Casual Thoughtfulness!

The more I want to be like water, the more I analyze its character as well as the adversities it hides in itself. So far I was focussing on the exceptionalities. The calmness, the resilience and the adaptiveness. I have been envisioning to imbibe all of these for a while now. These are pecularities you need, to survive on without being afflicted or hurt. Yet, it is hard to be so flowy and accommodating, you will always be hit by hurdles.  Somethings will always try to stop you. Yet when you choose to flow, you shall. When you flow, you put all yourself in. Then there is no baggage behind. You believe to gather yourself and go along all the time. But when you decide a life like that, in real world scenario, you shall only abide by yourself and be prepared to be dispossessed by most people to meet new ones and keep flowing. You shall hurt them and hurt yourself in this process. There will be attachments and heart breaks.  Just as you touch water, you feel cool, you fee...

“In the long run, what matters is how much you are centered within.” I, like I always do, “wonder”, and this time I tried to look a few notches deeper into my own self to discover the existential importance of my alter ego. And I realized that it’s not just important to me rather it is my true self in the hiding. The thin line between sanity and insanity is what all this defines.  Having read a few more books on philosophy and existence, including the mythological dramas from around the world, it stuck me how everything is so relatable and inevitable. The energies – yin and yang, positive and negative, dark and light, good and bad; why does everything exist in two parts?  I always like to connect dots in my life; I certainly am a firm believer of destiny, a path that you choose to walk on. Talking of dyad, my constructive soul as well has two parts. Talking about them, I realized how destructive my alter ego can be and how it sometimes overpowers my sane self. It cou...

Many a times I tend to think about the number of emails my inbox can really hold. What would happen the day it goes beyond the limits and I start losing data? How would I survive such a discrepancy? I had once read somewhere, if we get rid of some of the un-used, random mails from our inbox, we can save the environment. Reason being, we would then need less storage devices in the virtual world. With technology strengthening its footings each day, we are now in the world of cloud computing and what not. We can simply play with all our data over the net, without needing to save it on our hard disks. So if we keep deleting the random stuff, we would save some storage space. This would indirectly lead to lesser power consumption, and hence the heat evolved, thereby controlling the temperature. This is one way to help save the planet. If we really look at our emails, text messages, and other such things, we are actually hooked on to them. We cannot delete them; we...

Annoyance - that’s the only emotion that I have felt so far in a really long time. How much does it cost to humans to show humanity? Does that really take the hell out of them to be a little more responsive, receptive and mindful? The double standards never cease to exist. I don’t remember any one I met recently with kind thought and no hidden treacherous notions.   A novice like me is obvious to suffer a cultural shock in a world like this. Honesty – never ever existed here. The malice in thoughts, in character, in actions, and even in relationships, always made its path to victory. I feel like a fool, being blindfolded, over and over again by the splendid aficionados. This might sound as if I have been looted or ransacked by an unreliable and apostate clan. Fortunately, nothing as such happened. But yes, lately, I feel devoid of enormous emotions and also feel unfit for possessing them. The world does not seem to be valuing them anymore. I see no hu...

The title itself may provoke numerous minds, but that’s the whole idea behind writing this post. To awaken those who are still sleeping with imposed facts shielding their thoughts. We were young enough when we first heard about these famous saints who brought the concept of living with the power of smiles. Though blasphemous it appeared, it did manage to gather a million blind followers. No fear keeps me away from criticizing it for I strongly feel against it. The whole concept is to pretend that nothing wrong can happen, maintain your positivity and just turn a deaf ear to you problems. They will either shun by themselves or give up under the power of your so called positivism. Psychologists suggest that optimism does bring about a change in a person’s perception. But this theory of achieving harmony with an exaggerated version of pretentious optimism eventually makes you so hollow that you stop defining your own instincts and powers. For all I ask here is how can you really over...

Often we find a similar trend in two people conjoining for a nuptial bliss or even before, while they are betrothed or termed as a couple. A major segment of the mind revolves around the likings and disliking of the partner. The brain is shielded by the partner’s perception and the actions are thereby stemmed accordingly. I would be too prejudiced to call this as self-ignorance but I do feel that somehow the influence of one of the two is so strong that it overshadows the other’s psychology. I have always been a very equality conscious person. Never made attempts to let anyone down or show things off, irrespective of the biases that exist. And with this uncanny and random observation I was flustered. Rather panic stricken on knowing the impact on the persona, creating imbalance unintentionally. The usual targets are the petty things when there is always an explicit expression of strong liking and disliking to which the other easily concedes. The impression is intense enough to mak...

