Its been 2 odd hours that I've been whiling away time sitting in my cubicle, browsing through a multitiude of blogs, and pausing to peruse a few of them, too! And I am overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of what people have to say and write. There were ramblings about the loss of innocence and the proverbial "pause-to-smell-the-flowers" in the jet-age. There were musings over the end of an epochal four years of college, with nostalgic flashes into the past. There were introspective thoughts on the purpose of life, triggered by a heart-wrenching site of a decrepit urchin. There were the silent screams of a recluse who unearths solitude in a crowd. And there were calls of returning to the lap of mother nature, a delicious commentary on contemporary soccer and a retrospect on turning a particular age, feeling one is getting too old for comfort. In short, there was "everything".
OVERWHELMED is the only word that remotely comes close to describing my feeling at this instant. I feel dwarfed in the sheer weight of intellectualism that is floating around me. I realise that people think, people feel and people write. Kudos to the authors of all these blogs for providing so much food for thought that I am now nurturing the fear of surfeit.
Apropos the first blog, I am reminded of a poem I read a long time back in the TOI Sacred Space titled "Slow Dance". It emphasized on the importance of being slow & receptive in life. It is true we have tons of information being thumped upon us for consumption, but it is simply not possible or plausible to gobble down every scintilla of information and knowledge, lest the soul's stomach be damaged :D It is important to take pleasure in doing things in life. I accept I myself am a victim of the "speed" syndrome, but I do try to make a conscious effort to slow down, pull in the reins once in a while and pause !!! Hope, I don't lose my spirit.
These blogs make me realize that I still have a lot to learn about life. So its best to keep your sensors and senses open at all instants, because you never know when a particular incident, a particular sight, a particular insight, a particualr thought or even a particular "nothingness", can change the dimensions of your mortal existence.
5 comments:
you write well. and thanks for going through my ramblings, incoherent though they seem to be at times. i'm sure everyone has a lot to say and it is heartening to know that there still are people out there who have the time to listen. so, keep on writing. ur preciseness with words is a great gift. keep up the good work!
And there were calls of returning to the lap of mother nature
hmm...i think i know someone who loves nature and even i feel dwarfed in the sheer weight of intellectualism that is floating around me after reading his thoughts :D
it encourages me when someone reads my blogs(people rarely read them coz they don't know anything about the beautiful game :D :D)...thanks for going through my articles(unlike our nature boy doesn't have TIME to read anything written by others)
abe YOUUU feel dwarfed... hum to pis ke choora ho gaye tab! :)
Hi pd...
U have always astonished with with your vast vocabulary.... then sieveing of words for finding the exact and best words to describe a situation.
This article is is no exception to that.
Really there is so much knowledge and so much to learn ... no doubt that u are overwhelmed!!
After reading this article, your overwhelmness ... as a contagious phenomenon ... has gripped me too...
Thanks for such a wonderful post ... and all the best!!
First of all let me make it clear, that i m not good at English,So understanding this was really a difficult task for me, but PDM was insisting to read.
Now since I have read it, I found that PDM is really idle in MS and moreover i think MS has been cheated by this "FATTEBAJ".
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