The Review Post

You know that feeling when you get an amazing idea, don't note it down and forget it? Yes! It's happened a million times but what do we do to change it? To NOT lose those precious gems of genius? Oh I've thought of a way! Here it is - but wait, I didn't write it down and now, I don't remember! But today, I must say I reached new heights of stupidity. Indeed. So as I was going about my day, I had a genius stroke and I immediately even thought of writing it down in my shiny new diary with my shiny new pens. But wait, what if I made mistakes? I didn't want ugly scratches in my new diary. So I decided to use a pencil. I ran to my room, fished out a new pencil from the pack (new diary, new stationery), sharpened it, got an eraser (to erase anticipated mistakes - that's right!) and reached out for my shiny new diary and... It was gone! The BIG idea - was gone. And here I am now, writing this post with a pencil, in my shiny new diary, so I don'...

I was watching Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) the other day and discovered that a university in Kolkata was introducing Love as a course from the academic year starting 2014. My mind instantly went into an overdrive about what they would teach in this course: - Different kinds of love - towards your parents, siblings, spouses and pets - The difference between love and lust - The difference between love and compassion - Bollywood love - Violent love (horror stories of love) - Unrequited love - Music and Love And the list can go on... Say if I took up the course, would my qualifications read as any of these? Mallika Harsha, Love Honours Mallika Harsha, MSc. Love Mallika Harsha, PhD. Love Mallika Harsha, MA Love Disclaimer: This an exaggeration (Love will be available as a credit course along with other unique subjects like Digital Humanties and The Physics of Everyday Life). And looking at this, who would give me a job? Arts students find it hard enough convincing...

And it left. Leaving me in the beautiful month of October with nothing to write about. That's right! In addition to being lost and confused (which is my general state of mind), I'm also blank! (And this is new because I generally have something to say about everything.) Notice how I have more text in brackets than the actual blog post. So I start saying something and I have more side thoughts than the actual thoughts. That ever happen to you? Always happens to me. My point being, for someone with so many thoughts, to go blank is something new.  Finally, when I did sit down to write today, this is what I was doing: When this is what I should've been doing: Again, point being, I have no peg for my stories and I'm seriously scraping the bottom of an empty barrel (read mind) for ideas. In case you did make it through the entire post, please feel free to drop in your suggestions! They're always welcome :)