Caffeinated Thoughts...

Last month, when I was in some sort of deep thoughts, I realized that without craze, there is no life. This pushed me to write this post 'Sans Craze, No Life'...Well, a quick search of the word 'craze' in the Merriam-Webster dictionary ended up with the result "an exaggerated and often transient enthusiasm".. So where does this craziness start in our life.. It never starts, if observed closely, its born us, bonded with us from birth till death.

There occurs craze for numerous things, be it tangible or intangible. The emotions which arise because of this craze gets matured as one grows up. If someone has a craze for something, they make sure they attain /achieve what they wished for, no matter what stops them.

A just born kid which tries very hard to crawl, talk or walk for the first time can be taken as the first craze which one shows explicitly. I have observed the amount of joy it brings to just-born kids when they try to stand up on their own, roll their body once on the floor.. Such a craze to do such things brings them immense pleasure.

As days go by, as school kids, we all had the craze to do all the naughtiest possible things on earth.. The craze for swinging in a swing, catching a rope and flying, kicking our friends,getting a candy, having fever just because you can bunk school or even as simple as sliding down a slide brings immense joy, which now looked upon may bring us a plain laughter.. Well there exists a craze for truck load of other things which I am sure would take more than a page to mention.

As teens, we develop a craziness towards driving a bike/car, having friends of the opposite sex, bunking class to watch a movie, possessing the latest and cool tech stuff, long drives with friends, late night chats and flirts with friends of the opposite sex, making oneself look fashionable, to win a girl's heart etc. During the late teens, there comes some sort of craze embedded with responsibility to find oneself positioned with a good status in a society.

Once graduated from college, the craze becomes a little dormant. The main reason is, the maturity level within makes us think twice whether this craze is really necessary. Yet still, our hearts win majority of the times, just because our human heart desires more sophistication even though the mind thinks its unnecessary. The craze at this part of life arises mostly out of necessity rather than just for the 'fun' quotient associated with it. People have a craze to become a entrepreneur or get a job in their dream organization. Once settled professionally, there arises a craze towards owning materialistic possessions, going on a holiday trip, owning a new car, the way to bring up kids, making comforts for the dependents etc. I am not able to quote more examples for this part of life as I haven't experienced it myself.

It seems, we have been and will be, so crazy all through our life, be it for petty matters or for matters which determine our standards of life. If not for the craze for inventing new things, we wouldn't live in a world with so much sophistication. This craze among different individuals has infact led to a kind of competition in which the person who dares and thinks intelligently often turns out to be the winner. In short, this craze has lead us to many races all through our life, some races which we have won and some which we have lost.

To conclude with, the most beautiful part of this craze is that, it dwells only for a short amount of time. A craze which you had in one part of life doesn't fantasize you much as you move on to the next part of it. For example, a teenager wont find swinging in a swing as joyful as he did when he was a school kid. I am not able to imagine a life without such little craze, which means a lot during the course of life.. Thats why I feel "Sans Craze, No Life!~!~!~!"

Ohhh yeah.. Its been a month I have posted in here.. It all seemed like this novice blogger who started blogging during his hard times disappeared all of a sudden.. But I am back, hoping that I wont take any such long breaks here after.. Thanks to the new organisation I have joined in recently which kept me quite busy, thereby not allowing me to update my blog.. And also thanks to my "laziness" factor which also prevented me from blogging during weekends..

Over the past month I have had many topics to write about, but the laziness factor prevented me from doing that.. Screw my laziness.. hmph!!... So if you have a question in your mind now ( I am sure you would have got by now, if not, hit your head and scold yourself as to why that question dint arise :) ) as to what makes me write the post now.. I happened to skim through one of my friends profile in Orkut.. I found something peculiar in his "About Me" section.. This is the quote I found :

Dunno exactly why, but just through a glance of the quote I liked it soo much..Thats exactly why I am writing this post to share the quote with you people.. I wasn't sure as to who Neil Gaiman was initially.. Well in such situations, there comes our savior in the name 'Google'... A quick search gave me loads of links with the crux being that he is a famous author who has won quite a number of awards. For more information about him, just google his name.. The first link would lead you to his homepage..