life wants to live!

Hello readers

 

Hope you all are doing well

 

You have to fight some bad days to earn the best days of your life.

-Anonymous

 

The situation is getting precarious, COVID 19 has become a tough nut to crack, but still, the hope remains, and we will win, and it should lose.

 

We all have a work cycle after this work cycle; we have a life cycle then we have something in between without these two cycles that is our lives.

 

Off late, I’m reading some grim articles about mental health.

 

How many of us think that the awareness of mental health is enough if not high is adequate in the world?

 

The fact is that awareness is not so great.

 

Why do I say that awareness is not so prevalent? I am very apprehensive about this fact because every other day I see that there are people in this world who think ending their life is an easy option than living and facing it. Of course, the basic premise of negative affinity in the world is prevalent. 

 

Ending a life, do we even know what this means? So damn annoying it is to me and should to all ! you are killing a soul you are executing a brain, and finally, a wonderful opportunity which wanted to live.

 

Talking about the opportunity, should we all not think this life is an opportunity for all of us.

 

There are happiness and sadness which comes as a package to all of us. When will we understand that this is  just a passing phase to us and react in a manner which is not so oblivious?

 

Emotions, these are very natural reactions, it is there in animals, just that we don’t understand their feelings unless we have a big heart.

 

Heart, is this is just an organ which pumps blood throughout your body, or is there any other significance?

 

Biologically yes, it is the root of we being alive and conscious. Still, at the same time, we know for a fact when there is fear our heart races, if you laugh the heart slows down if you cry, your heart becomes mellow, same with your mind.

 

Why do I say, mellow? Yes the stress you have it in you finally gets released when you cry, and you feel pleasant of the clouds of sorrow in your mind melts, yes so crying is a better solution than the extreme step.

 

I don’t want to mention any names. Still, recently in India, we saw some disturbing suicides in the film industry, which was painful to the fans who enjoyed their movies.

 

I am circling back to the mental health and state of mind.

 

Well, I would say the statistics are sombre as I told you, people judge others as happy based on their talking, their smile and their lifestyle which is absolutely a wrong way to look at it.

 

How would you see it, suppose you were that celebrity who is in the limelight. You have achieved what you wanted, and the next morning you see an asphyxiated body of this man or women on the headlines!

 

 I mean do we even know what these guys go through to keep that stardom in the nepotistic industry like a film industry which is a people industry.

 

Now other than celebrities, even people who are leading healthy lives earning their bread, sometimes due to pressure in family, professions or a scuffle in their personal lives think of ending it all.

courtesy google images

 

Ending it all!

 

Does this also even have a meaning, I remember when I was in high school, my biology teacher told us this, “Life wants to live” as kids we couldn’t understand this at the first shot, so we requested her to explain.

 

She answered the following “There are folks in this world who don’t want to live, but when they are about to end it, the life struggles to live and help that soul to live and finally succumbs to physical or chemical reasons, block your nostrils, you will understand what I mean!”. Hence, life wants to live even though you don’t want to.

 

Well, I would say the answer she gave us is both philosophical and also biological.

 

Life tries to live, life wants to live, any animal, people eat as food doesn’t want to die. Still, they can’t help it, and that pain remains in the body after its death because it was a forced death that we gave the life which wanted to live!

 

We need to live life before we even think of running away from it.

 

This phase of the world in hibernation, inside four walls of your house, is pretty stressful and supporting your work and life can get tight. Still, definitely, we can, and we should sail through this storm.

 

 I think no problem in this world in unsolvable we need to find a direction, there was a moon mission in which astronauts figured they would not return but managed to return to earth, it just took them their fortitude and genius to survival, which is the spirit to live.

 

Share your problems with your people who can help you come out of it, let go your ego and reserved attitude.

 

There is this point or limit that your brain can take a level of stress; sometimes, it will have a meltdown, that is the time people tend to make such decisions. One life live it!

 

Thanks for your time, I think this bit was lengthy, please don’t mind it, but I think it needs to be heard and addressed at macro levels in our country and the entire globe.

 

I Will try to keep up my promise of weekly publishing as requested by many readers.

