Normal Shock

If only
I could hold a sieve
in the stream of time
to gather together
a heap of moments
of lighthearted repartees,
of endless teasing
of conversations without reserve
of feeling secure and warm;
all picked out from uneventful days,
and let the rest flow away.

Guilt

I wish you would come to me
Not just when you're in pain
That way I wouldn't have to look forward
To your getting hurt again

Reminisces

A conversation with a friend in class today led me to write this post.

It started with a remark on the professor's style of writing.(He pressed the chalk so hard that I felt sorry for the poor board.)This got us to wade into a stream of reminisces about the different teachers we'd had since school, the way they wrote, the way they intoned certain words......(This friend actually adopts the same tone as his teacher when he's trying to remember a formula and vouches for the method.)

Later as I reflected on the conversation I was struck by how vividly we remember a few chosen incidents or (for lack of a better word)facts and forget the rest. I don't count "memorable days" which I'll return to, but later. These are ostensibly unremarkable days. I can't even give an example here, because they truly have nothing worth remembering. Or do they? I mean, the fact that we remember them proves that there is something to them, after all.

Other things (like remembering the way some teacher wrote on the board or the way they signed in your notebook)leave me equally baffled. Is it about how long you are exposed to a phenomenon? Just what is it about things that determines whether we remember them or not?

Coming to the "memorable days" in our life - there too, we really don't remember each and every single minute of the day. Only the important bits.Maybe like how the toothpaste fell off the brush in the morning?!

Then again, there are other things. Listening to a new song the other day, I tried to sing along and play it till I knew all the lyrics by heart. Five repetitions later, my patience ran out. But I know of several songs, advertisement jingles (intentional memory adhesiveness) and such like that I've memorized (mostly sub-consciously)having only listened to them a couple of times.

It would be wonderful if we could come up with a solution to this mystery. Imagine- no student would forget anything (s)he read before an exam. Court witnesses would have perfect testimony.Phone numbers, car license plates, events witnessed,you name it!

Teleporting Woes

Hey, have u reached?

Me, I’m still at home! I’m just KNEW something was gonna go wrong! And now I’ll be late!

I mean, when I got that new teleporter, I thought wow! This is cool! No more disorientation problems, no battery issues……..………….. and ALWAYS REACH IN TIME!!
And now this. I called the service center and the guy has the audacity to tell me that the warranty lasts only for the first 50 teleportations! Now it’ll take me a whole 10 nanoseconds longer. Even the arrival pads will be jammed at this hour!
I HATE the thought of spending SECONDS together without a body. And I hurt my arm when I fell off yesterday. Some kid landed a nanosecond too soon and knocked me over.

Apparently the new model T11235 gives an auto stability feature so you’re always standing straight when you land. I’m sure there are morons who’ll buy it too! I mean, why can’t you learn to land properly on your own? Guess it’s good for kids and senior citizens though. They should put some cushions instead, like planes had parachutes.

I’ll leave now. Grab a seat for me.
C ya!!