I did not know, till a
few minutes ago, that ‘acuity’ meant sharpness or keenness of thought, vision,
or hearing. So I was kind of partially dumb till I looked up this word in the dictionary
a few minutes back.
And what was the
trigger for consulting Dr. Johnson, one might ask? Well I do not throw away old
magazines till I have squeezed all that I want out of them. This morning it was
an old January 23, 2006 issue of the Time newsmagazine.
While thumbing through
it, I got stuck at the article ‘What’s so great about acuity?’ by 43 year old Walter
Kirn (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1147171,00.html). And
why am I mentioning the age of the writer, one is likely to ask? It will become
clearer once you go through the article.
The bottom line of this
piece is “It’s not what one can do that matters but what is worth doing”.
Touche’!
