World made sense

I was drunk as hell that night Suddenly the world made sense: Humans are crazy beasts Worrying about their insignificant lives Running after everything transient Without knowing their own transient being I was drunk as hell that night Suddenly the world made sense: Societies are made up to isolate oneself Beliefs are formed to advertise […]

Language matters

I say “I drink only once a week”You say “I am drinking every week”Same meaning but the perspective matters I say “Party in power or Governing party”You say “Ruling party”Same meaning but the way we understand matters I say “The leader exaggerates”You say “The leader lies”Might mean same but the truth matters I say “I […]

confine or expand?

Keep your head down and mouth shut : If you want to move ahead At the cost of your conscience If you want to stay out of trouble At the cost of your fellow humans If you want to stay off of the radar At the cost of silencing your own thoughts If you want […]

What are we hiding?

Our weakness or our aggressionOur flaws or our super egoOur intolerance or our indifferenceOur peccadillo or our blundersOur dishonesty or our TruthsOur beliefs or our emptinessOur fears or our delusionsOur fear of death or fear of livingOur identity or lack thereof

What are we after?

Happiness or satisfactionAdventures or Groundhog experiencePleasure or PainlessnessUniversal Love or ruthless indifference Wisdom or learned stupidityHistory or archaeologyMemories or forgetfulnessAccepting differences or ignoring differences This list ain’t Either OrBut a spectrumWe all are somewhere in the middleRealizing this will help usNot doing will ruin us

Freedom – condemnation or liberation?

I read once a Jean Paul Sartre’s quote that “Man is condemned to be free”. My immediate thought was well, this sounds abstract still it is catchy. Why should freedom be treated as condemnation and not as liberation? Obviously, I didn’t read the full quote, which goes “Man is condemned to be free; because once […]

Ramblings III

What do we call ourselves if we standup for our beliefsfight for our viewsdon’t cave into others’ bullshitstand firmly in face of adversityknow for sure we know more than otherspoint out flaws in others’ argumentsunderstand the meaninglessness of life resign to our fatebe a walkover for othersbow down to authoritybe a people pleaserexaggerate our flawscede […]

Memory – Boon or Bane?

Marcel Proust wrote pages about you. A mere act of having a Madeleine with an herbal stirs in him countless memories of his childhood. One wonders what would life look like if one cannot remember any happenings in life.Wouldn’t we all be living in the moment all our lives? Would that life be memorable?? We […]

Speaking – an Art

The way we speak is in itself an art. Some people speak what comes to their mind. Others speak in a more measured way. They think carefully about what words come out of their mouth. There is a 3rd category, who speaks anything out of their mouth. They don’t think (I assume to a large […]

Eternal Chaos

I was wondering what if we were to live in a world, where Art is expressed with no censors Law applies equally to all One can freely express all they think Politicians actually serve people No discrimination whatsoever exists No wars waged under the guise of abstract concepts (democracy, religion, etc) No talking about the […]