I am a Scorpion...

Once upon a time there were 9 planets. After Pluto’s demotion we are now left with 8. These 8, along with the demoted Pluto, affect around 7 billion population of the world. And I am only talking about the human population. If we leave the human demographic aside, we see a much higher number of animals & plant population. Surely the planets must be affecting them! <Marketing Innovation Labs should start selling animal astrology. Shouldn't we have a Scorpion Labrador, Virgo parrot and a Pisces cat?>

Okay, let’s not digress away. So, we have Mercury Venus Earth affecting some humans and thereby classifying them in to some star signs. So we have 23 categories of people<Yes, my mathematics is correct. There are 12 star signs and 11 cusps> on the planet. Now if we can safely rely on probability, then I can say that each of these groups must be having saints and sinners. Each of the above 23 groups must be having social workers and criminals. There must be artists, politicians, scholars and dreamers in all. Some people from each group must have committed suicide. Some must have won the Nobel Prize. Leaders, followers, heroes and cowards, we will be having all of them in the groups. Variety is assured! <I don’t have access to any National or International Demographic data, but I am sure if someone does, the above guess can be corroborated.>

Then what binds them together? Clearly if we have so much diversity in any one group, there can’t be any common characteristic. Yet, Linda Goodman’s book on sun signs and star signs sells like hotcakes. The daily astrological forecast in any newspaper is one of the top read articles.

I was born on the 6 of November. The orientation of the planets was such that Neptune was the planet which was affecting me the most followed by Pluto. Now they say that scorpions are mysterious. This fact can only be proven in one way. Pluto was a mystery to us since a very long time. That it’s not a planet at all was revealed only recently!! They say scorpions believe in Revenge. Other star sign people don’t? Scorpions are ambitious. That is person dependent. What has November got to do with that anyway?

People are getting classified in available groups. Characteristics can always be justified. I find the entire star sign concept amusing. I don’t believe in it, but I do read a lot about it. Just for sheer entertainment. My brother believes in it a lot. He is a Libra. So i like to read the section for Librans in the newspaper and tell him his daily forecast. I find it even more amusing that he keeps on telling me, Sis you are a Scorpion, Libras and scorpions are not the best of compatible signs :D. The idea of belonging to one of the 23 types just doesn't seem right to me.

 I was wondering, why are they called star signs? Aren't the planets affecting us?? Or are the remaining 8 planets in line for promotion to be stars????

Inertia for the intangible...

Inertia - The property of matter by which it remains in its existing state of rest or motion unless acted upon by an external force.

That inertia is a property of tangible things is something we all know. That inertia affects an intangible thing called learning is what i propose.

Birth...

We have a very simple request at birth. We want to understand everything around us. Give us that and we leave you in peace. Try not answering our questions and we yell with the loudest shrill. We stare wide eyed and we cry with the voice of highest decibel. We demand explanations left right and center. Schooling exposes us to a whole new universe of knowledge about the world. This is the time we learn how to make friends. All this learning gets us pretty excited. There are so many hopes and aspirations we nurture. We want to be footballers. Cricketers...star. We want to be successful. And we want to shine...

We are learning, we are dreaming, we sleep well at night. Period.

Okay, time to grow up more!!!

Teenagers...

we now accept that we have become realistic so we dream of becoming engineers and doctors and MBA...Some of us who have parents with fat pockets dream of starting their own business. We all dream of cars and nice flats, and weekends at theaters, we dream some more of dinner at nice restaurants...we dream and we study and we pass college...

We are Learning, We are still dreaming, we still get sound sleep at night. Period.

Time to grow some more...

Marriage.

Now we see ourselves settled in our careers. We have just started our married lives. We are now not learning about the world rather more about what’s in our house: "The life partner”. But of course, we are still learning so we are happy... We are dreaming somewhat less, but still dreaming and hence sleeping well at night.

Now. We stop growing    

what. When did this happen? Shock horror! We stopped learning professionally as we were nicely enjoying marital bliss. And then once things got usual there, there was nothing new to explore, learn. So what happened? We started feeling a certain amount of discomfort. We started to feel unhappines.Leading a monotonous life after so many exciting phases does that to you. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what I call inertia affecting learning and in a way you. You stopped learning, so you disrupted your inertia.Inertia provided resistance to you in the form of negative emotions.tut tut...are you now sleeping well? No...

Dimaag ki batti chamki :)

Now you suffer from some mild form of mild life crisis. Which comes way before midlife in today’s generation. So is there any secret to come out of it? Well, that’s hardly a secret. Start learning! You will find it difficult initially as inertia is going to act upon you when you move from your state of rest. But once the initial discomfort is over. You can learn anything you like. But just don’t give up learning. It will keep on supplying you with a plethora of ideas. They will give you a medium to dream and be happy. And you will go back to sleeping well.