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Is hope like a silent killer? We put so much into it? How much of present pain do we go through with the hope of a better future?
Is being hopeful is like becoming illogical? Is hope or expectation the same?
As far as I know, it hurts a lot when our expectations are unmet. In the case of hope, it is a mythical creature without any existence.
Are we giving up too much now for the hope of a better future?
What is the definition of truth? How do you know your leaders or parents are honest? Whatever you have read in your history books is true?
Can truth be dependent on our current state or which side of the fence we are sitting on?
Do we know what is truth about anything beyond the science experiments we did in school?
Most of the times what we see, what we are told and what we have been fed by the system is far from truth.
Our road to the destination is all about how we walk to it. Each stop has taught us. We are more experienced as we walk. In short, the journey is painful and requires a lot of effort.
I understand the social media world has created hype around overnight success by creating celebrities or stars. But that is mostly a one-time thing.
The road we travel decides the destination; the process of travelling and learning should not stop. Also, there are no shortcuts to success in life.
One thing I have learned is that: Love is a byproduct of tolerance
I know we are sold dreams by marketers about how love is magical and how it makes everything perfect.
It reminds me of Utopian love, which does not exist.
My limited knowledge suggests that love is about tolerating each other, accepting as they are. It’s a package full of everything good and bad parts of your partner.
Both sides should realise it early for a less painful journey ahead.
Have you taken a path without a destination?
Or have you considered walking a road without knowing where it will lead?
In simple terms, have you enjoyed the journey more than the outcome?
We are so engrossed in finding results or the future that we leave no room for the present. I wonder if aimlessness should be a virtue; at least we would have lived more in the present. We would have regretted less on things we missed out on kid’s first day in school or picking parents from the airport.
We are accumulating wealth for a better future. Everything runs around being uber-productive. We surrender ourselves to the treadmill getting overworked, sick, and isolated.
I am not sure if it’s my age or growing up in a small town in Bihar; I enjoy reading writers like Satyajit Ray, Kushwant Singh, and Ruskin Bond. The way they narrate their stories, the incidents, and simplicity in writing. It takes me back to my childhood days and memories.
It’s like someone with his story taking me back to memory lane. I spend hours thinking and resonating with our fun days of childhood.
After moving out of Bihar in 2000 for senior secondary, the world has been different for me; I am at the cusp of modernization and part of new India, and It took me a few years to adjust.
The love for my village, town is still intact. With time we all have changed.
I have witnessed mass migration from the village. It is almost deserted now; only oldies, kids, and wives live there. Festivals like Holi or Diwali are no more the same.
Limelight is valuable, the reason why social media exists and influencers.
Edward Barney’s book title Propaganda talks about how they sold cigarettes to women worldwide calling it empowerment. Or how the fiction of the banana republic was hatched to help American multinationals.
With so many internet mediums around our eyes, it is difficult to get attention and limelight. And attention being the currency of our time, it is more evident to get some even if it is positive or negative.
You will see the same influencers sharing their expert opinion for eyeballs on everything from COVID, politics, sports, or war.
So be careful and take a pinch of salt reading their opinions since most are shit posters with limited knowledge on the subject.
We underestimate the virtue of time. In the startup world, be it growth in product, hiring, or fundraising. As a result, we build many things half-baked or burn bridges.
The race against time makes us all go nuts and affects us in all possible manners.
Netflix documentary on Boeing speaks how engineering and safety took back seats to keep Wall St happy.
The startup industry is going through the same where tax officials are making raids and board members are asking for more transparency from founders.
I understand there is limited time in our life. Does this mean that we can have a baby in 10 days instead of 9 months?
A few things take time, and we have to stay stoic and work being aware of it.
This fear we live in is a disease in itself. It can do more harm than any good.
We can think of fear as a sum of our identity. It can be a collection of our vulnerability about how others are judging us or what will not work well in the future.
Another form of fear includes fear of losing someone or fear of dying.
We get so scared about thinking all of it that it creates disease in itself by giving us panic, shivers, or constant anxiety.
Can we kill the fear, we can If we want to live in peace.
Yoga is India’s gift to the world. Those sages who came up with it a thousand years back must be happy from heaven. Yoga’s adoption is global now.
I picked Be here now last week. The book is a personal journey of Ram Dass. It talks about his psychedelic trips and finding a guru in Neem Karoli Baba.
One part of the book talks about Pranayam, food, and Yoga. I liked it. Yoga came to me at a boarding school in Ranchi, class 4 or 5. I got back to it again five years back and mostly did simple breathing exercises.
After COVID in January, I had stopped doing it and was completely lost the last few months. Let’s see if getting back to Pranayam takes me back to the old days.