Some random musings of a relatively soon-to-be engineer
The rate of flow of time: Which is increasing, at least for me
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Not so long ago, during my 14th year of existence, I thought this was rubbish, how can life possibly speed up? Obviously, it must be some kind of adult joke which I can't possibly understand. Yet, even in this sentence, I find for myself that, yeah, "time" does fly fast. It has been three years since I shifted to this huge city, whose innards I have yet to visit, two years since I went to Earth Science Olympiad camp and almost a year since COVID-19 has transformed our lives for at least another year to come (Stay safe and wear a mask, GET VACCINATED!!!)
(Future Samyak:<digression>)
Yet, I almost always think of myself as that middle school kid in the small town of Jammu, who used to boast about being the smart guy and winning all the non-sports competitions in the town. In short, "hot and happening"!
My position on the Dunning Kruger graph for Life and other HS topics
This attitude, due to being a large fish in a small pond, was all but destroyed when I moved to Delhi and joined DPS RK Puram. and I came to face the nastiest realisation ever, I wasn't at the top of my class.
Now, to be fair to my 2018 self, yes, you didn't have a proper home and couldn't eat properly. And yes, you were entitled to think highly of yourself because well you had been the defending champion of Jammu's largest school quiz, went to represent J&K at the Children's Science Congress as the only kid not in high school in class 7th and had learnt Single Variable Calculus all by yourself. Yet, why the fuck didn't you cry out for a telescope or search for Olympiads instead of going o YouTube to watch the next Fortnite video? Anyways, cutting to the point, I did eventually excel at what I was interested at, got a few scholarships and decent 93.6% in 9th and did top the class next year.
(Future Samyak:</digression>)
Anyways!
Coming to the speed of light life. I have gradually come to accept me as myself and to work towards other goals(such as my long desire to do research before I go to college!!) and letting go of things has become a bit easier, narrowing my interests and trying to increase the depth
Maybe, 4 years down the line, when I am a college senior (maybe MIT?), I will look at these posts and realise, Heck! why do I feel like I had written it a month ago! (5 years Future Samyak please post your comments in the comments section please!).
I think it's still too early for 2020 Samyak to tell how fast will be the rate of flow of time will be for him, and he leaves 2026 and 2069 Samyak to share that
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Pro-social Samyak: Human is a social animal. How on Earth can a human live without social interaction? After all, research has proven it has many benefits! Anti-social Samyak: Benefits? What benefits are you talking about? All this nuisance of making contacts and basing your life decisions upon them? These funny little creatures, whom even you sometimes think is just part of an elaborate machine prank on the mind that we all inhabit Pro-social Samyak: That is all moonshine! Talk about that when you know how VR actually works and other problems related to Computational Complexity Anti-social Samyak: It is useless to base your emotions and life goals around people that aren't you. After all, what have they done for you? The first thoughts that come to my mind are of humiliation and exclusion. I don't need those idiots Pro-social Samyak: You're asking what they have done for me? Ask what they haven't done for me! You are who you are because of whom you befriended and who
This is my very first blog post and thus I would name it Hello World, submitting to clichéness. I am really, REALLY irregular but expect me to supplement this venture with 1 post a month(with a probability of 1/4)¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyways! My range of interests includes all the 43 orders of magnitude(partly because I aspire to be a physicist!) ranging from quantum phenomena and astronomy to history and music with biochemistry, tech and philosophy thrown in. The idea of writing a blog came to me rather impulsively. I need to write a ton of essays this season and the next year too. So hear me out as I try to improve my writing skills(and commit fewer typos!) while you read my shitposts until a certain period of time! As I document the next few years in this blog which would remain saved till the end of usable energy in the universe, in the form of 0's and 1's on the Internet, I hope some of you will take interest in a literal Bildungsroman of a high school student! Au revoir!
Very nicely written :)
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