[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”1. Surviving Two Cultures” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23dd9933″][vc_column_text]About a week or two after I became a resident of Hostel 4 on the campus, for some reason I was a bit late getting to the mess for dinner. Usually, a whole gang of about 12-15 of us freshies would gather, go to the mess, and sit at the same table together – for the same reason that Herrings form large shoals, the larger the shoal the lesser the probability of any one individual being eaten by a marauding Shark!
Author: Satish Joshi
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The Toast Doesn’t Always Have to Fall Buttered Side Down!
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Photo by Matthias Heyde on Unsplash
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Evolution has favoured organisms on the basis of their ability to respond to threats and utilise opportunities to survive and procreate. However, this equation is not evenly balanced between opportunities and threats! If you survive to live another day, you can hope to get another opportunity tomorrow even if you miss one today! But if you miss warding off that threat to your existence today, you won’t live to see another day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The essential survival tool, therefore, has been pessimism, and do we love it! Even when its “use by date” is long gone.