Category: Life

Misplaced happiness

Crazily when you chase it

it gets scared and hides

in the unseen nooks and crevices

of your ignorant brain

Let it follow you

through that smile on the face

of your mother who is getting older everyday

or through the hot meal on the table

which is no less a miracle of sorts

or through the shelter that your home

affords to you

or when the love of your life

gives you a hug

in the middle of the night

or when a drop of sweat

adorns your forehead

after a day of hard work

or when a sole flower blooms

out of nothingness

on your way to work…

After misplacing happiness

You have been looking at

all the wrong places.

Hiatus

It has been a while,

a little escape

a little break!

Life dropped unexpectedly

into the lap of demands

by the unknown dark forces

circling like vultures

ready to pounce

on that one piece of peace.

Minus the Victor and the Vanquished

The greed wears the cloaks
and the fires that it stokes;

while the innocents choke !

The age old stories repeat
The tragedies happen

To possess, or to wait and watch, or to let it go?

These three questions hold the key to the future

Momentary are the victories
And so are the defeats!

But the destructions remain forever

the scars on the face of earth

and in the heart of the collective consciousness

The victor and the vanquished

both leave the alley of dead.

Dissect Fear and get rid of it

A 36-year-old Indian origin Stand up Comedian died on the stage in Dubai, while he was talking about his own anxiety. You try to be stronger, you try to be immune… you try whatever, when anxiety strikes, it definitely does and no Gyan can help. Gyan can only irritate. 
Build kindness into the system, build forgiveness into the psyches, build relationships that do not have the judge and the victim. There is no cure for this epidemic of anxiety and social awkwardness. 

Humans are social animals…, just like most other animals. The only difference is that we are layered and therefore blessed (or cursed) with brains, that develop in leaps and bounds for good or worse.

Introversion or extroversion cannot be the parameters of ‘smartness’, as the prevalent societal norms make people think. It is the place that you have given to ‘fear’ in your psyche that decides and defines you as an introvert or extrovert or ambivert.

Why does social anxiety get the best of the tribe? Why do successful entrepreneurs seem to be the conquerors of fear and doubts?

Read more in my book ‘The Entrepreneurial Outlook’ available on Amazon

Trolls

They don’t wait for the explanations,
they do not empathize;
but they do track you with all the accusations, barbs and threats, in order to correct whatever they perceive is wrong with you and torment you in the public eye.

They start from the keyboards,
they start from the smartphones;
travel through the crazy alleys of perceptions, land onto the ears, transferred to the brains, once started they do not stop
you will not even know why!

They claim to be informed,
they project affiliations,
to history and to logic, they show inclinations, they claim to be real and perfect;
but they are none of those since
they are born every day before they die.

They might be humans,
they might be bots;
toxicity is their theme without any inhibitions, but they always have an agenda,
to breathe hate and seek attention;
they will try everything under the sky.

Do open your mouth, let the words flow
let the world know;
that you think otherwise, without crazy intentions. While the pulse races,
and the brain weaves the stories of hope,
they can’t subdue you, let the trolls try!