Information is wealth..

The title is a very famous quote, too famous to be ignored. People generally make a mental note of their strengths and weaknesses. It isn't an astronomical task, its quite easy to gauge oneself. We keep telling our friends and close ones about our strengths and weaknesses. When we are able to realize that something is falling on our weaker side, why do we find it so difficult to correct it?
One of my terrible problems is that i am not all that well informed about things. Lot of things happen everyday within the 800-acre campus of NITT. But still i miss out on many of the important things. I am not a very social person. Even though i have a lot of friends, news ( good or bad ) doesn't reach my territory with ease. It has to struggle and has to follow a very complicated network. Be it important events at college, be it trivial class messages, i don't get to know most of it on time. I keep walking to class under the scorching sun just to realize that the class has been canceled. And to my surprise, i don't find anyone else doing the same thing. The news reaches everyone.
Every hostel in our college has a pin up board at the entrance. I am able to see it wall mounted, but still i don't have the urge to stop and give a quick glance at all the posters put up!!! I don't think i am that lazy but still i choose to ignore. Now this is one problem that i have been trying to rectify but in vain.
The worst part is that I feel so awkward when i get to know that people around me are so well informed about important events. You really feel like an idiot when someone comes and asks you if you have registered for some event and you give a stare in return which scares the soul out of the other guy. "What the hell is that event about man!!!" is a standard response, the best you can give to act as if you are not interested in knowing about it, and a neat way to hide your ignorance but still there is an inner voice which yells "Shucks!! I must have known!!".
Something that amazes me is I wasn't this way when i was younger. I used to be very alert and attentive. Even now, I read a lot of books, magazines and be well informed about stuff. But there are certain things that newspapers fail to convey; things which are more important to my existence than a car lorry collision on a highway that claimed the lives of 5 people!!! Strands of Complacency have settled around me from my tenth standard. My ignorance did not bloat then, but it does have an impact at college now. An unwanted and fruitless change!!!
I missed out on a very important due date for a scholarship exam last semester. I actually got hyper and started scolding a friend of mine for not informing me the place where registrations are done!!!! That is when i really got to know that i m poorly informed about everything happening around. I don't have seniors who can tell me stuff about the college, nor am i a person who is interested in participation. But still, even if you don't want to participate, it is always good to know the crux of everything happening around. Information truly is wealth after all!!!