Today the morning began as usual at 4:50 a.m. Many of us may think that this is a rather early start to the day but I remember one of my favourite passages with a poem that connects well with the situation. "The day started early as always. Somewhere my father’s words haunt me. He rose early every day and after his morning formalities would set off on his morning walk, waking me up to study. If i dithered he would recite in Sanskrit -“Suryodaya chya ast maye, chasha enam,Jahaati lakshmi, rapi chakra vartinam”Surya uday hone ke baad aur asth hone se pahle, jo insaan sota hai, uski lakshmi chali jaati hai chahe woh chakravarti raja hi kyun na ho.After the sun has risen and before it sets, the one that sleeps, shall loose all his wealth even if he is a wealthy and devout Raja or King". This passage is taken from one of Shri Amitabh Bachchan's blogs.
Another successfull inspirer in my eyes is the current president of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama. I read a little about him as well and learned about his early mornings since an early age. The same routine to become a better student, and somewhere along the timeline, a better human being in the making and now the world recoginizes the capabilities and the true intellect that resides within.
Today, during school, I was talking with some friends and we hopped on to a topic of lying. It was interesting to see the various perspectives once again among these friends. The group only consisted of males but female insight on this issue would definetly have moulded our discussion in a different angle. We discussed honest personalities and also the 'lying' population. Can you have a mix of these two and have a honest liar? Maybe a person who utters the lie and then feels and thinks about what he has done and asks for another chance to change.
During the day, a teacher also surprised me with her presentation today talking about a little synopsis about biology. How it runs through us, what we actually understand about it and what we think we do not imbibe from it? We talked about health of a human. This is influenced by a lot of activities that you indulge yourself into. She stressed the importance on diets for this specific generation. We are experiencing a lot as aftershocks due to diets. Obesity, and other disease and health issues such as heart attacks and diabetes and the worst of them all I thought, Cancer!
When the word 'health' pops around, we immediately think about our body and our physical capabilities. It is very normal human behaviour to think so but we also learn that health extends and covers mental balance of a person, and emotional health as well. Are you happy? Are you happy with your surroundings? people? friends? how people percieve you? how they judge you? At some extent, it makes an impact on everyone. No matter how much we dislike or dispise the form of response we recieve from people (which we may like or not). This gets us into psychology of the teenage population. We will discuss that some other time in greater depths and details that we may want to discover.
The biology presentation also touched on some questions. A really interesting three worded question that made me think really deeply. The question is: Who are you? It is so simple to write the three worded question or to articulate the question to someone. However, when you are asked the same question, it makes me think for a while. It's amazing how commonly most of us imagine this question to be related to socializing or we would answer it with our name, what we do and so on... I, for one never thought that this question could be related to a subject matter like biology. Interesting that we can say answer it with other common properties of our skin tone, heritage, culture, our occupation or as a student our progress. But really, can we answer this question truthfully, can we even answer to ourselves as to who we really are?
In another science course, we were discussing what physics really is. We all took our guesses and knowledge in to account and tried to think for a minute as to what it really is. We tried to say, is it the study where we learn from nature and think about relationships between forces. Not really, there was a simpler summariztion that was available through just one word! Energy! It surprised me, physics and energy. As you think about it further and in depth, we can make sense of it as to how energy becomes dominant in this study. Energy can be reason to motion, light, nuclear energy for various uses, thermodynamics and even acoustics. I can actually say that my teacher is a master of this form of science. He obviously understands it but also knows how to preach it, preach it properly to our generation?!?! I would consider that an achievement because the world is constantly changing, this influences a lot of things and people. One of the target things it influences and indulges is teenagers. Therefore, teaching and teaching properly is a very challenging task at this point in time.
After class, my mind still revolved around that one word, energy! Energy! ENERGY! I thought about it in my own personal context, I am a fairly religious person so I thought about it in a cultural or religious perspective and I wondered, what about the energy from within? The energy that has capabilities to influence your every decision, your thoughts, your behaviour, your success and even your failures? The energy that you can exercise through meditation! I reached the point where I considered that this energy is actually quite prominent and momentous. This is when I also thought that having a faith in a religion could really motivate people. However, I have many friends that are atheists and do an amazing job of enforcing work onto themselves to finish it when you are required to. Think about it, does culture or religion differ you from others on academic levels?
After lunch, we attended my english class and we were discussing learning strategies and how we percieve and/or think about our successes and failures alike. Some feminine vs. masculine critical thinking involved again. We talked about how we really influence learning through our perception of a course or learning matter. Earlier in one of my posts I discussed the prominent factors that lead a student in enjoying and excelling in any course. This factors were revisited and this topic actually acts as the cross-section of the venn diagram on the two genders' thinking. It's interesting, what motivates you to enjoy or excel in a class or any activity? (Job, Volunteering, e.t.c)
I think this will be my endnote as I would like to wish my friend Janany, a very happy birthday.
the young writer,
Devarsh Pandya
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