Metaphorical Existence

Hej (Hi in Danish),

Metaphors seem so numbly comfortable. Every decision process we undertake, or get induced to undertake, there comes a point when we just like to change the variables with those from some situation we have experienced in the past. A quote from Oscar Wilde goes " Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes". But I digress! I was saying that metaphors make so much of our decision making convenient and enable rational comprehension for us to resolve actionable solutions.

An example is how much I use the little education I have recieved back into relationships and daily life situations. Even exciting but loss-making happenings such as a burglary. Some happy but nervous minds made away with a good amount of hard earned gold and jewellery of my family from my house in India a couple of nights ago. The risk/return analysis of the situation indicated substantial loss, but if you take into account the risk of physical injury and such - then you think it was pretty alright. I just started to think about the time I will need to recover the lost(rather stolen) possessions. But the dent it leaves in the psyche is something I doubt I can do aything about. The metaphor I could think of was gambling. So it makes things look far better, because there were things beyond our control.

Metaphors are an extension of imagination. In that sense, I think many of us are creative minds. All of us have some metaphors that we keep using or atleast try to more than half of the times. I really wish my imagination ran free of my current environment, but I acknowledge my limitation at creativity. SOund modest enough right!

The second part of the title for this blog reiterates that I continue my existence on the planet. I say existence because I doubt if I am adding value on it. Maybe from another person's perspective, I could be, but the point is that I am striving to do that on my own parameters. I know those parameters, the quest is to find the methods and means.

Since I promised myself to keep my blogs short, I will cut this one here. But hope the day has some new metaphors for me to discover. Perhaps someone will share theirs with me :)

Life is Beautiful! (if you havent seen the movie, see it today)

cheers,
satish

P.S.: Apologies for the endless grammar and spelling errors in the last blog. Trying to learn from experience.

Knowing thy self!

Hi,

Was amazed today as a good friend brought it up on me in a random chat today the fact that I think I know myself and what I want. Now that is a long complication of thought of perspective on the wants of an flagrant mind. The mind is so effusive and ephemeral, that one couldnt want to possibly believe it continually believed something and yet as rational thought would argue - the human mind is the most brilliant and consistent performer among all things living or otherwise.

Anyways, I wanted to talk about this entire conscience thing about knowing oneself. And further, knowing what one wants. As such, it is probaly simple enough. You know there are things which make you happy and others which make you sad or whatever sentiment you prefer to live in (saw Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - my favourite character was the depressed Robot).

Hmm. . back to the topic, the problem to the simplicity of knowing what one wants is that we know what we want at a given point in time. This is because our mind relays a sense of things at a given point in time. BUt the problem is that we are constantly changing as individuals. You dont always learn from the first time you make a mistake. Some of us learn the 2nd time, some after the 10th time and some never learn. The point is with every passing minute we are changing as individuals, and with out "eat-the-evil-apple" attitude, we want to try new things. So then, what we want becomes a function of what we think will look good on us. And since that is only an imagination - the want itself becomes an illusion. I think this is all just a play of words. I would admit myself most times, just that I really think its not possible to know all that you want.

If you knew all that you want, you would really become a boring person. because you would never be open to anything. You would always just go so far as getting what you wanted.


Hmm. . i managed to not tell the context in which the conversation started. The original conversation was about this one statement - "Women want to be WANTED and Men want to be NEEDED" Intersting statement, and before you start agreeing or disagreeing with it - just for a moment leave it alone, and think what you really want from a relationship - to be wanted or to be needed. There is a significant in the imports of both words and hence the thought exercise. The exercise gave me some other good pointers and raced me through my relationship experiences. Made me realise I would like to be wanted mroe than be needed, although being the nice guy that I am - I always make sure I am capable of being useful in someone's need. So much for modesty!!!

hmm. . this has been a tongue twister and I hope it has not been so much of a mind twister. But atleast it has brought me back to blogging. Just felt shy for sometime - something I have never admitted to but I guess, in somethings, I am.

I am 25 and am still learning about life. Love that about it!

cheers,
satish

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