I have always loved the arguements, the debates, the discussions (heated and otherwise). They always fill me up with far more knowledge than most books and classes. I have learned more about Finance and Economics from my brother over constitutionals (after dinner walks aye!) than from 3 semester courses on the subject. I have been exposed to some amazing philosophies over phone conversations with my kid sisters, things which makes you smile to yourself, which make you feel that you exist at an elevated intellectual level. :) I have derived more 'kick' out of an arguements with Majhi than a what you get from a pint of vodka martini (shaken and stirred).
People, there are fewer things on this planet cooler than an intelligent conversation with someone who understands what you are speaking about. You'd agree to that! Dont you?
Now for reasons still unknown to me, I have found my extended family to be full of such people. My cousins usually have better and more potent arguements. They generally come up with certain stunner of a point which is so refreshingly devastating (pray allow me to use that combination of words) to your side of the arguement that you are left gaping in awe at the beauty of it all. And then, with some ingenuity, you counter it with an even more profound logic and this cycle continues.
Further on, you ocassionaly come across those who do not participate very actively in those discussions. Not that they are incapable of understanding that argument. Infact they are far more capable of putting forth splendid ideas because they have been there and they have done that. Its just that, they seem to have evolved past this discussion. That they have swum the currents of a rapid 17 and you are still at the turbulence level of a jacuzzi.
Oh well!! I am still grinning from this super philospohy that struck me over a phone conversation with Neha. Well, to set you forth - we don't think...humans are incapable of deriving any pleasure from thought at all or so I think... or so I feel! :)