lazing around or???

I was about to go for a walk... when inspiration struck for the second time today and I had to blog(Of course...inspiration struck me in the loo just before I left) So I rushed out to write this.

I took a class in history last year. On the history of Science and technology. My prof mentioned a few things.. that were very interesting. Co-incidence? I dont know... but they made sense.

He told us... Newton did his best work during the plague years. In fact, he himself claimed that he had never been able to do that kind of work ever again in his life. Do you know what Newton was doing in the years that the black death invaded europe?? he went home... to sit around doing nothing. The university had closed to prevent possible mass infection.. and everyone went home to the small villages hoping not to get affected. And this was when he did his best thinking. When he did not want to do it.. but he had nothing to do.

Einstein... too... quit his college in germany or someplace and went to Italy where his father had moved. For an entire year... he lay around doing nothing. Or.... apparently doing nothing. it was at this time, while helping his dad build clocks and engineering devices that he began thinking on the concepts of relativity.

So... I sometimes wonder. Will the next 6 months of my life prove really fruitful if all I do is think? if I just sit back... and think. I hope sometimes.. that thats what is going to happen. Call it a dream... or whatever. But.. after wasting my brain for the past few months, I now think I need to put it to work. Now.. back to that walk...