INTOXICATED BY LIFE

I met my friend on the road and asked her, “What’s up? How have you been?”...She answered “Oh well, I have been very busy with work, it’s going good”. Then I asked, “and how about otherwise?”. She replied, “ Nothing else man, everyone’s doing good at home and that’s about it”. This is how an everyday conversation goes like for most of us. Have you ever thought of answering the same question with “Oh, I smelled this beautiful yellow flower yesterday, it smelled like a misty valley!!”, or maybe “Oh, I saw the sunset at the beach yesterday, the colors and the silence in the air took my breath away!” or even “ I had this slushy kiwi drink last night, I felt like I was drinking up the Amazon forest!”. Interesting right? But at the same time it sounds weird in a way. I feel everyone is so caught up with the activities which make up today’s life (like career, family and other social areas), that the actual essence of being alive seems weird. All the other aspects that man himself bro...

As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I have been growing younger mentally for more than a year now… I think I am almost at its peak now, so wanted to tell out my view from here. My emotions are very intense. When I am happy, I am extremely happy..when I am sad, I am extremely sad..and this applies to all other emotions too. Moods swings happen without a warning. I derive happiness from the smallest and almost ‘meaningless’ things. I get these cravings suddenly, where I want things that are totally out of the random. eg. green bangles, tiny yellow flower, a kiss etc. And when I do get them, so much of joy starts filling up in me that everything and everyone in the world seem beautiful to me. Every color seems ever so intense and vibrating with energy, every smell takes me to ecstasy. There are times when I suddenly start singing and dancing, not bothering about people around and what they would think of me. Without much thought, I simply start doing anything that I fee...