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My problems with language

I am certainly not talking about spelling mistakes! :-) The hardest part of my pre-university was to either remember or get cleverer in temporarily knowing concepts of science and maths. It was exhausting for me since i always felt i couldn't relate to the million words or concepts in the text books. I could feel a little bit of forces, weights and tensions and i believed the physics. I could count few numbers and i believed the Math as a counting subject. After an overwhelming year, i joined the Architecture school. I was more comfortable in learning by watching buildings seeing its limitations and touching and having my own view of materials and joints. I was happier since i had lesser names to remember and more things to feel towards. This continued with my course in Industrial design where i was judging the shape of the object by the feel of my hands and eyes. Eyes was always tricky!. To justify my shape, we did use a lot of language, words describing the emotions and parts of

Staying at home is counter intuitive!

A pigeon had made its great nest on one of our windows. We saw the 2 eggs getting hatched and growing from an ugly looking chick into a decent looking pigeon! Last week they learnt how to fly but used to return to the nest place. From few days from now, they are not to be seen. I believe their concept of home is vanished! They will think of home only when they decide to breed. I think its true to us too. We do not seem to like sitting at home when not required! We do not know why we should wander either. Its interesting, we invest lot of our earnings in buying something which is counter intuitive. The size of the city is determined by how much we can move or how easy i can breed! Once we get a strong reason (we always want reasons don't we) to wander we may start our natural response to world.