Thoughtful Thoughtlessness

"To know, is to know that you know nothing,” -Socrates I sometimes think about things.. things like time, the concept of it.. does it exist or is it just a human manifestation of keeping an organised track of things happening around us..? Every second of the continuum, every “Decision”, every “Action”, every "Reaction", even the slightest of movements that we indulge into, and every single thought that occurs to us, completely nullifies a thousand possibilities, and reduces them to “What if’s” and “Could have been’s”. We will never know what an alternative movement or action could have held for us. We probably just breathe in the ashes of those infinite “possibilities”. We don't "know" anything for certain anyways. I sometimes think.. what if back in the day, the person who’s job was to keep track of time, of days, of weeks, of months and of years, got bored and named a Tuesday as a Wednesday and we're still living that momentary whim. Does it

The sound of an ice cube melting inside a glass of water is one of my favourite sounds.. I find it strangely beautiful that the cracked, melted ice cube still holds the ability to become an ice cube again while the fact that it won't be the same ice cube ever again hurts me a little.. The smell you get while lighting a match, the smell of wet mud; I don't really know what heaven is actually like or if it even exists, but I'd like to say that those fragrances are heavenly.. The taste of the water freshly filled in a new earthen pot, for me, cannot be compared to the taste of anything else in the world. The feeling of wind blowing through my hair is one of the best feelings.. it's one of the very few selfless caresses .. no expectations, asking nothing in return.. just pure embrace. I like to observe the sky.. the patterns and the images the clouds form.. Someone once said that "Everytime an artist dies, God lets them paint the sky to say goodbye" and t

“Keep trying until you succeed.” “Winners never quit!” The above adages look very impressive when written, but aren’t actually very realistic. Let’s sit down and face the reality. Yes, it is said that Edison had failed thousands of times before he invented the light bulb; yes, it is true that one shouldn’t get disheartened by failures but it is also true that you should choose your goals wisely. I mean it definitely isn’t wise to sit on a chunk of coal and wait for it to transform into diamond just because you heard that diamond is just carbon which is placed under a lot of pressure! We need to keep trying, but not when the goal is something so unrealistic! It is said that there’s an invisible thread that connects us to what we are destined to achieve. The thread may sometimes tangle, it may even stretch but it never breaks! What if that thread passes the top of a tall, thin wall (not even through it)  and you end up thinking that that wall is your destiny while it actually is jus