The 2 kinds of people

"There are 2 kinds of people in this world. One who have read Ayn Rand and the ones who have not", remarked the Humanities department lecturer in my first year in IITR. (am unable to recall his name actually he left the institute in 2003 i think). These kinds of remarks always used to evoke a rebellious response from me back then.'These high headed, self proclaimed high thinking (and highly read) people always know how to draw a line between those who know what they know and others', or so i thought at that point of time.

I quickly stood up and said "Sir, but why do u choose to differentiate between people who have read a particular writer and the others who have not? I can create a similar separation between people who know what I know and others who do not e.g. people who know about Punjabi culture and others who do not or for that matter people who understand Rocket science and others who do not. Am I right in that?". The teacher, however, then tried to convince me of his point with some philosophical explanations till the class finished.

At that time, I had never read a single book . When I started reading later, however, I really felt that no matter how many separations u make, the one universal separation which would work is "The one's who have read books and others who have not". Reading surely made me wiser and gave me a gift of thinking from different view points. And then i also realised the true meaning of what the teacher actually wanted to convey.

Now, I also feel that even my point was correct at that time. Everyone should be able to differentiate himself from others because of his qualities or abilities. Surely, it does give one self confidence provided one understands the true meaning of those qualities and is capable enough to make the differentiation.

To sum up i now feel "There are two kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people, and those who think it's not that simple."

Finally...

Finally decided to create a space of my own to put down my views. Have earlier also created a lot of accounts but never seriously thought of writing here(infact, as far as i remember, the last account was titled Finally... ;P). This time, however, I surely intend to keep posting here. So watch out this space as the next big thing in the blogging circuit ;)