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The curious case of a Wandering mind

My mind kept drifting away. I was trying hard to sit and concentrate. I was fidgeting. It’s so difficult to make yourself to sit and listen to something which you are actually forced to listen to , something which you have to listen  to , and for something which you don’t want to listen , that too for 4 hours without a break.              Just the previous day I was conversing with my friend as to how she sits and concentrates at her CA classes for like 9 hours at a stretch! It’s so hard.   So after this conversation with her , the next day while I was sitting at a session , I decided to keep a track of how many times my mind keeps wandering away like in an hour. More than listening to what was happening in the session , I was keeping track of the numbers , and how it kept increasing an increment of one every five minutes. (Yes really short).             Here is the list of things , where my mind wanders to during boring conversations or classes: 1.       Night out /Hangouts wit

Unpredictability rules!

I’ve given her the best possible education... What more could I do? I pay her music master fifteen rupees a month , her school fees amount to fifteen rupees and I pay ten rupees for her school bus..... ‘Yes’ he replied, ‘by securing endless adjournments.  Life today is most expensive. Well , those lines were stolen from a book I was reading last night , the Man-Eater of Malgudi , written by R.K Narayan.  I’ll get back to this as to why I started off my post with these stolen lines.  The START:  I did have an eventful weekend (That’s what I would say!) Sunday morning: I woke up at 10 am and decided to visit the church as I had nothing much to do. I started home with 150 Rs in my wallet (that’s enough to survive) and with two debit cards. After my visit to the church I decided to go on a shopping spree as I was still left with some money in my card. ‘Some’ over here meant exactly 1289 Rs only! Well , good enough to think of street shopping in Brigade road. After my visit to the