Stages of Life

You start as an idealistYou slowly turn to a realistYou change a bit to become pessimistYou go on to be a cynicOnly to end up as a misanthropist You start as a theistYou try become a rationalistYou wish to be a romanticistYou badly want to be an existentialistOnly to end up as a Nihilist You […]

What Will I Do?

Dissent or obey? If I were in Nazi Germany Blow the horn or stay silent? If I were in an unethical company Stand up or close my eyes? If I were in an immoral govt agency Help or betray my neighbor? If I were in a totalitarian regime Stand alone or dissolve in the crowd? […]

Conundrums – III

People seek adventure, only To appreciate the mundanity People seek novelty, only To make it prosaic People seek company, only To appreciate the solitude People seek peace, only To incite the chaos People seek pleasure, only To aggravate the pain People seek forgiveness, only To flare up resentment People seek acceptance, only To acknowledge the […]

Pursuit of Mirage

Most people pursue you Some people don’t know you Most people can’t hold on to you Some people haven’t met you In Materials some people seek you In service some people seek you In nothing some people seek you In sorrows some people seek you Philosophers want to define you Scientists want to understand you […]

Present counsels past

Wish my 18 years old knew all these.

Un examined life a better life?

Blessed are those souls, who from a very young age know what they want to do with their lives. Blessed too are those souls, who never think about what they want to do with their lives. Cursed are those souls, who think about this question often, but don’t have a single concrete answer to this […]

Musings

Are the surveillance cameras & states the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent god, that we were taught of in our lives? When I listen to the word user/person, I mostly picture man? Is it gender specific? What will a transgender person think in this case? Why do the women in Renaissance frescoes don’t look straight? Is it […]

Superior being

An attempt to write about a pigeon, which sat on the railway track unafraid.

Existence

A poem on life’s absurdity largely inspired by Camus’s writings

Travel

Is Physical Travel necessary to understand life? This question might seem an absurd one. Isn’t this what life about? A complete absurdity. Yet, this question was posed during one of the philosophical meetups, which I attend. Though I contributed little to nothing during the meetup, this question made me think. And since I am a […]