Post # 11 # On Friends, Facebook and Fellowship

Friendship, at times it's funny, how a keyboard and a mouse have redefined its meaning entirely. From Yahoo Messenger to Facebook, this journey of wonderful fellowship has come a long way. Don't you think?

This is the age of digital friends. Too many cliche has been written, too many appreciation of the new-found relation and too many damnation of its futility. But in the last couple of years, I have met some of the most interesting folks through Facebook, Twitter and of late, Google+. How different was it in the early days when we used to befriend only with those we study together or those live in our locality! I'd like to emphasise again that it's not dependence or seeking sympathy from the virtual world, still, it's quite amazing to meet the folks, first on the screen then in spirit.
I have a dozen of folks in my mind; all of them are great souls that I would not dare think about unfriending them. All along we have enjoyed our camaraderie. Out of them, I have the privilege of meeting around five of them -- large on the screen, larger on the life.

A friend to all is a friend to none, it sounds quite a quality of those crooked politicians but the aphorism has found new meanings too; for a person having 1,000 friends must be an attention-seeking moron or someone who hones his/her social skills through the net. It's not a good quality, nonetheless, there has been a lot of alteration in our everyday vocabulary and understanding of supposedly wise sayings.

Change is truly the only constant thing. We are finding new fellowship in our journey of life. It's more important how this phenomenon is affecting our happiness and development. Otherwise it's better we just log out.  

Post # Three # Social Consciousness

If only our environment is as serene
as that of the nature's

The new morning light brings some fresh light of awareness. What's a day without something new to learn? Out of the thousands of thoughts that come and rush down every minute, it is quite a worthy try to catch on a couple of them and elaborate them in a plain language. Precisely, the light of awareness this morning hours, is some muse on recreating ourselves from what our environment has been creating in us.

We are what our environment is. Our family, parents, friends, people we talk to... The television and radio shows... The websites we go to usually... and things like that. But the most important thing is to control how these environment are shaping us. There is an artist in everyone of us. We have to mold the influences, recreate ourselves and the fact is we can do it if we think we can do it. But is simply the awareness that we have to or can create anew enough? Nope. But the very consciousness is the first step towards a new holistic living. And we have to learn to to control our action and emotions. Then we can try creating a new character in us. Something interesting and memorable. And finally, flexibility is the 'in' thing: to be light when it is dark and to be dark when it is light or to be what the situation demands.

A lot of blabbering so early! I have been constantly bogged down by the things happening around us, a lot of killings and murders, several bomb blasts here and there, spineless government, corruption unabated, or else excruciating ennui that eats the emptiness that ever fills the landscape. I want a life out of this miserable cocoon. So it's worthwhile, I believe, that some kind of awareness can take me out or take the wretched things out of my life.

Post # Two # Movies, Friends and Drinks

Cheers!

Last night, I was with some of my friends. We usually condemn the establishment when we are drunk. When we are sober, there are only frustration and depression. We feel so helpless that we feel all of us should be conscious... conscious of the things that are happening around us, should be objective, should continue the deliberation and take a concrete decision and things like that. Decisions like how we we should be behaving and thinking, how we should elect our representatives in the election, how we could live in a just and peaceful society. But the ideals are quite another thing: for example without comparing, Adolf Hitler had an ideal, Karl Marx had an ideal, Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Emerson... and in contemporary times, there are so many people in diverse fields from Schopenhauer to Carl Jung. Yet it is unfortunate to note that the reality is a farce that ever churns out the most contradictory things.

Well, well. The discussion should not be an upset.

Nothing taste better than a few drinks and a nice dinner with delicious fish dishes. And what could be more better than a nice movie after the meal. Movies can be a hot topic for discussion and can be a sort of lullaby-type for their sleep-inducing quality. And yesterday, we watched "Fuck the Documentary," which left us with nothing much to blabber but was amazed at how this wonderful word 'fuck' has a lot of connotations and denotations, more than a big, fat poetry that talks about the trees and woods and flowers. We watched the docu and dozed off. A new day in the horizon.