 

Thank you guys for your motivating feedback as always, a special mention to Kate McCarthy from the Netherlands who has been following my writing since 2015 and has shared my blog page with her students, Kate this means a lot to me and has made my job more challenging! Thanks for your brilliant motivation you give me along with your comments.

Have a great Sunday.

 

Helios

The Sound of Music-An Analogy With Life.

Hello readers

How are you today? Well, I am okay, surfing my way on tides of this ocean of life.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

-Chester Bennington

How many songs do you listen daily on an average, 5 at least 10? Well, this question is for the music addict like me, for occasional listeners or non-listeners I would urge you to become a music addict!

Yes, music addiction is not severe for your lungs or liver, it is a wonderful medicine for your brain.

What is music, songs? It is a series of vibration of waves constructed to a rhythm and presented through a vocal means or an instrument with or without wordings (Lyrics).

But all songs do have lyrics, except for a few silent ones, which are called instrumentals still they would be set to a tune and a beat.

So until now, we say music is constructed rhythmic vibrations set to a beat, tune with or without lyrics.

Now I want to focus more on the lyrics part in this write-up.

Lyrics are the actual wordings of the song composed by the creator or often called the lyric writer of the song.

Well, these lyrics that he creates may be a self-motivated, which he chose to tell his life story, share his sadness or happiness or show his love towards his soul mate or God in case of devotional songs.

Whatever it may be when you listen to a song, suddenly there is this sensation inside you, have you thought why it happens.

I have been thinking and analysing it on myself I can come to the only conclusion, I think the reason I feel that bliss is that I tend to relate those lyrics to my own life and battles which I am  fighting alone, or I had fought before, so it hits you like a flash and boom! You become a fan of that artist and that song for life, I presume it is the same with most of us.

Michael Jackson was a great singer and a great composer and also had a great team of songwriters who worked for him; even though the music for those songs would be exceptional the words too mattered a lot.

Just take an example of this song: Man in the mirror from his album Bad (1987) he wants the man or the people that is, yourself to change first so that the world will change seeing you and many people like you. Some lyrics from this beautiful song:

“I'm starting with the man in the mirror

I'm asking him to change his ways

And no message could have been any clearer

If you want to make the world a better place

Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”

Songwriters: Glen Ballard / Siedah Garrett

Artist: Michael Joseph Jackson

Lyrics Courtesy: Google.com

Michael Jackson Performing in a concert: Image Courtesy Google images.

There are many more brilliant songs from the king of pop which I will discuss some other time.

When I listen to this song, a part of me agrees with the song, we humans beings, the root of almost all the problems on this beautiful earth, should change the ways we live so that we can make this a better place for our future generations.

Songs invoke many moods like patriotism, happiness, sadness, love, devotion and so on.

There lived many saints in India who have rendered beautiful compositions which are genuinely holy and which they wrote to break this cycle of life and death and attain salvation they are still regarded as gems of music.

Saint Thyagarja was one among these saints, and his consecration to Lord Rama is nothing but pure love and surrender to him.

For instance this one: tEra teeyaga raadaa rendered in Ragam: gowLipantu; Talam: Adi

Lyrics from this devotional song are in Telugu which is published in English for convenience:

Pallavi

tera tIyaga rAdA lOni Tirupati venkaTaramaNa matsaramunu

anupallavi

parama puruSa dharmAdi mOkSamula pAra dOlu cunnadi nAlOni

caraNam 1

matsyamu Akali goni gAlamucE magnamaina rIti nunnadi

accamaina dIpa sannidhi marugaDDabaDi ceraci naTTunnadi

caraNam 2

iravondaga bhujiyuncu samayamuna Iga dagulu rIti nunnadi

hari dhyAnamu sEyuvELa cittamu antyaju vADaku bOyi naTTunnadi

caraNam 3

vAguramani teliyaka mrga gaNamulu vacci tagulu rIti nunnadi

vEgamE nI matamu anusarincina tyAgarAjanuta mada matsaramanu

Meaning in Brief: Oh Tirupati Venkataraman! Could you not remove the screen, the screen of anger, arrogance and jealousy, which, taking a firm stand within me, keeps me out of the reach of Dharma and other Purusharthas including Moksha? It effectively hides from vision, the bright light of the lamp, Jnana. By the existence of this screen, my mind gets caught by evil, just as ignorant beasts are got into Hunter’s net. I have been following you faithfully, I pray promptly; remove the screen.

