Thursday, August 30, 2018

Title

For 10 minutes I thought about the possible title for this blog. Many flickering ideas came to my mind. It could be "A new beginning" or "Once upon a time" or "Do not give up" or should I put it as  "Just chill".  The competition was so tough that I found it more appropriate to put "Title" as a title instead of choosing one among them.

But then I introspected about the root cause of this confusion. I realised such confusion is part of our life. It has become integral to our ecosystem. Every institution, every social practice, and nearly every relationship is going through a phase of confusion. The gentle optimist breed may call it flux or euphemistically quote it as a change in the positive direction. But I prefer to call it confusion.

I can substantiate my point. For instance, every relationship has become either uncle or aunty. The nuanced sense that relationship with Bua, Mami, Mausi, Chachi and Bhabhi has been monochromatic Ally become just one i.e. aunty.
Similarly, in political circuits, no one knows where lies the power center? Is it centered in PMO or does it lie with respective ministries?
People confuse kindness with cowardice, corruption with conscientiousness, consumerism with richness and money with happiness.

The right thing to do is to seek solutions to this situation. The solution lies in knowing yourself. Knowing your inner core. Knowing your priorities, ambitions, dreams, capabilities, needs and emotional vulnerabilities.

The bigger question would be how to do the above-mentioned. Answer is observe, meditate, self talks and make your standard template of good behaviour. But it runs the risk of becoming rigid so guard against such tendencies.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Exhilaration

The last month was again full of excitement, travel, fun and new experiences. In the first week, one of the great inspirational poet Shri Gopal Das Neeraj died. I paid the tribute to him by listening to his songs for nearly the entire night. 2nd week I visited number of places like Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal, Budbani and  many other places. I also had darshan of baba Amarnath and final culmination was with a trip to Leh Laddakh. Overall, it was very joyful and funfilled time I had. There were lots of good memories and experiences I wish to write about. Will add the details later.