Running away! Bank runs! Carry on running....

Hmmm....So its been a week since he ran the show here, so here it is... "The show"
He, or his friends for that matter, were not really running away from the Mid semester examinations, since they would have to appear for the reexaminations on their return...
So, he, along with his friends, were only running around for permissions until the very last moment...just so that they could run after their pursuits...contests, if you want to call them that...
They had all been invited for the second rounds of races, of a few different varieties..Paper presentation, HR case study, and Operations case study events, some 2000+ kilometres away, at a Symbiotic Bschool in the Western region of The Country.
Now, 30 hours on a train in Sleeper class was a first for him...It would only be ruined towards the end by a drunk idiot who would be semi-silenced by The Namesake and his friends...
The two days they all spent in "Punya Nagari" were not fruitful...in the sense that they could not win hearts or laurels....The only fruitful part of the entire trip were the oranges they managed to buy at that railway station of a city famous for oranges...
Now, they had met people during those days....and learnt lessons..
They had together laughed, slept, studied, all to the extent possible...
They were a bit frustrated since apart from not being able to return victorious, they had not even been able to take time out to enjoy the good things part of the B school fest; They were not even able to eat or pack things for their friends back in the Detention Camp...
What's worse was that...their return train journey...another 30 hours was along with several people...
People running for their lives..
Now, at times like these, sympathy and empathy soon take over any amount of collective or individual selfishness....When you see that 4-5 people don't mind sitting in the loos on the train...for the want of any other space to sit, anyone who has even a pacemaker in the place of a heart would melt...
They all somehow managed to study and sleep amidst these things and people around them....
They would naturally spend some time thinking through what was causing the exodus...

What is it about language or culture or anything else that incites people?

Why do politicians exploit such human emotions, such tendencies of ordinary individuals to equate their identities with language and culture?

Why are human beings so vulnerable fear?

Anyway, "Banking and Insurance" was waiting to be studied, and The Namesake would discover that even Banks run! One of the "takeaways" from that entire trip, was "GoodTaste"..How much he had learnt about the importance of "GoodTaste" and the importance of thinking through all aspects of an issue at hand...He would not forget the GoodTaste for a long time to come...
It's another thing that he Adored and Worshipped Thought...But then...A GoodTaste is something most people desire to develop...

Thinking about Thinking, and GoodTaste brought him to some important questions..

1. Why do people run after things or people?
2. Why do people run in the first place?
3. Why do people falter or fall?
4. Should they consider giving up running?
5. And what is this obsession with running all about? ( I mean, hold on! Even this post and blog is obsessed with running!)

The Namesake has only one answer...

Life....has to go on...
Some races never end...Some pursuits remain just those - pursuits...
He....He, has to carry on running....

Running towards "running things around"...Running away from things and people...
Running after "pursuits"...
Running - in all its forms and variants...