Blessing Around

  Recently, I drove my mother to despair. I told that I was planning on getting a tattoo, a smiley face on my toe. She was not having any of it. Despite being an adult, I guess I will not stop being my mother's child. I decided not to get my toe inked, because the cost of my mother going through a gloomy episode is not worth any tattoo. After I had the conversation with her, I kept replaying what she was saying in my head, to pick out what exactly it was that irked her out about the idea. The major reason came out to be the permanence of the ink on my skin. It's a procedure that once it's finished it's almost irreversible. Then, that had me thinking about what else we go through, that is irrevocable once we have gone through it. It is not always a process with physical ramifications, at times the effects could be mental or emotional or spiritual.  The commonality in a lot of decisions is time, a very natural occurrence in our everyday existence. Time moves l...

Here is a conversation starter. If you could do anything with the  foreknowledge that you won't fail, what would you try? For a second there, whilst trying to answer that question, a spark ignites in a lot of people. Just the fact that for a moment a possibility starts to manifest into reality, one can get so easily carried away in excitement, because of what arbitrarily is in their grasp at the moment. Yet at the same time this flare of passionate daydreaming gets consumed by fear, and the voice that tells us how unfeasible our desires are, because we are not some protagonist in a fictional world. Where do these answers stem from, I wonder ? When you look back in history, about as far back to the time of serfdoms and landlords. If you were born a peasant you would most likely live as a peasant until the day you stopped breathing. I am sure the average peasant did not think much about a life outside of their peasantry. This being because it's all they ever knew, the...