I wish I was saner
or at least
my insanity would make
fewer public appearances.
I wish I could attend every "morning 11"
So that I didn't have to struggle
in understanding what the X's and Y's meant
in the equations the prof must have introduced
in the previous few classes I didn't attend
But what joy is there
in all these algebra and matrices?
Will my life be spent
determining a coeffiecient or two,
and finding an optimum value?
I wish I didn't have
targets so translucent
I can't see the future
I can't reflect on the passing moment.
I wish I didn't write
these silly poems in classrooms
I wish the last few pages of my notebooks
were blank
until all the preceding ones
were inked with notes
for a handy rot-learning.
I am too much of a wishful thinker.
I am a lonely word
with no prefix, or suffix.
I am condemned for ever
in the brackets of a matrix.
(This's how I made the optimum use of today's "Morning 11".)
March 6, 2007
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Yes, optimum use indeed. This is very relate-able to my own situation in lectures, and I sympathize, but may I disagree a little. There can be a lot of joy in algebra and matrices for those who like them. For us it's just a mismatch.
Mathematics, and all its sub-discplines suck. They're for the left-brain dominated people, and I guess I (and even you/Mr. V maybe) am not a member of that set of people.
The future, is always translucent. The measure of clarity improves as you approach it though. And people generally reflect on moments that have already 'passed by', and not when they are 'passing by'.
I wish the last few pages of my registers were blank too! They distract me too much during exam time!
The last stanza is too too good, and largely depends on how you define the 'matrix'.
I wonder how many things that happen in one's immediate surroundings pass off so unnoticed.
The intellectuals'll consider a new entrant in their club. The poem was good enough to make them consider this!
[V]
Yeah, there can be, for some. In fact, I guess maths used to be our favourite too, but 3 yrs into college and everything seems screwed up. Excess, as they say, of everything is bad.
[Tap]
Most bloggers (excepting ones who write about gazettes and gizmos) are right-brain dominated, right?
I read on some blogpost recently:"There was nothing right in his left brain, and nothing left in the right" :D
I agree on what you said about future et al. Yet I wish I could analyse every passing moment so that I could act well in time.
yeah, the last stanza leaves it for the reader to interpret. Thanks.
[As Anonymous]
:) Let me keep respecting your anonymity :D
"Poem was good"- Thanks.
"Intellectual"- Over the years the word has earned a lot of bad name I guess. As the things stand neither I wud like to be a part of that group nor they wud consider. Let's coin a new word sometime!
You wish!Ha!
My reply will vary according to what ur comment actually means.
"I can do nothing but wish!:("
"Why? Can't I?"
"Why? Ain't I allowed to?"
"Yeah, at least at that time."
"This was spur of the moment poem, otherwise who wants to be saner."
"I wish nobody would laugh when I wish!"
Take one that fits!
:D
iit'ian and maths..shouldnt be a mismatch i guess :)
"I am a lonely word
with no prefix, or suffix."
....have o prefix or suffix could also mean that you are complete in yourself
[Desperado]
I wish I were!
Well written! I wouldn't say maths sucks per se. But actually what you highlight perhaps captures the broader dilemma of "applying" (or learning to apply) versus developing fundamental new thought or creating something new.
The applied maths in school become excel sheets in workplaces and so on. But some are by nature inclined towards more fundamental things and remain dissatisfied by such 'trivialities'...you my friend, seem condemned to be one of them...
[Siyaah]
It was all for passing that particular hour in class, but, yes, the thoughts which you are talking about must have been in my subconscious.(And you rightly said- my focus was not mathematics, in fact it wasn't even a class particular to mathematics.)
Noboby would like to be lost in 'trivialities', if the choice was all his/hers, though the level of dissatisfaction vary; and yes, it is definitely high in my case.
Good one there. Great way to pass time in a class. Don't wish for making notes. What if a one-ton something fell in the class at the moment and killed everyone and the last thing u remembered before dying was A MATRIX!!??
[Akshay]
Ha ha.. this was some good humour.
In any case such wishes never come true for me.. 'coz I don't let them to :D
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