Notes of an Overthinker

A few months back I came across a small article that casually mentioned that there are two types of arts - popular art and high art. Popular art is the one that the masses enjoy. Art that is being created at this very moment and consumed by the people in their revelry,  as soon as it is born. Art that is accepted in the present is what we call popular art and the practitioners of it as artists. Then again, somewhere in an old winter shack, away from everything he holds dear, a man is creating something that will change the perception of human vision towards a particular art form by forever expanding the boundaries of our knowledge and exposing us to horizons that we never thought existed. That is what we will come to call as high art. However, the path that it will follow is not easy at all. It will not be readily accepted by the experts and connoisseurs because it challenges every notion of the textbook version of the art form. It will not be liked by the public because they alwa...

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”  ―  George Orwell ,  1984 We are a generation of broken hearts and unrequited love. Eyes, blank as dead, perpetuating a melancholia across all breathing figures, asking to be heard and understood. And that brings me to ask you that do we really want to be loved or just be understood. Don't you want to be able to cry around someone without it being weird? Don't you want to hear a voice saying and meaning, "It's all right"? Don't you want a companionship where you don't need to wear a mask of normalcy?  Maybe this idea of being understood stems from the constant need of validation to which we humans are forever enslaved; it is something that lets us live with an ease of mind and not needing to climb the ladder of spirituality to a level where approval does not matter anymore. However, the paradox of the whole phenomenon is that that we need to attain a higher level of understanding so...

2018. Another year. There is always so much hype about the new year among the plebeians. They believe it is a perfect time to start something, or change something, or for a fresh beginning. Well, I think it is as good as any time to do anything you want. But people are growing up, and I think that the general awareness has maybe slightly increased about the fact that the celebration of the new year's day is nothing but a giant and successful marketing policy of the corporates to make you feel all good about everything when it most certainly is not. And, this is what I want to talk about here in this post. I want to address the real problems that are hidden behind the veil of the niceties; the problems everyone knows exist but they do not talk about because it is not nice to do so. Real and Nice. This is what we are going to talk about and I am going to use these two words a lot hereafter. As a child, we are raised by our parents to be good, to be nice. We are trained to say ni...