Love at First Sight?

A popular phenomenon

It is a very popular phrase found in most books you read and movies you watch. There is at least one character who falls in love at fd the “love” pop up itself at the time of the sight of the person of opposite sex? Or was it an attraction that turned into affection and into love?

Who experience love at first sight?

The book, "How to Analyze People on Sight"[1] by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, divides all humans into five basic types[2]. Among these the second type- the thoracic are the people that mostly experience love at first sight.  

So, what sort of people are called thoracics? These are the people who have well-developed respiratory system. They are characterized by the larger chest housing large lungs, long neck, long nose and high colour(they seem to blush much more than others). They are the most attractive in terms of looks. If you want to see a large number of thoracics at a place, a musical show or a theatre would be the most suitable. The writers claim that the need of respiration developed after the need of nutrition was accomplished, and that the evolving organism had little sense of what was happening around it. The thoracics seem to have retained the ancestral characters.

Now, back to love at first sight. It's been explained already that the thoracics have the most impressive bodily features and that the tendency to be attracted towards them is high. The thoracics, being novice in the matter of controlling their senses are the most attracted by the opposite sex of the same type. As a result, they experience love at first sight.

The Risk

The writers of the book explain the fact with examples. They took some time in studying the cases of divorce and found out that at least one of the divorcee was of the thoracic type. When interrogated, most of them confessed that they had married as soon as they had fallen in "love".

Most of the celebrities related to music and movies, if you have carefully noted, get married at an early age and seem to be happy with each. Within a year or two, they may shock you with the news that they divorced!

The  Cause of Popularity

The Benedicts call the thoracics "thrillers" and that one word is enough to explain the popularity of their experiences. A thoracic cannot remain in the dark. He sorts out ways one way or the other to come out into limelight. If a thoracic has some brains, he writes down his experiences. His books are instant hit. (Look at the major Best Seller lists and compare the looks of the writer. Almost 90 % of them are attractive to look at- almost like actors themselves.) Also, the entertainment world belongs to them and it is by music and movies that we are inspired. That's where we hear or read accounts of love at first sight.

A Decision left on us

After knowing the risk involved in "Love at first sight", it is wise to avoid such chances. To ignore someone who has attracted you might be a difficult task. But asking to yourself if it was just a physical attraction might save yourself. If you feel that your "love at first sight" is love indeed, to continue your journey of love will be the best idea. 

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[1] The ebook is available at: Project Gutenberg

[2] The five basic human types are

·         Alimentive: The easy-going fat individuals with well developed digestive system.

·         Thoracic: The attractive novice individuals with well develpoed respiratory system.

·         Muscular: The most flexible and practical individuals with strong muscles.

·         Skeletal: The most inflexible and rigid individuals with well developed skeletal system.

·         Cerebral: The most intelligent ones with well develpoed nervous system.

Imagination, Reality and Creativity

One of the strangest things about brain is its potential

The human brain is not merely a net of nervous fibres. It is more than the control centre of the body. It is the integrated and sophisticated home of numerous dreams, imaginations and creations.

The brain interprets, generally the environment around us we call reality. But have you ever felt that your imagination on something, say a book you have read recently, was far better than when it came out of someone else's imagination? Have you ever felt you can bring about some change with the help of your imagination? At such, imagination induces creativity. The most honoured scientist of 20th century, Albert Einstein had once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." His own life reflected the fact.

Imagination is the key to success. From artists to inventors, the greatest of creations came out of imagination. One such inventor was Thomas Alva Edison. He is credited for invention of more than thousand products used in modern life among which the light bulb and the movie projector are the most popular. The light bulb was invented in his mind out of his imagination- without ever seeing one in reality! Then he worked out discovering the requirements to convert his fantasy into reality. With that passion he worked and worked and gifted the world with one of the most precious product of all time.

The world of imagination may be compared with the world of dreams and fantasy. The world might be close to the real world you see or be entirely different. We have enjoyed the fantasy world of Underland in "Alice in Wonderland", Middle Earth in the "Lord of the Rings", Hogwarts in Harry Potter and so on. We have also been introduced to several characters that came out of imagination of their creators. Mickey Mouse and his friends are among the most famous cartoon characters all around the world. And we love them, for they are the creations of human brain, proofs that it can overcome impossibility through its wonderful creations.

At times I feel the power of my imagination being drained by the introduction to reality. In such cases, I think of the world in a different way. What if the world we see is a dream of our own? Or we might be creations of someone else's imagination. Doing so, I come back to my world of imagination and it really feels good. After all, the purpose of life is to follow your true passion and get happiness out of it. I have not seen it yet and I can imagine it coming close, very soon.
The pictures below show striking similarity between networks human brain nerve fibres and the fabrication of universe in atomic scale. Something for brainstorming! 

   
 

That Black Day

The Setting

Monday, June 9, 2014. Life had been moving in its own pace. There had been a sort of tranquility. But it had not been destined to last long. The tranquility had just been an illusion. Some students studying Post-Graduate in Micro-biology at Tri-Chandra College had called out a strike at 1:00 pm. That had when the darkness unveiled itself.

