Decoding a practical fool

And the first post is written. Overwhelming responses, with some motivational ones. Those were needed. Thanks all, for you still remember (those with I've worked for couple of months) me, and the ones who can 'read' me day in and day out (they know me so well).

This one will again be on one conversation with another friend, and he is none other than Reetesh (Whom I call Tom, and he, YEAH YOU GUESSED IT, calls me Jerry), another Senior sub-editor. Yes, he deserves 4,5 lines of added introduction. He was with me in Group B at IIMC, he used to sit next to Mihir (another batch-mate) or next to me on the same back bench. And, he would sleep as he doesn't sleep at night like most of us. We give this silly reason, that we don't feel like sleeping, but something else is the reason--we are 'emotional fools' who get to interact with 'practical fools' throughout the whole day, and we keep thinking which one is better--to be an emotional fool or a practical fool.

Having said that, somehow, we went to the IIMC days and the life--the classes, guest faculties, batch-mates (each of these can be one post each). We were discussing the very essence of life--what one should do? Should one just go to work and work till it ticks 8,9 or whatever, or till the boss punches himself/herself out, and you are done for the day. Or, is it like really something substantial that we are doing. In between the conversation--he said something like--those can be called practical fools, who keep running after something without the knowledge that if they can achieve it at all or can't achieve it--or they don't know simply what they are chasing for. But, meanwhile, they put aside those precious diamonds in search of mere stones. Who just keep running for that destination, and who think that is the ultimate. But they don't stop by to consider if they have already got something valuable during the journey which is worth it.

He was on and I was listening probably because that was going to be the 2nd post. May be...Just recall--it might have happened with you also at times--when people say, "Don't act like a fool. Be PRACTICAL". Then you would think, "Yes, I should think practically about the feasibility of a particular thing." But very few people would advise you to chase your dreams or, in other words, follow an emotional fool's route.

This is not a post that demeans human sentiments but it is just an observation of it rather.

So, by now, you must have been sure, which one (fools) you are! Yes, you guessed it right. After all, we all act quite smart, but in reality, we are fools of some order or the another.

As the saying goes--"We are all fools in training!"

PS: Here, before posting it, I wanted to cut something, but I can't as this has to go unedited. Thus, please forgive me.