Tuesday, June 12, 2007

with or without wings...

If I ask you (the helpless reader who somehow ended up reading this blog-post) 'which one is your favorite animal' what will you say... 'What a stupid question?' Yeah! That's one thing you might say. But since I don't have anything to do today so I request you to just expand your awareness around and see which one is your favorite animal (leave your colleagues, for we all fall under same species…) in the nature?

We will not get too technical here. Birds also included. So let us not get into domain, kingdom, phylum & subphylum, class & subclass, order, family, gene and species concepts here. Everyone's included except humans – from amoeba to dinosaurs, everyone!

So? Lion? Leopard? Horse? Dog? Cat? Rabbit? Monkey? Deer? Eagle? Snake? Hummingbird? Bumblebee? He he he!

Well, these are the members of kingdom-animalia I could remember, but there can be more. You may ask – what do I mean by favorite? And, I would say by favorite I mean 'like favorite actor/actress, favorite singer, and favorite music, favorite dish, and fruit' – the one who/which inspires!

Why is Big B a favorite actor of people around the world? Why is Rajini – The BOSS, a legend of south Indian populace (I included)? Why is Linkin Park famous among youngsters? Why is Kishoreda a resort to heart-broken? Why is Sunny Leone or Paris Hilton so famous among teenagers (wink ;)…)? Why? Why? Why? Inspiration! They (their talents, their personalities) are the companions of our deep anonymity to our own identities.

On the similar 'why?' notes I want you to contemplate which is your favorite animal and 'why?'

Yesterday, I was watching Discovery channel - a series on Penguins of the North Pole. And by god! I became a big fan of these sweet looking penguins after I watched them struggle and enjoy their "life" in 90 degrees below zero!

Tch! I am a fan of this fellow. Well, it is imperative that we must have a role model and a source of inspiration to guide us through the peaks and troughs of life. Penguin qualifies exceptionally well in that area! You will not be able to stop yourself from admiring this cute and sweet animal's struggle of life when you watch 'March of the Penguins'!


Sunday, June 10, 2007

solitary confinement...

Aldous Huxley once wrote - 'our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement'. On same subject a few quotes from here and there...

- Loneliness has followed me my whole life, in bars and cars. I can't escape it. I'm God's lonely man. (From Taxi Driver)

- They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

- We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: 'Let's talk to each other; let's do things together so we won't be lonely.' And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that's about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.

- Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

- It doesn't matter how strong you are. No one can defeat loneliness.

- Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

- Life is very long when you're lonely.

- At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

A little difference between solitude and loneliness. Solitude, technically, is more positive and enlightening than loneliness.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

law of nature...

My heart (or head, I don’t know) sometimes says that I need a change. Maybe change of the job, change of the city – and then it will be peaceful. But my head (or heart, I don’t know) says I want something new.

Change is not new. Change is only a modification of the existing way. I need something new. And new means destruction; destruction of the old, of the past – annihilation of all the beliefs, all experiences, all identities – when I am not even trying myself to be a writer.

It makes me wonder – is ‘change’ the law of nature or is ‘destruction’ the law of nature? I think I have been living with a wrong notion!

A close look makes me believe - nature remains pure and fresh not because of change, but because it destroys the old and builds new. Change takes the smell of old with it, it cannot be as fresh as new.

Change cannot be the law of nature because change is ‘change’ it’s not ‘new’. Nature is the master of destroying the old and there is always something new, it offers which makes nature the mother of innovation! Nature does not have the habit of carrying it's past to build the future!