Lessons from another world: 5 senses

Rudha speaks

A 'hiatus', as mentioned earlier is something like a break from a daily routine. There are actually various words that closely resemble its actual meaning. However, I must tell you that is not to be confused with the word 'sabbatical'; it is used more formally. You can imagine both these words resembling us- Ani and myself. As much as I hate it when he calls me a 'crazy troll', I should agree with him on one point- he is definitely less than half crazy as I am. So, sabbatical is a more polished, formal and an elite type of a hiatus, but enough of that for now. I don't want to wander off to distant lands where people speak the unknown literary tongue mastered by the masters of literature and poetry themselves- then I have to call Ani, and I don't want that to happen. 
(Oh and let's just keep this to ourselves, but I have helped him one too many times when it comes to creating sentences that stuns it's readers and make them seriously applaud his vocabulary and the command he has over the language, but try telling this to him and he downright refuses. The blush on his face speaks for itself, though. On a rather hopeful note, I do believe that I have managed to actually bring about the aforementioned feeling when you read my posts now, haven't I? Eh..? Alright, forget it and let's just move on.)

People on a long break are generally of two types. There is the group that always makes sure that most of the activities on their bucket-list are struck off and then there is the group that actually sits down to compile their list often drifting off to a utopian world where all of their dreams turn to reality and thus exhausting most of their break. I, belong to the second category, but with a twist to the tale. I happen to observe quite a lot of things with the time that I got. While surfing the internet, I happen to come across posts like the one above. Yes. Humans are extraordinary creatures. Posts like these actually make me think if God really created humans for a purpose or just to entertain themselves when they are bored, like the one below.

Well, God sure seems to have His priorities set straight...! If that isn't the case and if the real situation here is the fact that humans have actually learned to believe in God in a different way, mirroring the modern trends, then I call it 100% crazy- and I like it. 

I mean, even I dream of a perfect physique, so why should the laws be any different? (Just saying).

But again, I must stress upon the fact that we do tend to get bored rather easily. It's as easy as eating a cake. We, however have the intelligence to actually learn quite a lot of things from the animal world. Parenting for example, is done much better by creatures with 5 senses than the Homo-sapiens. Its the consistency that I am talking about over here. If a gorilla takes care of her young by constantly keeping the little one in close proximity, then I say that you can find the same pattern throughout the troop ( a troop is a group/family of Gorillas). 

We, on the other hand have started a few things like day-care centers which is nothing but an arbitrary, paid foster home for our kids. Sooner or later we are going to come across an article that tells the story of how a mother happened to finally find her kid hidden in the closet while playing hide 'n' seek after 7 whole years ( exaggeration, I know...!). Sure, I would award that kid the champion of stealth, hiding and the winner of the hide 'n' seek game, but imagine the conversation that would ensue :-

Mom: My son! Where have you been? Oh lord! Thank you! *tears in her eyes*

Son:  Stop it woman! Who are you? You do look familiar, yes. But do meet my imaginary friend who has been giving me company all these years..! 

Alright, I agree. The above scenario might not happen. Still, all I am saying is that we are losing that precious feature of communication that is bestowed only upon us and not to any other creature in this planet- at least, not through words. Communication is something that is unique to humans and by things like these, well, we are simply losing the grip on it. Then again, I would also argue that our priorities have changed dramatically since evolution from apes. I mean, where have you seen an ape slogging it's life in front of a computer screen typing in lines of code and debugging it, only to achieve an even more number of errors? That amazing job, my friends, can only be done by trained, evolved beings called humans. Apart from parenting, I did come across a few amazing posts that really made me think. One of them was this- 

That tortoise, is wiser than the wisest man on Earth! Though I came across more than two dozen posts like these, I am afraid I cannot share everything with you all- apologies for that. With that, I would like to say this to all of you- Look out and observe. In fact, quite a lot of technological and scientific inventions have been inspired from nature and animals. It's not like there is a law that bans us from imitating nature- that would be too tough on us. This imitation game is called by a special technical term- Bio Mimicry ( A common example would be an aircraft, inspired by the birds). As a concluding statement, I would like to say this. 

The more you debug a program, the more errors you are bound to meet. Quit the job already... !

Ha! You heard it first from rudha!