Just a Thought

In our perspective, death seems to be a final destination. It might not be for every single person, but for most of us, it is the case. Scientifically speaking, after you are dead, if you are burned, you get scattered as heat back to the cosmos that engendered you - stardust. You become food for the worms if you are buried. The way you kept yourselves dining on nature the same way you are dined back by nature to keep itself alive. Spiritually we see death as another dimension. You are not your body, not your mind. You are more than that. But frankly, no matter how much we spiritualize or rationalize death but it doesn't assure us in our bereavement. Even if we ignore our own death but we are still shaken by other's demise. Death is a loss without the possibility of being found. Once one is lost, you don't find him ever again. But we don't lose ourselves all at once. We gradually disappear. It's a layered disappearance. In Mexican culture, death is not one single ev...

There is no incidence in my living memory which drew such global attention as the Covid19 pandemic. We have witnessed deaths of legends, endured many tragedies, and been through many long brutal conflicts in some places but the way the covid19, commonly known as coronavirus, has captured the world's collective consciousness is truly shocking. Everyone everywhere is talking about it because it concerns everybody and that because it threatens everybody. Otherwise, people die every year due to several reasons like Diarrhoea, obesity, accidents, and die in large numbers. For the last couple of months, the whole world seems to have come to halt. It all feels like we are watching a movie. Because we have seen such things happening in movies. Empty roads, dead cities, everyday life getting completely shut, emergency video conferencing of world leaders. We have seen such a crisis in many movies and we have seen it in different situations. Sometimes it's a natural disaster, sometimes...

Perfection is a lousy teacher. I won't generally recommend anyone to chase for it and neither do any sages or shamans or philosophers would suggest. It's the castle built in the air. You can never reside in it. Though it seems to be appealing, if chased will eventually destroy you. Perhaps its a mirage. You feel like you can attain it but put your whole life to it and the only thing you can ever have is a drop from the ocean of it. I don't know what makes one lead an unhappy life but chasing perfection will certainly do and yet few of us fall victim to the beauty of perfection. No matter whats on the stake they set out to chase for it. They are so obsessed with their art that the perfection seems the only salvation for them and one of those obsessed artists was Heath Ledger, a charismatic intense and mesmerizing actor. An actor who literally used to cease his reality gets into the characters. The roles that he played might be fictitious for us but for him, it was an alter...

Nirvana means the end of all suffering. It’s a state where your soul unfolds to the exotic beauty of the cosmic world. If Nirvana means the end, then there must be a beginning or maybe there was never an end. Kurt Donald Cobain the frontman of Nirvana band. The man who bent music with his voice, whose scream still echoes giving us a rage of excitement and rebel. Or he was a man who was desperately searching a way to put an end to his suffering but never found. Have you ever met a person in disguise, in a mask where they reflect everything that they are not? Want to meet the one. Go in front of the mirror and you will find the one. We all live life in a disguise. We wear a fake identity to fit in the world, but there are few, who are brutally honest to their character. It doesn't matter to them whether people are gonna love or hate, they are always themselves and love being so. Kurt Cobain was one of those. He was a unique person and was proud of his uniqueness. We all love Kurt C...

So we live in a world where we are constantly bombarded with negativity, violence, and crime. Social media has been a catalyst in giving us this heart-wrenching feedback. Every morning when you scroll down your newsfeed and instead of being happy of your friends' post you get sad by seeing the pathetic condition of your surroundings - the society where you live, the world where you reside. The ongoing crisis in Syria, the largest humanitarian crisis of our time - the biggest exodus after world war 2. The rising xenophobia in  Europe and America. The insidiously growing terrorism all over the world and the imminent threat of world war 3 which I am seeing lately these days. You know all of these things take me to a kind of contemplative state where I'm forced to think of the reasons for such chaos. Why are we having these? Why are we incensed with contradictions? Why are we flaming with contrasts? Why we have such conflicts that threaten our existence? And if you take ...

