weight of thought

(originally written in March, 2025) I have decided to take up writing after a long time. If memory serves me faithfully, without deception, the last time I wrote something simply because I felt like writing was almost a decade ago. I remember the day in great detail, surprisingly. I am often amazed by my ability to retain the minutest details of rather useless, uneventful days from the distant past, while I readily and shamelessly forget things that happened just last week. I am pretty sure I am not the only one. Let’s return to my long sabbatical from writing. It was during the final days of Class 10, just before the final examinations. We used to have something called ‘take-home’ revision, where each subject was taught for two to three days (or was it more?). It was the take-home revision for Social Studies, a subject I liked despite my primary interest in the basic sciences. One reason for my affinity could have been how little effort I had to make to score good marks! Naturally, I ...