A Shoulder

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
-George Jean Nathan

There seems to be some problem with the template I am using for this blog. It's not loading properly in either of the two most popular browsers. It takes frustrating hours to find good templates and insert all the necessary codes in them and have everything look satisfyingly good. As the date to submit my project gets closer day by day, every small extra thing that comes up seems to appear like a task. Though I don't complain, I just hope that I am able to cope up with it. There are no lengthy checklists these days but the things to be completed are lengthy.

After I took bath in the morning I sneezed a few times before getting tired and realizing that I had caught cold. It sounds so silly that I find irritation inside my nose with temperatures soaring and making me sweat and smell. Apart from a blockade inside the upper part of my nostrils, I also feel something heat up there. It's uncomfortable and irritating. Most of the medicines that cure cold have soporific effects and those that are lighter on sleep are less effective. So, taking medicines doesn't seems to be a good idea.

I had lots of pop-corn sometime back and small chips of the brown parts of corn seem to have fallen in love with my gums. It's for the first time I see corn hurting me. I badly need to give a brushing. But that also means I touch water and even put some in my mouth to gargle. That would make my throat suffer even more. I am thirsty and I can't drink water too to my satisfaction because it has to pass through my throat and my nostrils aren't the only affected parts. It's good sometimes that we can't do all that we want to do. I don't want to delete the last sentence I have typed but I have no explanation to it. But of course I can write some philosophy and use heavy words like 'resisting temptation makes us noble' or 'we learn life by keeping away from what we like the most'. I know I do that often.

Once I remember reading a quote that went something like 'I love humanity; it's people I can't stand'. I had been thinking of making it as the featured quote for any of the posts but never found it apt. I just happened to like the attitude shown by the author of that line but in general I have no reflection of mine in those words. It seems interesting as our psychology to even like things we don't reflect in. We only tend to have a liking or a kind of fascination about them and we appreciate the idea. But in reality, with our premises as our contexts, we don't like them. We only appreciate.

I reached home a little early today after many days. I was also the one to reach home before my parents arrived. They even asked me how I could come early and I know it was satiric. Today too I had some work at a friend's house but because I wanted to be home and spend some time with my parents I postponed it by a day. I also slept hoping that I would be fresh when I wake up but it wasn't of much help. I could come out of the feeling of tiredness but we always find a fair bit of emotions influencing our physical keenness to work.