Idiots, self obsessed, 'know-it-all's..... you know the type!

There are quite a lot of things that make my eyes do backflips in their sockets. I am not someone with a high tolerance for the stupid or the self obsessed moron.

The self obsessed moron is the kind who will start up a conversation in a subtle manner but keep emphasizing on the some point to press you to ask him something in return.The answer to that obviously is a big ass rant of how he/she is the awesome-est thing around.... ughhhh.. Just another retard who thinks the world revolves around them. I've met them at airports, at the library or even the bus stand. Its ALWAYS about them. Seems almost impossible to talk about anything without it ending up with them being the center of the conversation again. "Hey, that's so cool that you visited that place... I want to go there sometime too, but I guess getting a sponsored trip to France owing to my mind boggling performance in the debate competition isn't bad either, huh?" *ROLLLLLLL!!*

Then there's the simple and plain stupid.... No mysteries or complications here. Its just a person with dung for a brain. Can't figure out anything, expects to be spoon-fed, has opinions which are based on facts less than what a 10yr old can perceive and just isn't open to understand ANYTHING people try to explain. I usually include religious mobs in this category, since anyone who decides to spend a major part of their lives on something that has no proof of existence, causes bloody fights among people for no apparent reason, is often proved to be wrong by logic & science, can be nothing short of plain stupid.

The most dangerous is when these two characters are found in the same person. That's when my eyes roll to the extent of making me go blind :/ .

"Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work." This was a line that has been etched into me after I heard Randy Pausch, late computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, say in the last lecture ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo ).

I don't wanna get started on that one lecture and how amazing it was. Perhaps that conversation can be saved for another time. I want to focus on how greatly important it is to realize what this statement suggests. Every now and then, we witness something which leaves us in awe. Something so inspiring, it affects our thinking (if only for a short while) and makes us want to be more than who we are now. But it is easy to be carried away by such incidents and to ignore the simple fact that what we have witnessed was not achieved from a single day's efforts.

To get more specific, we can look at examples like Dave Mustaine - a guitarist from heaven (my inspiration :) ), Michael Phelps - a swimmer who makes fish look bad, Tony Hawk - a skateboarder who could dance better than you....using a skateboard!, and many many more!! Watching such people makes you wanna do what they can. But they make it look wayyyy too easy. What we do not realize at first is that these people have put tremendous amount of efforts into getting where they are now.

The simple fact is that without the basics and the fundamentals, one can only go so far. You may be able to mimic the master, but after a point, there's only so much you can do with that. When your foundation is strong, the limit is the sky! There are no boundaries to the things you can achieve because the art is yours! You decide what you want to create and how you want to do it. That's the kind of liberating freedom the fundamentals can give you.

So get your fundamentals straight, and watch the fancy stuff flow right out of you!!