Constant Companion
Being officially single for more than a quarter century, and still not any closer to finding a good partner, you wake up one day and start for work. Thoughts keep you going all kinds of thoughts, there is almost a whole world you have build with the help of these thoughts for living in at times when you find reality too hard to handle. You would have tried in vein to keep them away knowing you need a calmer life, however religiously they accompany your with every life breath you take.
The issues keep changing. What’s problem one day is not a problem the following day.
Bombarded by social, household and professional pressures, the only time that you get for yourself will be consumed for dealing with personal pressures.
Read in the news paper about Shahrukh Khan saying that his dad worried a lot and he believes that caused cancer later on which lead to his dad's early death.
The rate at which women worry these days, it only makes the chances of falling prey to one of these big shot diseases more plausible.
Day in day out work takes a lot out of you; many a times even if you love what you do you end up confused about why you are doing it. Having to share space with so many people and their diverse nature is one main challenge. Solutions are always clear, have a welcoming heart to all that the world has to offer; frankly, we all know that this is not always possible for everyone. You keep moving in search of worldly pleasures, as “embracing the inner pleasure” part is almost extinct. To realize inner pleasure you need to nurture the inner self and give it time, the one commodity that we deprive ourselves of. Therefore the search for worldly pleasure continues.
Happiness comes in the form of things money can buy. I personally think the purest thing that money can buy these days is “Water” and not every one buys water these days. Apparently the most things in life still are too costly for everyone to own. There are people who marry for money. In a way you bargain for a guy or a girl and the ones with most money wins. Not in every case this can be applied, however this also occurres. Just to clarify, the happiness that we are talking about here doesn’t necessarily last that long. The point is the more happiness we try to buy the more we promote consumerism.
Simple living high thinking is a motto that is gone out of the window. Am I blaming? No, I am one of them who threw it away as well.
Take India for example the pace at which we are developing is definitely unbelievable considering the amount of chaos around. Population, poverty, education and employment issues, cleanliness and health problems, public welfare, environmental issues, in fact there is more chaos that any other country in the world.
Think about the diversified people,language,religion,caste and economic levels! One way to explain India’s status is like how Himesh Reshamiya’s character explains his in a recent flop movie- “It’s complicated”.
We have everything that can, if tried to align based on a process would definitely back fire. The fact that we still are in the path of development is quite like how the river Ganga manages to stay clean despite the amount of crap that’s thrown into it. Despite all these we also have turned to consumerism and this is so far working for us.
Order from Chaos seems to be the only slogan that one can relate with the way India works. You see what works for the country need not necessarily work for you.
So thus day after day we keep moving from one floating thought to another while being captivated at an intriguing depth of some sickening problem. Like some one said - “For times when one finds oneself in a deep hole, don’t dig deeper, try to crawl up”.
I suspect these words come from experience, so if you find yourself not able to put such words across, beware you might be closer to heading into your own path of unique learning, experiences, tests etc coming out of which would make you deliver such wise lines.
Out of the abyss into floating thoughts again, and moving on to activities of the day. You might have opened your eyes to a future prospective groom’s heart breaking picture, talked to your folks in failed attempts of explaining that things should not be this way. Having food between conversations with like minded or unlike minded individuals, charting out a non existent plan and giving birth to an idea for the weekend. You finally would reach to the gates of your dwelling place and walk on while the sun light strikes your skin reminding you of reality. Again pulled back by your constant companion to think about the weight you have to carry all along, in terms of your own physique and the other paraphernalia that tags along your daily life. You sense the smell of incense sticks as you make way through the invisible air by the small road side Ganesh temple. A drop of water falls on your face by mistake from the holy water sprinkling by the pujari, and you break away from thoughts finally making a few steps until the road in silence.
And as you wait by the side of the road, in a flash you behold that one handsome tall dark fellow alone on a bike stopping suddenly at the signal, and nothing stops you from calling out to your buddies, to totally check him out as your eyebrows move up like a mirror image of the amused guy on the bike.
His bike moves, his neck turns, so does yours and before he gets consumed by the traffic flow, he gives one unbelievable glare breaks into a smile seeing you smile away at him in acknowledgement of changing times.
