Having a sister who volunteers at the Animal Help Fondation can be an interesting experience. Right now I am sharing my home with a dog, a parakeet, and two little monkey-cubs. One is about 1.5 months old, the other 3 months, both having lost their mothers. This 3 months old kid has started jumping in true monkey style (duh!) The other day, I was arm-twisted into watching over the elder monkey while my sister changed the others' nappy for the umpteenth time.
So I put two chairs facing each other and let the langur loose on them. So it starts jumping from one chair to another, without a break. Infants need little exercise before sleep captivates them. And few minutes into the jumping marathon, this kid starts having its bouts of bleariness. And then an amazing thing happens. Instead of stopping to doze off, like any intelligent forefather of the neanderthal man would do, this monkey keeps jumping while yawning and keeping its eyes open only momentarily.
And just when I was going to denounce it as stupid, a thought flashed in my mind. Think about it. We run from college to home, back and forth, and what initiative have we taken to learn new stuff? How many times have we worked on solving math problems without knowing why are we doing it? Isn't there a parallel between the monkey's acrobatics and the rut we have fallen into? Aren't we ourselves sleeping while hopping from one place to another?
Yeah yeah I know some of us do take initiatives and it sounds cliched. But think about the precentage of the Leanardo-da-vincis of all population.
Nope, I am not going to denounce the monkey kid as stupid anymore.
Cheers!!!
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3 comments:
if u r worrying about initiatives then i would say that we dont even hop properly
hey this reminds me of wht a math professor at college used to say...he said it in his very first lecture tht unless u know the reason behind solving a problem,ur solution always remains incomplete..... n honestly after studying four complete years of engineering,i still think most of us will have our solutions incomplete.
interesting.. its a pity that most of us do things because they have to be done!! And its not that we learn this in coll or school.. it starts right from our homes, since we are kids!
Like grandparents teaching kids religious beliefs about fasts or other supersttitions.. well,if a child is told the reason behind doing things- only then will he grow up into a thinking adult!!
For eg, I know some ppl who have this superstition that nails once cut should not be kept in the home as it brings bad-luck! My guess is that it must have arose as a result/measure to keep house clean.. (sorry.. at wits end with project,so really cant think of a better eg. right now). But afaik,most traditional rituals/beliefs have a scientific rationale behind them..
So u c, all kids hop, but hoping meaningfully and knowingly - this is something that comes to very few once they grow up!
Keep thinking....
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