[Coffee, my dear people, makes me do weird things at times. You might notice that I'm willingly passing on the blame to ol' coffee. But then- that's that. I strongly suggest you put aside your brains while going through this, erm.. post. Let your brains have some coffee. And thank you, Nikhil Mane, for that one particular line. Cheers,]
Crazy Coffee, Crazy Coffee, What would I do without you? I drink you deep From a yellow mug, From a red cup, From a giant white mug And from a black one too! You keep me so happy! Crazy Coffee! Crazy Coffee!
That day, you remember? You milky brown thing, do you remember? You're black, are you.. do you remember? It was cold. It was damp. I made you Hot. Oh so darn Hot! I had you Hot. Oh so amazingly Hot! And you were so warm and fuzzy. You made me so happy! My Crazy Coffee. My Crazy Coffee.
"Spanish Eyes.." sings Matt Monro. "Crazy Coffee Eyes.." sing I. When blood enters my coffee stream, Oh the Beatles don't shine, Beach Boys don't shine no more. Cyndi Lauper does fade Even Dylan shines no more. When blood enters my coffee stream. Oh Crazy Coffee, keep it flowing! I need no blood, just want you Coffee! What would I ever do without you?
*starts howling*
Craaaaaazzzzzyyy Cooooffffeeeee! Youuuu keep my brain working, baby! Youuuu, I truly won't flatter. Youuuu, keep my kidneys working, baby! Youuuu fill up my bladder. Annie fills up John Denver's senses. But you, Coffee, make me lose mine. Craaaazzzyyy Coffee! Crazy Cooofffeee! What wooould I doooo without youuuu?
*stalks around glancing sideways suspiciously* *points threateningly*
They! They have their eyes on you! They aim to take you from me! I seem to be going insane.. Should I let myself be?
*howls again*
Because yoooouuuuu have my senses! Oh yoooouuuu have made me MAD! What is this I write these days, Coffee?! Why this, Crazy Coffee?! Craaaazzzzyyyy Cooofffeee! Btw my new mug is blue. :P
The kite fluttered in the air, A single string tied it to the earth. The kite sang a song of longing, It sang a song of love. The kite hummed a melody of the birds. It's string, shone bright in the wind. The kite fluttered in the high wind. The kite fluttered inside me.
The dew glistened on the leaf. The dawn arrived with its lustrous light. The wet leaf soaked in the morning, Though night was none the less pleasurable. The leaf shook off the dew, The seductive droplets, wanted no more. It was a morning leaf now And it smiled at me.
Finally my thoughts find words. And I stand amidst the world. It moves, I don't. I move, it doesn't. We complement each other. I paint the wind. It carries the streaks around. Bright colors, waves, blots, smiles.
Single strands, thin, powerful. Dripping with intensity. Thin strands all around. Magnanimous in their gestures. Simple in their meaning. Infinite in their existence. Momentary is their presence.
Words often don't make sense. They just tumble out, And it's even funnier Because the chatter is silent, And it's the nib that does the talking.
Words often limit our thoughts For they have a structure And poetry is simply an attempt at forging the Unknown. An extempore play, When the mind is set loose Upon one's world.
Is this poetry? I do not know. I'll call it words, structured. To soothe me early this morning. Random thoughts kiss me good morning. :)
Existence People change over time. So do we. I changed and certain books helped me. 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra 'Man's Search For Meaning' by Viktor E. Frankl 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera 'Children of the Matrix' by David Icke .. and many many more.
I'll put bullets to their most efficient use because that makes it very easy to read and digest what we write. The very concept of 'writing' and 'posts' and 'books' exists because we believe in it. We believe that it's one of the most effective ways of communication. For now, I believe too. I believe that bullets are good to put those points down. Bullets, so they go!
What has boosted me to write this post?
- A certain tension between two parts of my mind. This is necessary to motivate, to think, to exist meaningfully. When a certain tension is created, it enables us to travel from point to another. We strive to be somewhere else, to reach somewhere else from the point on which we currently stand.
- Search for meaning. I've increasingly started seeing the bigger picture of every single happening in my life. There is a meaning behind my happiness, behind my suffering and behind all the relations with people around me. This is rather like the justification I'll make to understand the box in which I live but then, I'll touch that point later.
