Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

               I don’t know at what moment the thought strike my mind to write weekly, I have been drowned in endless thoughts without any gap since then. It has been a heavy duty to my brain thinking about the past posts, how the public receive them, thinking about future posts – churning a concept from a plethora of thoughts, ruminating on it and absorbing for genuineness, generating lot of intensity, withering pressures from intolerant public and everything else which puts burden on my head. There must have been no one who is as efficient in using the brain as me. I remember entering this kind of phase at the flag end of my foreign trip and getting disoriented. I escaped from the scene and returned to home nation which eased the burden. Now, I don’t see any escape route and going through it every week entrapped. I am going through it all for whatever reason but hope it won’t get much severe than this and cause damage. A good day-time sleep ...

           There have been many instances of me writing something satirical about the big nation and I think it went over the board in my last attempt. There raised some behavioural questions pertaining to my strong criticism and I invited all the trouble to myself. I know I am a little kid and have no age, qualification and authority to criticise a big brother but doing it for the sake of revealing a mix of facts with gags. I apologise to one and all for my behaviour which is not entirely in good taste. There are few reasons why I do it. First is to pin-point a bad policy. Secondly, for the sake of irony and to evoke some giggles which is what I get personally. I laugh in many instances when I come across the eccentric ways of someone or something. It’s my weakness since I was a child not to take things seriously and make fun out of life. Long back someone asked ‘What have you achieved that you are smiling’. I wanted to say that I smile at nothing but ...

               Ever since past many years, any known person when he comes across, some of the most common questions to me are – ‘How’ are you?, ‘How’ are you doing?, ‘How’ is life?, and many ‘how’ questions with a stress on ‘how’. These questions are posed to me since I lead such a pathetic life. I know I am different but that should not make me a ‘how’ man. How I do such things – the experience dates back to 9 to 10 years when I came into public life and became extremely public person. Those who observed me noted at that time itself as to how I can lead such a life. Leading such a life for 5 years took me to the foreign nation where I continued to lead the same life and had to return back because of such deeds in foreign nation. This oscillation happened for few years where I did not find my footing at any place and lead a nomadic life.                I settled for the last three years but still go ...

                 One of the ways to look at my last 3 month journey is I worked like a CM of a state, PM of a country, CEO of a company, Dean of a college, Principal of a school, leader-in-chief and every individual where the buck stops. It has been my basis since past many years but feverishly increased in the last 3 months. It also has to do with my weekly updates which have reached a new pitch. No one can agree more with the fact that I am doing a great job within my means. Here I would like to touch upon a point which most Indians do. Everyone draws a boundary around them and never comes out of it. They never assume higher responsibility or act above their roles. They are extremely content in their own little roles and find it happy at the end of the day if they are getting paid for it. Many are content to follow than to lead. As a result of this herd mentality success or failure of a state or any en...

             There are instances in every ones journey through life where we are rated more than what we are capable of. As a kid, I often showed sparks of brilliance which prompted my elders to have high expectations from me. But time and again I proved them wrong. I shine at my own level but not at the level they thought about me. This recurred so many times as I grew up that the hollow me delivered little amid high expectations in a situation. This is what my real self is – to drive people think greatly about me but actually deliver very less. To take an example, I started to write these weekly posts which made people think highly about me and assume me as something and something. They think – ‘he is writing every week, seemingly has everything and can do anything’. They simply can’t get over the veil of expectations and see the big nothing in me. Welcome to the over-rated club for which I am the President.          ...

                 While I am writing serial blog posts on personal experiences and covid-19, it might look in some angles like I am crazy doing all this. It is crazy because nothing is real about this blogging. I don’t get any direct comment on the post. I lose a night sleep every week without getting anything in return. I lose many hours in thinking about the present, past and future posts. I assume all my readers as anonymous with no one giving any direct comment or feedback. I read through tweets of anonymous readers for indirect comment or feedback. This blog-writing in a way is a classic example of highest levels of hallucination or delusion – the author is anonymous, readers are imaginary, feedback or comment is indirect or imaginary, the effect it produces is imaginary and finally everything about it is a big imagination.              ...

             It has been nearly 10 weeks or more since I started to post weekly updates. This more frequent approach has taken its toll on me. It has to do with trying to reach expectations followed by lot of thinking on the past and future posts. Dangerous levels are reached so much so that a small nagging pain has started in my head. I thought of discontinuing the weekly exercise but still going ahead for now. I may stop at any time if I found it to be overpowering me. My plan was to reach 10 posts and stop the serial. I can be content with what I have achieved given my limited faculties. But these days greed has overtaken me and I have given in to it. It has become one of the perspectives through which my work can be seen. Many a time these days, I was never satisfied with what I did in a short span of time and always want more. The decision making neurons are favouring the greedy option and sending me ahead in that direction.     ...