The way I see it

I was just looking at my friend's pictures taken in Boston. She recently visited the area to see the beautiful fall colors. The Boston and the New England area is famous for its abundant and a wide spectrum of fall colors. So it reminds me of my times in this city. The flashback.... Boston was the place where I got my first ever job after school. Its special presence in my world is due to the financial freedom that it presented to me. I could do whatever I want, spend on anything and everything and basically fall in love with myself....absolute freedom!! But the friends I made there was the real "icing on the cake". I have done so many crazy things with them...which God knows if I would have ever ventured on my own! The city itself was overwhelming. The lush greenery around, beautiful architecture, colorful people and me! The roads are small, some may say inefficient but I grew closer to the city everytime I lost my way in it. The little cribbings about snow and cold weat...

Recently finished reading this book by Jared Diamond. Its a must read for everyone who is fascinated by human history. As a kid, I always hated history books and classes. Of course they used to be so boring and irrelevant to my life back then. But the very same history fascinates me, intrigues me now. Things that happened back then find more relevance in my life today. I try to apply the logic (derived from history) to everything around me. It helps me find answers to so many things that I was told to be "facts of life". For e.g. the hypothesis that intelligence is in your genes. But this book proved it wrong with the help of history. It gives a beautiful account of how environmental factors affected and moulded humans everywhere in the world. It dismisses racist theories of why europeans ended up dominating the rest of the world. As George Bernard Shaw once said: "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough". Highly recommended !