George Bush once said if there will be WW3 it will be against terrorism. Well, we should have one against these monsters if it is not for the difficulty in determining who actually the terrorist is. Terrorism is not a state. It doesn't have demarcated boundaries where you can drop the bomb and win the war. It is an ideology - a radical ideology which is unfortunately contagious. Terrorists can be everywhere - the train you board, the subway you cross, the restaurant you visit,  the club you enjoy. None of us knew of the man riding the truck in Nice was a terrorist until he mowed down 84 people.We didn't have a shred of an idea of the radicalization of that lunatic who went on a rampage in the Orlando nightclub. You don't know about the person sitting next to you in a public park is whether musing in the beauty of nature or bubbling up with radical thoughts and orchestrating a plan to destroy the nature. Every day there are hundreds of young minds who obliterate their beauti...

February 13, 2016 - Old post from the previous blog In the whole spectrum of evolution, human share a little slice of it. We are tiny dots in this universe. Yet our atrocities on earth can be well marked. These are like blot which can’t be cleaned. With every step, we left hatred, injustice, cruelty as the footprints. We turned to be horrific creature ever came who is insidiously burning the earth down for its undaunting greed. So is every human out there can be held responsible for the chaos. Is every single person is botching? Well as I contemplate I find it’s not all of us who want such adversity. It’s not all of us who are overshadowed by such greed. These are few fringe elements who wish to get hold of everything. Who wants to put everything deep in their pockets. And these fringe elements are bureaucrats, hypocrites, religious fundamentalist, etc. who are connivingly using us in their rat race leaving us perished. Civilians believe in Humanity There are more than 7 billion pe...

Death is a simple five alphabets word that will engulf every beautiful creation of the universe with time. Every second, some of its beauty gets lost in this unknown void forever. We don’t know what is on the other side. It is never explored, and it will never be. Despite all theses, death puts a tremendous impact on our lives. We are somehow or other controlled by it. It is likely to be the single best invention of life. We don’t want to die, but it is our death which makes our life a worth. It makes us Courageous None of us can be sure of our courage until the day of our death. The force and will to survive makes us do everything. It’s a kind of force which brings out the unseen power of us. It makes us go beyond in every odds. It can make us face a lion or a ghost. It can make us jump off the Burj Khalifa. The only reason for such insane courage is fear of death. Someday not too long from now, you will die. And that is going to be the toughest experience of yours. As death ...

Why some people leave their well-paved way of future and go into something unknown, where they risk their life, tolerate pain and live sleepless nights. What is that thing that compels such persons to get out of their comfort zone? One of those few people was Ernesto Che Guevara, the Marxist icon of Cuban Revolution. Che's life was all set before his instinct was radicalized for a noble cause. Here are 5 reasons which changed Che forever and made him a revolutionary. He was searching for a meaning of Life Che was born in a middle-class family where he was brought up in the same fashion as every normal kid. He completed his schooling and went to college and took a medical degree. Along the smooth side of his life, there was a lot going inside him. He was restless and looking for the purpose in life. He was a voracious reader and loved reading books of serious authors like Karl Marx, William Faulkner, André Gide, Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne. He was even passionate about poe...

Who thought the world be so curious about sneaking into 14 yrs old girl’s diary? Who thought her intimate feelings will go on and inspire the generations to have faith in humanity? Who thought Anne Frank will be the symbol of optimism and freedom for those who are left to perish in injustice? Certainly, she didn’t, but she wanted to. She wanted to devote her life to the betterment of mankind. She wanted to be alive in people’s heart long after her death. And above all, she wanted to soar high in the sky like a bird feeling the utmost freedom. It gives me goosebumps when I go through the passage of her diary where she talks about her unwavering faith in humanity and love. I mean it’s all during WWII. The whole fucking world is on fire, bombs are being dropped now and then, guns are clattering continuously and then there is a scared little girl hidden in a cramped confinement (secret annex) still find the world to be amusing, no matter how chaotic evils make it. She still finds the ult...

Life such a beautiful word isn't it. We are consumed by this word each and every single time of our life doesn't matter if it's physically or verbally. Well at some point of time we come to a very sad part and that's death. Sad isn't. We just cannot imagine that a person in our life is supposed to be just going away. Someday that your body is going to get withered. After all the series of journeys, you're just going to get vanished. Everything that you're doing right now, each and every story that you're creating right now are just supposed to vanish. But do you really think that we are really no more after we die? What about the energies that we possess? What about all the chemicals and all the electrical impulses and all the electrical energies that you have inside of you right now. So apart from the body that we get to see and feel every time there's this energy inside of us that actually makes it function. We take food in the form of energy ...