Some ways down the road

Some of them changed,
some of them have not,
some of them will change,
some of them will not.

Some changed only for me,
some changed only for you,
some never changed,
whatever you do,
some will never change,
forever cold and stubborn,
maybe you cared too much,
that changed the you in them.

I have changed and so have you,
take sometime and think this through,
does it frighten you or does it make you happy,
that you change so effortlessly.

Some will change silently and others violently,
but I know everything will change,
or so I think I do,
some ways down the road,
I might change my opinion too.


~Visa

Just saying

Nobody actually knows anything! What seems as knowledge, is but a construct of the human mind itself. It is a manifestation of what seems to be the driving force behind everything. This very driving force eludes us, it is beyond our imaginative capabilities. We, who are in-fact a part of this manifestation,are beaten by the size of it.

______________________________________Simpler Troubles_________________________________

Troubles you what!?

She cares about me not!

What about all the things she said,

all the things she did;

I don’t know, I don’t know,

she confuses me a lot!

Tell me more

She twinkles like a star,

so distant and far!

Come every night I fall for her.

There, I see her by the lake.

I try to reach her.

 she disappears,

 leaving nothing but a wave.

I look back at the sky and there she is,

My twinkling star, so distant and far!

I wonder, I wonder,

whether the problem is with you or with her?

There is nothing wrong with me,

It is her stupidity.

To not see me for what I could be.

You are not what you could have been!

Then why blame her for what she should have seen?

Taken her side have you?

Without any consideration for my position or view.

Don’t feel sad,

or be at me, angry and mad,

I know it is indeed pitiful for your love is very true!

What counsel do you have then for me?

If at all you are wise enough to give any.

Simple, Let go of her

Simple but not easy

Don’t bother, don’t bother,

 time will heal you

and put your heart in good order.

The Roots

Chapter-1             
There was nothing, I could not see anything, there was no warmth nor was there any chill, I could not hear anything nor could I feel the silence pressing upon.
My thoughts were my only companion, these too had a strange form of their own, I was not thinking in any language, what I was going through was pure emotion, bouts of happiness, anger, feelings of affection, sadness and many more for which I have no words to describe, these feelings though were not directed at anyone or anything. These waves of emotion took a while to die down, for which I had to focus my concentration on the question of WHERE AM I?
I tried to open my eyes, I wasn’t sure if I even had eyes, I couldn't feel any weight, am I in space? I wondered; my thoughts more concrete. Well, if I were in space how did I get here? to answer that, where was I before this?…WHERE WAS I?
I could feel the weight of an immense consciousness pressing upon me, feeding me these thoughts but I couldn’t connect to it. I could not find any memory. It was a complete void, I had only questions and no answers. But, have I asked all the questions yet?
I tried hard to remember again but to no avail, all the memory I had was that of being in this vacuum,trying to open my eyes and whatever occurred since then. What is left for me to ask?
The answer in the form of yet another question popped up WHAT AM I? The unknown and immeasurable consciousness does seem to help me but in a very limited way of feeding me these thoughts. The thoughts which only raise more questions. As I was thinking, there was a flurry of shapes in-front of me . The shapes were unrecognizable, they did not make any sense they were as good as my void. But I could make out that they were distinct shapes all different from each other.
I kept wondering. I figured it was futile trying to answer these three questions.Oh! three?, now I had an understanding of numbers?, not aware if this was my own knowledge or what is being served to me, I kept counting to see if there was an end until I was disturbed by a jolt. The jolt had almost broken my stream of thoughts. I was now more aware of my being.  I had many thoughts running parallelly now, much of it a blur, some threads of it were constrained and guided, some of them were unbridled and random. I felt the weight of my own conscious it was still miniscule compared to the overbearing one that keeps puzzling me.
There was yet another Jolt, this was stronger, much stronger, the emotions started rippling again. The connection with the consciousness was becoming weaker now. I did not want to be stuck in that formless hollow null again. but what hope do I have? I don’t know where I am?, I don't know where I was? I don’t know what or who I am?, all I had was this particular experience and the one drive to find the purpose of my being.
How did it all start……Eyes…I was trying to open my eyes…..Just as I thought this was a string with which I could answer my questions. The words and thoughts along with any significance they had vanished, the memory of my experience was gone and the connection to the consciousness was severed. I was being pushed out into an abundance of senses, it was an over load, it was too bright and too loud.

