“A thing of beauty is Joy for ever…!!” ~~ John Keats
The poet who quoted this quote ages back, never would have thought that the “Forever” word used in his quote would be short lived. He would not have foreseen that there will be a point in time where an ignorant human mind can get ugly and transform the thing of beauty into a beast, slowly yet steadily.
Yes!! Our reference here is to Nature/Earth which is the only beautiful entity that has been taken for granted and misused from times immemorial. It is high time that each one us, being a part and parcel of this entity, turn our energies and thoughts to bring back the original glory of nature. Theme of our module has been one of the most obvious, unanimous and relevant choices of recent times.
Our theme “Rescue Earth – Together “ is just our way of paying tribute to mother Earth and Nature which has served, cared and nurtured us through the ages with true harmony, synergy, ecological balance and persistence. Of course last but not the least, rewarding us with an amazing spectrum of what we call “Colors” today.
Our motto of life from today should be living in agreement with nature rather being the cause for its detriment. Let’s pledge – “We will Rescue Earth – Together”!! "
When I wrote this write-up for the creative module contest that explained in nutshell the theme of our module, I was pretty confident of us being the best but never knew my confidence was also short lived like the poet. The theme was an easy choice by couple of other modules too but we (Module C3) were very proud of the way we carved, engraved and depicted the concepts in a unique way that others couldnt even think of. We had chosen a constructive central sub-theme where we depicted the Do's and Dont's of how we can bring about a change to rescue Earth. And the rest of the module took the theme of 5 elements of nature in Earth (Brown), Sun & Fire (Yellow & Orange), Air & SKy ( White), Water (Blue). We had a Banyan tree effect with a tree sturcture at center of the module with birds and monkeys hanging from it. You wouldn't believe that it actually gave our module an effect of a forest and our efforts did really satify us.
Alas! The results were out today and it came as a shocker to us that we never bagged a prize. It was beyond anyone's sense and sensibility that how this could happen. We questioned, rebelled and cursed amongst ourselves that how could the panel of judges dint have the aesthetic sense to see a true conjuntion of Color, Theme and Beauty which everyone else around could see and appreciate. These were words not out of frustration but the confidence on the kind of effort and sincerity potrayed by each and everyone in our Team. We wanted to know the parameters on which judgement was made and boo wooed HR for handling it very unprofessionally. Anyways guess thats the way certain things work at times.
A temporary gloom filled all of us for a while and we being the best enthusiastic and enrgetic module around, cheered ourselves, boosted each other and made an oath that we would turn up in BLACK this friday to silently show our protest against such a judgement :-) I guess its these times our strength as a team doubles and quadruples;);)
At the end of the day, we knew and believed who was the BEST and all that mattered was the JOY we experienced creating the creative pieces that would surely remain with us FOREVER whether we bagged a prize or not... he he :-):-) Guess this is exactly what the poet had in his mind when he would have written that quote... Its the intangible joy you experience which would remain with you forever rather the tangible returns.....Phewww!!!!!Getting philosophical actually helps you a lot at times he he ..;);)
I somehow had carried a lot of negativity thru out the day at the whole affair and found this is the best way to vent it out...:-) I bet the day would pass and tomorrow we would be all in the best of our spirits with a new hope and belief. As someone rightly said, its on this HOPE that earth revolves which is bigger and stronger than gravity ;)
~$,02/18/2008, 11:00pm
