When
I was a kid, and yes - a looonggg loooonnnnngggg time ago, English & Economics were the two most important Es of my life. But, as luck and the ever
expectant Indian society of the 90s would have it, I got hooked up with their
evil sister Engineering.
Honestly,
my Dad did make sense to my Saturn influenced Capri Moon 17 year old realistic mind,
when he said...
"Eng
& Eco are things you can follow as an interest all your life, you should
plan to get into something more substantial career-wise"
And
I did the same. Not that I didn't like it or anything, you know being blessed
with a brilliant mind a la Sheldon Cooper, one often does not mind picking up
anything. But, yes I did think it to be beneath me (again a la Sheldon) :D
But,
much about that later sometime...
So,
bugged up by the nagging arguments of an IT job, my chosen life partner, I gave
it all up last year. In pursuit of the true love of my heart...
I
wrote, I read, I watched movies, theatre, also danced a bit but the icing on
the cake was that I patched up with my childhood sweetheart, the Elegant
Economics!
From
Harrod-Domar to Solow to understanding the intricacies of all things Keynesian,
the feeling was somewhat like being reunited with your childhood love whom you
had to leave behind as your Dad gets transferred to some other town.
Oh,
the string of ruins of young beating hearts that your parents' transferrable
jobs leave behind... letting them to manage with rock songs and bits of rhyming
cute adolescent poetry. Of course, only until a look and a smile tugs again at
your heartstrings, steers your poetry from the seemingly endless abyss of
pathos to that wonderful feeling called romance, and makes you switch to love
ballads with promises of 'forever and a day', alas till the next transfer...
To
be very honest, I was kind of Kevinesque from 'The Wonder Years', but then much
about that too later ;)
Anyway,
I am back with Eco now and it sure feels like I am back in school. I am happy,
carefree and even careless, confident and even cocky ... basically, I am Me,
and you know 'Being Me', well that's something :)
And
with her, out came all other friends from my late teens, hiding due to the dark
dementor-ish shadows of 'you know who' in my life... Magical Maths, Sexy Stats,
so aptly called as isn't it Stats that is the measure of sexiness in the other
walks of life as well... ;), Groovy Graphs and even the Confounded Calculus are
all there now, shouting, screaming, demanding my attention and even back
slapping and stumping me all the time.
Night outs, sleepovers, challenges,
races, dares... oh life is so much fun
And
am I loving it... a big hell yeah :D
