Excursions

I was fascinated to learn about the so called town under one roof - Whittier. It has to be one of the most isolated places which people call home. I have so many questions about how the residents of this town make this place a home, how the isolation, the sameness affects them. It mustn’t be easy.

I was mesmerized by this how Michael Stevens describes what the town must represent.

The earth around Whittier is not always a friendly place. But so long as people call it home, Whittier stands as a magnificent gesture of defiance. Of human engineering. And the strength of inertia, of our desire to stay.

The more I think about it, maybe the life of us city dwellers is no less isolated than the residents of Whittier. Sure, they are stuck in one same building, surrounded on all sides by rocks. But so are we - if not physically, mentally we have caged ourselves.

Public speaking is a skill not all who speak publicly master - many tend to lose the listener’s attention. Defeats the whole purpose when people who you want the most focused aren’t even listening to you.

Prompts help me write - this last month has reinforced this belief of mine. It’d helped me when I was writing more fictions as response to weekly prompts. However, it also made me realise that writing daily and freely doesn’t come naturally to me.

It was a dark lane, darkened further by a fluctuating street lamp. The pedestrian found it curious how it wasn’t the darkness, but the undependable light that made him queasy. A stay dog sensed his uneasiness, considered a bark, but gave a dull yawn. A sigh passed the dog by.

The masks can’t mask the ugliness of one’s soul. In that sense, it is absolutely transparent.

I just watched Ocean’s Twelve - such a silly, illogical film. Absolutely disappointed again, the dilemma now is should I watch the prequel first or the sequel. I would want to keep the interest in the trilogy intact. So maybe lesser the better.

It’s refreshing to see some one-day cricket action back with two strong teams in India and Australia competing. Australia is a lot stronger team on paper with some good specialists and effective all rounders 🏏

And I see there are fans on ground, not sure how I feel about that.

It’s pretty obvious that one adjusts those knobs that they control. So isn’t it better to adjust one’s expectations than another’s behavior?

At the same time, adjusting one’s expectations isn’t akin to adjusting with someone. The later should never call for changing oneself.

I find it curious that I often think better clear when my mind is full of thoughts. I am edgy with an empty mind.

So when I am edgy, I read more. When I read more, I tend to get my mind filled with thoughts.

When I think more, I write more - I want to analyse my thoughts, judge them. I’ve realized I do that better when I’m reading.

In short, I like to read my thoughts. So I write.

Here’s a theory, iPads and MacBooks would some day (not too far away, too) run the same operating system, not just operating systems with the same core. They would just be two form factors. The unification has already started with macOS Big Sur, anyway.