Crossroads: The mundane and The Romantic

Beethoven is remembered for his incredible contributions to Western classical music, a music so beautiful that I myself struggle to hold back tears, yet he struggled with landlords, custody over familial relations and women.

Ramanujan revolutionised mathematics forever, yet struggled with an incurable disease and downright racism during his time in Cambridge and other so-called "mundane" things of life.

Like them, many such great minds in history have their story presented to us with such romanticism that we tend to overlook the fact that they were still humans like us, with simple everyday issues, along with their great work and activities which defined their life and what they are now known for.

How shall one find balance between an intellectual activity, a heightened state of mind, thinking across time and the frustrating things like plumbing issues?

Hence, for this meetup, the topic is the crossroads between the mundane and the romantic.