Photograph :  Arko Prabha Mukerjee

If there had been a moment of total transformation, it was the moment of our birth. In that instant, one- stepped, through a door in time into a new reality -- the reality of human life. Based, on the date of our birth, the moment when the curtain goes up in our life.  We are, entangled with only one sense, one smell, one feel and everything is closed. Our world is our MOMS….

 Even at that moment, you were a person with your own unique character, as

unique as our DNA. Everything that is you existed in potential, much like a play

that is about to begin. Our entire life exists as a potential that has been prepared

for. We  have ultimate freedom to do with your life as you like: To fulfill its

potential completely, or to make some smaller version of our self. It all depends

with the effort and commitment. One can make the decisions to fulfill, to whatever extent, the potential life that exists within us. That is our choice. In this sense, the possible we is implicit during the moment of our birth. 

Today a man discovered gold and fame,

Another flew the stormy seas;

One found the germ of a disease.

But what high fates my path attend:

For I — today I found a friend.

— Helen Barker Parker

Silent Thoughts

Seated together, in the pun of holistic sights and sounds

The lover visions her friend sitting close to her in the church

She dreams big

She dreams an unexplained wish

She wishes that moment the lord must fulfill her desire

She closes her eyes, below the Alter and prays for the untimely dream

A dream made of a body, unnoticed in the crowd of dismal living.

A lingering smile lights up the eyes of the child who has held his hand in dismay sometime,

A tormented mother who had baked a platter of butter cookies,

Few were missing as usual.

It was the instinct of the kid hidden inside a youth

Who wants an answer from you and me

Why things are not as same as before, why can’t he fool around anymore

He wants to stop worrying with all this is happening around

He wants genuine answers to all the strange questions

He wishes to know the road, on which he will walk upon no more

There is fire flaming the skies and heating up the weather further

He has found an answer in the wilderness of walking in the streets of fair people and weather

“ he is the Leader and the time has come for the Reality Show ”

                  I close both locks below the window
                  I close both blinds and turn away

                  Sometimes solutions aren't so simple
                  Sometimes good bye's the only away

                   ( few lines from a song by Linkin Park)