Quarantine

Oh my! I could get used to this quarantine life. Gives me time to think and be. 

Love

Love happens when thoughts, action and words are aligned with purest of intent for the other person. Every relationship that we have has a clear cut intention that plays out the consequences. The outcome of a relationship is decided the minute one gets involved in it - with what intentions. 

Love requires innocence and love requires understanding. It requires mutual respect and it requires space. It cannot have agenda, it cannot be pushed, it cannot be wished / created at will and it definitely cannot be planned.  

People often forget the choices they made at the start of a relationship. They forget to take responsibility of their own choice. They blame everyone but themselves. Always recall what started something - did it have truly have what it would take? 

Life Principles

Note for the kids:
Principle 1 - check your intention as that decides the outcome
Principle 2 - present moment is where you are
Principle 3 - awareness of self and pure self love
Principle 4 - only self can be controlled/changed/managed and what others do is none of your business

Me

I am loving the quarantine. I don’t say it out loud because everyone seems to be hating it so much. I don’t mind it because it has automatically canceled all social events for me. I can live my life with my bare essentials and that includes people. I have only realized how liberating it is to stop doing things - things that would be frowned upon in social norms. These small pressures are not needed actually for any of us. But we have made them necessary for us so that we can be recognized as the functioning adults of this world. I don’t want to be the normal functioning adult. Let everyone else do that. I am happy being me - whatever that is 🤷‍♀️👩🏻 

Kurosawa

Phase 2 of Kurosawa starts. I joined Criterion Collections so that I could watch the ones I could not do - back in 2008-2009 via Netflix (online and on CDs). On my list to begin with:
#straydog
#dersuuzala
#redbeard
#thedrunkenangel
#thebadsleepwell

High and Low was the last one I saw with all the essential ones like Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Ran, Yojimbo, Iriku, Kagemusha, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Sanjuro, The Idiot and The Dreams.

I’d have liked 3 folks to have met. It would’ve been fun to observe.
It is impossible in every way now. 🙄😁

Love in the time of Cholera

We have stocked up and are under a lockdown #covid-19 #coronavirus #2020 

Mad World

I don’t remember the song but I recall the lyrics from a long time ago. Someone I knew, sang it to me or did he make me listen to it? I was not equipped to understand or help them. But I could sense the confusion and the struggle - though I’d attribute it to their flair for drama and need for attention. I always thought they knew what they were doing or at least hoped for it.

“I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad.
The dreams in which I am dying are the best I’ve ever had”
— Mad World (Gary Jules and Michael Andrews)

Pure

Our purpose in anyone's life is to make them think and lead by example. So just by being ourselves, we are doing the task. Just by being our true self, we are purifying our soul and everyone who comes in contact will learn. They have no choice but to notice the difference.

Whatever the ego teaches or the conditional upbringing or experiences are picked up - they all melt away when we come face to face with a pure soul.