Anjy's Blog

A large house with comfortable furniture, a home  theater , a six seater dining table, two balconies, three bedrooms and a tiny kitchen where the coffee was brewing. The perfect view of setting sun through an elongated diwan placed at the corner of a balcony. Life sounds so safe through these materials! The house walls were filled with pictures of kids and grandkids , their stages of growth recorded so beautiful right from their baby steps to their school uniforms!  The pictures look happy with two couples smiling with their kids, the phrase “Family” inscribed on the corner! The refrigerator had too many magnets stuck, with miniature worlds in it. In the center of all the magnets lied the naughty smile of a 1-year-old! On the corner was a wooden heart stuck with a quote "I love you Mom”. The bedrooms had neatly made beds, waiting forever!  Yet, not a speck of dust was seen anywhere. The kitchen had a limited number of vessels, for the sake of just two...

A hundred channels to watch, a hundred websites to shop on, a hundred fonts to decorate! The list itself is endless. In this limitless world with so many options, we still end up, unsatisfied with all the possible options. What we all lack is that personal satisfaction, be it as simple as 1 round of Panipuri. When you gulp that last golgappa in your wide open mouth, all you want to feel is,"It was worth it! worth the cravings!" So why are we so unsatisfied all the time? why can't we just choose and be happy with it. Why do we have to go through the rigorous selection process just to make sure that whatever we chose is the right one. Humans survived by the sole law of "Survival of the fittest" . So its in our genes to choose the best. It goes beyond the survival instincts. But the same instinct has made us so needy. Our endless needs and the thirst for satisfaction puts us in a difficult situation. Inner peace is not so easy as those swishy Kung-fu moves ...