PURNAMIDAM - mindlessly mindful

How a simple comment can set you back to the years worth of work you did on yourself. A mindless comment probably not even directed at you but just an utterance of their own entangled thoughts.  How everything just shatters and reality reduces to being fragments of your imagination once again. "It wasn't even real to begin with", you scoff at yourself. "You weren't real" you tell yourself.  It feels like someone punched you in the gut and stole your most prized possession and you couldn't retaliate. Took away your identity. Took away everything you thought you stood for. Stripped you naked. And who comes to your rescue in this nakedness? Ahhh!! your old friend, your demons ofcourse! Now, you're vulnerable, now you're easy to penetrate. And penetrate they do, deep into your skin, much deeper infact.  But it feels so familiar that you don't realize it is hurting you, maybe it really isn't . You don't realize it will once aga

Compassionate Communication - What the fuck is that?  #longpostalert Haven’t we focused enough on languages, on what he said, she said. How about we focus on the language of the heart instead, the forgotten language. There are a lot of systems out there, life coaching, non violent communication, training to be an empath, Compassionate Communication, NLP, sociocracy etc, etc. what is the crux of these systems? Are they just tools and techniques of meandering our words and thoughts to make them sound thoughtful. To paint them so, that people believe you put a great effort and care into the relationship? Do they merely make you an excellent orator?  Or is it like magic trick to suddenly have everyone listen and agree to you? Am I supposed to lie to people and tell them only pleasent things? Is it about being ‘miss goody two shoes’? I have been exposed to some of the systems I mentioned above. Unfortunately I didn’t have the opportunity to attend a full-fledged workshop on any but saw it i

They said we can’t tie up residential and farmers directly, middleman is essential. Now look who is compulsorily tying up residential and farmers directly. They said we have come too far we can’t just stop now. Look who has stopped everything overnight now. They said GDP was essential, brands are important, celebrities are gods. Look who is making everyone wait in line for hours for food, medicines and forcing us to be in shelters. They said we need RURAL DEVELOPMENT, because rural is not self dependent, self sufficient (read luxurious and wasteful) Look who is running back to the rural now? Look who is able to grow and feed their families with the “ESSENTIALS” now. Look who is helplessly dependent on resources coming from NOT the urban. They said we don’t have enough houses so we need to stack them in tight spaces one above the other in conditions that may keep you alive but kill the life in you. Look who demands social and physical distancing now, look who is scared to shit about hig