FLOW
Life at times makes us believe that it is such a f..... experience. Now the by-gone generation would have judged me badly on the introductory line and would have decided to conduct a march against such an immoral being. It is actually the flow which forces them to do so without even second guessing what that word could have been. I indeed meant that it is such a ‘foolish’ experience. The millennials would have loved the line while the previous generation might have generated some feelings of strong hatred. But both the categories go with the flow while reading the line and presume what f.... would mean without even thinking twice. This is my personal silly take on the word ‘flow’.
Flow in psychology means a mental state in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in it. That is about it for psychology and I am no psychologist so lets’ move ahead without further ado. Flow is so important in life that its flowing importance cannot be denied but this is something each one of us know. So, I decided to discuss what it really means going against the flow. Now start imagining along with me as I make you imagine. There was a bright lad some time ago who was extremely bright in English and especially in speaking the language with piercing notes. Now he belonged to a well to do family so his parents wanted him to pursue something along the lines of English. But one fine day he decides to go against all odds and pursue his inner dreams and do something big and indeed he succeeds in achieving what he dreamt. He always wished to be a media-mogul or rather a media-mafia and show his ranting skill sets. How many of us Indians are able to convert the ‘American Dream’ and make it really big? Just a few but this man achieved his goal which he aimed at. I should indeed laud him for that. This story might seem quite relatable because I try trapping you in the trap and keep making you flow you in my flow.
Flow is required in all walks of life, be it reading, writing, playing, sleeping, eating, working or anything one can imagine of. Now I rather discuss a more serious and true story about going against the flow. We all are aware of the hatred against the Jews at the time of World War II but there have been beings who proved us all wrong and showed courage when it mattered the most. Oskar Schindler was an industrialist from Germany and was Christian by religion but a real human by the religion of humanity. He saved the lives of close to 1200 Jews who worked in his factories and prevented them from the hells of concentration camps. Humans like Schindler keep reminding us what it really means to against such massive flows. People like him are not humanitarian by a tag but are rather humane at all times.
This universal flow helps us in the smallest to the biggest of activities. The flow that our solar system maintains is a show of fine balance and perfect tuning among the master(Sun) and the disciples(the eight planets). There is not a moment where it loses this extremely important flow. We can’t maintain such a flow at all given times but can strive for even the minuscule of this flow. My personal hope is that we can maintain the flow of ‘reality’ in times of hypocrisy and at least make attempts to go against the flow when it is most expected and least performed. We can maintain the flow of seriousness, smile, studying, writing as per the demand and situation in life but this flow of ‘reality’ can be maintained as it requires our least of efforts. As Shakespeare says : “If thou maintaine flow, thou will maintaine happinesse.” This was my ultimate case of trapping the readers in my own flow. This was no Shakespeare, it was just me.
The Comic Saxena
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