"Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself." ~ Baz Luhrmann

So my dear readers, I published my first paper a week or so ago. Here it is if you'd like to have a read.

I remember telling my PhD supervisor that I wouldn't be so proud on the day of getting my PhD as I would be on the day my first paper is published. And I have to say it is true. It felt like the milestone I was working towards these past years, and in a way, it felt like I had arrived at the beginning of a new book. It's taken me many a volume before I came to this book and only I know what has gone into this coming or becoming of sorts. I feel in a way that it was destined... I was always meant to reach this point. I couldn't help thinking how this blog itself is a testimony to this. My paper revolves around Aristotle's ideas and the quote I chose for this blog when I started it, aeons ago, is by Aristotle. And I also remembered while I was musing about all this that my boss at that time gifted me a book 'The Story of Philosophy' which greatly inspired me, particularly the chapter on Aristotle. I use one of the quotes in that book to lead this article (luckily my co-author is also very fond of this quote).

As you can tell, it feels a bit like a full circle to me. In those days I hadn't the remotest inkling that I would be moving my career in this direction or moving out of the country for that matter or writing about the things I love reading and thinking about. Nothing in my life till then had prepared me for it nor did anything till much later. I guess I have a tendency to look back on my life and trace the hidden patterns. It has always seemed to me that there is a logic or design in it—one only has to look very carefully, closely, and attentively. Or perhaps one acts on the things that unconsciously have a lot of resonance to oneself and a pattern therefore emerges. I don't know which it is but I am not complaining :)