X-X-X

To be continued……….

To Communicate

A feeling;
a need to convey the feeling to achieve a desired result;
real world gestures,
physical expressions,
sounds and words.

This describes what amounts to communication in a certain perspective.

Communication is one among the few foundations which support the human civilization ; its existence & its achievements(however pointless they both might be).

What follows is in part a reply to the paranoid post of my pessimistic pal Sharkey...
Here is the Link...   Sharkeys Blog

The both of us have had innumerable discussions on this very topic and our communication process has now taken a new form; of that of blog posts. A very constrained form wherein neither will be carried away by the immediate controversial statement that one might make,which often steers the discussion away from the main subject (and we end up discussing other fantastical stuff :D, without ever reaching a conclusion ).

Now to the matter at hand.
I was going through some numbers; I was not surprised to find out that the total number of Facebook users from USA and the Population of USA (in between age 15-45 years) is almost same. That is a 1/3rd of US population and almost near 100 % of a certain age group.

 

 This means that the social fabric has changed. The way people convey their feelings to each other has changed;Communication has changed. To put things in perspective( of the old ways Vs new ways of communication). The old ways were intense; very much more intense compared to the new ways of communication. Nothing compares to seeing the smile on your Girl friends face; notice the sparkle and the small tear of joy that drops down her cheek on seeing you after a long time.There is an absolute  lack of this intensity in any Virtual form of communication. you might have a HI DEF video chat with her and might notice the tear and sparkle in the eye but never will you feel the warmth of the entire experience in her embrace.Yet, here we are with 800 million active users on Facebook. The virtual means of communication is not a completely ridiculous idea. One doesn't have to travel daily from India to USA so that he can tell her he loves her or to find out if she is doing well or to crack a wise joke with her...so on and so forth the convenience of staying in touch is just too cosy to give up.

Facebook( or the Face that sharkey fears ) is a virtual means of communication.
All Virtual means of communications are in large passive communications; without the Active real world communications to back them up they will fizzle out and die ergo virtual communications will never be able to convey what was actually intended. To make it more clear....

Lets say you try to develop a relationship with a girl entirely in the sphere of  virtual communication.
You saw her Profile on Facebook; you truly like her from the little of what you see through status updates, album pictures, interests and activities.and she also likes you back though your Facebook profile and you get a hint of it through your interactions with her over the virtual domain. This relation ship will not last untill you meet her personally.; you will at some point of time get so busy that u wont be able to keep up with this passive form of communcation ( keep up with her status updates) and the liking will eventually come down. had you met her in real life, then there is some part of of your real self dedicated to her and your communications to her will be independent of whether or not u have a good internet connection and whether or not your PC got spoilt.:) . The Passive WILL NOT LAST without the ACTIVE.

So sharkey there is nothing to be uncomfortable with virtual means of communication(/facebook) it will never replace the active form. One should learn to use both of them to effective use and be better at whatever that one wants to achieve.

Coming to the other issue that bugs you. There is definitely an information over load on Facebook in its current form. On a certain level Facebook is  just a tinted mirror of the real world society wherein existence of dislike is not acknowledged. Just as in the real world if you put too much information about yourself in the public domain you are inevitably going to land up in trouble . People have yet to come to learn this in the Facebook world. Besides, the information that you put online about yourself is what your trading when you freely enjoy GMAIL and FACEBOOK. ( The cost of free as one might put it). SO if each and every single user decides not to share his interests etc and not to let GMAIL and FACEBOOK sift through your emails and status updates for Keywords. Then the ventures wouldn't be viable economically and will shut down.



By the way nobody is asking you to see the status updates of everyone and then compliant that everyone is narcissistic.....you could just look away(or more appropriately unsubscribe/block the user whose status updates you don't want to see). as to the few persons who are in your friends list and you cannot unsubscribe ..well they are narcissistic in the real world too cant help it( Facebook amplifies the real world qualities in most cases).

Eventually people will learn not to make there life completely public.