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Intelligent freak events: the baby turns four

The one thing which is inseparable from us is our childhood. Childhood when we had time only for our friends, school and homework. The long days of leisure and adventure. The times when recreation was a priority than an option. Adulthood brought with itself wisdom and ambition. Wisdom lead to complication and ambition led to monotony. The “time-hi-nahi-milta” phrase became the new mantra. Some keep cribbing about it and some just jump the hoop and breakfree. There’s where it all starts .Welcome! To Intelligent freak events where the people are more freaks than intelligent but balance it somehow. When one gets over the choice of words to name themselves you concentrate on what’s it all about.

 Apparently it all started as a facebook group four years ago. Sigh!  4 years and still active , talk about sustainability . So is there any particular qualification to join it . Probably not , if you think you are a freak, Voila! You get admitted  automatically. Being intelligent is an added bonus. One would think what they do. The FAQ’s for them be like

Do you travel?

- Yes ! Yes! Yes!

Do you meet to eat?

-A lot

Do you flash mob?

-In style

Do you celebrate festivals?

-Unlike any other
Do you adventure sports?
-Hell yeahhhh! \m/

Do you social work?

- Duh! Its more about it than the rest

In spirit and in soul they are truly democratic. The profile of the freaks boasts of  doctors, engineers, lawyers, professionals, teachers, politicians, students, managers, business men, unemployed and many more. If we get over the professional designation you would find rebels and dreamers, artists and musicians, clueless and go-getters, visionary and sleepyheads, drama queens and sweetie pies, story tellers and poets  . A mesh of different extremes of the personality spectrum coming together , travelling , eating , discussing , debating , sometimes competing and occasionally complaining. IFEians have colored the deserts of Bikaner red and have camped at Rishikesh’s blue. They have rocked the Spiti Valley and mocked at Mcleodganj. The food walks is more about food than calories , the social service is more about children at shelter homes’.

It isn’t a rosy world out there. There have been goof ups and disasters . Well! That’s the USP of it. Its just like life imperfect but ever going. Along with the troubles comes an important lesson . They learn and go on to never repeat the mistake again but to make a new one. Oops! Freaky aren’t they. So every event has a story with the beginning “ the one where ****some incident***went wrong. Classic adventurers!

The person who incepted the idea of IFE and keeps it running for all  the other intelligent freaks considers it his baby. Well Piyush Acharya ( who emphasizes on being called creator and not founder of IFE) you aren’t getting any footage since its IFE’s fourth birthday not yours (you still stuck somewhere being an eight year old though).

So the next time when wanderlust sinks in and your friends are too busy to plan a holiday or an event. It wouldn’t hurt to turn to IFE ,as they say

“ Ae umra kuch kaha maine ,

Shayad tune suna nahi,

Tu chheen sakti hai bachpan mera,

Par bachpana nahi!”.

Happy fourth year fellas!
- Contributed by an IFE admirer :)