Where the mind is without fear and the head is held low:

Just think of a turkey or a chicken (if you are a bengali) . From the day it is born it is taken immense care of. It is given food , given shelter and provided with immense comfort. His/her confidence upon the butcher is clearly showing an upward smooth graph with very little noise( for non stat students, noise is the variations/ up downs in a graph that you see while watching any stock price). This little chick is free of any kind of fear in his/her mind. But then just one day that butcher finds this chicken healthy and tasty and finally cuts down it's head. The graph abruptly comes down and absolutely hits 0( the graph has time in X axis and confidence emotion on Y axis). The chicken lost all confidence , a little life , and got an immense shock from the rareness and unexpectedness of this event. This story of a little bird was just a metaphor of human behaviour towards uncertainty and rare events. But wait for some more days I will do the induction job on my next blog.

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