Nothing Ever Dies...

It is the faith in the heart
 That makes
 A dead dream
Worth resurrecting.

                               -haiku by unnamed writer.

This  is the picture of  the circuitry inside my brain.Latent images,memories  of incidents past,imprints of good or not so good experiences,people I have met.Just like the horseshoe impression left in the wet sand left by a horse minutes or hours before I was there,yet like a memory clinging to the last vestiges of recognance.

The brain like everything else is a machine.It needs to work at a certain pace not to rust and become a useless appendage.It also needs rest to repair and mend itself.

I see people around me,rushing.Rushing to prove that they are doing whatever the 'herd' thinks is in.Rushing to get in enough activity even on vacations so that they can stay ahead of the Joneses last vac!!Do they end up more tired post holiday?

How many of us have simply lain on a beach with a book we have wanted to read for ages?Or sat in that front yard of the Himalayan hotel looking at snowclad peaks?Or taken a scuba a few metres below the sea to look at the silent blue world down there?

Are we afraid that our friends or peers will call us lazy?Does our ego drive us ever onwards like lemmings towards an ocean of self destruction?

I read a beautiful quote somewhere that said,"Its good to sometimes pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy".

Guess as one ages the simple pleasures of childhood,the forgotten tastes come back stronger.At least it is so for me.

Yet it is more difficult to give the brain a rest than anyone may think.Just try to keep it blank and just in the trying sometimes the fears or phobias come back stronger.Even though I admire Deepak Chopra I do not agree that meditation done by a hungry beggar will make him forget his hunger or a person struggling with emotional or financial issues forget those.

The true Yogis spend years,sometimes lifetimes learning to disassociate self from soul.And most failed.We who struggle with the daily rigours of life are hardly capable.

So rather than put pressure on oneself to do what works for others just...pause.....and think what makes you happy.....and do that...!!

I was born by the river in a little tent

Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die

Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

Sam Cooke,1963

To be honest,Change always comes.It comes with the good,the bad and the ugly.Inevitably it comes.Like taxes and death,Change is a certainty.Some things go round but some things are gone forever.Let us accept and move on.

Yet having accepted everything,it galls me to see children and the aged begging on the streets.Not the countless Nobel laureates,the IIT and IIM grads and all those super-'thinktanks' have a solution.So I guess there aint a single-simple solution!

Nothing ever dies,it just changes shape.

Socialism is alive and well as many Americans found out during the 2008 bailout.Capitalism too took on a socialsitic face.Old fashions come back with new names.It is as if the atmosphere of this Earth holds in not only the entire 'matter' but also the soul of things as well.