Saturday evening

Today was a pleasant evening. I went to an Indian restaurant for lunch – and ate enough for two meals. Evening I went to a Starbucks. Now this is like the Barrista on that road near MG road (damn I cant recall the name – I am really bad at names… and I have had quite a few coffees there). There is this open air sitting area right at the junction of two streets. This one is near the University campus – so there is a lot of activity. Lots of students are sitting around, working on their laptops or making notes, or simply discussing stuff. It felt nice to be in an academic environment – or rather it was good to be surrounded by a bunch of young college students. Kids I may call them – college life was so much more fun.

Anyways, spent close to three hours enjoying the mild breeze, listening to music, observing people, and reading about Socrates and Plato.

Socrates was revered by his ‘pupils’, if I can call them thus, for the modesty of his wisdom. He did not claim to have wisdom, only to seek it lovingly. “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing”. I remember asking our Philosophy instructor, back at IIT, that if one of the greatest philosophers says he knows nothing, then what do we study in Philosophy?

Tomorrow I am going sky-diving. Yes, I am finally going to take the jump. I don’t think the idea has sunk in me completely – I am going to jump off a frikkin plane!! Sounds scary – I think it will hit me when they open that door of the plane. Now that I begin to write about it, I can feel the chill a little… it does kind of get me nervous. What extent people would go to for a little bit of thrill!!

And just in case the parachute doesn’t open, and we don’t get to speak again, I love you all – those that read this. Those that don’t, I love you as well… :-).