The 2 Extremes

Its crazy how life has changed and has become so materialistic. I am sure for some this is the normal way of life due to the exposure they have had to the luxuries of life but for many its a new phase, a new era, a new millenium. Everyone is craving for that one designer bag, one red sole shoe and one gold watch. Why do they crave? They crave because they need this for their everyday life or they crave because they want to be seen and positioned with the right people. Seen and position - strange words to describe a person and their character, it sounds more like a display unit in a luxury store than the descrption of a human. How having an expensive bag characterise you..? I am sure you're wondering it does characterise you. Why I need to buy expensive products when I can get the same at a much reasonable price. How everything has become more about price and not about quality? Suddenly famous names have taken over the good old tradition. The tradional or good old is no lon...

Mind is blank..I am thinking non stop and I am reformulating non stop but yet my mind is blank. I look at people walking around, I look how much work is piled up on my desk yet I don't see anything. How it could be? How when we have so many thoughts and ideas and visions we still feel blank? Its as if silence has taken over the mind and it has gone on a holiday. I see a woman shopping - she is happy, she is excited, she is talking and moving and smiling. But today I am not curious to know who she is, what she does, why is she shopping, what is she buying...is it the silence of my brain or I don't find her interesting enough. You know that I just can't think enough. I just want to sit and look around, no thinking, no talking, no assessing someone, just look around. Can I do that? Yes I surely can. My mind has the ability to block and to focus only on what is relevant and what is important and currently, nothing is relevant or important. May be its the boredom - no...