nostalgia
It was our first dinner together and you asked: “What would it be like if we didn’t have a body and communicated as spirits do?”. The evening was cool and we were both midway through our artichokes, your haddock and my medium-rare steak. A man throws a red ball to his Dalmatians outside the restaurant.…
Dear Bloom
The sunflowers slowly turn their corollas towards the sun, The wheat is ripe. The bread is eaten with sweetness. At dawn mothers hurry on school runs, boys to men work so they can earn and live laboured hours marinated with material hopes. Heavy Industry, hard grind, low pay and long hours all to fulfil a…
On artificial gratification
Is the convenient nature of artificial gratification inherently bad, in and of itself? Decidedly no. Inauthentic pleasure -traditionally solved the luxury paradox of working families with kids, very real problems, salarymen on the go, the casually wealth-starved – can be good fun. If you walk down an overpopulated road in a Mumbai slum or work…
Breaking through inertia
A human personality is the total pattern of accumulated limitations and potential. These idiosyncrasies are determined by our habits, compulsions, consistencies and channelled drives, they are what may you an individual. Each unique makeup navigates hypotheticals, with our brain being one of the most complex association machines in the known universe, we are motivated with…
Opener to Shoji
‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of your year’ Emerson said that, yet every day since the funeral is cruel protracted torture. Atop that I’m thinking of ending things. Once the thought arrives, it stays. It sticks, lingers, dominates. There is not too much I can do about it.…
Haitus.
At its outset, 2021 was set to be a time of re-emergence. 2020 had set the initial bar low so logically whatever 365 days followed would set the tone for a Roaring Twenties upswing. It seemed a frightening period of our lives was over with a promising vaccine rollout and fresh stock of optimism. But,…
Follow My Blog
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
Metanoia 