The Geometry of Life

I always wondered if life is about connecting the dots and if it is how does one go about connecting those dots?

Maybe there are two approaches (getting into a bit of elementary geometry here)

1. The Line Approach

Keep connecting the dots in a linear fashion as you move forward/higher. Pretty simple and straightforward approach, just connecting them one after the other.

But hey, looks like we have a bit of a problem here. How does the farthest/highest dot talk to the first dot (the lowest one). Looks pretty cumbersome now.

The first dot symbolizes what we truly started as and the last one tells what we have become. We lost touch with the first dot somewhere as distances between the higher dots and the first dot kept growing.

Maybe we lost touch with our true self !!!

2. The Circle Approach

As in the line approach we start with the first dot but the difference is that the other dots get connected around the first dot growing in a circular fashion.

We might not create a big circle but we surely can create one in which all the dots are directly/indirectly connected to the root/first dot (the same applies to line approach too) but also the distance between the outermost dots and the root dot is not very high.

We feel more in touch with the root dot or in other words more in touch with ourselves !!!

Ah, I remember Mr Amitabh Bachchan saying the same thing in Baghbaan. Life is not a ladder that you climb its a tree firmly attached to its roots that you grow.

Man i make things so complicated (geometry and stuff) :)

Small town child...

I looked out of the window and saw the hills covered by fog
All I see now are "small" skyscrapers in the distance, covered by smog
I was a small town child then...

I saw the rains washing away all the stains
All I see now is the rains filling the drains
I was a small town child then...

I looked out of my school bus and saw the beautiful valley
All I see now is slums and narrow alleys
I was a small town child then...

The sky was so blue and the fields so green
The sky here seems to have lost its sheen
I was a small town child then...

The gifts of nature I used to take for granted
All those gifts here are most wanted
I was a small town child then...

God please send me to my small town again...
God please bring back the child again...

Dreams

We all have our dreams. Without them our lives would be meaningless. Right from childhood we have had our fair share of dreams, most of them sheer fantasies but as we grow up,realism takes over and tends to colour our minds more than the fantasy of these dreams. So we begin to take the path most travelled and end up living lives which the world made for us and not the ones that we made for ourselves. Soon we begin to realize that as children what we dreamt and fantasized about, made us really happy whether be it going on a world tour, being the most famous person in the world, being a very creative person, scaling the Everest and the list is endless.

As the world grinds us and we take refuge in monotony and comfort zones, we loose touch with our dreams but we have one life to live and each dream is worth living for. So go chase those dreams. The triumph of achievement will be worth the effort.

As Robert Frost said...

"Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference"

Slowing Down

My thoughts today have travelled some distance back in time , maybe a couple of years. Back in school when an english teacher uttered these very simple words from a famous poem ,'Leisure'.

"What is this life if full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare."

As I remember these words I feel the claims made in this poem have truly been vindicated. Leisure seems to follow an inverse relationship with one's age . The older we get , leisure seems to elude us more and more .

Thats a mathematical explanation so lets leave it to that . We all know that science and mathematics cannot solve all our life problems and surely not where leisure is being spoken about .

The world glorifies speed and crucifies leisureliness. The so called business of life is being conducted in a frantic pace that we fail to see small wonders and derive pleasure out of them.

Perhaps even our action packed bollywood has also realised this and composed very apt lyrics . Sharukh sings and I quote

"Tu sabr to kar mere yaar
zara saans to le dildar
chal fikr nu goli maar
haule haule ho jaayega pyaar"

Life is like premium wine which matures with time and has to be sipped patiently . Lets fill our glasses and say "cheers" to life .....