The Direction

At 11 45 pm, I expect anything but getting into a conversation with the auto driver. How much he needed to get into an engrossing conversation; the tone gave it away. For me, Loneliness has become an understatement. Anyway, I got into it so as not to disappoint his initiative (or was it probably inertia). I can vouch for the self doubt that arises on being discouraged. Slowly, I discovered that two different people, very different people, could have the same perspective towards various things. This was a first for me, at least the first time I took notice of. The transaction made me feel better about life and co existence. No longer did I feel deserted.

My adult self says:
Every relationship is a set of transactions. Each transaction has a pay off attached to both the participants. When this total pay off reaches a certain threshold score, a relationship is built. Every soul is always on the look out for transactions which lead to a relationship. However, one is equally negligent of those short lived transactions which don’t end up in a relationship. They fail to understand it too has a pay off. This pay off score, though not fruitful, will add up to make one a more compassionate human being; extremely useful in the larger scheme of things.

My blogwork was turning out to be a wannabeish, narrow imitation of visual experiences. But I might just have stumbled upon the real trigger which prompts my sub conscience to react. Surprisingly, this hasn’t arisen out of a visually appealing object but nevertheless, a beautiful mundane fact covered in the thick deep stains of materialism we seldom care to polish. My initial take was let me talk about the beautiful things in life. Visual arts is an aesthetically appealing perspective towards life. It makes the world look beautiful and hence, was a natural subject. However, I find that it is a mere subset of the infinite beauty surrounding us. Only if we care to look. Let us fill our already oversized bellies with all this beauty around us – visual or abstract.