I don't know if you noticed, but recently I changed the name of my blog.
I suddenly realised that calling my collection of random questions thrown into the universe can hardly be called any form of education. It also felt contrary to the whole idea of starting the blog which was with the below sentence
'Men must be taught as if you taught them not...'
While I completely agree that 'Think, Learn, Apply, Educate' is still and will always the motive behind every action of mine, yet I don't in any way want to suggest that I am teaching anything through my conversations on this blog. At best I am thinking out loud, and asking for your point of view.
So, why this current name? Why an iceberg?
First, I do love icebergs. Though I haven't ever seen one in real life, yet.
Second, it reminds me of a very old friend of mine. He often said 'Rinx you are an iceberg - people only every see that part of you which is above the surface' And then the other day it dawned on me that we are all icebergs. There are very few people, perhaps including ourselves that we can claim to know more than surface level.
And life - life to me is the biggest example of an iceberg. It is one of the biggest mysteries that there is. We live it everyday, yet how weird that we never have definitive conclusions about it. Philosophers have spent their life times thinking about life. Artists portray their versions through their art and we engineers probably define it by the function that we are serving, the problem that we are solving. And yet, I can't help feeling that each one of us have an incomplete version. And this to me is the true beauty of life I think. It is an unending search for truth, for ourselves.
And now I am tired of ranting. Or maybe just tired. So will stop here, and go back and practice some breathing.
Happy weekend all.
I suddenly realised that calling my collection of random questions thrown into the universe can hardly be called any form of education. It also felt contrary to the whole idea of starting the blog which was with the below sentence
'Men must be taught as if you taught them not...'
While I completely agree that 'Think, Learn, Apply, Educate' is still and will always the motive behind every action of mine, yet I don't in any way want to suggest that I am teaching anything through my conversations on this blog. At best I am thinking out loud, and asking for your point of view.
So, why this current name? Why an iceberg?
First, I do love icebergs. Though I haven't ever seen one in real life, yet.
Second, it reminds me of a very old friend of mine. He often said 'Rinx you are an iceberg - people only every see that part of you which is above the surface' And then the other day it dawned on me that we are all icebergs. There are very few people, perhaps including ourselves that we can claim to know more than surface level.
And life - life to me is the biggest example of an iceberg. It is one of the biggest mysteries that there is. We live it everyday, yet how weird that we never have definitive conclusions about it. Philosophers have spent their life times thinking about life. Artists portray their versions through their art and we engineers probably define it by the function that we are serving, the problem that we are solving. And yet, I can't help feeling that each one of us have an incomplete version. And this to me is the true beauty of life I think. It is an unending search for truth, for ourselves.
And now I am tired of ranting. Or maybe just tired. So will stop here, and go back and practice some breathing.
Happy weekend all.
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