Thought Generator

Sitting by the window is my favorite pastime while traveling by train. The platform is a place where I find people, people from different races, castes, religions & status. Everyone carries thoughts (luggage too, of course). They have different purposes. Some travel. Some sell. Some bid farewell to their friends and relatives. Some beg. Some have jobs. Most of them look busy.

I see the world through my eyes. For me only those things happen which take place in my sphere of knowledge. In my presence. Or which I see in the television or which I hear. For me all other incidents never happen. As long as I’m alive, the world is for me. For my sake. With my death, my world will die. I won't be able to hear. I won't be able to speak. I won't be able to think. I won't be able to feel. For me everything, the whole world, will die. (Or maybe I’ll talk, hear, speak, think and feel. But I’m sure that people of this world will definitely not 'feel' me)

In the same way every person has his own world. His people. His property. His thoughts. So every person is a world in himself. But everybody's world differs from one another's.

A person on a platform, whom I get to see only for an instant, has his own world. I wonder what his world is like?

If i stop a villager to tell him that white light consists of all the possible colors which in turn are due to the different wavelengths. What will be his reaction? He may just take a scary and puzzled look at me and leave.

Now, if I stop a young man who walks like 'Mithun da' chewing 'paan’ or ‘gutka' having a hair cut like Sunjay Dutt in his older movies. And if I tell him that Light travels with a speed of 3 * 10^5 km/sec. Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our earth other than the Sun. It takes 4 long years for the light to reach our planet. I don't know if anything will enter his 'bheja'.

How many people know that our Earth is a planet revolving a star known as Sun which is among the billion and billion other stars making a galaxy known as the Milky Way. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Cluster of galaxies, which includes the Andromeda galaxy and several closer dwarf galaxies, such as the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Local Cluster is one of about 100 clusters that form the Local Supercluster of galaxies. The Local Supercluster and the supercluster consisting of the clusters Hydra and Centaurus are all moving toward an exceptionally massive region called the Great Attractor.

Even some educated people have no knowledge of such facts. Why? They must have never known what exactly they studied. They are literate, not learned.

Strangly (sadly at the same time) I find many guys, studying with me who are concerned with their own world. They don't have the thirst for knowledge. They never think of anything other than themselves, Orkut and the world they see around - like a frog in a well which thinks that there is nothing other than the well - kupamandukam.

Lucky me to have roommate like Bronz with whom I share my knowledge and ideas..

Inevitably, I'm sure that their must be people who on seeing me, would think "does this black & short prick know that there is something known as Relativity?”