Now what about - "Inertia"?
Newton knew it way before our time, that a body continues to be in state of rest or in state of continous motion unless acted by an external force. Well we as humans upto a certain extent are a complicated amalgam of the former and later parts of the statement. We either tend to be 'inert' in a way that we procrastinate things (put it to complete rest) unless it is pushed by a deadline, or tend to keep doing things like eating, recreation and living, unless we meet some exciting beings. Though the former part can be disgreed by some meticulous people, the same cannot be said about the large fraction of the population, or atleast say that I dont fall in that category. However, coming to the later part of the statement, everyone tends to fall into a praticular pattern, which sociologists more often term as behaviour that forms a regular trend in our eating, recreation and living.
The philosophy has never been realized at such a proportion, untill I had to move out of my old apartment for an exciting new one. On a positive note, the old apartment was near to the campus, near to the REC complex, had small space for moving (so could reach from one corner to the other in a leap), regular cooking turns (enjoyed the most when it was not my cooking turn ofcourse :-)). On the flip side my old apartment lacked human touch to it. However, the very thought of moving into a new apartment, that too with someone special energized the experience. Then came the interesting part of actually putting 'external force' into action. Little did I realize, the amount of stuff that has been accrued over the last few years, not to mention books, extravagent wardrobe, furniture and ofcourse utensils. A far bigger load as compared to the two big suitcases that we get from our home countries. The packing part in itlself took atleast two days (on a eight hours work basis :-)). However, the bigest satisfaction was the day after we moved into the new apartment. Spacious rooms (too spacious I must say), large kitchen with windows (freedom from the curry smells that linger forever), nice TV and not but not the least the excitement of what lies ahead. Call it INERTIA (pertiaining to the later part of the statement) that sometimes we do wish that good things keep happening (unless someone starts me lecturing about KARMA, which could well be my next blog ;-)).