ALOHA!!! @ I only know!!

I teach, yes I do!! I teach undergraduate architecture students and have been doing this as a full time profession the past few years and with gay abandon, I claim I love it!! As a student, my life was fully governed by the need to be cool and the fact that I was tomboyish helped me achieve this target. At that time, I didn’t know the importance of what I was going through, and unfortunately most people I was associated with also didn’t realise it. One would say this is expected but that is where one expects elderly intervention. Today I wish my teachers had paid a little more attention to what we were doing. Barring a few who have helped shape me, most teachers taught their subjects well and that’s where it stopped. I wasn’t prepared for the outside world and I left the confines of my undergraduate institution almost as naive as I entered it. Nowadays, I see a change in the students. Many students I have had the privilege of interacting with seem to come with dreams that are pr...

Memories. Something that everyone wants to expand all the time, to store a zillion photos and videos they take to document every single point of their life, worthy of remembering or not. But what is a memory that needs proof that it existed? Not every moment in life is a happening and the brain knows exactly that… and memories are the highest priority of storage in our lives, stored up in our brain because they mark a milestone for us personally, something that added value to our lives. In this age of technology, we are hoarding bytes of data by the million, yet we rarely tap this bank of useless collectibles and information . The random expansion of memory requirements and the constant need for upgradation in terms of 'storage' is just adding to our 'hoarder' mentality. Our society had taught us to declutter our lives regularly, be it every Diwali or Bhogi or Thanksgiving. But our ancestors didn’t think our lives would be filled with a clutter that cannot be touched p...