The perspective of a wandering mind

We have all opened our eyes in the mornings, with regrets of either having done something or not having done something. Regrets are those instances where either our heart works but body fails to do so or, are those instances where our body works but brain fails to filter it. With such a wide spectrum of outcomes of good and bad, how do we choose to either do it or not do it? How do we choose the outcome? How do we know if the choice we are about to make is right or wrong? We don't!! We do it anyways. A great man once said, "Whenever there's an argument between the mind and the heart, follow your heart." Why is that? It's Because, the heart is talking to you about what you want while your mind is talking to you about what others want. It's okay to be selfish enough to think and act on what we want, rather than think about what others want. The most common phrase used by people  when you're in doubt is, "Do it, or you'll regret it your enti...

What is love? A question often asked by almost all of us, and more often than not, asked by the same individual at different stages of his/her life. Is love the connection we feel when we look at someone for the first time and have butterflies in our stomach and palpitations in our heart, or is love the feeling of calmness and peace when we look into the person's eyes for the first time? Is love the connections we make with a person, which lead us to have expectations from them or is love the bonds we make with people who are no longer living wherein there is no scope for any expectations? Is love the feeling of closeness with someone who is far away, or is it the feeling of feeling distanced from someone who is in front of us? Is love the laughter and smiles we wear when we think about a person, or is love the tears that roll down our cheeks when we think about another heart? Is love seeing a smile on your face when you look into the mirror, thinking of someone else, or is ...

Intuition and practicality-- two ends of a spectrum. Intuitions, an instinctive feeling rather than concious reasoning. Practicality, the aspects of a situation that involve the actual doing or experience of something rather than theories and ideas. We often come across various situations in our life, wherein our brain and our heart are the main choices, and more often than not, the heart plays a role of a protagonist with a very antagonistic character. A confusing oxymoron. Let me, take the example of the movie Kal Ho Naa Ho. SRK, a dying man chooses to be practical, rather than follow his gut. He chooses to let his lady fall in love with another man; in this way hoping that, even after he dies, his lady is left with warmth and love. Wow, what an ending, truly touching. But let's say, he survives. Let's say he was a dying man who got cured and is cured of his disease. Now what? Does he fight for his true love and try to win his lady back, who he loved so much that he chose...

Life is harsh, from the time we are born, till we die, we go through hardships that no one can understand and explain and feel, other than the person who has lived through it. More often than not, we scar ourselves, bruise ourselves living this life. Some, deeper than others, affecting our lives to such an extent that our day to day activites have changed. From the way we feel waking up or the way we feel going back to sleep. These scars, make us contemplate our future decisions, voluntarily or involuntarily. The individual fears that if they be the way they were or repeat their history, these scars may deepen or worse, new scars are formed. The individual is often caught between the decision to either choose to think before acting, or act by feeling, following their instinct, their heart, like they did in the past. How do we choose? Can humanity be trusted with our bruised life again? Does Humanity deserve another chance with us? I'd say, yes! The belief is simple, sometimes w...

I sat down and for the first time decided to write something. I realised it'd been a while since I had an inceptional thought and I just came to the realisation that my mind was bereft of any  thoughts. When I brokedown my system of thinking, the roots of my thoughts, I realised that I've lost quite a large range of emotions which were responsible for me to see things the way I did before. Have I changed? And if I have, is it for the good or the bad? We all come across people who look us in the eye and say, "You have changed!" A statement quite often made and rather quite easily and to  be honest, I've used the expression just as often as everybody else. This got me thinking. What makes us change? The flow of thoughts, emotions and perspectives are so easily influenced and so easily modified by the people we surround ourselves with. We either change for the good or the bad. But who decides if we have changed for the good or bad? Friends, parents, siblings? The...

How often have we heard the sentence, "you'll get over it", in various phases of our lives, may it be with respect to our family, love, or our situation and our circumstances. But what does one mean when they make that statement? Do they mean that we will finally reach a time and place where the thing we were fretting about or the thing that was disturbing us no longer affects our day to day activities in anyway? I think that it's not true at all. In my perspective, I feel there's never getting over anything, I think we just learn to live with it! I feel there's a huge difference between the two. If I said that I was over something, it would mean that I am not at all affected by it, and that it does not alter or affect my thought formulation and perspective, which I think is never possible. Every single element of life leaves an impact on us, may it be good, bad, or ugly. That people change in various ways as they walk their paths of life is a living proof tha...

I'm at my grandmother's place and as I sit on her bed, I'm taken back 3 years to when I sat in the exact same place without having to put the slightest thought into it. The feelings, the emotions came rushing back into me like the water escaping from an open dam. Life always gives us a choice and what we decide do with that often leads us to one of two paths, i.e., happiness or guilt. As I sit here, I contemplate every choice that I have ever made. I have seen a man look at his dead wife's photograph. I have seen a brother cry over his mother's loss, I have seen a man being told that he has not much time to live and that nothing can be done, I have seen a mother cry as she held her child for the first time. These are too many emotions a person feels in his day-to-day life. Materialistic choices are easy to make, as in to make a choice between jobs, education, clothes etc. But what about the emotional choices? How does one make all the right emotional choices making ...