearing, my mind starts working and definitely who ever said "An idle mind is the devil's workshop" knew nothing about an occupied mind which is doing what it is not supposed to do. That's a devil's workshop and you can even call it his hometown where he resides permanently. When you are supposed to study for your exams and when you know for sure that the syllabus can not be finished, but with all this understanding what do you do, ...read poems, listen songs, research about artists, discuss software jobs in himalayas, read nirmal shekhar's articles. But all have been a delight to read,rant and listen. So this post is dedicated to some of the random things that i have done which i should not have done.

Justin sent me these two poems which he came across while studying for CAT.

Poet 1:
I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations...
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you... And I am I.
And if by chance, we find each other...
It's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.

Poet 2:
If I just do my thing and you do yours.
We stand in danger of losing each other, and ourselves.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations;
But I am in this world to confirm you
As a unique human being.
And to be confirmed by you.
We are fully ourselves only in relation to each other;
The I detached from Thou disintegrates.
I do not find you by chance;
I find you by an active life
Of reaching out.
Rather than passively letting things happen to me,
I can act intentionally to make them happen.
I must begin within myself, true;
But I must not end with myself:
The truth begins with two.
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and 2.

From a passage from IMS material:

"What is killing humanity today is not the lack of wonders, but that of wonder."

Gursharan gave this link to an interesting video:
http://www.athome.harvard.edu/faust/watch

I was the main culprit since i started this thread of conversation by posting the following song:

I Am A Patriot (and the river opens for the righteous)
Steven Van Zandt (Blue Midnight Music, 1983)

And the river opens for the righteous, someday

I was walking with my brother
And he wondered what was on my mind
I said what I believe in my soul
It ain't what I see with my eyes
And we can't turn our backs this time

I am a patriot and I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
With people who understand me
I got nowhere else to go
I am a patriot

And the river opens for the righteous, someday

I was talking with my sister
She looked so fine
I said baby what's on your mind
She said I want to run like the lion
Released from the cages
Released from the rages
Burning in my heart tonight

I am a patriot and I love my country
Because my country is all I know

And I ain't no communist, and I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
and I sure ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
And I ain't no republican either
And I only know one party
and its name is freedom
I am a patriot

And the river opens for the righteous, someday

Here's a you tube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKROPuX0ik&feature=related

To which aman added the following lines, which i thought were quite good

I was chatting with myself
yesterday in bed
and wondered why
I don't sleep anymore.
Why that silent night,
outside the window
seemed like an abyss
so dark and deep
that there was no echo.
Then when I got
a glimpse of the moon
who yesterday would
have shone over home
seen by my people
prayed by my people.

I cried aloud
without any voice
I sighed aloud
without any choice.
To sleep to death
where i woke up to life
Is all I want...
Because I belong.
I belong to my country.
I am a patriot. :)

i will write about more songs in coming posts