There was a teensy sad part about my life where I resorted to some means of self therapy and labeled it as "living in the moment". I used to take the long way home by walk ..not for reasons as mundane as losing weight, but because that longer path was a hospital filled with trees and lovely footpaths. I did this everyday as I fell in love with the place. It wasn't spectacular or anything just more quiet and aloof from the sounds of the noise of the main city. I was deliberately perceptive to the sound and sight of every single thing happening around me- the rustling of the leaves, the birds, the footsteps of visitors, doctors and staff, the plants being watered with the hosepipe and the cooling it gave the shaded areas even on a sunny day. Oh how enjoyed simply looking, hearing and feeling things that most people look by without thought.
I realise I always did that. Which is why I learn rastey achhey se. Noticing apparently pointless things on the roads. Like counting the number of speed-breakers on my way back from school to home and the number of green banks or blue cars.. "let's waste time chasing cars".. (random thought)
It's something children do which is why they're so happy. Do you remember ever spinning as a child? Just going round and round happily and the happiest when you feel that moment of disbalance where gravity is letting go of you and suddenly bringing you down again as you fall. We did that just for that feeling of disbalance. What was the point? I think if we'd didn't do that we wouldn't even know what disbalance is. And that's what I believe science is- simple, apparently pointless things that you're more perceptive to and later joining the dots and finding labels for them. Or did you ever look out your car window and noticed that the trees kept moving.. passing by. My class one science book said "we think they are moving but actually we are moving". I disagreed with the book and told my teacher that no, I know they are moving. The class laughed. I didn't quite know how to express that I took that frame of window as fixed-point and the view outside moving (like in a movie reel). I even told my teacher that the car is only moving if I stand outside next to that tree and look at the road where the cars would then seem to move. Was I debating about trees being fixed or not? No, I KNEW they were rooted to the ground. I knew cars have wheels. I was debating over "points of view". I was talking about Relativity and I was a five-year old who didn't even know that there was guy called Einstein. And it was since then I think I felt that learning has a whole different ground which is both in books and beyond the scope of books. And the scope that is beyond make me happy too. - Hafsa Mahida
It's why I love my housejob more than than those clinical hours completing friggin credits in my Bachelor years. It's why I love dentistry, and everyone who bothered to study it and write books on it- Proffit (love him), Zarb, Fenn, Tucker, Mc.Cracken, Wheeler and the like.. Thank you, guys for picking up something as apparently pointless as teeth and faces, studying them in such depth and writing about them. Thank you for re-affirming that those details are so important. How a difference of 2-3mm between central incisors can make or break a child's self-esteem and never make them smile wide in their photographs. How just a teensy bit of over-extension can rock a denture. How all those rules and laws of levers fit into prostho (doesn't mean I've learnt em all yet :p). How usually using your elevator wisely can make the job of a forcep so very easy. I could go on but it's lunch time.
