Rumi Nations

This is for myself when I will be looking back five years from now. Here are a few of the to-read links open now on my browser. This was the week in which Rajesh Khanna died. Our lives are measured more in deaths than in births. Endings are more poignant than beginnings. Why is that? http://virsanghvi.com/CounterPoint-ArticleDetail.aspx?ID=815 A Paris Review Art of Fiction Interview with Aldous Huxley. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley A review of Pankaj Mishra's From The Ruins of Empire in The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/19/from-ruins-empire-pankaj-mishra-review

Honestly, I got thinking about this after reading this article in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html? So we make friends when we are younger. Well may be we are less choosy and have more time. Let's face it, we are not very smart when we are just KIDS! We do not choose our school or classmates. Our parents decide those based on their economic circumstance or their religion or whatever. We do not choose our relations, our cousins. If even after we grow up, we continue to confine our lives to a small circle of family relations, we prove that we are pretty antiquated in our mindsets. As we grow older, we have less time. We do less exploring. I think that's our loss. And how do you RETAIN those old friendships if and/or when you discover that the paths you have chosen in life diverge rather than converge. Just because you happen to have studied in school together, you cannot ov...