Memories Shared??

Read this somewhere........."Einstein said when two people observe the same event, because they're two people, they see things differently, it's not the same experiment".
Well i am not going to describe any scientific analysis of this...I have a tendency to look at everything from an individual 's point of view..what i hear ...what i see.not me as an individual but any one person...i dont look at an incident and assume how it will affect a generation ...a society...I hate generalisations of all kinds.I always look at something and wonder how it will affect me or her or one kind of person.
So when i read the above quote it automatically brought up the very interesting question that we think and rethink philosophically ..... einstein simply put it scientifically....."Relativity".The same incident...the same object means different things to each person however much we try to beleive in human cloning.The fact is people are always different...they just tend to a similar behavior to conform to society.I mean i rarely get a chance to watch TV..thats my sisters domain...as the computer is mine.So today when i chanced upon the remote and sawIndia Inc...there was an interview by Anu Agha of Thermax.Good stuff...inspirational as are all succes stories.I'll not delve much into it.What i remember of that show...well she was telling my husband said .....".Read...do something more productive ...dont sew...keep cleaning......Dont do all stuff that others can do".Ah how many women can be that lucky....but then i guess most women dont want to be that lucky too.They are happy to clean ....sew...cook.I just remembered my friend in the neighboring office cubicle whose husband would say Read..do things others can't do AND also cook and sew.
Anyway i guess i better leave this topic and get into what i thought about my above thought. The thing is of the few people who might have watched that interview ... i doubt how many would have remembered that line.Same things ...Same words and we make different worlds ...out of it.
But the best thing on this i thought was how we remember things...the same incident..the same day...every onehas different memories.I really found this subject very interesting.

So when few years ago i chanced a book on a subject similar to my thoughts i liked it.Its called 'Ignorance' by Milan Kundera and while i would not say its very good or great as people may confuse those words for a thriller...its actually a very interestingly presented account about the way we remember and accept things.Its about a man and woman who return to their country 20 years after living in a foreign country.They had a chance meeting 20 years back and while one holds it as such a precious moment of her life...the guy simply has no vivid memory of it .The book potrays excellently how incidents in time may be shared.......but memories are very personal.The subject is infinitely interesting than the book....but its a good book for people who like to ponder.

Funnily i remember i even tried out a test then..... i asked a friend what he remembered about the day we joined office for the pre job training.Well he remembered the rain......well it was a prominent thing but somehow it never came to my mindonly when we spoke did i rememeber how much it rained then and how lovely it was.My memories were all of guardedness.....in unfamiliar territory and the tree i watched from the window .It had beautiful lavender flowers (its called nili gulmohur-- jacaranda tree...yes!!!!! i found out....how i loved to walk by it...never could walk on them.....all lavender petals strewn on the ground).Now of course i too remember the rain.
Id like to write more about it (and another eccentric book by the author)but i dont have the book and ...what i have is a memory......of having read it spending a whole day in a library alone...eating 5 star bars for lunch.
Ah now i remember more amusing things....as i say this.I was arguing with my mom "see you ever tell me why you always still eat chocolates so much ......then finally i told her ....you know i saw a guy yesterday seriously walking alone by our office munching a large Cadbury's.So whats wrong if we still love chocolates."
Times may not have changed factually on the social front for real time...but some things have.So you see Shahrukh for lux......Fairness cream for men...and men munching chocolates and fighting for chocolates.