Lyrics and meaning courtesy:  https://karnatik.com/c2896.shtml

Sri Saint Thyagaraja: Image courtesy Google images.

The wisdom of the saint is genuinely respectful, and I think this generation has a lot to learn from such songs.

Well, there are countless songs which we can sit and analyse they give Goosebumps

When we think and relate our lives with those.

But the amazing thing would be if the songs we listen could bring some change in our lives then the creator of that song would be happiest.

So next time you listen to a song, enjoy its rhythm and beats but understand the lyrics that will make you a better person each day.

Of course, there are exceptions where there are songs which do not sound, or there are no meanings in them, well that I leave to your judgment to choose your songs.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a

Vegetarian.

-Paul McCartney-singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer (The Beatles)

Hope you liked this one; let me know your comments and thoughts.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Helios

Vehemence

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but the echoes are truly endless.

-Mother Teresa.

Thank god it is a Friday! Well that is the slogan trending everywhere, especially for the people who are in the corporate cycle, I am also one among them and I can tell you for me now almost all the days are becoming similar, so I guess I have become used to it.

Each one us are built differently, some are eccentric some are conventional others are just mellow, some are over emotional, collectively we call it emotions.

Does our  emotions drive us actually the they do, like an year ago I watched a documentary in the famous infotainment channel national geographic about why we swear at people when we see people driving recklessly on roads. The explanation given was, driving is treated as a complex task by the brain and the whole neural network.

All the systems like the neural response system the external receptive system, the conscious and sub-conscious are in their most efficient mode during a drive. So if a car next to you suddenly over-took from the wrong side we tend to swear on him as the whole system of the body works on instincts which is directly linked to an emotional reaction that is the reason we react so sharply at times.

We have always been told by teachers our advisers to control our emotions.

But the big question is,  are we able to control emotions? Most of us would answer in the following way: we control emotions wherever required and after certain age in a person’s life. Well I too agree with that. We still see people who lose emotions end up breaking down or crying or fuming with anger.

Well it is not important to know why it happens but we must understand crying for no reason or losing your temper for silly things around you seriously will not work out.

The reason why I am saying that unnecessary break down and bursting out of emotions have lost its value over time! The simple example would be the cinema, you see the same actor in different movies, and he or she wears a character that involves showing the audience all the usual emotions, first on the list would be laughing and crying and so on.

When we watch a movie if there is scene which involves crying, we hardly take it seriously as you know it is part of the act, but we would have watched some people next to you would be crying profusely for a reasonable amount of time.

Have we ever thought why does it happen with some of us?

Recently a sampling analysis was conducted in America, and a group of 25 people were sent to a movie which has an equal amount of sorrow, happiness and disappointment. So after the movie behavioral scientists observed the videos of the audience watching the movies which were recorded using a closed circuit camera. Out of the 25, fifteen people were in deep sorrow when the lead actor was in trouble. The remaining 10 just showed body language and continued to watch the movie with ease.

So the scientists, concluded the people who were weeping, involved themselves so much in the movie that the illusion turned out to be a reality for them.

The scientists just ran through the daily activities of these people just to find out if they were emotionally stressed at their homes, the answer turned out it be an yes. So the scientists coined the term called as ‘Reserve emotions’.

Reserve emotions are, when you relate your current situation to someone else’s situation and feel helpless about it and react in the same way that other person is doing.

Well there ends the study, and the inference of that study is don’t be over emotional in life. We should all control our emotions, I am not telling you to become a wooden log emotions are very important to us, but only in the right spirit.

We must all enjoy the tiny cheerful lives that we have been gifted by God, instead of always cribbing and crying for the things which we don’t have.

There are people in this world who don’t know what is love, what is proper food and so on , so let’s try to improve that and thank our stars that we are better off.Remember useless arguments and emotional break down is just a trick played by your mind, don't fall for it.

All the best for your journey of life, and thanks for your time.