Minds Eye Of Life

instagram.com/ishenoy “Innocence is the joy of truly being carefree. The desire to be a free spirit isn’t lost yet.” Do you remember the childhood days? We were carefree and free spirited souls. The appetite and ability to take risks had no bounds. May be it was because we were so innocent that we didn’t even realize that something called risk existed. So did growing up and screw up the fun as we shed the element innocence? I remember a kid in the picture I clicked at one of the railway station. He was totally zoned out from the world around. He smiled; he cried and then suddenly took off, running around the station exploring it in his own way. It was quiet a wild chase for his parents, but he was so unperturbed by all of it. When his mom lifted him off the ground and took him in her arms he smiled again. It was such a joy to watch him, a truly free spirited soul. He connected with every stranger who passed by him when he was seated on the chair in the waiting lou...

There has been a long unexplained silence. No new blog post being penned... No words shared with the world... But then this can’t be forever. So the silence has thus been broken with this post. As the Cuban boy once said,  "And here we meet once again". A lot has happened between now and then. Many a thoughts took birth in my mind, a lot of them waned away, a few still stay afresh. But this is not a post to remember, cherish that has been forgotten. Somewhere during this phase of silent thoughts and violent dreams there was a realization. It really shouldn’t matter when I pen down my thoughts, what others think. For all you know only a miniscule number of people might stumble upon to this blog. Even if many were to discover the blogs existence it wouldn’t matter. This blog, more than anything else, is a way I converse with myself. Something that I realized off late, the element of introspection has been missing. To be it’s always been this blog. By staying a...