Introducing the Prime Curiosity
Life is not only about what we want to do but also “why” we want to do it. Welcome to my blog “lifenu” where I Live you: the similarity of experiences that connect us and the problems we presently face as a whole species.
Get ready to furnish yourself with startling aspects of life, an amalgamation of Nature, Philosophy, Relationships, Psychology, Social life, Science, and the wide pragmatic world around us. This blog is nothing transcendental to give you hocus-pocus imagination but only strikes awe of the reality that wants us to reckon.
Not only us but also all other life forms with which we share this earth. IT IS ABOUT ALL OF US: FOR US, BY US. Your opinions matter equally here.
Let’s Get to Know Your Writer
I am a person just like you, neither an angel nor an ideal personality.
You are viewing a blog of someone who resonates with what an individual goes through in life, inside and outside! Spilling the beans about my education and career would go like this:I have completed my Graduation and post-graduation in Philosophy at Delhi University.
I simultaneously earned a Diploma in Creative Writing at IGNOU. These courses changed my perception 360° but for the good.Writing and philosophy interested me since schooling but I never thought to take it up as a calling seriously.
In 2021, I took up Content Writing to explore and experience what the real-life working world “is” and how things operate at a formal level. Soon, I realized that I was not a perfect fit there. Not that something was missing there, but it simply did not fill me with joy and internal freedom. I simply felt out of place: Confused, desperate, and caged. Corporate life sucked the “human element” inside of me, and I started feeling like a robot with no sense of “aliveness”.
If you know what I mean here! :)I switched multiple internships and job roles thinking about finding that “ideal company” and a role that finally satisfied my conscience. Boom! Again a failed expectation. Fast forward, my factual details nowhere matched the contentment I wanted to bring into my life and those around me.
I decided to quit the corporate sector this year to get a new dimension of work and find peace with what I do. But the quest is on…In the course of the past 2.5 years or so, I learned how important it is to enjoy what you do and align your inner self with the outer work/profession. Is it possible to do something regularly if you simply feel unmatched by it?
Why Am I Doing This?
Since we all are alike to some extent, you must also have wondered whether consumption and the pomp and show of our activities have finally produced any sense of happiness. Yes, it does but only superficially. We all are stuck and it cannot be denied at any cost.
Dreams are not an answer to the current degrading reality. Neither for me nor for you.
Work profiles: Whether financial services, health tech, educational section, general digital marketing projects or highly specialized surveillance products, the goal was to bring onboard prospects and leads who were “influenced” to buy. I witnessed the juice of life drained out of me.
And if as a human being I felt no joy in writing cunningly… How could a person who buys it, get the ultimate joy? Illogical, right?As a whole race, we are at a quintessential moment, we are not living up to our potential, and we are miserable in a corner of our hearts.
To find a way out of the suffering, I wanted to write something that “is” useful to my readers.
Hitting the Ultimate Reason
Our lives have already reached the pinnacle of feeling mentally exhausted and physically lethargic. The never-ending zeal to consume makes us merry-go-round without a break. Adding to this chaos is “Climate change”, “Wars”, and “Extreme Life Crisis”.
Our hungry actions as a collective species did not render us to heaven and we get to feel the environment’s pain every moment.
Never in my professional career have I wanted to write something that provokes fear, greed or stress, but the corporate marketing gimmicks do not work that way. I felt guilty for writing something that boosts unlimited and unfaithful consumption of products and services.
“Awareness of our actions is a sustainable way out”. I practically applied it.
We Need: Internal + External = Holistic Picture
Climate transition to unpredictability, global crisis at multiple levels, psychological problems, fatal natural events at higher than ever frequency and intensity, the list goes to infinity. The question now is about our very “existence”.
Therefore, the purpose of this blog is not to bring any idealistic philosophy or theory but only to wake ourselves to facts. It will not come through “consumption”. If we can look into this, we will be able to find the root cause: our mind.
The mind is crying for peace, Earth is crying to stop merciless activities mankind continues pouring it with, and our coexisting species cry for rescue and a livable environment. You must be thinking about how it is connected at all.
All these things seem to be poles apart… But they ARE NOT.Everything we do impacts the whole universe, either on a small or large level but it creates an impact. In the name of development, we are just creating a dearth of happiness. The black hole inside us never suspends, and we feel constantly lacking that “satisfaction”.
Hey relax, I’m NOT being a taskmaster here to tell you what to do and what not. The goal is to bring an awareness of what our activities have done to us and what we need to learn/unlearn urgently.
Our planet is crying to us for “stopping”, and the signs are indubitably visible to you and me, we live through the extreme anthropogenic temperature rising and rainfalls that belittle our adapting capabilities.
Is This Something You Fascinated to Read?
The answer sits in your mind, but your heart knows that it is worth realizing the facts of life and figures of the current global scenario.
Are you ready to know the unknown and do the undoable? Not for your own sake but for those who urgently need you (practically everything around you), your voice, your being, and your actions to help not one or two but billions of living creatures: Earth’s ecosystem, flora, fauna and fellow humans. Know what our actions do to us and our planet to know the pain we have imbibed in the concrete development structures.
Know your pain, realize that of others around you, be a light of knowledge and not an extinguishable flame of blind actions.
This initial blog was a heartfelt letter to you with no filters, no keywords, and no cooked up stories, let us be real and establish a bond of genuine understanding and reverence!
Conclusion
Our humane conscience yearns for nothing but union with peace. Just as Mahatma Gandhi ji said “Be the change you want to see in the world”, let us be more analytical in our approach and eco-friendly in our living.
This blog has nothing to do with condemning consumption absolutely or stopping you from living a contented life. The other extreme would be of no use either.
Rather it is to look at our own “innate” tendency that “wants” to consume blindly and also fails miserably to satisfy itself every single time! Much more to say, much more to be done. Your presence is cherished here, thanks for holding on to reach this conclusion.
Worry not, the future blogs will not simply load your mind with facts and figures or enforce any ideal concept of life and being. Let us interact, come together, create something worthwhile and renovate our inner being. Drop the fear of bringing to the table a different perspective and novel lens we need to redefine “Who We Are”.
Stay connected for future posts! Catch YOU soon.