Some thoughts

I got some criticisms for my posts, when my batchmates came to know of my blog. They said that the content was too serious/geeky to be put on a blog. Some of them were surprised on hearing that I have a blog. I think there is a great mismatch in how I project myself and how I actually am. But that would be a universal truth and everybody would face this mismatch, of different magnitudes and sometimes perhaps to their advantage.

I am in the middle of the book 'The Goal' written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. At a point, the protagonist says ( which by the way sounds true and familiar)

"Isn't it strange to feel your own world is falling apart while those of the people close to you are rock steady?" (My addition: It is also strange when for a moment you feel everything is good and going your way, and a few hours later its just the opposite feeling.)

Some things I thought of recently (I would not like to take full credit for them, since that may be plagiarism):

"All qualities you admire may not be the ones you want to possess."
"We want our loved ones to always remain happy, though we may not like to do stuff to relieve their pain."

Some thought on the above and one might feel that they are obvious. But that is how various things are. Things do not get considered until they are brought to notice. This is actually true of many theories in various fields.

I remember an incident at my undergrad school. As usual, me and my group had not done much of studying before one exam (of Chemistry, which is one of the last subjects I like to do). So, our group started mugging some fundas and we came across this 'Hammond Postulate' (For those who have studied chemistry anytime in their life: It says that "the structure of a transition state resembles that of the species nearest to it in free energy"). It looked pretty obvious and I criticized this guy for coming up with something so obvious and the chemists for accepting it as a formal postulate.

The next day (or actually, the same day since we started studying only after midnight), we had our exam and guess what, we were asked to state what the Hammond Postulate was. I do not remember what the others in my group did, but I could not write a word for I did not remember what it was. Since I had thought of the postulate being intuitive, I had completely ignored it.

Finally, something which one of our operations Prof said in a class (not my section). May be intuitive but worth a read,

"A system designed to SUCCEED, SUCCEEDS if it SUCCEEDS.
A system designed to FAIL, FAILS if it FAILS to FAIL."