Miracle

I always knew that this was said by Albert Einstein, but this December edition of Reader's Digest confirmed it in the Quotes section

“There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle.”

From as long as I can remember I have always been intrigued by each and everything that kept happening around me. Every small little thing kept fascinating me. I am not talking about some butterfly in some garden or a sunset at the beach (which are standard items for people to reminiscence about), I am referring to the normal lives of people and how each of them reacts to the same things differently. In school, I honestly loathed certain students because of their behavior in class. I just couldn't believe that they could be so careless towards studies or that they could behave in such an irresponsible manner as they did, most importantly I couldn't comprehend why or what made them the way they were (they were kids I know, but then I was one too). Gradually this loathing turned into a fascination which ultimately led me to become a kinda psychoanalyst of people. So what was as a kid shocking to me became the most miraculous thing as I grew up. A miracle which gradually turned into a fact of life. I began to accept not just the behavior of people in all its entirety but I became more & more sure about my own behavior in all situations.
I just opened up my mind to all possibilities of people and their attitudes. Nothing seemed abnormal or wrong. My definitions of good, bad, wrong, right, beautiful,ugly had to undergo radical changes if I was to accept this truth of life and trust me radical is a very mild word to describe the changes I underwent. Nothing seemed to amaze me anymore, it was as if I had fully come to terms with the miracle called Life. It was not that my feelings became numbed because of the daily drudgery, but its just that a miracle ceases to be a miracle once you accept that it is a miracle. So this miracle of the variety of people and their personalities actually has become a daily routine.

The list of things which I find miraculous is too big to even imagine, so let me put it as 'if I don't find anything miraculous that itself is a miracle'. So in one way I am treating everything as a miracle and this very acceptance of miracle in everything means that I am treating nothing as a miracle.

Nay ... not my type ....

I always used to tell myself that I am not gonna write about the daily mundane occurrences happening in my life.
Firstly, everyone does that and there would be nothing new or different that I would be opining about. Secondly my life isn't very interesting to write about, in fact, it is as boring as it can get.
(but most importantly this is not the place where I would like to honestly tell what I honestly think)
But thats the whole point of blogging people tell me(Who told me? Don't ask me) Its just about describing each & every situation you encounter in your own way. You don't necessarily have to be the guy to whom things happen, you can be some nondescript guy doing something nondescript but ultimately you must bring out the it-happened-to-me (and even the i-wish-it-happened-to-me) in an over-the-top exaggerated manner (lets include the it-never-happened-to-me-but-you-wouldn't-know incidents also into this). It is all about cribbing about anything and everything that happens to you, complaining about some people (all people), bringing out emotions which one wouldn't dare to do in reality, use the first alphabets of the names of people to protect their identity, use superbly funny abbreviations and some found-only-in-blogs words like “whatisitsname” when you actually bloody don't know “What is its name?”, twist and turn the words of the English language in any way you wish coz the only aim is to bring out your intended meaning at the expense of the language.
The one attribute that stands out glaringly in all these blogs and that which makes me to hate these blogsters (see I invented a word right there) all the more is the I dont give a damn attitude (the synonyms being Devil may care attitude, I am who I am attitude etc etc). Well if they didn't give a damn they wouldn't have to be writing a blog in the first place. Anyway let me consider that they actually dont give a damn and they do blog for various whatever reasons, but all that they try to show is that they dont give a damn. Hypocrites of the highest order is too mild a phrase to describe them. Well if all this bothered you then you can be assured that you DO give a damn.
I somehow always felt that mine would be just-another-web-log if I wrote about such stuff and just now I have had an Eureka moment that mine is very much just-another-web-log.