My days are numbe(re)d

Don't grab
Don't clutch
Don't hope for too much
Don't breathe
Don't achieve
Or grieve without leave

Don't travel by train
Don't eat
Don't spill
Don't piss in the drain
Don't make a will

I feel numb

These lines are U2 creations.
These lines aptly describe my current mental condition.
I feel numb.
I'm tired of 'educating' myself. Or mugging my way to insanity. Or not getting marks from marksists ( pun intended ).
Politicians and pseudo-intellectuals, please stop being educators. Have mercy on us. Please. Would someone have the sanity to hand over the arduous task of reforming our education system to a few erudite professors ?
Or maybe it's not the system. It's just me; rather the demotivated, jaded haggard ( who's a born loser, by the way ) inside me. I don't know. I know I'm not making much sense. But then, you have to understand. I feel numb.

P.S. :Smoking is like Marxism. You must indulge in it in your youth, but you'd be foolish not to grow out of it. (Erratica, TOI 14/9)

Azadi.....

It's 15th August, 2008. Independence day. India is 61 years young today. It's her birthday.
I've been wondering what 'freedom' means to me. Here's my honest attempt; let's see how it turns out.

Freedom, to me, has a somewhat 'individualistic' connotation. I'm a free-spirit, I have no religion, no caste; I don't believe in the concept of worshipping God; I have my own set of beliefs and principles and I live life on my own terms. In other words, I am a liberated soul. I have freedom of choice; I decide what I'm going to do with my life. Nobody stops me from dreaming and nobody stops me from working towards making those dreams a reality. No vested interests educate me, on the other hand the world in which I live does so. I live in a democracy where I have the right to choose the Government. And all of this happens while I do not interfere with another person's freedom. That's freedom to me, freedom of the mind, body and spirit. And I live in a country that allows me all that. Jai Hind !!