Random Musings

Isn't there too much negativity around us - more so in the online world? Do you feel disillusioned as you grow older? Do more and more people around you seem cold, harsh and selfish? No matter how much you try to be unaffected by external happenings, it still affects you, right? I do understand everybody has a different perspective about life & a lot of things I interpret as negative might be perfectly normal for others. But still, I can feel the toxicity and often end up thinking what being human means anymore? Can't  you? I find myself longing for the serenity of offbeat mountain villages where people are so warm and the vibes so positive. I still want to believe in the inherent goodness of people. Maybe somewhere along their way, something was so broken that they ended up being so negative/toxic. Maybe the parameters of success are a little fucked up. Maybe if there was a way to measure happiness and make it public, the world would have been a different place. ...

Recently somebody said he doesn't believe in God because he hasn't really seen him. But then I asked him a few questions - # Do you believe in Oxygen? # Do you believe in black holes? # Do you believe in Gravity? # Do you believe in love? # Do you believe in anger? Have you actually seen any of the above? Probably you have felt it or believed somebody else who claims to have seen or measured or proved its existence. If you really think about this, there is no concrete way to justify the current nature of our reality? Complicated, right? Whether you are a man of science or a man of religion or both, if you really ask yourself, all you have is faith - the choice to believe in whatever you want. And then probably finding out logical reasons to justify it, isn't it? You might be thinking some things are facts and others simply hearsay, and you choose to believe in only facts. There should be black and white and not just grey, right? Well, the scientific fact is we sti...

The simplest answer is – within us. In our minds. Not in external reality. Let’s understand this. Imagine your favorite food item – a jar full of butter chicken or rich creamy chocolate or chole bhature. Whatever it is. Can you remember its taste and the fulfillment it provided when you had it last. You absolutely loved it, right? Now imagine having the same dish just after a personal tragedy – an ugly breakup or a bitter fight or a missed promotion. Does it still feel that delicious? No, right! Mostly, you don’t feel like eating only at that point of time right and even if you do, it tastes like any other food item you would have had. The butter chicken was exactly the same in reality. But it didn’t feel the same at all, right? Because your perception was clouded by the negativity in your mind. What if exactly this phenomenon is happening with you 24 hours of the day? What if you never experience reality as it is but just respond to mental storie...