“Am I really alive?”
I touched the desk. What was I feeling? Wood. What’s wood? How did I know what I was touching was wood?
I sighed and tried to listen to the Marketing lecture. Marketing, what’s that, my mind prompted.
I was really irritated now. Vague questions were popping in and out of my head. You’re in a lecture, listen, said my mind. But the very mind was questioning my existence and reality.
What if everything’s a dream?
“Value creation for our customers,” continued the professor “is the most important thing in marketing.”
Customers!?
What are we buying? And value? Customers? Who’re they? Just another set of humans. We’re just unnoticeable specks in the universe, and we’re talking about creating value for them? My mind laughed at the very idea.
Do I exist? Or am I a dream? Whose dream? The world itself exists because we, the humans, created it.. we make everything that’s the world…otherwise would anyone know that there’s a world, a universe, of which we were a part?
Existence, life, world, universe, sun………
“Archana, you’re dozing off!”
I looked up. I looked around, stunned. I was in an Object Oriented Programming class. Marketing? I was studying nothing as of now that was even remotely connected to it. The lectures? The words “Value creation….most important….customers…” kept ringing in my mind.
Had I been dreaming? I was shocked.
Which was the dream, and which, reality?
Do I even exist??
New beginnings
3 years ago
31 comments:
very cute.. laughed for minutes after reading it!
btw - Am I really alive?
s m i t h a,
:)
>> Am I really alive?
Hmm...maybe we can safely assume you are, because you've commented on a blog...but wait a minute...am I awake or sleeping?
hyou are defintely there coz I just read your blog.. Kinda sounds like whats the world coming too.. I had a similar post like that..
sometimes I wish that this would all just be a dream and I would wake up from it.
Mee too on the same list... But I will dream about what I dreamed last time.. and end up in a new one... Confused.......
ithellam periya matter. pola...range etho ezhuthirukkenga...engayo poyittenga...!!!!!!!!!!!
This makes me pinch myself every 10 mins just to make sure things that exist or not.. or..... ouch! ah! just 4get it...
i never had that problem
Classla thungi vizhundu i used to be in gujarat or Sweden or wherever i wanted to be...so no complaints...I exist..yup
oy, mabba? :)
oops actually vani after reading your post i thought of sending a NUT by parcel to you, so that you can tighten it up..... (nut kazhandu pochu ninaichen) .... harish comment paartha pinnadi than post oda arthmae purinjathu
hehehe
hey WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY AND A VERY CHEERFUL 2006
sorry vani, i dont know how i missed both of your posts, which were very cute..esp the "Memorable trip to trichy"
Haa ha... ROTFL...
good post!!!
what if u are the figment of somebody's imagination? What if you are a doll in somebody's magic glass? Deep, too deep!
nanyaar,
YOU exist coz you've read the post...have I actually written it? ;) Lol!
neighbour,
That's one hell of a dream!! :)
vijay ramamurthi,
thank you, thank you!!
ramya,
oh, don't bother...you're alive! ;)
harish,
Gujarat?? Sweden??
that's good...and this girl Archana was dreaming about a Marketing class...or was she?
R Subras,
Nut-a? kozhuppa? konjam intellectual-a yaara edha yosichu ongaluku puriyala...otthukongalen!
and thanks...doesn't matter if you missed them, you have seen them now! :)
aravind,
thanks~! :)
(God, people are ROTFLing at my post!)
biju,
exactly what i wonder about...but if we were fragments of someone's imagination, would we be able to, for instance, type??
Yes, it just goes down too deep, and i always get lost and tired trying of think of all this!!
Curses,
Habba....neeyavadhu kandupidichiye! Un moolai evanukku varum pa?!
where am i??and wat am i doing sitting close to the tv monitor??who r u??
Hah, that was cute.
Good one. Enjoyed reading it.
The universe has a finite population in an infinite area. So, the average population of the universe is zero. Any person you meet is figment of your imagination. :)
sheks,
where am i?? it's time for you to make an appointment with a psychologist, i think! ;)
thewoman,
thanks! :)
krithika,
that's an AWESOME explanation! and we fragments of imagination have so many names and occupations....but whose imagination are we?
romba naal kazhichu blog hop panna ippadi confuse panni vittutiye,un paechu ka!
What am i seeing in the TV??the blue sky??
Technically speaking you have thought about your existence, you think, that asserts your existence.
Well dream is jus a word given to a persistent process of a brain and that is, to think.
When you are awake & lost thinking, you call it day-dreaming or conceiving certain thought. The same happens when you are asleep, sub-conscious mind acts up.
What matters here most is not the state that drove you to the million dollar question, but the thought and the question itself.
Am I real, do I exist..?
If your existence is defined bcos somebdy can see and feel you, then.. if everybody in the world is devoid of senses would say, such a person does not exist at all. Meaning though you exist physically, you don't exist conceptually, Vani is not known.
But if your existence is proved by physical terms, adhering to space-time equation, you are another object..
So ironically physicality does not prove your existence but mere mental association in your mind as a thought does..You think therefore you are.. "Cogito ergo sum"..
:)
praveen,
cha...naa pavam illa, pazham vittuden!
sheks,
adha nee daan sollanum, enna kaeta?
phi,
Thanks for the comment!!
'I think, therefore I am..' is beautiful....and i agree that the concept of physicality isn't a proof of existence...and it set me thinking: what happened when we were infants? were we aware of our existence, then, only by thinking of it? it's brillaint, if we did!
Thanks! Wish that explanation was mine, though ;)
krithika,
whose is it, then?
and you're kiki, right? :)
he he... loosu pidichuditha unakku? en ipdi philosophical-asylumatic stuff ezhudirukka?
Did i say the above thing? :D
"you're kiki, right? "
Absolutely. *bows*
And that explanation appears in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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