Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

The world today is running on consumerism. The constant need to buy and consume is fuelled by everything and everyone around us. When does it stop? I woke up today to notice and realise and be grateful for, that I have everything I need. There is nothing that I don't have! And it's a funny feeling...because I'm so used to buying, just like everyone else. May be it's time to delete the Amazon app on my phone, till I need something again! What will happen to the world if such a day comes? How will companies justify the salaries of their C suite and the greed of their investors? But one thing is for sure ..that the day common man would have reclaimed his life. He would not borrow for things he doesn't need and have more time to do things our ancestors did - like socialising, nature walks, watching the sunrise and feeling grateful to the God who gave us this beautiful world to experience. A toast to this thought😊

Trust me when I say that you are lost. You are. The instincts that you inherited through thousands of years of evolution, are all silenced, altered and domesticated by today's grooming by the society. You were born to be happy. You were born to find joy in the sunrise and changing seasons. You were born to enjoy this beautiful nature. Not to die worrying about credit card payments and homeloans Definitely not to stress over weight gain eating junk food made from genetically modified plant and animal products. Find yourself. There is God within you. Fine the light. And illuminate your life and of the people around

We are in uncertain times. It is getting difficult to find stability and peace. How can we prepare ourselves to be able to help ourselves? Here are a few points Happiness: We have to find ways to be happy without any outside help. We have the power to be happy from within and in our company. Exercise: To keep our bodies working fine, we must exercise regularly and move. Afterall, our bodies are the only home we have in this world Learn: Living is learning. Let's make that our motto in life. Learning should never stop till we are breathing Pray: There is so much in this world we can't control. All we can do is pray. And, we might just be able to live a happy and content life. Thank you for reading this. Even if one person benefits from this, I have achieved my goal. God bless! 

There are so many problems I see around. Most of the time I really can't do anything about it. But, I can pray. I can pray for strength. I can pray for someone else to be alright. I can pray for someone else's problem to be relieved. In the winter when I'm shivering under my blanket, I pray that the people who don't have the blanket even to get warmth through little miracles. I can pray for the hungry to get food through some miracle. Let's all continue to pray may be that way we can have a more peaceful planet!

We don't meet people like Columbus anymore. Someone who risked everything to travel and find Newlands. Virgin territories for humanity. Today we are so obsessed with our gadgets, that we are moving away from the real world. We are not travelling enough. We are not aware of our surroundings.  We are not one with nature anymore. I'm worried. Are you?

We stopped being nomads ten thousand years back... And like stagnant water, our decay started. We formed boundaries that never existed before But we became the prisoners within them We let greed take over and we started finding joy outside us God was within us but we looked outside We became obsessed with winning We started killing for fun We chose to be cruel when we should have chosen to be kind We chose to kill when we should have chosen to collaborate We became a society full of plastic A society that glorified materialism A society that was dying from within A plastic world Will we ever come out of this plastic world? No one knows for sure Let's enjoy the nature what's still left Before we might start paying for the air we breathe We are dying as a race We are killing our own selves by eating junk and filling out minds with junk It's got to stop now We must turn back to nature and become free We must return to innocence For happiness and liberty