One of those days when you wake up to this eerie feeling of
nothingness. And yet, you have a lot in your head. There’s your friend you’re
thinking about, the assignments that the professor gave you the other day, the
frenzied atmosphere in the club you’re in, the blog post you’ve left undone for
so many days. There’s just a lot of noise in our lives. Not between your ears,
but inside your brain. No matter where you go, the noise keeps chasing you.
It’s a blurry distorted kind of noise. It’s the kind of noise that you see in
old television sets when some channel goes off air for some time, when there’s
a transitory rain or a thunderstorm. The channel gets back on air after a while,
only the clouds in our life don’t disappear effortlessly. That noise is fondly
called chaos.
Were we really so complicated when we were kids? I guess
not. We were busy watching our favorite cartoon shows on TV and were too
occupied weaving the life in our dreams. We were real thinkers, and questioned
a hell lot of things. We grew up when we found the answers to most of our
questions. We started becoming complacent and indifferent towards ourselves and
stopped questioning life. That’s when we experienced the noise for the first
time. From then, it has become an inconsequential yet irritable part of our
lives. While some choose to live with it, some deny having it, others find ways
to get rid of it.
Who’s chasing whom? Is the noise chasing you? Or are you chasing
the noise? There’s a small yet substantial line between the two. If something’s
worrying you for the past few days and you haven’t been able to do a thing
about it, then your case is the former. The noise chases you as you inch
towards your deadline. You become too anxious about the outcome and give up to
the noise to take over you. Conversely,
you are chasing the noise when you know something is impending, probably bad,
but you become too unconcerned and keep on doing it anyway. That’s when you
invite the noise to come and take over.
Is there a solution?
Oh yes! In fact two simple steps.
Step 1: Acceptance. Most of us young adults lack this
virtue. The first step to solving every problem is acceptance. Accepting that
we have a problem makes it easier to find ways to solve it. We are so full of
activity that we always stay in a state of denial. We feel what’s a little
deviating from normal is nothing short of just mundane and to be dealt with
casually. This is a way to complicate our lives further. I feel, sometimes it
is better to freak out. Let your emotions take over you and your inner
conscience scream on top of its voice. Listen to it, and not just hear it
because when you heed to the pangs of your conscience, you’ll know yourself
much better.
Step 2: Keeping busy. We can avoid pointless commotion by
keeping busy in doing things we love. That would help in diverting ourselves to
something productive. We could join a club, participate in events, play a sport
or take up a project and develop our skill set by investing time in such
ventures. This would also guarantee mental and emotional satisfaction and shield
us from chaos.
Have a chaos free day.
Happy Raksha Bandhan: A celebration of the devout bond
between a brother and a sister. The brother commits to take care of his sister
all his life and beyond, while the sister ties a knot of colorful thread on her
brother’s wrist. The knot is a symbol of eternal love, respect, vigor and
vitality. Shilpa and Siwalik wish you all a Happy Raksha Bandhan on behalf of
Dreamscape.
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