My Intelligence ...

... or the lack of it!

I had believed that Moon rises in the West and Sun in the East for a long time. I realised it was not so only when I was 23 or 24, when I took up geography as my optional for Civil Services Exams!

It took me 35 years to understand the recitation of multiplication tables. I realised it was ‘two ones ARE two, two twos ARE four’ and not ‘two one zar two and two two zar four’!

It took rose and apple to make me learn that not all in the family are alike. Ever since my high school days I knew that rose and apple belonged to the same family. Only after coming here did I discover to my astonishment that apple plants (one can hardly call them trees) shed leaves IMMEDIATELY after bearing fruits. And, they remain bare until it’s time again to bear fruits. While rose plants are almost evergreen through the year. Same family, different nature. Same applies to humans too. But it takes ages to learn this simple truth.