From shadows to the stars

Another old FB post. INSOMNIA - You wish you had it during the nights before exams. But that never happens. When you have Insomnia, you are never really awake. But you are not really asleep either. You can feel your eyelids getting heavier. Time to switch the light off and get cozy under your blanket. Close your eyes. Ahhh.. you think your are gonna fall asleep. The illusion of sleep takes over you. Time passes. And yet, you are still rolling around in bed, waiting for your brain to stop thinking and let your sub-conscious take over. Let the imagination pour into the dreams. And yet, somehow, your mind wont let you sleep. You shut your eyes tighter. "Shut up and sleep". Start counting sheep. A big flock of sheep. A VERY big flock . You wish you had a "power off" button. Is this just a dream? Then your mind starts lingering. The past becomes present. All the times you screwed up torture you again, coming to life in your own head. The self-executed punishment

Note: This an old post of mine that was on Facebook. The first sentence when I meet a new person invariably happens to be “You are tall!” or a paraphrase of it. If it weren’t for the sake of acting “civilized”, I can assure you that they would have had some scars to show-off for the rest of their lives. Once, when I was on my way to college, a complete stranger came up to me and asked, “How tall are you?” In my mind, images of a chainsaws, shotguns and torture devices started popping up. Breaking my fantasy, the guy repeats “Hey! What is your height man?” Thoroughly irritated, I reply “Well I’m between 6’2” and 6’3”” and walk away. Others ask me if I play basketball. Some go down to unprecedented levels by asking me my shoe-size. I guess, after experiencing thousands of such questions and awkward moments, how a beautiful woman must be feeling when all kinds of people tell her that she is beautiful. It is flattering for the first few times and thereafter, it gets irritatin

RO #1 Isn't it ironic how strip clubs are called "Gentleman's Clubs"? (at least according to pop-culture). Or does it imply that if you're a 'gentleman', the only way you can see a woman naked is in a strip club? RO #2 To the only thing in this world I cannot live even a few minutes without - Oxygen! RO #3 The one thing Indians are punctual at is cutting the electricity. Shocking though, it may seem to the rich countries, we, the people of developing countries do have power cuts. Especially in the summer. While Indians are notorious for giving a damn about punctuality, the men working the power stations are dead punctual. In fact, they cut the power a couple of minutes earlier than the stipulated timing. RO #4 There is something perverse about the way people on the internet seem to seek out opinions that they know will enrage them. Being on twitter, i observe that some people go out of their for arguing with people

The Convert hypothesis has a simple premise. Converted Christians feel burdened (or "driven") to prove that they have just as much faith or belief in the tenets of Christianity as the natural Christian  (I use "natural" only because of the lack of a better word. No one really is a "natural" believer in religion/ God. They are born into families who have been practicing a certain religion and therefore adopt, at least in most cases, the same beliefs.) Because they have converted from some other religion, they want to make a point that they are just as religious as those 'natural' Christians. If you collect data on how often converted and 'natural' Christians visit Church, i'm quite positive that the converts go more often. I dont know why this is. Maybe the 'natural' Christians look upon the converts as 2nd rate Christians? I'm just speculating, I dont know for sure. But this phenomenon is observed only in first g