What's the difference?

Rakesh and Ravi have an exam.
Rakesh has the books and starts cramming 4 days before the exam.
Ravi borrows the book for 1/2 an hour and makes chits.

Rakesh writes whatever he had cribbed & Ravi writes whatever he had copied.
Just 2 days after the exam both forgot whatever they had studied/copied.

Whats the difference between Rakesh & Ravi?

If both just transferred text from book to answer sheet?

Not to top any exam :| :|

I had come first in second standard.

Now even after 22 years I really still fail to understand how that had happened.

But everyone was so happy, I got a big toy gun too. I was thrilled at the attention I got.

Reality was different -------

Actually I had created a monster, a monster called ‘expectations’.

I only realized it an year later, now only in 3rd standard I was ‘expected’ to come first again, I failed.

I mean not failed literally but failed to come first. Though I did not get scolded or beaten but everyone was disappointed.

Anyone else would have tried to fight back and top again in 4th standard, not me though.

I proved too smart for my age, i understood that it was a viscious circle and could only be stopped by killing the monster. If I topped 4th then 5th would be no better, damn topping would ruin my entire life during education.

So Smartness triumphed over Thrill, Killer Instinct and Hardwork

Since that day I made ‘not to top any exam’ a part of my ethics :)

B O O K S

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Many people like to read. I do not hate reading but it rates low in the pyramid.
I have a clear Hierarchy defined for "stationary entertainment activities". These activities under consideration exclude any physical activity like playing, running, walking or eating etc.

This precisely includes only 3 sources of entertainment
1. Spoiling your eyes in front of TV
2. Spoiling your eyes in front of Computer
3. Spoiling your eyes in front of a book

A hierarchy for precisely these.
Books are out unless there is total inability to do other 2 activities.

But books are very useful. Very very useful
In fact there are too many uses of books , I try to encompass a few of them below

1. Weight related uses–
a. Paperweight - They weigh a lot
b. Weightlifting - in case dumbbells are too costly, books weigh enough
c. Value - a read newspaper and book are both useless but books weigh more

2. Source of heat - they burn well
3. Weapons – they hit hard
4. Storage – I can store my exquisite bookmarks in it
5. Pillow – if you don’t have a pillow 2 fat books would substitute
6. Intellect - Always carry a mystifying book, preferably philosophy and you’d be regarded as intelligent i.e. if you keep quiet.
7. Showpiece – Create a library
8. Antiques - This is possible if your great great granddad had a thing for book collecting
9. Fan- extreme heats, electric failure, don’t worry hold the book in your hand and move it right to left, fast.
10. Door block –Self explanatory
11. Ladder - slanted stack of books
12. Seat – straight stack of books
13. Paper Planes
14. Book Cricket - most of us would have done this during lectures (b4 laptops)
15. Practicing cat-walk by keeping book on head while walking
16. Gifting - books are good gifts
17. Reading - well actually you can read them too :)

Note:1- this is only an indicative list. The actual usage may depend on various factors ranging from geographical to mental.
Note:2- The number of actual uses is much more - toilet paper.. killing mosquitoes.. storing lovers flowers .. stop rain .....
Thanks - Special thanks to Pranay and Abhijit to increase my of uses of books :)