Firstly thank you everyone for following this blog. This
blog is one of the four blogs that I write on. I had gone a bit inactive in
between as I was living a very crucial part of my life and enjoying it to the
fullest. And while I was doing that, I was also figuring out a way to merge all
my blogs on one place and that’s when I found tumblr and fell in love with its
simplistic interface. So therefore, I’ve imported all my four blogs on a single
tumblr blog @ www.punkster101.tumblr.com
I shall be writing there from now on.
Hoping to see you there!
Cheers!
Punkster
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Dear whomever-it-can-apply-to,
When it's a temporary life where you won't take anything with you, why not choose your indulgences carefully ? Why not drop attitude, pride and ego ? Why not embrace love, care and humbleness ? So that you can generate bliss not only for yourself but for others around too. So that you can enjoy the magic as long as it lasts, with an open heart.
Love, Me
PS- This letter is for you. If you're full of an attitude, due to the ability of only thinking and not feeling. You may win, arguments and competitions, but you're not winning affection and emotional approval. And you're not living in the true sense.
You're like that grumpy person looking at everyone dancing. Standing there, restricted by pride and thought. I say, drop it all, and dance to the tune of life and you'll be happier. Trust me.
Remember that familiar person who existed once upon a time?
Who had an enthusiasm to be honest, to blurt out the truth without the need of
being politically correct, without the desire to be poetic, without the desire
to display linguistic prowess. Who was that ? A glimpse of that person can be found in old
status updates, or in old blog post where you didn’t care to correct the “loose”
as “lose”.
Today, you might be ashamed of being that person but that’s who you
actually are. As a child, you were that person, and then you grew up to be that
person, but now you run away from that identity because it does not abide by
the guidelines of the accepted worldly behavior. So now, you’ve created the
pseudo worldly identity, to try and get on the receiving end of attention,
applaud or even affection. You’ve become a person that people would like,
irrespective of your own liking towards yourself, you’ve become a person that
may not be you.
The filters of right and wrong, cool and uncool have changed
you. Away from them, as a child you were yourself. Now, no matter how much ever
you try to change by putting on the make-up, to build an identity that the
world recognizes. You will never ever truly change yourself.
Deep inside you’ll always be who you’ve always been, despite
the worldly liking.
So call that person again, and let him reside in your inner
being. For then you'll stop pretending.
PS- I could’ve written about the new Galaxy S4 but I’m being
myself and acting as if I’m unaware of the current affairs.
We’ve come really far, to the age of “cool”. It’s where
minds tick like time bombs and hearts beat out of time. We’ve progressed. (“Have
we?” Is the question I always hear at the back of my head, but I simply ignore
it like Viagra spam mails I receive in my inbox)
Yes, we’ve come really far.
I write this while listening to this song:
Yes, I listen to similar songs especially at nights. They give me a
sense of calm by taking me back to the outdated era when “progress” hadn’t hit
us. Ah, yes those times were about everything that touched the heart.
Mushiness, Humor, Bright clothing. Our minds weren’t interfering in whatever we
indulged in.
There were songs like this:
this:
and this:
Yes, these were the dance moves of those days that now seem outrageous.
Then there were songs like
this:
this:
and this:
And every
other song was similar. Songs which can be today be easily tagged as uncool, boring, sentimental
and similar fancy words we use being the awesome, epic and legendary people that we've become.
Why? Why is this difference? Why the beautiful of one
generation becomes the funny of the other? Because we’re constantly filling the
gaps in our lives in different ways. Gaps in our lives that were once upon a
time, filled with contentment of the heart are now filled with the stimulation
of the mind. It reminds me of the hippie era which gradually changed before
going crazy. Psycho-actives that were initially used for mind expansion and
spirituality became “cool-quotient” increasers with the entry of cocaine and
thereby became a source of mere satisfaction and thrill.
The similar cycle is followed today the crazy hippies that
we were once upon a time in the 90s are not what we are today, we have learnt the
language of “cool” and everything that we see, hear or read passes through the
strict filters of the mind with or without reaching our hearts.
With progress, our minds are opening up, and our hearts are closing.
Yes, we’re in age of cool, on our way to constant progress.
But I don’t know if there are many, who still have open hearts that still
belong to the old days of backwardness. I don’t know if there are many, who
prefer listening to those “uncool” songs on their headphones late at night, to
smile a little. If you are one, drop a comment with any Youtube link that you
may open up at nights, to smile a little thinking, how good were we without
any progress.
PS- This post may not make sense to many, and may seem uncool. That's the point, it doesn't make sense (today) it honestly is uncool (today)
