LSP - Bliptogether

Here's LSP, a friend from office, an avid adventurer and a very fine photographer. Thanks dude, for participating in Bliptogether.




The one thing that's rampant in India is nosiness. I find it quite hard to like it. This is where I agree with Ayn Rand when she writes supporting the idea of live-and-let-live. A bit too much socializing more often than not translates into politics. It also indicates that there are too many people with much free time on their hands, who have very few original thoughts, and dread spending time with themselves. Confronting oneself requires courage; escaping from it by discussing people is the lazier alternative so many choose to take. I find it hard to empathize with the nosy ones, as they I'm sure find hard to understand why others wouldn't be curious about their lives. We have an unwanted guest.

In other news, Erich Segal passed away. He had been suffering from Parkinson's for a long time and was bed-ridden for the last few years. And despite it all, he managed to write his last work of fiction, Only Love in 1998 and other books of an academic nature till 2002. After all, he had been a professor of Greek and Latin literature in the most prestigious universities of the world.

Only Love hadn't seen the best of reviews. In fact judging it too objectively or even trying to quantify it, reviewers had cast it aside, almost sneering at the loopholes. But the brilliant thing about the book is that it represents Segal's love for writing, for music, for the nuances and beauty of human nature. The spontaneity with which the book is written is almost childish, which, given his age and deteriorating health is truly inspiring. It is written with great passion and in that lies the potential to defy death. And to me, that is the measure of a good life.