What are three objects you couldn’t live without?
A quietly flowing river…
or a reasonably silent sea-shore…
a rural atmosphere where silence makes sublime thinking and imagining possible…
and an open place of nature that gives the feeling of living on earth…
What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
…happens in Nature.
It happens as unintentionally as possible….
…and as unnoticeably as possible.
No experiences need come in the way there. It happens as dedicatedly as possible.
The final sophistication at times makes a delicately wonderful spectacle.
Showcasing the small instances of ‘growing naturally’ that go on happening every day, every hour, every minute in and about my small place of dwelling has always been a pleasurable experience that helps grow quiet happiness in me.
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
Be a full-time photographer… not ony for a day… for the entire life.
Nature contains so much of beauty.
It is filled with an unfathomable variety of unique creation.
One life is not sufficient to record the varity of its creation and the beauty it contains.
One small garden is sufficient to spend days together recording the activity of the small life…
that lives making the green leaves its home. Patiently looking closer reveals so much of beauty that is missed by normal look.
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
A poem, a picture, a story…. creating something artistically interesting and memorable always remains a challenge.
The work created, if not totally new, should at least show a new angle…
or a new detail…
or show in a different new posture than the existing one.
The work created should at least pretend to be philosophical…
or a simple beauty…
that doesn’t easily dissolve into normal words for narration.
What advice would you give to your teenage self?
Narrow down and focus on the one you most like!
Every creature in the nature’s creation, form the tiniest…
….small
…. and not so small
have their own way of behaving and living. Nature ensures that, that way of behaving is specific to each creature and is drawn out by the code written in its own chromosome. The creature has no other way than follow the behaviour, the code in the chromosome dictates.
In the case of human beings it is not like that. Nature, as in the case of creatures, doesn’t keep its hold through out a human being’s life. It leaves him or her in their teen age. Every human being has been given a mind of his/her own to think and narrow down on the most liked area of his/her interst.
One has to find out that interst and stick on to it. Varied interests appears glamorous. But it won’t help in the end. It results in jumping. Jumping results in loss of focus.
Losing focus is losing one’s way in the world.
What bores you?
Like a battered bird that looks uncertain where to fly, to remain indecisive for long, bores me a lot…
Like a beach that appears sad with vast emptiness of no foot-prints, to remain unvisited for long, bores me a lot…
Like a shell that lost the life it sheltered till then and stood upside down, to remain showing to the world the emptiness inside, bores me a lot…
Like a piece of grass thrown out and got struck in the sand, to remain grounded in valuelessness, bores me a lot…
Looking like a creature lost itself in the amazing colours of the evening horizon, to remain uncreative for too long, bores me a lot…
What is your favorite drink?
Water!
In the beginning, it was only water everywhere. So people only drank water. It is understandable. Birds, trees… even today… they have no other drink. They only drink water.
My preference, therefore, remained with only a glass of water!
This apart, there are two other reasons that made me favourate for a drop of water.
First One – for its capability to present the idea of ‘Hang on!’ very effectively.
Come what ever may, bring all the energy to the point of holding tightly and ‘Hang on!’ defiantly without dropping onto the earth helplessly.
Now the Second one – for its inimitable way of presenting the idea of ‘non-attachment’ – like the drop of water that appears as part of the leaf, but in reality it is not!
Who are your favorite people to be around?
Every seed – small or big – has been given the enormous strength of breaking the earth and show up sprouting.
Or, is it that, sensing the pain of the seed, the earth itself, with utmost kindness, breaks its soil and gives way? We don’t know.
Either way, every seed feels itself most comfortable when placed in the soil. Earth’s soil is every seed’s comfort zone.
In essense every seed is alone. It works alone. Even after it becomes a big tree it works alone.
It works out a comfortable posture with everything placed around it and grows alone. It was given the strength to grow that way.
It is nature’s way.
I like to see it that way.
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