Being frugal on everything but one’s real wants is a good path to be on, but knowing one’s real and yet, ever changing wants is a not easy. The mind is pulled by paradoxical desires of wanting to belong and stand out, when all it truly wants is to just be! How does one get there?
On our way to the airport, for what would be one of our shortest trips to Kerala, I told D that I didn’t see myself making this journey a decade from now. At least not framed in the way we do it these days – a trip home. I was wrong – it happened way sooner […]
Somewhere between the need to belong and the constraints of conformity lies that Utopian state. I am beginning to realise that this is applicable across all modes of social interaction, whether they be real or virtual. It begins with people finding a common interest or ‘wavelength’ and sharing great vibes. School/college cliques, blogs and microblogs, workplaces, interest groups […]
Unlike in my other blog, Seth Godin is rarely referenced here. But when I read this post (rant, he says) from him titled “Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so“, I sensed some vague connection with something I’d written a while back. Unlike other posts of Godin, whose blog I religiously follow for its ‘food for thought’, I […]
I’m quite a huge fan of Heroes and was quite sad to see Season 4 end, more so than normal season finales, because after quite a while, there was a villain that I could really empathise with. Robert Knepper as Samuel Sullivan just rocked. Though the villainy is manifested in his selfish desire to become […]