Seeing Things

I came across this article thanks to Meraj and couldn't help nodding my head in agreement. You can take a look at the write-up that appeared in the NewYorkTimes' after the recent bomb blasts that shook India here . ____________

A root canal treatment. My worst fear. It came true last week. I never forgot my first visit to the dentist at the age of 6. They assured me that it would just hurt as little as an ant bite. a) I didn't consider an ant bite as painless and b) I didn't want to imagine an ant biting me inside my mouth! I was shocked. When I was 15 I read a poem written by Ogden Nash on the same, garbed in humour of course. You can read it below. I thought if a great poet could feel this way, my fears were perfectly justified. Another time I had read somewhere that the worst pains of all was endured during childbirth. The second was on a dentist’s chair. None of these accidental readings really helped me in my future visits to the dentist. My terror of it only grew. I did not mind the idea of getting rid of all my teeth once and for all and replacing them with dentures. Until someone told me that a tooth extraction hurts worstest! Now I shall live the rest of my days in fear of the requirement of...

I don't understand why anyone should ever get bored. There are so many things one can do. You can read a book, write a book, draw, paint, stitch, learn to sing, learn to dance, learn pottery, paint a picture, paint a wall, watch TV, watch a movie, make a movie, take pictures, take a walk, watch children play, write a blog, watch a movie, make a movie, take pictures, make those phone calls you have been putting off for so long, write a letter to someone who would like to hear from you, send emails to friends, plant a tree, call on a friend, cook, bake a cake, iron clothes, learn origamy, dust the house, learn pottery, water the plants, get a plant if you don't have one, buy a present for someone you'd like to see smile, take a long bath, put on a face mask, play brainvita, sudoku, solve crosswords, if you can gather friends play chess or scrabbles or pictionary or monoply or knots and crosses or dumb charades, browse through toys in a toyshop, learn the lyrics of a song, rea...