Reaching There

Lately I've been trying too hard to write. I've been adamantly searching for the next "higher" level of my writing. Eventually I cooked up a pressure so high that it strangulated my thought process. I was unable to write and sometimes even unable to think. Writing is a process with an extraordinary output yet the simplicity of the inputs leaves me dumbfounded. To simplify the process for my own convenience; a haphazard assortment of thoughts, inspiration, real events, language goes into one end and out comes a coherent chain of words which have the power to bring out human emotions from the farthest of corners. To draw a crude analogy, life behaves in a similar way as well. In goes all the marvelous capabilities, human sensitivities, inherent flaws, unwanted prejudices and out comes life; pure power capable of some of the most wonderfully divine things in this world. However like writing we sometimes strive too hard to live. The search for the next level of livi...

Complicated, clustered, burdened, lost. These and many more similar words fly around in our lives almost everyday. These words somehow manage to touch each and every aspect of our lives; affecting personal as well as professional fronts. The constancy with which these "emotions" appear in our lives is sometimes outright scary. However there are certain counteroffensive measures that can be used every time these emotions threaten to destroy the peace of our minds. Humility Perhaps the most underrated and overstated of emotion, which a human being can possess. In almost all religions humility is considered as a virtue. In fact in Hinduism it is considered as the foremost trait of a saint. What is so powerful about this emotion that even Gods' are attracted to it? Humility is submission to the fact that I am flawed. This acknowledgement immediately punctures the balloon called "ego". The second that balloon gets deflated I have relieved a great burden from myse...