Day 67 : Poems

I have a friend who is a big fan of poetry. Writes a little of it himself, mostly in tamil. And mostly in old Tamil which consists of two many complicated words that we generally used in common dialogues now. So obviously makes it a lot tougher for me to comprehend. But once he gets around to explaining to me what these words mean, I turn and compliment him on the great poem it was. Then he starts on his usual rant over how poetry is dead.

I am not kidding, this is like a routine now. Every other weak he sends over a text with a peom and voice clip of him reciting it. I reply to him asking a few meanings. He calls up to explain the meaning of them words. I understand them, he reads the whole thing again, I compliment him on how good the poem was. He starts his usual rant. Which goes on for about ten minutes, or the end of the talktime on his mobile, whichever comes first.

I do get what he's saying though. I mean, how many of us really do the whole poetry thing anyway. Everything that we see is in prose (or rap). Even the new Spoken Word fad is really just prose words written in rhyme. I sort of do miss the whole poetry style that we had in the earlier times. And some of them were really good. Poetry can say so much about so many things, in so few words. I love it!

These are the one's that most recently caught my attention - 

Day 47 : Jane Goodall

Have you recently seen something over the internet and feel all warm and giddy for the rest of your day?

I did today.

I think I was a kid that I first saw Jane Goodall. It was a BBC show that my father used to watch, it had a small segment one day about Miss Goodall's work with the chimpanzees. I remember feeling a little scared for her and mesmerized at the same time looking at this pretty lady there in the deep jungle midst over a dozen apes most of whom looked almost as big as her. I guess that's not a big feat, she herself is such a tiny person. I guess her soft eyes and easy smile would've melted anyone's heart, even primates’.

Dame Jane Goodall is an English primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. She's the world's leading expert on chimpanzees, best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in the Tanzanian jungle. That is more or less what you will get to learn about her if you'd Google her. That's what I got from her Wikipedia page, but reading just that only makes her seem a tad bookish Brit intellectual lady doesn't it?

Now after reading all of that, watch this -

All through watching that video I had a big smile on my face. That usually does come by as a product of John Oliver's quick wit. But this time Miss Goodall completely stole his limelight. I hardly even noticed him except for his mimicking a chimpanzee; it seemed queerly too natural to him. Miss Goodall had such a warmth and kindness to her. She played along with Oliver so freely like someone concedes to the childish whims of a grandkid. She was so sweet! Loved this interview so much!

I went ahead and looked at more YouTube videos of her. And at the end of each clip my adoration of her grew. I read of all the things that has been written about her, by the people who have had the chance to meet her in person. Everyone says such good things about her. She is such an amazing person. So caring and honest, I frankly feel like she is from a completely different breed of people than ours. 

I honestly didn't think anybody can be this awesome.

And I honestly think John Oliver should just quit the show now, he is never going to get to do a more heartwarming interview again in his lifetime.

Today, I am going to have a big smile all day till people start thinking I've finally gone crazy.