It was quite an interesting month of May for me. It started on the usual note of laziness within, slowly it progressed and I ended up being a psychotic reader for the following 2 weeks. It wasn’t all over when I was still busy searching and buying new books, having sleepless nights. ‘Shit’ and ‘Wit’ happened all through. The end was though marked by one of my favourite activities – Travel. All in all I would say an extremely captivating and fascinating month, which I actually lived. Not going any further with the details, I am here to share a tiny experience of my short, exhaustive yet engrossing trip to the two most incredible cities of INDIA – Mumbai and New Delhi. For these two cities, I have been an enthusiastic guest because I normally end up visiting them once or twice a year. Thanks to a huge number of kith and kins, that I get to enjoy the luxuries of these cities. My outlook for these two cities was very different this time. It wasn’t the picturesque framing or the nicetie...

Anger, a strong feeling of annoyance, vexation, or hostility, is something you cannot avoid not matter how patient you are. When you are angry, everything comes under your scan, it gives you a headache, heartache, stomachache (may be), basically immense displeasure. So did happen to me. I was in great discomfit sometime back. I was angry. I am quite blatant by nature (being modest), so when I am angry, I avoid people to get in my way and become the victim of my crossness unnecessarily. This time, it so happened, I was angry, I was hurt, and for a change I controlled myself. I kept mum, I did not think, I did not utter a single word. I lied down, before the tears could come rolling, I closed my eyes. I defied anger, I tried to let go, to get normal, unaffected. It was then that I found solace, a moment of truce that demarcated a new span of control within me. I had never been so much at peace ever before. It felt, I had crossed my own limitations and enhanced my own magnitude of resi...

Tigers have always been a pride of our nation. Their charismatic gestures demand dignity, respect and authority. Their wisdom inspires you to walk the aisle with profound self-esteem. This stirring specie that has been attracting the humans for ages, sadly it will soon go extinct if we don’t act now. That’s how when we visit tiger reserves, we barely spot our national animal for their constantly depleting habitat. There has been poaching of this fierce animal, for reasons best known to the insane, dreadful and callous hunters. We have seen extinction before, the dinosaurs, the mammoths, and many more such species. We now keep assuming how and what made those enormous and significant animals vanish from the face of earth. Soon the tigers too would be a mere topic of discussion for their glamour and substance. In this Chinese year of tiger, we would see the end of this ferocious predator. How ironic!!! Until ofcourse we act, we become aware, we stop poaching, we join hands to preserve...

“The real India”, its quite agonizing a phrase for a true Indian to hear. What do people really intend to mean while using such a phrase? Are we living in an Unreal, Imaginative wonderland? Is it that we are fantasizing everything and the REAL India is in the slums? Most People across the world, including some of the (Non Returning Indians) actually enjoy pitying every bit of anything in India that has an ugly sight. Pity is such a condemnable expression, no human has any right to pity the state of another human. Its for those narcissist, pompous people who benefit publicity by using such a pitiable expression of “Pity”. “Real India” – its not the Taj Mahal, The Red Fort; its not even the Slum (dog millionaire); its not its democracy and politics. Real India is a dream come true for a billion, it’s a mixture of multilingual, multi-religious, multi-coloured people who live happily together under the same roof, despite hardships and failures. It is the beauty of various cuisines, co...

What a perfect way to start the day, just pick up the daily newspaper supplement and you have it on your face, that sarcastic sheepish smile when you read, “Jesus doesn’t say you can’t show cleavage”- Rakhi Sawant. Next in line is a jerk posing nude for publicity and yet another so called guru teaching naked yoga in US. Then comes new reality TV show-buying people to sell their lives for a petty sum. “Ape the West”, we have been hearing this damn quote ever since we were kids. Has nothing really changed since then or are we really the “ape” to not understand the repercussions of aping? As it is relations are losing meaning in this so called country of “Sanskriti” and “Sabhayata”. I really surrender for failing to understand the message these reality TV shows on infidelity, being copied from those controversial serials of west, want to convey the countrymen. Is it to stop trusting your beloved, go berserk over petty issues, lose your patience and give up on the virtue of forgiving? ...