- Strength and Stability, of mind. I write to think and know. I publish to see what individuals around me have to say. That helps me think more and know more. :)
Our Perception of Reality
I love this. I really do. Now tell me, what is real and what is not? We feel and we see and voila! We hear. All this in the small frequency range that we exist in. We cannot see most of the radiations, we cannot hear most of the sounds and same goes with feeling things.
Go into any random apartment. Make sure that the outermost walls of the apartment reflect radio-waves and the inner walls don't. The inner walls can reflect only those radiations in the visible range. When your eyes 'see' the visible frequencies only, you see the apartment with all its rooms and passageways. Now tune in to the radio frequency. All you can perceive are the outside walls.
Perception of Reality changes with You. Change the way you see things, everything changes. Change the way you think and the box widens.
As Dr.Frankl puts it- "Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it." When we detach ourselves from our own lives, its sufferings and its material joys; we can understand what is really going on. It is not being cold, not being distant, it is purely understanding the situation and where it stands. Efforts should be made to form a 'clear and precise picture' of it.
"Nothing would be what it is, Because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
We change. We change the world around us. Because the world is merely a reflection of ourselves. Our world is our perception of reality. And it is always going to stay that way.
Search For Meaning All Around You
Well, yeah. Otherwise stay clueless! Whine about stuff! Blame the unknown! Everything has a meaning. No book claims this, no hidden secret scroll will tell you this. You see? We tend to believe in secret scrolls, ancient wisdom purely because it was written ages ago by supposedly learned men. We don't believe because we understand the meaning behind it. We believe because the population believes. If one points in the other direction, he is beaten down, discouraged.
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow." (Charles Brower)
"Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt" (but everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find)" ('Ethics' by Spinoza)
The World Is Flat Sun revolves Around the Earth All these were accepted as universal truths at a time. Can you imagine the courage required to raise a voice against it?
The basic essence of every thought provoking theory is the search for meaning around us. During this search, we ask questions. And then as we get the answers, we understand and we grow.
We don't look for meaning because we have to. There is no such thing as the mankind being brought into this world to fulfill its frigging destiny and stuff. Well rather, we don't know. But our existence, every existence, simply is. And that brings into the picture, a certain task. Our life is filled with numerous tasks. Some frivolous, some important and some basic. In every task, you get from somewhere to somewhere. A goal, for the time-being. "I need to empty that coffee mug." "I need to give that test niiicely." "I need to give that guy/girl a tight hug." "I need to beat the crap out of him/her." :P See? A goal, for the time-being. And that goal ends up being the meaning of that momentary existence. That momentary existence is a fabric. Stitch the many fabrics together and we have a quilt called 'Life'.
When we live and go through joys and sufferings, and we don't think "Why?", we live in a vacuum. We just go through the river of time like a log and die someday. No questions asked. No eyebrows raised. A zombie life and a zombie death.
As The Verve frontman sings- "'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life Trying to make ends meet You're a slave to money then you die"
Well, it's not! Not when you know why you're doing certain things. Not when you know the meaning behind your actions.
When we try understand the meaning behind everything, we become positively detached. That enables us to find a solution wisely. That enables us to react in a better way. The suffering suddenly stops being a suffering and becomes just an experience! And we grow as individuals, instead of getting stuck in the rut.
Hardwired Optimism
I had read somewhere that if you hard wire yourself as an optimist or a pessimist, and if you are thrown in any shocking situation; you reel under the shock but ultimately churn out products according to your system. An Optimist will show all symptoms of shock but in the end, simply come out grinning wide. How come? Because he has wired his system that way! I'll touch Psychosomatic Disorders in some other post.
"Live Free, or Die!"
Let us all live wisely and well. Let us all realize that our lives are parallel. Beyond a certain limit, each one of us is free! Free of emotional ties and social responsibilities.
As Shikhar put it- "Every hurdle is a launchpad." Easier said than done? Rather- easier done than said. Simply believe and it is done already.
Suffering has a meaning. Problems exist to be solved. Accepting problems to be problems is itself a huge problem! Finding a way around every 'hurdle' is recommended.
We are free. Free to Live. Hard wire yourself to be Optimistic. :)
