B-Log

The world needs more storytellers,
To tell the stories of the future,
The future that we may never live to see,
The future that nobody might survive to see.

The world needs more storytellers,
To tell the stories of the past,
The past glories that we didnt see,
The past goriness that nobody ever wanted to see.

The world needs more storytellers,
To tell the stories of the present,
The presence of mine that you may not see,
The presence of your’s that I cannot see.

After using earbuds for a long time to listen to stuff on my phone, today I tried on a pair of headphones recently discarded by my dad. I was under an impression that my earbuds were delivering excellent quality of sound for what it had costed me. But these headphones for a lesser amount actually rendered a much better audio quality.

And this feeling of trying them on and the intial thrill and kick of experiencing this superior audio quality is just so overwhelming.

Wouldn’t it be great to something that when used, can render an experience similar to that. A service or product that renders a nicer, better experience everytime you use it with a certain familiarity.

There would be some examples of that in the cyber space but what about real life?

I’ve started to believe that the best things don’t exist. They exist but one doesn’t realise that they do. They are there and yet not there.

Only when you are not aware of things, is when things happen the best. I think too much effort is spent on being aware and less on doing something or anything.

Only when you stop being aware of yourself, is when you are at your best. Such are the best things in life.

It’s like a fun place to work. Work which does not feel like work at all. It’s fun. It’s one’s passion. And often I wonder if I should be getting paid for having so much fun?)
It’s like a good actor. Only when you don’t feel that he as ‘acted’ is when he has acted the best.
It’s like comfortable clothing. Only when you’re not conscious of what you’re wearing is when you’re at your natural self.
It’s like a good plan. A plan that works so smoothly and effortlessly that it doesn’t feel like a plan at all.
It’s like good design. Something that works so well and creates such an experience that it doesn’t feel like it has been designed. It feels like a part of one’s life.

Loud music, late night outings, nonstop dancing, a reason to dress up, a place to be seen at while listening to a selected few who are like a stuck record and rarely make any sense.

This is the new PG-rated night-life of the small towners. The nightly bhajan-kirtans and sabhas promoted by hoardings sprinkled around the town, declaring it to be your last chance of salvation. The spiritual and religious factors are again proven unchallengable.

Under this hide of spirituality, are the social and financial realms of it.
Every event is as big as a wedding, where one has to be seen in their best of attires and behaviours. Loud music somehow sends people in a bollywood-style-dance-trance, especially on sensing that one might be on camera. Family does not object to such late night ventures
Communities and sects formed for every guru, bad mouth each other. Not just the followers, the big guys themselves show their mastery at the art of sarcasm.

As a business, it’s probably one of the best option to turn black money into white. Touts placed strategic places within the crowd encourage people to donate. Huge budgets that combined could probably feed the entire nation. Some babajis at times take the liberty of revealing details of their palatial mansions. Religious channels feature only the ones they have signed up.

The content of every such sabha is almost identical to the other. Nothing new is seen or heard anywhere. And nothing makes real sense anyways. It isn’t a wonder that you don’t see them practicing their own gyaan.

More people attend these events than election rallies, without any tangible incentives.
What do they do? They use religion as much as political parties do, but offer benefits which are difficult to measure, are dependent on one’s sheer luck and not the leader’s actions.

In the list of crowd pullers, after bollywood and cricket, please welcome the new entrant… Babaji Inc.

Every step in sync. Moving in concentric circles. Matching every move to the beat.
And it doesn’t even take a few minutes to learn and become a part of it.
The power of our brain to learn and adapt.

This was the conscious. Imagine what all we pick up every other moment without even being aware of it!