The Block

What a painful paradox I've hit. Or is it the paradox that has hit me?? Damn!!...I mean the two have collided painfully!! But then, as we know The Paradox cannot feel the pain, can it? It's only I who's feeling the pain. Though the collision involved both. I think you get the point. You must get the point, except if you yourself have hit the Reader's Block. Painfully. I KNOW, the term is not Reader's Block. Because if you'd have been hit by, or rather collided with Reader's Block (painfully), you wouldn't be reading this. So there you see I know the meaning of Reader's Block. But that's not what this post is about. It is about Writer's Block.

So, I was saying...there's I, there's The Paradox, there's a Hit or Collision...and there is Pain. And then, there is this post about it. A post about the WRITER'S BLOCK. And THAT my friends is "The Paradox". How? Well...I'm trying to write something about this writer's block that I've hit...or which has hit me!!...Damn it!!

...Well, that's what I'm talking about. Let me try again.

Well, as I was saying...no...not "as" I was saying, it should be "what" I was saying. Anyhow, "as" or "what" I was saying was that one of the two, the two being "I" and "The Paradox", has hit the other. Painfully. And that's the subject of this particular post.

So, here goes the post. This is how it goes. It starts like this...

Abstract

"What are feelings? What is subconscious? If a person is deaf, blind, mute since birth, would he still have 'feelings'?"

Feelings are how we define our relationships with things, with others around us based on experiences gained overtime with the help of our senses...So our deaf-blind-mute friend would still have feelings based on sensations...He'll still love "a tender touch, a fragrance and he'll still fear the burn"...Now if you say that what if he doesn't have any senses at all...Are you talking about some vegetable? Yes in that case, he'll have no feelings.

And subconscious is nothing but that suppressed part of your mind which you had started neglecting and gradually you forget that it was only a part of your very consciousness a few years ago.

And what do you think about "feelings are governed by the heart"?

Feelings are also a function of our mind. The problem arises, when you start acting purely on your feelings, taking them as a substitute of Mind, and saying and actually believing such mindless maxims like "feelings are governed by the heart". Heart's function is not to govern or control the feelings or any such thing. All this crap associated with it is the doing of those who just won't accept the simple fact that A is A. That’s what I think. If only we leave the poor little hard-working organ to do its job and appreciate it just for that, half the miseries of this world will go like there never were.

Sign of the Times

Can you see the Sign of Times as I see? From where I see, the world seems to be stuck in one place, not making any progress…or if anything, it seems to be moving with handbrakes on but it’s definitely not making the rapid & huge strides forward as is normally touted. It can’t, because the Minds are not. Here’s what I see…

Youth of today…with a mind of its own, reaching out to the unprecedented boundaries, riding the developmental springtide, blooming & waving in the winds of change…with their values firmly & proudly rooted in the "temple" backyards. The fashion icons, the speakers of their mind, the balanced Individuals…the wearers of holy chants, the singers of Hare Krishna and Ya Ali (redemption is fashionable & fast!!), the "fusion" breed.

Balanced - Belting out effortlessly the cool and hip lingo, ‘the muthafuckas’ on the outside…AND…basking in reassuring glory of the "Oh-my-Gods" inside…and of course, in between there lies a cleansing layer of "conscience" doubling up as an impenetrable shield to their "compassionate heart". The glowing faces lit by confidence, the unshakable confidence cemented by "faith". Faith is still the granted thing as breath. Touching it with "Reason" is still "blasphemy".

The mature, the wise, they talk sense…AND…are frequently wounded by logic but then uplifted by "spirituality". The super slick go-getters, the system changing revolutionaries, the wannabe rebels…the office-politicos, the "practical" beings…all bustling with energy, ever so sure of what they want…AND…all praying silently to their "Gods", all waiting for the day when their "souls shall be freed".

The Intellectual streak, the Philosophical bent...sadly & mostly end up implying the blinkers of supposed-to-be (but somehow impossible to BE), the strait-jackets of conditioned brains, the inevitable thresholds of set mentality.

The Youth, with a Mind of its own. The Evolution, with the pace of its own!

Do you see the Sign of the Times as I do?