.. dedicated to all visitors,all creative and kind brothers and sisters out there .. and to my unfortunate friends who left this world forever..
arpan at an outing '07
Yes. This, I believe has been one of my best portraits till date and thanks to one of my dear friends who had taken it casually in our college picnic we attended few years from now. Surprisingly, it has served me as a decent snap for my hours and days on the internet, filling in the emptiness of not having a personal cam. Well, now that I am a host for guests, I must say that as you go browsing and dancing around with your mouse clicks and hungry eyes,I hold before you the promise to keep things as much cool as possible with the little that is now left in me. This crazy place is intended to possess all the tit -bits of my creation and that had once come out of the world that is still with me, leaving out those that I've already lost along the way in the hands of time or not been able to hide from my dear parents --> thus ending up in "loads of frustration". Having a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering was a good feeling and without support of my near ones it would certainly have been just a dream; but today I feel "doubtful" whether I have done "justice" with the things I really loved to do in life; always being the obedient boy to my parents.Reaching the end after years of chaos and marching with the crowd,quite amazingly and awfully academic degrees nowadays seem like a name of a game when the question of employment arises! Yes, forgiveness should have come handy with most of us but broken and diseased health peppered with years of constant curses from some agitated parents blindly stereotyped by the merciless system which has forever kept us away from the scope of self thoughts and expressions of the mind. All we have learned is to study and compete and to get spoon fed with fits of personal disgust when success never came to us.The rising competition and politics in the society seemed to have made them a slave to this attitude in a fear of sure failure and the blame heaps every second on pure,young and creative minds discoloring their happiness. As a word of caution, each and every parent should keep this in mind, not to compare their little ones with those of others as its quite clear that every child is unique in their own ways and never share similar environment and freedom in their individual families. I would say,parents shape any child's future and more than future, character and attitude of an individual towards the events and situations they would face in life. Most parents tend to fulfill their own unfulfilled dreams or rather see them through the eyes of their next generation. As you see I am not old enough to understand if that instinct comes voluntarily or involuntarily in them but I've seemed to figure something out over years of a suffocated life just like many "creative people" out there, who have taken up the path of science since school days . Since such days, I have always enjoyed the part of the schedule that had a bit of play~and~make~more than some work~to~grasp~more in it. As far as my memory goes, a few hours of artwork,singing,sleeping and karate classes candied some study schedules back when I was in my primaries and 1~2~3s. This was followed with a heavier and hectic class routine with only sports and lunch time football with friends in higher grades when artwork and creative scopes for anyone around started to become HISTORY, silently and cleverly designed for young and creative buddies and still remains the same even today! In spite of this mishap,I neglected my homework and studies a lot every day round the clock to find time and way for a world that I never realized in me at that time. Parents, as you know are fearful of their child failing in any job they undertake on their own but never realize that in the process they also silently plant in them a fearful attitude towards anything or anybody they are destined to interact or come over in their upcoming years. Likewise,my built-in unguided and discouraged instincts since childhood found loads of poetry and paintings either DISAPPEARING within the pages of some age old fatty scarcely read books that temporarily ensured their safety from my well-wishers or found their way to the trash bins if revealed anywhere in my room followed by disheartening screams. Today on my Silver Jubilee 25+yrs) age :D, I am glad to say somehow that my body has taken all the beatings with a smile,searching aimlessly for answers to a million questions rising out of the blues from my soul but as a matter of fact solving none!. But, how long can a fish SURVIVE if you keep feeding it with MUDDY BURGERS instead of DELICIOUS WORMS every minute in the "Ocean of the Great Sharks" ..jokes apart,we seem to have all taken life seriously enough to suffocate our days.. Today sadly the trend and echo remains for every household towards children as~"Throw away your poems and drawing sets child, its time to study..... No one ever gives a second thought of what becomes of the inner-self of the one trying to STUDY in enjoyment..... It seems that an age old rotten system is powerful enough to dominate every new born's joy and have in a way hypnotized his own creators. It has become a poisonous deal to make every child believe that a pen and a page are just a weaponry for the future rather than being his/her first friends for some joyous art and creation !" .....HOPE never decays and may be that's the reason we STILL LOOK FORWARD for the "World to change and show MERCY" to those little ones~ who are still struggling out there, desperately trying to mug up something early in the morning and taking bloody sedatives to kill their natural distractions in a view to vomit those crammed information somewhere else in a terrorizing exam hall with a Million Many, in the process, stuffing and taming their young minds with recurrent and repetitive thoughts~of failure,guilt and defeat~ both before their "friends" at school and their own parents each and every day!. Is this the REAL way God has created us for surviving on Earth? Well friends, its genuinely a time to give it a thought.. Sometimes I wonder- " There are so many brothers and sisters out there in the wilderness who have their <own little world of joy,dreams and desires> which taken together and "fulfilled at peace" might just show us all an altogether happy,peaceful,creative and prospering place to live in; rather than making us all a hoard of sick,jealous,unhealthy queue of competitors steadily growing into "ruthless" rebels and politicians all set to a killing attitude towards any thing that distracts their way to score over each other. Maybe its time for us to rethink the ways we have shaped our God given lives into a hectic schedule miles away from TRUE happiness of our soul that was once gifted with "Freedom for creation". We must resolve our minds with a gentle attitude to help,heal and encourage all those people around us to retain their own gifted abilities and realize them with pleasure; than to push them every~time into harsh tests of "man~made" rules of worthiness! "
Lately, Sir Ken Robinson seems to have gifted some sort of an oasis to an age old social desert that is running alarmingly dry for years starving most creative commons mercilessly. In one of his lectures,he stated that ~"Creativity is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status." ..hmm.. now have a look below,dear friends.. So you can relate some thoughts over what he has to say..!!
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