Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

There is a tiny little compass within us, our conscience, the keeps giving us signals. There are times when it keeps warning us of the dangers of the city life we are living. It gives us hint of being at home when we are in the middle of nature. We are all like tiny parts of the nature we are so foolishly moving away from. And that's why we feel so much at home when we go to these places. We are parts of them - the air, the water, the soil, the fire that makes us us. Not the iphones and fancy toys we are so attached to these days. Let's make it a point to live closer to nature. To breathe pure air. To drink water unadulterated by modernism. To think thoughts that are pure and in tandem with the cosmos. There is a monk within us. Why do we hide him? Why do we not listen to him? We must. Before it's too late!

It's strange! In the last 10000 years, humanity has found a zillion ways to consume and plunder this planet. But has not found a single way to find happiness. Everything that we have done as humans is to make us unhappy by desiring for more. More pleasure, more money, money things, more showing off and more disasters We are moving away from the nature. We are consuming food that is more and more artificially processed. We are living in environment which is artificially controlled with ACs. We are trying to create a man made paradise when we still can't create another human What's the point of trying to be god when we are so hopelessly dependent on God for every need of ours? I don't understand I want to be happy. Happy and content. Content to have just enough of everything that will take care of me all of my life. I want to be free. Live life on my own terms and not just be a slave of the society which I have been ever since I'm born. Why? Why can't we choose fr