Once upon a time, friendship used to be a special bond for facilitating special kinds of exchange. Friends could differ from one another or be similar — it did not matter much. Now, friendship has come to falsely mean a synthetic kind of brotherhood. All kinds of support flow easily both ways. But for a formal kind of exchange — something contained, but at the same time intimate — a kind of relationship doesn’t exist. Friendship doesn’t have a home. Friends are homeless. While friends are of an
Music is a kind of play with symmetry, melody and balance. The notion of not-music that is noise. Practitioners of noise believe they are disrupting the concept of music. But as long as some of the characteristics of music are followed, the sound produced is inevitably music. Rhythm, pattern and and predictability are some such characteristics. True noise does exist though. Boredom with music is one of the reasons that noise-producers cite. But music also does not promote development of the mind
If we are not sure, we are in doubt. Being in doubt is an existential crises. If an individual is in doubt, potentially everything can be denied. One’s dreams, one’s ambitions, one’s affections, everything can be denied. By denying these we are challenging the very essence of our individuality, the very essence of what sets us apart from others. Mizwa was going through this process. She had emptied out almost all the parts of her mind which divided the world into preferred and painful. Now every
The domain of Art was once populated by visual material that provided a rousing experience to the senses. The movement of blood to the head went up. The body felt generally excited and active. But artistic experiences are not just formulated just in the body. The body has an aura and auras have different states which can be appreciated. Some auras are coloured warmly and some auras are coloured coolly. Auras have fixed energy-fields — one way or the other. Colour theory doesn’t dictate the real
There was a time when children were considered to be very important. They were supposed to be carrying legacies, values and experiences forward. But then there came a break; parenthood liberated itself. Parents realised that children were growing up with their support and then forgoing all responsibilities. They were not really carrying forward legacies & values or learning from experiences. Things that should have happened spontaneously were needing to be spelt out. So like throwing out the pro
Families survive on trust and open communication. If we assume some motive about some family member’s actions, it won’t work. In most cases the assumption will be wrong (a fact that has more to do with the nature of assumptions than the one making them). During Covid we saw a lot of such situations. A child was prone to allergies — so much so that there were few medicines left anymore that would not not trigger an allergic response. His grandfather is infected with Covid and the child is afraid
