Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

The world is back from the pandemic....like the sleeping beauty up from its slumber.  Things changed and nothing changed! There are people who connected within themselves during the two years of exile.  They realised that life is out there. Not in our cramped offices, not in our coveted homes, not in our emi laden expensive cars! The world is outside our comfort zone. We are all travellers in this beautiful world. So let's see the world that we have not seen! I have taken the first step. Planned my first solo trip when I'm nearly fifty. I'm planning to escape to the tranquility of Kasol, a sleepy mountain town in the Himachal of India. Will I find a new me? Will I lose the old me? I don't know...But i have partly lost myself during the pandemic like many of us. And i have found myself partially too  Let's see if things get better and life becomes more fun to live. Fingers crossed!

Be at home! We keep hearing this all the time when someone wants to make us feel comfortable.  Being at home is a feeling! It's a a place where we can be ourselves sans the masks we wear... Are we at home with ourselves? I know so many of my friends were not during the lockdown. I got frantic calls from so many of them saying they were going nuts with themselves. Why is it that many of us are not at home with ourselves? Is it because of the mental conditioning that we undergo from the time we are born? To blend in to this facade called society? To fit to the norms decided my the mediocre majority who have no clue about how to live, but preach everyone on the subject at every opportunity? There is a very famous writing in Hindi by a very famous poet which translates as when a blind man guides another blind man both fall in the well.  I think that is why we as a civilization are just drowning deeper into our own shit!  Because the people who are running are world are actually ruining

Are we really free? We are slaves of the lives we have chosen. We are slaves of our past decisions. We are slaves of our false ambitions that were ingrained in our mind by institutions like schools, colleges, family and community. We are trying to live someone else's dreaming by calling it our own. We are lost. All of us. Lost in the heaps of things that we are accumulating in our homes and our lives. The ads that make us salivate more for more.  What is the point of owning things that just give you nothing but more stress? We are the most stressed generation. We are worried about losing all we have that prevents us from enjoying what we really have. We are hooked on to social media that makes us more insecure and makes us feel more incomplete by seeing the touchedup happy images of our connections. The connections themselves are equally miserable if not more miserable than us. Why are we doing this to ourselves? Why can't we break free? Why are we bound to this false life of w

One word that defines us! Really? I don't know. I have not seen God. I have not seen at Atom too but I know the devastation it can cause. Just because I cannot see something doesn't mean it's not there. Likewise, just because I see something doesn't assure its existence! Our lives are really funny! We are sending our entire reality through our senses. And we believe it to be real. Strange! Destiny! What really is destiny? Is it Karma? Is it what Newton defined as action and reaction? It's vague! It's a belief! It's a Mirage. It's a way to console ourselves when we are handed a bad hand or given a good hand by sheer stroke of good luck! I don't know what my destiny looks like but i guess I'm destined to meet it. Amen!

We are all given millions of seconds to live. To experience, explore and enrich our ourlives in this human form. We all have a million stories hidden within us We all have a million dreams and wishes that we want to fulfil before we die We are all having a million desires that we strive to accomplish while we are here Then why do we only consider people with a million dollars as millionaires? Our lives, our experiences are all unique. They are priceless. We need to cherish these moments and be grateful! Grateful for being a human. Grateful for being born in this time when so much is changing around us. The earth itself is evolving and changing!  We are experiencing something that's divine. That is happening once in our life time We are all rich beyond our dreams. Let's be grateful 🙏