Born out of random conversations, somethings just stick forever with you; guiding you, reminding you! Sometimes you realize much later, how big an impression something has left on your mind..Trying to recall a few..
- A friend, Sidharth Jayaraman, with whom I shared a pretty solid like-hate relationship, told me once during college winters, 'You don't change yourself for someone, you mould yourself..' And I didn't, after that.
- A hostel room-mate (a senior, her name began with 'A', that's all I remember) gave me a very good advice, when I was feeling confused about helping certain people in the hostel, who were bitches, to say the least. She said, 'Don't help someone because he/she will like it, help only when you'll like it. Don't do it for someone else, it should be in sync with who you are. That ways, you'll never regret it.' Simplified a lot of paradoxes for me.
- A very talented photographer, Himanshu ji, in Jaipur fixed an idea in my head. He believed, that in the act of capturing the beauty, you kill some parts of it. When you click, when you paint, when you define something pure and beautiful; something in it dies. In the madness of giving expression, we commercialize it, we make it visible, too accessible. If you speak your heart out, the thought doesn't remain intimate anymore. It's never the same again!
- A very close college friend, Varnika, while trying to counsel me out of something, said something invaluable in symbolic language. She named one hand 'self-respect', and the other 'impulsiveness'. She started out with both hands at same level, then a competition started between both of them to be higher than the other. Sometimes self-respect's higher, sometimes it's 'impulsiveness'. Hands keep going up, but in the end, 'self-respect' wins. Precious!
- Well, this one came from a movie, 'The Nanny Diaries' - " I read that critics of anthropology believe that just by observing a culture you inevitably change it." Have been stumbling upon this line, quite often nowadays.
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