I am a social animal

I am a social animal

Posted by Amit Singh on Wednesday May 17, @04:07AM

When your room mate sets the alarm for 5:30 in the morning, even when class is from 8, takes a shower even in chilling cold........sprays a liberal dose of deodrant, you know for sure that he is in love

"O! Love, the sweetest thing".

Love is such a strange thing. It gives a new meaning to the job of four chambered muscular organ, whose primary function till date was pumping blood. Now new depth is attached to it, it becomes a seat of deeper emotions. It metamorphoses an man into a human being. (atleast that's what people who have undergone this metamorposis say!).

(*Some of the people may find reading further quiet absurd, but such is really the case in campus of IITs where a very liberal estimate gives sex ratio of the order of 1:20 *)

But real trouble starts now that too of dichotomous nature. Cupid along with it carries its plethora of rumours and worst of all the problem of self realization. Two people will long to and even spend alot of time together, wait eagerly for the pacticals to work together, give whatever contribution they can give to Zayca(cafeteria) sales, even hang out together but won't call it a date but 'treat'. "We are just good friends". This punch line is in fashion nowdays or "Can't a boy and a girl be just good friends? "This movie 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', for those of you who have seen, it has done us a lot good. It has given a new colour to man-woman, nay! boy-girl relationship. But the thing is where do you draw the line between friendship and romance? Whatever anyone may say but a unisexual friendship is a lot different form bisexual friendship. You would rarely find two boys, however close buying cards and gifts for each other on a regular basis. Can't two boys ever be GOOD friends? There is something called PEER pressure, which also has significant role to play in such situations.

Well, it does not matter, perhaps nothing matters!

But then why are people so curious about others' affairs? Why the hell are we ever ready to poke our nose into matter as somebosy else? Its psychological reson again may branch in two parts. In the first category come the people who, just for the sake of a little fun, give an occassional comment or a little butt kicking. But in the second category come the people who also do the same but with different motives and on severe magnitude. They do so or criticise or do backbitting not because they get pleasure out of it but because they are jealous of these people because they can't be so. They want to frustrate these "Cool Buddies" by their comments and remarks and go to the extent that none enjoys this little nig-nag which was done just in good humour, so that they break up.

For God's sake I don't want to be counted in the second category. But then why am I writing all this? Long, Long time ago some famous philosopher after thinking about life and its meaning said "Man is a social animal", and I am a man and how can I prove such a genious wrong without thinking about my society.