morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
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This thing is scandalous, even to put into words.
I can only think about it but never utter loudly in anyone’s presence. A song would do it though. So will make a song.
What makes a good leader?
Good friends.
Or, lack of good friends.
Both make a good leader.
The question feels incomplete. Like so many things, good leadership and good leaders emerge in contexts.
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
FLATS.
What we call in our city as FLATS, somewhere else they may be typically called APARTMENTS. That’s what I would un-invent.
FLATS are the bane of Indian urbanization. In fact, I would un-invent the concept of Urban Planning in India.
Urban Planning, was is invented in the first place? Yes, it was an invention? No, it was evolution! Looks like.
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Talk about framing a question.
Positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Now read this:
Negative example of when you’ve felt loved?
Or read this:
Positive example of when you’ve felt unloved?
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A rectangular strip of time filled with some good serious light-hearted conversation is where I always feel loved. No doubt! And I have had plenty such.
Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
I did not know this.
21st November is No Music Day.
Thank you Bill Drummond.
We can do with much much less of background music and sounds and noises.
In what ways do you communicate online?
It feels I communicate with NOTHING online most often.
That’s a strange sounding statement. Just as the question sounds actually. Strange.
‘In what ways…’
Well, I twist and wrench my words very often to communicate online. That’s the primary way.
The way I don’t communicate online is by not liking selfies, by not expressing birthday greetings to strangers, by not writing RIP upon looking at a death update… By not using such ways of communicating, I must be adopting a way of communicating that discourages people to ‘like’ what I write.
Basically, I do not adopt reciprocation as a way of communicating online. Yes, I think that is it.
What snack would you eat right now?
Sorry, it’s Ockham’s Nominalism, along with a cup of Coffee.
I kind of get now, what they mean, whether they themselves get it or not, what they mean when they use Ockham’s Razor in their language.
Come up with a crazy business idea.
I don’t think I am crazy enough.
Crazy stuff was done by guys who built canals, dams, containers, ships and airplanes.
Whatever I think, someone or some team must be busy doing that already.
So here’s the thing: start a dating service, matches proposed algorithmically based on vedic astrology, especially for nutty youngsters, in the US.
What will you say to them if you start a thing like that?
What is your mission?
At different points, I have tried to name my mission. I named it well but differently every time.
At one point, ENSURING BEAUTIFUL FACES.
Then, ENSURING ELEGANCE IN MOVEMENTS.
And WRITING AS MEASUREMENT.
At another point, FUNCTIONAL FASHION.
And recently, CAPTURING IN COUPLETS.
These are not the same. And they all feel important to me. And pull me altogether it feels.
What is the greatest gift someone could give you?
Company while moving, sitting, working… Company.
Next greatest gift? Am divided between these two options: an intriguing book or a luscious kiss.
There’s always enough time to not have to resort ‘either or’. 3 ‘and’ gifts. Am I smart?
What colleges have you attended?
I wonder why anyone would be interested in knowing the colleges I attended.
I attended a college to do my Bachelors in Commerce. I didn’t even question why the degree is title Bachelors!
Then I attended a college for entrepreneurship. You can’t undergo a systematic study of entrepreneurship to become an entrepreneur. That causation is very suspect to me.
And the I attended another college to study Marketing Communication. They do not have a course to create couplets there. Would you believe it!
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
Play and playtime?
Wrestling,
Wrenching,
Coaxing,
These words into good shape,
Shape such that they sound great.
What are your biggest challenges?
Look, at this moment, it is to capture my idea in a rhyming, meter-matched couplet. Been going on days now and I am not yet close to crafting that couplet.
That’s like asking for predictions… Plenty of life left I guess, so plenty of books to read surely.
In the next few days, I shall be reading Peter Levine’s works. I watched a couple of his Youtube videos on PTSD and behavior. And now I’ve got one of his books called Trauma and Memory.
What’s your dream job?
How does one dream of a job? Really!
I remember, once, I expressed something like, “If I could work with Michael Jackson in any capacity…”
You make such statements when you are young, musical and kind of delirious!
Dream Job, written with capital letters one can easily imagine that as a name of some one. Male? Female? Sounds like it can work for both.
Dream is to have a good body, job is to do macebell training. Good number of reps with good weights at the end of the mace! Possible.
What could you do differently?
I can’t imagine doing any differently. I was an intelligent show-off. Dabbler, and so undirected. So full of boredom and activity.
But yes, if someone looked with deep interest in my routines and proclivities and outputs, that someone could’ve pushed me into developing craft-hands. I could be making shoes too, instead of selling just earrings. Or who knows what else!
Some other could’ve nudged me in a way to enable me to make better provisions for a life full of reading. But then, could it be any different from what it is right now. I simply read everything I want to.
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