The Outsider—by Albert Camus
“In our society any man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral is liable to be condemned to death”.
This one profound sentence sums up the author’s perspective behind the creation of the character Meursault. Why The Outsider ?
An Outsider,because he is a non-stickler of the emotional behaviour defined by the society for example:- cry at one’s mother’s funeral.He chooses not to play the game i.e. he chooses not to lie.As the author says, lying is not only saying what isn’t true—it is also in fact especially,saying more than is true and,in the case of the human heart,saying more than one feels.
Meursault knows that he misses his mother and that’s all what is true.To cry during her funeral meant a hyperbole of the truth which is equivalent to lying.Meursault refuses to lie and lives [dies] for the absolute truth.So an outsider,by the conventional eyes of the society which exaggerates the truth with expressions like crying which is nothing but a lie.
Anyone who read Ayn Rand’s Fountain Head and liked it , will love this one.
OFFICIALLY celebrating!!!
When my alarm clock roared in the morning, I knew it was going to be a bad day. I didn’t want to wake up and I didn’t want to go to office. Starting from getting ready for office till I reached office, I was had already borne all possible pessimism in my head. Moreover I’m a staunch believer of the myth that your day is spent according to your thoughts in the first 30 minutes of your waking. So it was going to be!
The timesheet was filled and I was cruising through my mailbox. The first mail I see is a birthday mail from a colleague. Curiously trying to find out whose birthday it was, I got the biggest surprise of my life [I wasn’t this surprised when I had passed my microwave paper J]. It was my own budday.Yeah!I was officially born on 27th June but naturally two months ago. There were many such mails. I knew what the content would be but still I couldn’t keep myself from reading each one of them. I was more than overwhelmed about when I received my Team Lead’s call wishing me birthday. Co-incidentally he was also celebrating his birthday today. My friends brought in 2 cakes. I hadn’t even cut two cakes on my actual budday J.
June 27th 2008’s significance in my life is that I celebrated my birthday and ironically I wasn’t even born on this day. All the special things that one expects on a birthday happened to me today which I had somehow forced myself not to expect on my real birthday.I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the day [genuinely blissful 
hehe]. Like every other normal human I also like surprises. This was a fact hidden from myself. I happily bagged all the wishes that I received which I would have felt like a formality gesture had the day been April 27th J.It’s an uncommon thing that unexpected people do so much for you and people whom you expect from would prefer to be oblivious about you. Nevertheless it is a very pleasant feeling. I had a phenomenal birthday for sure, though on a chance and not biologically.
I don’t want to spoil the magnificence of the feeling by trying to write about it [as if I've written less!!!].I just want to record it forever in the little convolutions of my brain and I don’t think I believe in the myth about which wrote in the beginning, so much now. Life is definitely full of stunning moments.
Well it’s genuinely one of my very close friend’s birthday. God bless ya POONsJ.Hope you become a director soon 
