On wasting time in life
On wasting time in life … It took 14 years of my school life to improve my handwriting. Only to be typing on smart phones and keyboard! Seriously?! What a complete waste of time!!! Criminal indeed. I dinned into my head and learnt algebra and geometry and all kind of Mathematics with formulae, from Form 6 onwards at high school, barely managing to scrape through my final exams and swear I never ever used any of that which I learnt then, during my life of 60 years. What a tension and severe stress load that was for me! Phew!!Merely recollecting that itself seems so stressful. I remember there was a subject called history in school and I am sure it need not have been thrust on everybody to learn it, all through school life , as it mattered nothing to me as to who ruled India first and who succeeded. The history of Mughals, Chola period, Dravidians and what not were not my cup of tea. I don’t know even my own family lineage up to 4 generations or more, which would have ...