Joe is all I think about

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott is a wonderfully written book, focusing in the era where male dominance was prominent. The book focuses on how parents raise their children during dire situations like one parent living far away and working in military, mother alone raising their children. Still the children are so understanding of their situations and helping their mother any way they can. A pinch of drama, a hint of reality and a spoonful of love and affection; is what summarises the book.

The character I like the most or rather the character I would want to be is Joe. A very colourful yet thoughtful character. Extremely great at writing and a wonderful woman. A child who always understood her parents and made sure that they do not feel raising five girls to be a burden. The development of the character throughout the novel has been very inspiring. She knew what she wanted to do, where to live and with whom she would want to spend her whole life, very clear in what she ever wanted and needed. The reason for this is that she understood what is it to have any sort of luxury and how it is different from a need.

It was very evident throughout the novel that parenting does play a very important role in developing a child to become a responsible adult. This was graciously portrayed by the character of Joe’s mother Marmee. It’s she, who inculcated the kind of qualities in her children, the ones she wanted in herself. This shows how emotionally intelligent Joe was. The kind of dedication and hard working attitude she had is something I always admire and wish to develop myself.

This novel though revolving around female is a good read and definitely helps us realise what all one can achieve when rightly put the mind at work.

Let’s get to know more

What book are you reading right now?

Currently I am reading “The Holy Vedas” translated to English by Bibek Debroy and Dipavali Debroy.

It’s an ancient Indian text, comprising of all topics one can fathom about, right from human flesh to information about the whole universe.

Vedas consists of 4 portions; first RIG VEDA (considered to be the oldest). Second YAJUR VEDA. Third SAMA VEDA and last one is ATHARVA VEDA. All the Vedas are written in complete Sanskrit and in a very complicated way. It has two meanings; one is the latent and another is the manifest. Latent is the deep hidden meaning as in reading between lines kind of. Manifest is the visible meaning.

One thing which is very interesting to be noted that Vedas were not invented, those were discovered. It is said that the knowledge in that was transmitted from one generation to another, through oral instructions know as Shruti in Sanskrit. The who learns Veda thoroughly, is said to practice some unique way to memorise the shlokas from Vedas. One is supposed to practice it everyday.

Vedas are considerably difficult to understand than Upanishads. One can actually try reading Upanishads before they start with Vedas. I read only some small derivation of Upanishads which just scratched its surface. The concepts in it are pretty fascinating too.

I have just started to read it and I have understood nothing in it yet. I’m still on manifest level. It will take a lot of time to reach to the latent meaning.

1, 2 Cha cha cha…

Let’s sing and dance

Today let’s just talk about very basic yet very influential thing, music. For me music is like daily dose of supplement. Everyday just 15 minutes of music is equivalent to 15 minutes of sunbathing. It has healing properties, and this is backed by multiple researches.

Music and dance has been an integral part of my life. I guess I take this from my mother as she is really great at singing and she used to dance a lot during her younger days. Ultimately I carry her genes so… I give her the credit of me being a crazy women behind music and dance.

Every human on this planet understands the universal language of music and it really is one. For every emotion, dedicated music is released and majority of the times it becomes a hit. Why… because people are able to relate to it. I remember, during my college days, while travelling I always had earphones with music on and going on with the flow of the melodious sound. Apart from entertainment music also allows us to express ourselves better. Dance too, is a way to express oneself. And when both music and dance are combined, one can get ready to groove away their emotions.

Just imagine, a day without talking at all to anyone. Well it will definitely be a disaster. So my life without music will be an invitation to diseases, both physical and psychological.

The Last Hour

Describe the last difficult “goodbye” you said.

I remember a day when I was travelling in a train. I had a passenger who was very sad. I sat in-front if her thinking what was the reason for that gloom on her face. As being a Psychology enthusiast and student I always try to seek reasons behind situations. It was almost a 7 hour journey. Till the last hour she didn’t even look at me. But during the last hour I saw a tear drop falling on her cheek and then when I approached her asking what was the matter she let her shyness drown down the tears which ran like a tap. During that hour I understood what exactly the matter was. When my destination was near neither of us wanted to leave because just in a matter of time we had developed a bond which was unexplainable. That goodbye was hard for me and I guess same was for her too.