Since I woke up this morning I’ve been “suffering” from a rather heavy bout of NED. But I shouldn’t be saying “suffering”, since I haven’t been suffering at all. I’ve been quite happy all day today, just that I don’t feel like doing anything.
Normally, NED is associated with something negative – when you have no enthu to do something, it implies a feeling of negativity – that you don’t want to do something. Sample this extract from one of my first ever conversations with the person who is now the wife, back from 2007. This was after she had seen me at the Bangalore Landmark Quiz 2007, where we went to the finals and lost. She is not to be confused, of course, with this girl I had seen at the Bangalore Landmark Quiz in 2005 (and whom I’ve never seen subsequently).
But what I’ve been going through this morning is not negative at all. I had a wonderful dinner last night (at this place called La Tertulia in Les Corts). It was a very interesting menu, and we finished the dinner with a dessert which was “chocolate 4 ways”. One of the 4 ways was a dark chocolate mousse (it was so awesome I wonder why it’s not more popular – dark chocolate mousse that is). And then I slept wonderfully.
I slept so deeply that when I woke up this morning it took time to recollect who I am and where I am and what I’m doing here and all that. I then dragged myself to a nearby cafe for breakfast, where I had more chocolate – the chocolate croissant there had much more chocolate than a normal chocolate croissant does.
So I’ve been feeling so peaceful and contented and happy that I just don’t feel like doing anything. I have less than three more days in Barcelona on this trip, and I want to go out and explore parts of the city I haven’t seen so far. But then NED is taking over. I’ve been feeling so blissful since this morning that I just don’t feel like going and doing anything! So I’m vegetating, sitting with my laptop and looking at websites on tourist attractions in Barcelona!
I remember being in this state of mind for most of the latter half of 2005. I was on a perennial high, and so high that I would just vegetate and not do anything! Not that it’s a bad thing but the long-term consequences aren’t great!
PS: Going through my blog archives, I find that even in the Bangalore Landmark Quiz in 2007, I had found “a cute chick” sitting in the audience. I didn’t make such a big deal about it, though, and I now don’t remember what she looked like. Going by this and other information I’ve presented in this post I wonder if I’m married to her now.