Reality takes its own course and he disappears never to be found again. You get into a bus with your buddy still talking about things which matter and those which don’t, as your constant companion invites you for another long conference.
The issues keep changing. What’s problem one day is not a problem the following day.
Bombarded by social, household and professional pressures, the only time that you get for yourself will be consumed for dealing with personal pressures.
Read in the news paper about Shahrukh Khan saying that his dad worried a lot and he believes that caused cancer later on which lead to his dad's early death.
The rate at which women worry these days, it only makes the chances of falling prey to one of these big shot diseases more plausible.
Day in day out work takes a lot out of you; many a times even if you love what you do you end up confused about why you are doing it. Having to share space with so many people and their diverse nature is one main challenge. Solutions are always clear, have a welcoming heart to all that the world has to offer; frankly, we all know that this is not always possible for everyone. You keep moving in search of worldly pleasures, as “embracing the inner pleasure” part is almost extinct. To realize inner pleasure you need to nurture the inner self and give it time, the one commodity that we deprive ourselves of. Therefore the search for worldly pleasure continues.
Happiness comes in the form of things money can buy. I personally think the purest thing that money can buy these days is “Water” and not every one buys water these days. Apparently the most things in life still are too costly for everyone to own. There are people who marry for money. In a way you bargain for a guy or a girl and the ones with most money wins. Not in every case this can be applied, however this also occurres. Just to clarify, the happiness that we are talking about here doesn’t necessarily last that long. The point is the more happiness we try to buy the more we promote consumerism.
Simple living high thinking is a motto that is gone out of the window. Am I blaming? No, I am one of them who threw it away as well.
Take India for example the pace at which we are developing is definitely unbelievable considering the amount of chaos around. Population, poverty, education and employment issues, cleanliness and health problems, public welfare, environmental issues, in fact there is more chaos that any other country in the world.
Think about the diversified people,language,religion,caste and economic levels! One way to explain India’s status is like how Himesh Reshamiya’s character explains his in a recent flop movie- “It’s complicated”.
We have everything that can, if tried to align based on a process would definitely back fire. The fact that we still are in the path of development is quite like how the river Ganga manages to stay clean despite the amount of crap that’s thrown into it. Despite all these we also have turned to consumerism and this is so far working for us.
Order from Chaos seems to be the only slogan that one can relate with the way India works. You see what works for the country need not necessarily work for you.
So thus day after day we keep moving from one floating thought to another while being captivated at an intriguing depth of some sickening problem. Like some one said - “For times when one finds oneself in a deep hole, don’t dig deeper, try to crawl up”.
I suspect these words come from experience, so if you find yourself not able to put such words across, beware you might be closer to heading into your own path of unique learning, experiences, tests etc coming out of which would make you deliver such wise lines.
Out of the abyss into floating thoughts again, and moving on to activities of the day. You might have opened your eyes to a future prospective groom’s heart breaking picture, talked to your folks in failed attempts of explaining that things should not be this way. Having food between conversations with like minded or unlike minded individuals, charting out a non existent plan and giving birth to an idea for the weekend. You finally would reach to the gates of your dwelling place and walk on while the sun light strikes your skin reminding you of reality. Again pulled back by your constant companion to think about the weight you have to carry all along, in terms of your own physique and the other paraphernalia that tags along your daily life. You sense the smell of incense sticks as you make way through the invisible air by the small road side Ganesh temple. A drop of water falls on your face by mistake from the holy water sprinkling by the pujari, and you break away from thoughts finally making a few steps until the road in silence.
And as you wait by the side of the road, in a flash you behold that one handsome tall dark fellow alone on a bike stopping suddenly at the signal, and nothing stops you from calling out to your buddies, to totally check him out as your eyebrows move up like a mirror image of the amused guy on the bike.
His bike moves, his neck turns, so does yours and before he gets consumed by the traffic flow, he gives one unbelievable glare breaks into a smile seeing you smile away at him in acknowledgement of changing times.
Reality takes its own course and he disappears never to be found again. You get into a bus with your buddy still talking about things which matter and those which don’t, as your constant companion invites you for another long conference.
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