Just Another Lost Star

I remember having read this quote sometime last year, and the profound effect it had had on me at that point of time. Collecting quotes is a hobby that brinks on the rim of being called an obsession in my case, and the responses they cause within me are a constant source of entertainment for my markedly restless mind. But I never imagined how eight words can sum up the lives of almost 80% of mortals inhabiting the planet. I laugh, I smile, and I take Prozac. *** Light now. My life rocks!!

Pilani is a buzzing place, which at times looks alien to me. Here I am, removed from my world, in a place that weighs me down in its intricacy, amongst people whose doings are as incomprehensible to me as mechanics. But the sad truth is that I can’t run away from both of them. The whole, busy, unheeding life of a metropolis campus casts me into a horrible gloom of isolation. I was never like the regular BITsian, and frankly I’d never want to be like one. There is one part of me which doesn’t comply by the temperament of things around me. It’s that all-consuming thought with a feeble voice. And however hard I try, it doesn’t get subdued. Call it a conflict between my reality and my conscience. I can’t let either of them win over the other. And the saga continues. I am what I am, nothing else matters. *** Everyone's so full of shit ...