Beyond the pitch

Are you not satisfied with your current job? Are you dreaming of your promotion? Do you think you don't get paid enough or you deserve more than you already get? Frustration and disappointment havr become a common syndrome among the youth (including me as well) and young generation seems to be making complaint either of this or that. Why is this? The cometition in the job market is crazy today. Undergraduates seem to do multiple degree simultaneouly add lines to their CVs- this qualification that qualification. They (we most accurately) seem to be in a conundrum of their their. I have seen people who work 16, 18 hours a day to get to their next promotion. They seem to get motivation from the next salary increment or thr next position  and they are powered by their ambitions to work like maniacs. I have no question with working 16 18 hours a day but I would simply like to cite Mark Manson:

 What do you need to remember love ?  A flower, a tree, the moon or the sun, or perhaps MOONLIGHT????  A word, a metaphor- a tree, Lily in the Silent Valley, a simile, an adjective, a nickname, a sentence, a simple phrase or a letter?  A feeling? Jealousy, anger, frustration or is it selfishness A colour, an emoji 😇, a place, a building?  What do you need to remember love? What do you miss the most? Memories or the fact that there is no one listen to your stories, laugh with your or just hmmm you, What do you need to remember love? A SCENT, A GIFT, A PEN, A NOVEL, A POEM, A HANDKERCHIER OR WHAT THE HELL? WHAT IS IT?  May the fairy mother of sleep be with you whole night! 👸

 The online exams are a popular these days. May higher and tertiary level institutions have switched to online exams to continue the academic calendar. Sri Lankan schools have not yet done online exams and soon the students will also have to face online tests.  Assessments are a crucial part of any academic process. The assessments stems from the need to test whether the learner has acquired the necessary learning outcomes. Assessments help to assess the validity and relevance of the learning process. Students in Sri Lankan schools can get better grades or marks if their retension skills are high. The ability to regurgitate whatever they have learnt at the class or from the teacher is the hallmark of any good Sri Lankan student. Tjere might be exceptions, but more or less there is a common understanding that if your memory is stupendous, you can easily score high marks at any examination.  Advanced Level examination seems to be a different case to thr point illustrated ab...

 The past couple of years have seen a different shape in human civilisation. The speed which human being has tried to run has come to a sudden standstill with the pandemic and things that we took for granted have such a value now ; a walk with your friend, a trip with your friends or at least your freedom to see each other's face or even breathe. The mobility is no longer a comfort as it used to be. I do not want to talk or write about the travel restrictions imposed due to Covid-19, but my being circling back to Covid-19 proves how it has become a shared common reality in everyone's life.      What I want write about is  true friendship. But why do we need to bother about friendship or friends during a gloomy period like this? What advantages or what benefits a friend can bring to you in a trying time like this? Can they feed you? Can they give you gifts? Can they throw you surprise birthday parties? To what end? I am pretty sure these questions are not yours b...

 The second reading of the novel The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan was a totally different experience to the first reading. I first read The English Teacher four five years ago, but I was not able to understand Krishna's character and the way his character subtly hints the personality traits which are more or less common to every English teacher in the world. Slighlty timid, too much worrying Krishna shares with his readers ideological beliefs that an English teacher is beqeuathed by default as a person who deals with books and literarature. More surprisingly, his character seems to relate to me in a so personal level which I have not identified at all in my first reading of the novel. Krishna is a romantic husband and proves himself to be a loving, caring husband and father throughout the entire narrative. He quoted Wordsworth to compare the astonishing beauty of his wife with Wordsworth's poetic metaphors and most importantly tries to be romantic as much as possible with h...

Kadhal oru kavidai 'Unnai mattrum kadale' Aanal, Vallkai oru kavithai illai, Valakai  oru wanmurei kadal, Kavitaikaḷ kilinatana

 I have carefully analysed my own feelings when I was in deep pain. In fact I have noticed when I am in deep pain or agony I do not see the things around me clearly. It is like I am in another dimension or world (like Stranger Things or Spell Binder) where everything else ( the things like job, salary, and other material things) become so immaterial. I have also realised that the more I try to look up for solutions or more I try to find ways to get out, the pain becomes doubled or sometimes trippled.  Something else I have noticed is the sense of power and control when I am in pain. I tend to think I am the least powerful person with no control at all which also leads to the idea that right now I am the most victimised person in the world ( which is extremely big lie).  However, when I am happy I can takr things very nuetrally and I can be indifferent. Sadness is the feeling that destabilises me the the most. I only tend to relax when I try to see myself as someone totall...