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Life & living

My 80 plus father and I were having a nice conversation this morning. I asked him, what is the difference between your generation and today?

What did you all have then that today that we don’t have today?
He said it in one line:  Freedom of time. It’s so true.
Today’s world is fully connected but caught in the web of it’s own doing.
Today everything is caught on camera.
No one is truly free.
Whether at work or after,.. your work follows you .You are always available  and connected even when you travel…
Life is actually more complicated with all these so called devices of technology.

Even simple joys of life are difficult to experience for lack of time.
No one is truly free.
Chained to the machines of their own making…

In the name of Work from home  and work life balance, we are getting  more work home that there is no downtime. Weekends  no longer feel different.  All are in  a rat race in time.  Until we mutually  agree and consciously  think of taking time out and act on it , life seems to fall into a rut of routine  that we forget  we are meant to live and not just exist .

Savvy Raj


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Way of seeing

The way we see the world

Changes our experiences.


Lesser expectations

Greater contentment


Lesser assumptions & doubt

Greater trustfulness


Lesser hopelessness

Greater possibility


Lesser the complexity

Greater the clarity.

How do you see the world?

Savvy


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On Fame

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in light

Kahlil Gibran

When a good deed

A noble act

Invokes fame

Fame stays on…

Entrenched in light of goodwill.

Embedded in that light

Passion perseveres.

Such a fame is worth experiencing…

And yet there is always  a price to fame

While fame brings glory

It also brings expectations along

To live up to … for a lifetime.

There is loss of privacy

As you sway into the limelight

Being in the public eye can be daunting

There can be a loss of personal freedom.

Even though  it creates opportunities

For it presents platforms

As it changes equations.

As it builds reputation.

Thoughts go on the desire for fame.

Even tbough there is a price to fame

Or would one choose the world of obscurity?

What are your thoughts on fame?

Do share.

Savvy


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Nostalgia

A throwback…

I have fond memories of black and white photographs taken by my dad in his old box camera. The three pictures that I can quickly recollect are a representation of my world back in the era of black and white. Be it watching the swaying coconut trees and the shimmering water on moonlit nights, or the artistry of those antique time pieces collected by my grandfather and of course those lively evenings in my childhood years, where the old gramophone would play so invitingly that we would all be waltzing and jiving away to evergreen hits. Yes nostalgia filled me in those verses, but with happy memories.

Black and white photography

An art form for a connoisseur

Aesthetics of understanding

Of the clarity of line

That plays hide and seek

So much resemblance

To the wisdom of time.

In seeking is the blending

Of reflections dissolving

Ever so hard to pin down

Faded visions blurred memories

Reminding of colour through our senses

Perspectives differ in the past recalled

Comparisons translucent in the semi presence.

An important feature

Are the shades of grey

Areas masked and marked,

Blurring to focus

Uncaliberated and undeliberated

Between the lines

Adding enigma

Surreal feelings

A take back in time

Of notions in nostalgia.

 Savvy

 


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Oneness

In the journey of life

At one point or the other

In arriving to acknowledge our truths

Comes a realization of our Oneness

Of how we are mere living fractals of life and longings.

We are simply waves of light frequencies of resonance & dissonance.

Dancing to the tunes of the Cosmic Oneness


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Love heals like nothing else…

Love begets love

Great is the energy of love

And coupled with kindness and compassion, 

Love heals hearts like nothing else❤️


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Living life, learning…

In a conflict ridden world

All we can do, is to learn

What not to do…

For we are not the only ones here

There was life before us & after us

There is life in and around  us

And we need to value life

That will manifest after us

And acknowledge what is

And do whatever we can

To save the only world we have.

Savvy


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Beyond the self

The world around  us

Is interacting all the time

The way we choose

Becomes us.

And each of our choices

Through our intentions

Becomes deeds of our doing.

It’s all in us

In the thinking and intending

For the good of all

Beyond the self.

Savvy


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Master or slave

AI is very much here

And is entrenched itself

In every part of our life

Yet the question remains

More in the times of now 

Are we the master or the slave?

What do you think?

Savvy


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Quality of the Spirit

What to speak of charisma

That some have as an aura…

A way of being , a radiance 

More than just their attitude

Or the way the carry themselves

A quality of the spirit of the soul

That magnetic quality beyond the physicality

That emanates joy and well being in Abundance

Without a single word…

Would you  know someone  like that?

Who comes to your mind? 

Savvy


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On Wisdom

What to speak of wisdom?

Tommorows wisdom

Is open to learn

From the errors in this now.

In the listening, in the living

In the feeling in the sensing.

So much to understand…

Question remains are we open

to acknowledge  the misses,

as a part of being human ?

Are we ready to receive

from these experiences…

Seeking wisdom in the lessons.

Savvy

Photo credits  Social Media forward.


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Effortless movements

When you move

Move with energy

Allow the movements

To flow through you

And from you harmoniously

As you move you will sense

The effortlessness of  movements

With practice it becomes a flow

Savvy


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Hopegiving

A beautiful read this morning  came my way through  a social  media forward from my mother.

It’s truly meaningful.

The Final Whistle…

I was watching a local football match on a school ground.
I asked a boy sitting nearby, “What’s the score of your team?”
With a smile, the boy replied, “We are at 0, the opponents are at 3.”
I said, “Don’t lose hope, young man.”

The boy looked at me with a puzzled expression, as if questioning my understanding of his determination.
He then gave me a profound response:
“Why should I lose hope, uncle, when the referee hasn’t blown the final whistle yet?”
“I trust my team and my coach completely.”
“We will definitely win,” he said confidently and continued watching the game.

To my amazement, the match ended 5-4 in favor of the boy’s team.
As the victory was announced, the boy waved enthusiastically at me and left with a bright smile.

I was astonished, struck by his unwavering belief and confidence. His faith was so beautiful, so deep, it left me contemplating.

That night, as I returned home, his question kept resonating in my mind:
“Why should I lose hope when the final whistle hasn’t been blown?”

Life is like a game…
While we are still in it, why do we give up so often?
When our final whistle hasn’t sounded, why should we despair?

The truth is, many of us blow our own whistle prematurely.
We leave the field before the game is over.

But as long as life is with us, nothing is impossible.
Whether our time is half over, three-quarters over, or just beginning, that doesn’t matter.

What matters is that we don’t blow the whistle on ourselves before the time is up.

The referee of our game is God.
Have faith in Him and in yourself.

So, let’s remember that the final whistle hasn’t sounded yet,
and let’s enjoy every moment of life like an exciting game!

Life is now.