Romanticizing Simplicity

While preparing to take nth interview, I thought about what I had turned up with earlier, in so many interviews and professional interactions. There is an issue with being samriddhi in the field of academics and research. Not typical! At least, not so much to distinguish or reward my acumen.

I can never articulate the same content and present it in the same way as I have produced earlier. The essence remains intact, mostly. Also, I tend to modify the content at the last moment against what I had thought of saying. While watching with a magnifying glass, I felt that this random act has also become my way of life. Spontaneity brings out and/or sometimes highlights a fact by giving it a 3D effect, though non-visual. This led to me establishing the basic premise which is often assumed wrongly in Indian academics and research. Unknowingly but affirmatively, I made a point that I am here by choice and not by compulsion. What brought me here was not a lack of options but preparation. I will be here because I want to be here.

One of several meanings of simplicity personified might be arising here. Changing the expression doesn't change the essence. In an era, wherein visual content is overriding our lives in almost all possible spheres; everything that is non-visual may communicate more in terms of depth, meaning, sustainability, and longevity. And leading to something visual, as a surprise. Maybe this is one reason why the times of inland letters, telegrams, and telephones shared more soothing inter-personal relationships. There was a lesser divide between being humane and being human.

Ordinarily, people were meant to know less about one another, about information, data, etc. The difference between sunsets and sunrises used to be wider and creative. Imagine a morning without a compulsion to pick up your mobile phone. This made a lot of room for talking. For instance, one didn't have to sit in a coffee shop to talk. Because the content wasn't as less as it takes two cups of coffee and a bit of snacks to end the meeting. Including luncheons and dinners! :)

Faith was built on deeds rather than how someone or something looks, appears, or carries oneself. For instance, the idea of making someone feel good or loved or cared for had rarely any definition. People spent decades without a family picture yet understood the meaning of family. The workplaces were also informal and empathizing at times. The targets were not darts in one's pocket. Why am I reminiscing?

To visualize the imperceptibles of our lives. To romanticize that which has no face, no sound, no voice. That which can only be felt. That which can mobilize you to a pleasant island while you feel being oceans apart with life goals, work, relationships, dreams, etc.

- Samriddhi's