Wednesday, November 23, 2005
when i was having a conversation with ven the other day, she asked me why i wanted to take psychology..
and i realised i didnt know the answer...i knew this was wat i wanted to do in sec sch...well at least i was interested... but yeah i still didnt know the reason why...
n then she said ppl usually take psych so tt they can find out abt themselves...n tt while we r able to understand ppl, we never seem to know who we really are....
got me thinking....and reflecting on it, i agree with her... one of the greatest mysteries in the world is the "me" according to william james, which i just studied...there r so many theories abt human behaviour but none of them is conclusive...n ppl who study psych definitely do think more abt themselves than others...
which is quite different from egoism or narcissism...
but i shall not dwell into such philosophical stuff here...
i want to say tt i really value ven n her opinions... n im proud to say tt i have found a couple of ppl in my life whom i really respect...who have each brought n shared with me a precious number of their ideas about life, relationships with ppl etc.... they may differ from mine, but they all have their own clear sense of wat life is all abt...not many ppl have tt, i can safely say. most r too busy with their daily whinings...theres no ans to tt (wat life is abt) n there may never be one but the debates tt we've engaged in definitely taught me a lot n enrich my mind.... so yeah a toast to you guys!
found a pot of gold@ 16:38
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"One Art"
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost keys, the hour badlly spent
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owne, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-Elizabeth Bishop
