Let's start "THE" Journey.

 

Lets Start the Journey

 

 

Let's start the journey.

As this is my debut post so I thought why not start with this. Sometimes just stating the obvious obviates many other things.

Having said that, let's see what different connotations the word "Journey" can conjure here.

Yes, the first one is literal, which I already stated above- the debut thing. Check

The second one is analogical- If I do a good job of writing here then you might be tempted to read it and that surely would be a great incentive for me to write more and the cycle continues. We journey together. Check

But the one which I had in mind when I chose this topic was metaphorical. Obviously the journey started when we were born so you might think what this bloke is talking about. Well I talk about "THE" journey. One which is not necessarily congruent to our biological journey; one which is like the carriage in a horse-carriage & not the horse, as we take the position of the horse deciding where to take it. I mean we, the horse, deciding where to take the journey. I talk about starting that kind of journey- together. 

Now please not even for a moment think I am trying to be a Guru here who fancies illuminating people about the purpose of life or about how to live powerfully and with purpose and how to understand what the show is all about. No, I don't fancy doing that; at least not yet and not through this blog. 

At the moment my intentions are very modest. I talk about we( me and you, the reader) together deciding "The Journey" of this blog. Bigger things of a Guru kind might (or might not) follow subsequently. But as all of us know that for a short( or long) while, only a spouse (hopefully), friends(of a certain type), parents( of almost all types), children(am not kidding) and a single digit percentage of those hundreds of social-media friends, spend effort going through a bloggers debut blog. 

So except for the build-up or transition phase for this blog till it starts reaching you in some tangible numbers, we sort of mutually decide what we want to talk about. Now how this would work of course needs some explanation, so  please allow me to explain.

The whole idea is to start conversations and that's the reason this blog's domain is conversationsandmore.in. But conversations not of any kind and certainly not of AAP versus BJP or Hillary versus Trump kind, or anybody versus anybody kind. Nothing against those types of conversations, it just that it's not something I am skilled at !

Conversations which move you, define you, mean something to you and shape your world in any way; conversations which might be sitting there at the back of your mind but for any reason never happened; conversations about the way you perceive this world and the things, events, experiences which fill it; conversations about love or the loss of it; hope or the loss of it; conversations about life, death, success, failure, fun, happiness or even the anti-thesis of it; conversations about the beauties and sorrows and triumphs or travails of life; conversations about children, partners, parents, pets, travels, adventures or romance. And most certainly conversations about anything creative. 

So that is the canvas- blank & open yet not too broad( or is it?) , and we mutually decide how we paint it. You suggest a topic from the spectrum above and I pen down my thoughts on it and we all( once you the reader discovers me) have a conversation on it.

You are free to suggest any topic but here are some guidelines. In fact couple of them :

•   It has to be a single line topic ( This is mandatory)

•   Not mandatory but if possible it should be metaphorical. Examples:

o   Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life- Picasso

o   Chaos is a friend of mine- Dylan

o   Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on

•   As far as possible it should be progressive- a conversation on it should take us  forward in evolution. Examples:

o   The problem is that you think you have time

o   Don't be so focused on steps that you forget the dance

o   We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

•    It could have an element of humor or satire. Examples

o   Someday you will live as happy as you show on your Facebook Wall

o   My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot

o   I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen

To sum it up, the topic should have some soul. It could be a simple statement but it should actually mean something to you.

Now one last thing which I think I should share before I conclude, " Why this weird looking approach to curate a blog?" Well to tell you the truth the answer is not half as weird. In my social media life I have observed that in the cacophony of quantum of posts and messages real conversations seldom happen. And the sheer volume of exchange drowns all voices. I mean ALL. Everybody shoots something and vanishes and the "pressure" to look connected with as many and as frequently overrides the need to have meaningful exchanges.

So time to conclude and if you have come this far and it evokes any interest in you then let me share that my next post would be on " Don't be so focused on steps that you forget the dance".

Have a wonderful day!

- Vivek