finally the time has come to snicker at jaundice and move back to the hostel.
it's a happy happy feeling.
2 weeks of uninterrupted formal education left.
monday onwards must get back to college to attend the last 2 weeks.
went to college yesterday. there was a documentary screening for one of my courses: Economics of Discrimination.
The documentary dealt with Caste Discrimination in India.
A few things were nothing new to me, a few things were shocking, but the rest of it taught me a lot. A lot more than I had bargained for.
It changed my mind to the extent that I have become very pessimistic about the whole issue. For me it is almost like we are stuck in a rut that can never change. We are stagnating.
In my urban upbringing i have been exposed to a lot of religious variety.
I am born in a Hindu family. I went to Christian convent schools. I practise Buddhism and well, I have a Muslim boyfriend. It's religious riot in my life.
Riot because I am an Indian and religion has far reaching influence in shaping people's personalities.
I kind of realised that I'm in for trouble. BIG time!
My upbringing has been such that I have nothing common with the people around me in terms of my views, my ideals, and more importantly my exposure.
But don't I identify with people?
It is the problem of plenty.
I identify with too many people, in small bits.
In the end I don't identify with anybody sufficiently enough.
And hence I stand in this mess, all by myself.
Carving out my unique identity each day, which pushes me farther away from the sea of people that I marginally identify with.
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