Why is it that every thing seems predictable , preordained in the world so much so, that one feels a complete lack of enthrallment?
Our ability to laugh or gush or feel the goosebumps … has dulled.
We seem to have lost the gift of feeling the “wow’ factor in our everyday lives .
The last few decades have changed the world forever with its lightening speed of innovation.
The Age of innovation
The cyber revolution , the information explosion, internet , technology, metaverse AI , bullet trains, robotic surgeries, space exploration , transplant , stem cells ….. it’s absolutely mind boggling .
The human race has exceeded expectations when it comes to the quantum advancement in every field . And yet we distractedly ask .. “ what next ! “
As a thinking , feeling species, blessed with the most extraordinary sensory perception, we ambulate through our “made to order” lives like numb zombies. We have forgotten what that throbbing adrenalin rush of pure joy , thrill and excitement felt like which we often experienced in miniature , spontaneous moments of life earlier .
Those priceless memories ….
There were innumerable little triggers . Such as the pleasure of watching the infant rays of the sun burst through a charcoal sky to give birth to a another dawn , drinking in the heady smell of jasmine flowers on a delicate bough peeping through your bedroom window on a damp night, the thrill of hearing the voice of a beloved grand uncle on a lightning trunk call from another city , the joy of sipping a steaming cup of masala chai in a earthen cup on the banks of a river during a blue winter morning, watching the unadulterated joy on a bunch of children splashing water on a beach …
Lost in the Carnival of Life …
There are a million such cameos that pop up on my subconscious screen as I search for real joy in life . Many of these precious moments of ecstasy came in life without any pretense or artificiality and triggered an undulating wave of inner happiness .
We seem to have traded these micro moments in life for the bigger, wider , macro opportunities. It’s almost like we are little kids who got so overwhelmed by the daily spectacle around us, that we let go of the guiding hand of a loved one and are now lost in this ongoing carnival of life .
While this was inevitable and predestined , I just wish we could reclaim our ability to be pleasantly surprised by a thing or event and go into raptures of ecstasy!
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In a retro Metaverse
Recently, as we embarked upon a journey to dispose a family home in Delhi, I realized that handing over of
September 12, 2021
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