All my life, I’ve been building and destroying in equal measure. It’s like I thought I was God. Maybe I inspired the Enticer ad. The one with the “I Feel Like God” tag-line. It’s partially due to the fact that I was born with a nearly-silver spoon up my ass. And seeing that it didn’t need anymore shoving, I didn’t feel like I had to work for anything. So I started things anew, or destroyed whatever I had.
Case of point is that I loved playing with cookers when I was younger, and with a lot more flesh amidst my bones. Believe it or not, pressure cookers delighted me. Born mechie, or compulsive noise polluter? Both, probably. Seems I loved banging the two parts of a cooker together to make a huge din, and for hours on end.
Contrary to this, I had a huge collection of Lego blocks, which I don’t have now, due to my mother’s extreme generosity towards some brat. Lego blocks are a kind of puzzle-on-steroids things, for the ill-informed. I loved the stuff, and it was costly stuff TBH. You could build loads of things with it. Summer days would just fly past once you had something in mind to build, and a couple of friends to join in. We’ve made ships, fighter bases, Star Wars-style battle stations and lots of other shit, including some weird combinations of Lego + GI Joes.
As I got older, things never changed. I still liked the same kinds of things. Strategy games, the ones which had building in them rather than destroying. That ensured I loved games like Caesar, Knights and Merchants and Zeus, apart from the standard fare of AOE and AOM. I loved making empires out of my humble beginnings, and I loved order and structural formats. Roller Coaster Tycoon, I loved. Same with Zoo Tycoon. Once in a while, my destructive streak got the better of me and I deleted a part of the track on a roller coaster or a part of the fence in a zoo.
The roller coasters would crash to the ground, killing all the people, or the animals would run riot. I’ve also tried drowning people in ponds and lakes, and it works! You should try it out sometime, it’s fun 
I built up my movie and music collection from scratch, with some help from my friends and parents too 
I usually destroy people’s belief in their grammar and spellings by obsessing about each bit.
I love ensuring that people start a habit of reading non-academic books.
Hopefully, I’ve done something decent and worthwhile in my life, which does not include studies.
For all those who know me well, please help me out with this question. On a one-to-one basis, how much do you think I’ve changed from when I was in school, till now?
pratap said,
August 11, 2009 at 6:53 am
Hehe. Don’t know you from school, but this is a rather interesting account
Raghav said,
August 11, 2009 at 12:29 pm
hah, you must try Rome:Total Wars, Rise of Nations and Civilization
And I loved crashing Space Shot in RCT2.That was FUN