The Joys of Being Busy

It's being a while since I entered the world of blogging (I do consider 15 days to be a while, especially when one does use the Web every day for a sizeable amount of time) and to think of it, just one blog entry in all these days doesn't do justice to the nature and the number of thoughts that have been running through my mind during these days. But having said that, what is equally true is that over the last few days, while I have missed updating my blog and all the related stuff, I have also discovered again the joys of being busy.

I am a student here at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in India and truth be told, the schedule here is packed with so many activities - not just classes and friends, but sports, clubs and some all round entertainment in general. Now that the semester has begun in real earnest, as in classes taking a more serious air and the tutorial tests and evaluative components beginning to make their presence known, it is back to what I did last semester - spend most of the time catching up with the breakneck pace of all that goes on at the institute. Of course, it doesn't help when I admit that I am one of those students who are quite regular - I attend all the lectures and tutorials, so that does give me much less time to manouever.

However, to all those of you who might think that this is a bad thing or that this is too much to cope up with, I think that it is, on the contrary, the best thing that has happened to me till now. I've always wanted to test myself in adverse circumstances and stressful conditions. Over the years, I was often accused of being a choker, as having an escapist mentality; but I am glad to say that I appear to have shed that tag now. And of course, there are added advantages as well.

For example, let's look at all the events that the media has gone crazy about in the last fortnight: There was the hanging of Saddam Hussein, which to me, was a pathetic attempt at attracting viewers/readers on the part of the media. It is indeed shameful that a brutal dictator should be given so much spotlight that a gullible section of the society might interpret his image as being that of a martyr.

Then in India, there was also the small matter of the engagement of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bacchan. You know that the media has gone into overdrive with a story when the frontpage of these actors appears on the cover of practically every major national daily alongwith the details of the engagement. Pathetic attempts, at best!!!

Basically, what I am trying to put across here is that I was thankfully spared of observing all this stuff over the past fortnight by the mere fact that a re-entry into the BITsian life kept me busy and away from this circus. Never have I appreciated the beauty and the utility of busyness as now!!!