The day had been bright, sky clear-except for some spots of clouds. The strike had been called for an hour which meant no vehicle would be allowed to pass through that route for an hour. People would have to face problems. Meanwhile, within five minutes of the call of the strike, some cadets of Nepal Police had entered the Campus premises and had started beating up students. Some of them were taken on to the now desolated road and keeping them ahead, the callers of the strike were attacked. There was a sort of war between both the sides. Students hurled bricks and stones at the Police and the Police charged at them. Had only the strike-callers been arrested, the matter would have been different, but whatever happened next was a sort of madness- an absolute insanity!

The Riot

While hurling at the strike-callers, the Police entered the College premises- first the Saraswoti Sadan wing and sorted out Micro-biology students. They were taken out from classrooms, laboratories and libraries and made to kneel down on the ground. Some of them were beaten up for having dusty hands. The Police had entered Peace Zone without permission and beaten up unconcerned students. I call them unconcerned and innocent because they did not even know that a strike had been called up. The students who were nagged out of the classrooms were Graduate level students. The Police had blindly striked at some students which had made almost made them unconscious.

Not only the students of Micro-biology but those of other faculties had also been terrorized. The Department of Geology at Ghantaghar wing too had been attacked. The students in the laboratory were beaten up by the Police without any concern or hearing. Many of the students who had been attacked by the Police were even taken into custody. Some of them were tortured there as well. All the arrested students were left by ten-thirty in the evening. The amount of physical and psychological tortured they had to face is indescribable.

The Conclusion

The number of students injured was about 200 of which a dozen were seriously wounded. The Police promised to provide compensation for the injured ones. I don't know if they apologized for the sort of insanity they showed but the students too are not willing to take any further action- they are studying in the College to secure their career, not to fight with the police. The issue, however, did not catch media attention. A few off-steam TV channels and a few online newspapers provided some news. In spite of of such a violent Police action at the heart of Kathmandu, the amount of priority given to the news was nominal. After the mini-riot ended, I had a very bad feeling, "If such a large group can be suppressed in the heart of capital Democratic Republic country, what might have happened to the people at rural areas during insurgency?"
After ten days, the thought still brings chills to my heart.*

* The above description is a true event and not a fiction. It is based on my talks with some of the victimized students. I had witnessed the aftermaths of the riot. The news story is available at :http://www.onlinekhabar.com/2014/06/208812/


   

The Losers: A Fiction

         It's the end of the season. We did well this time. Our soccer team, Shadows first time in the league history won the Eagles. They were the best last season and were unbeaten since last one hundred matches. In the first leg match they had thrashed us with score of 6-0. It was quite humiliating because the whole leg we played well and were in the second position. But we did not lose hope, so the victory in the last match of the league became ours.

          Everyone was celebrating. The Coach had thrown a party to celebrate the first victory over the Eagles. He was extremely happy because in his fifteen years of career in the Shadows, the Eagles were defeated for the first time. I, as the captain of the team was called to make a victory speech. I was not prepared because the Coach had told that just at the beginning of the party. I was not sure what to say but went on the dais and started giving the speech which was as much as I remember like this:

          "I'm pleased that we won the Eagles. It was my dream since I joined this club as a professional. They were the best but we were better than the best. I thank Mr. Coach for the guidance and Matthew for his remarkable goal…"

    

          I was lost in emotions during the speech and I can't remember much of what I said but I did mention about Ricardo, the Assistant Coach who had improved our techniques and made us victorious in every match of second leg. After he came to the team, the league started to become exciting. None of the matches was predictable. One way or the other, the predictions came out to be wrong. The Eagles were expected to win every match but they lost two and most of their matches in second leg were drawn. In the end, our points leveled and then we got chance to beat them and we did it.

          Our Coach spent most of the time on talking about Ricardo and praised him for the success he gave to the team. Actually, Ricardo was not there in the party. I can't tell why but I think that he was busy packing as he was leaving the city early morning. I had hoped to see him in the party but he did not come. Our goalkeeper, Carlos told me that Ricardo wouldn’t come to meet us again. I got stunned because the team had won because of him and the hero of celebration was absent- actually he would not show his face again. I was quite confused and could not understand the reason he had to leave the Shadows that way.

     The night of celebration was over. I woke up in my home after a long sleep and hastily went in front of the TV. I wanted to see the news on victory of our team. I saw that the news was on our team but not the victory. I saw Ricardo being nagged. The crowd was going mad; people were throwing bottles and cans over Ricardo. He looked sad and lost. I didn't understand what to do. As I tried to ring my coach, I heard from news reader:

       "The MOST WANTED match fixer; Ricardo has been arrested for fixing matches for the Shadows. He, who had been searched by the INTERPOL for five years, was arrested on the basis of suicide letter written by Danny, the Eagles' captain. This can lead the Shadows to the prohibition to play any match in any tournament for at least five years..."

          I couldn't listen anything else. The day before we were the greatest team and our players were better than the best but today we had become the greatest losers of all times and the “hero of the celebration” ended up our careers with a shame.