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 […]

How to name you?

If a social media post assures you But not reputed science journals If you please yourself on mocking vaccination But turn a blind eye to who die un-vaccinated If you disregard reason in favor of belief But portray your beliefs as your reason to others If you spread anti-science stands as memes But benefit largely […]

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 […]

offend yourself

Should you get offended, if someone Makes fun of your occupationRidicules for the way you lookMocks you for the way you speakMakes fun of your religionMakes fun of your ideologyCracks a joke at your expenseTalks behind your back Do these make you less worthy of yourself?If you say yes, then you don’t have enough self-worthIf […]

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 […]