Of Moods Various…!
I didn’t even have the mood
to ponder upon what exactly caused my mood-change, and I thought that to
understand this complex syndrome of human moods I’d need to embark upon a
Freudian analysis for which I had less knowledge and lesser expertise. So I gave
up and stopped writing though there were too many things happening in my
country and in the world, and of course my original pieces. Thus far we have
given some indication of how complex the process of mood-change is and some of
the countless reasons for the same, in the case of only humans or basically their
minds. Now we can talk a bit about the animals that don’t possess brains to
change their moods as often as humans, but have accurate instincts that mostly
drive them differentially under different circumstances.
As far as wild animals in
actual wilderness is concerned I have no direct experience, and only know that
the basic instinct of hunger drives them all—the carnivorous goes on hunting to
appease their hunger and the herbivorous goes on searching for green and
greener pastures. When the tigers or the lions are fully satiated with enough
food in the bellies they don’t bother if herds of deer and wild buffalos graze
near them, and the latter also understand that at the moment they’d not be
chased and hunted. Drinking water is as crucially important for animals as for
humans, and therefore, when all types of animals drink from the stream nobody
attacks anybody in an instinctive bond of mutuality. All these examples are
related to various moods only, but driven by instinct in their cases.
I mentioned about even
lifeless objects having moodiness. Well, when you buy an electronic device you
naturally ask the seller how it is going to perform and if it’ll go out of
order frequently. I’ve myself heard several sellers saying, “The performance
record is very good, but you can never be sure about problems. You know,
electronic systems also have their moods, they can be real moody sometimes and
you may have to call the service centre!”
After more than a fortnight
during which I did my necessary activities on my smartphone I needed the laptop
for some serious transactions. And my Goodness! It started, but immediately displayed
an unstoppable trembling of the screen including the icons on the desktop. When
somehow I managed to open the browser and the site I needed and attempted to
type something the curser flew to the right or down continuously, not allowing
me to type more than a single world in one go. The next day it totally denied
me the pleasure of typing –the flickering stopped no doubt, but the keyboard
refused obstinately to oblige me.
I understood, as it were. My
laptop has been so used to my regular writing that when my mood made me
inactive it was shaking with rage avenging. I called the engineer who diagnosed
the problem without, of course, saying anything about mood-change. Although he
promised to bring it back ready in two days it so happened that five days
passed during which I started feeling the urge to start writing—the mood-change
again—and this time I had to suffer because of the delay in repairing. The day
the engineer finally handed over it to me ready and in good mood, I started
writing immediately about something that has been in my mind for a long time in
this month of inaction. However, the main reason was just to please the laptop,
to keep it in a better mood hereafter!
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