that night…

courtesy:http://www.artstudio101.co.za/Sculpture

the frigid season,

that glass chamber,

heartless and arrogant drops,

beating with a deafening anger.

in tattered clothes, he was gasping for breath,

all alone in the ghastly town,

the lost traveler had stumbled and found,

the glass chamber amid ruin.

it shone bright in that darkness,

luring him with the floral scent,

he moved towards the door,

and saw a shadow behind.

there was companion, his heart raced,

he rushed to the door and opened,

welcomed by the faceless host,

he yelled horror and looked back.

Before he could take a leap,

was clasped in a tight grip,

the shadow behind had come close,

of human form, yet alien.

Before he could think ahead,

they held him, took him inside,

his struggle  proved futile, cry useless,

he was exhausted, terrified and he fainted.

taken inside the huge chamber,

he was thrown amongst the other bodies,

laid there for the whole night,

in a dreadful hell, no life in sight.

awoken by the gasping breath of another body,

and morning hue, in the damp chamber,

he stood up exhausted, and walked,

midst the bodies laying all around, with faces down.

in the nook he found huge mirror pieces,

walked up to those and stared,

nothing but horror he could hear,

he touched his face but it was not there.

with dizzy feeling and weak legs,

dragged self to the lot and found the same,

bodies without faces, without identity,

and he lost it there, as others of his kind.

He could never regain the self,

lost in the glare of the glass chamber,

became one of their kind,

yet another lost identity, one more lost soul.

question for the day…

Collective intelligence brings out the flaw in the deal made to the masses. Can this be considered a social axiom? Depends on the intellect representation in the masses and how does it affect their basic needs. For example, if I assume religion at the point of enunciation was a deal, how did it get reinforced so strongly, that it persisted for so long.

the what…yes love it is…

courtesy: http://www.dancevert.org/images/Ethereal%20Complicity.jpg

I was having this discussion with my friends on what they think love is. Many people must have thought about it gazillion times. And with years of progression in my exposure, I believe my perspective has become more practical, sociological or should I say cynical.

Let’s see the definitions we came up with.

“It’s the feeling of deep mutual concern for each other which is sustainable across time and space”. -courtesy[my friend]

Let me critique this definition.

It definitely covers an important aspect of emotion, which comprises feeling of concern. And at the same time it states the ability to weather wide variety of social influences and social contexts across time and space. But people do fall out of love. So, does that mean such a feeling is not “love” but some milder form of it or some other fleeting emotion. We can love some people at times and also hate them. And we may stop loving them totally. And as this feeling is not felt in isolation by two human beings, it has a social context and will change its manifestation, definition and interpretation with the context.

However, there must be an underlying characteristic to it across social-contexts.

We may have this sustained feeling for some time but then over time do we nurture this feeling. Do we make it our habit and bring positivity to it? For example we put seed in the earth and water it, we get a seedling, a sapling. That’s fructification of our effort, as there is life through our initial effort. But do we nurture that life by protecting, preserving and helping it grow in a consistent manner. If we do, it grows into a healthy and strong plant . Similarly “love” is a symbiotic relationship, which grows with nurturing. If you stop nurturing it, it will deteriorate and die.

I’d like to think as we react to various social exposures or influences, we go through different phases in love. The more we internalize the feeling, the more innate the feeling becomes as part of our emotional being. But as emotional interaction between two people doesn’t happen in isolation, the survivability of this feeling depends upon how much precedence it takes over other interaction between two human beings. If it becomes the underlying layer/fabric for all other interactions, love will sustain, else its success/growth/survivability would depend upon the success of other interactions which could be equally or more prominent.

And then there are other definitions which state that it is driven by innate human need to associate. It’s again arguable that whether love is only selfish; basically it is need driven, or does it become selfless as it grows.

In this discussion we have focussed on feeling of attachment and association. So does that mean people who lead life of detachment  are devoid of love. For them it could be one-way traffic for the most part. The people in focus here are the ones involved in social service, who give everything of their self for good of others.  Their profound self emanates feeling of love for all beings without prejudices and they become the source, without any need to get it back. Perhaps they sustain this one-way traffic for more than the ordinary period of time, after which it is bound to come back to them. We call them enlightened souls, as their urge to give takes higher precedence than the desire to take.

Conclusively the feeling of love has been an ever-evolving, innate emotional construct, which is very much the part of social existence in today’s world. It exists for common human good today, personally and socially feeding our needs, our well being.

Thought for the day

Idea: Knowledge dispersion and evolution through collaboration across barriers.

Thought for the day

Try we must, persevere we should, to make our lives and of those around, simpler. It’s a daunting task but it’s worthwhile. And the gist of experiences so far is, “the way to happier life is through quest of simplicity.”

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Where is the meaning? It’s in actions and inactions, thoughts and words, dreams and passions. It’s in the being and in being with one.”

just a thought…

the actor on screen without substance of art to offer, without depth in her expression, is like a whore with all flesh for sleaze but no soul for love.

my fear…

In this moment of trance,

i am fearful of accepting,

of feeling it deeper within,

of making it one with self.

‘cos it recedes like waves,

with ecstatic spur at the onset,

and then memories behind,

leaving moist emotions intertwined.

I only fancy but with caution,

feel it with sundry emotion,

and then step back, well resigned,

to my self, my shell, all forlorn.

Happy Independence Day: celebrating India 62nd independence day…

“Embodying diversity, celebrating our  identity,

Striving to realize freedom, for “the self” and humanity.

Inspired for universality of one world “happy and free”.

let’s begin here…

I was just going through my friend’s blogs and was quite impressed, recalling how well he has brushed up himself in last few years. I think I have an inspirational figure in him and let me start my own journey as well. Using this blog as a record book would be a good idea. But one problem is that the blog is not so much of a personal space.

Anyway I’d try to record rumblings from the day and talks to self and others as much as I can, through the journey.

“I don’t know why I want to feel happy, better not observe happiness … just be in it.”