"சென்றிடுவீர் எட்டுத் திக்கும்"
World is a Global Village.
How important is spirituality in your life?
As Elbert Hubbard (famously) said don’t take life too seriously – you don’t get out of it alive.
If the sun shines, I would think ‘Beer Garden’. When it rains, I would visit a pub for a while. Or if it’s snowing, I would sit in front of TV with a case of beer.
I’m now starting to think I have a problem with ‘spirit’uality.
How do you practice self-care?
I eat, sleep, write and repeat -type. A ‘work from home’ with a snack bag keeps me going. Thanks.
Dream, dream, dream! Conduct these dreams into thought, and then transform them into action. – famously said by former President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
The Chinese dream. The Greeks dream. Everyone in the world dreams.
The Guardian delves into the realms of what makes a dream real. What’s the science behind people dreaming?
19th-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev envisioned the periodic table in a dream. Wow! That’s for real.
But are dreams good or bad?
Oscar Wilde said it in a famous quote; “they have promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too”.
A study says 80% of people experience someone chasing them in their dreams.
Man spends a third of his entire life sleeping. And dreaming forms a significant part. About 20 to 30 percent.
Dreams are called REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep.
Dreams carry a message of some kind. They communicate in a nocturnal language. – says Jane Haynes. She is a London-based psychotherapist.
Research has shown that people are wrong when they say they don’t dream. They dream but don’t remember it in the morning.
REM Sleep, a Sleep Onset Phase and a Late Morning Effect are three phases of the dream a man indulges in while sleeping.
“All three of these phases are associated with dreaming,” says Prof Mark Solms, a neuro-scientist at the University of Cape Town.
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (The Introduction to Psychoanalysis), has been proved wrong when he said dreams mostly comprise our suppressed (sexual) desires. But Solms says, on the contrary, “many of our dreams are anything but wishful thinking”.
When you dream tonight, you know for sure that you don’t just rest, sleep but dream a big project in your head.
You speak to yourself about work, relationships, calculus, rocket-science and Jaws, chasing you in the movie.
Who is your favorite historical figure?
My favorite is Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and playwright.
Write about your first crush.
I was a young boy of about nine or ten. Our ancestral home was located in a village called Pudukottai, far away from Chennai, the capital of Tamilnadu, South of India.
People in our village gather every year during the month of January to celebrate harvesting. They conduct various local fun and play activities that include staging dramas.
We call it Pongal Festival in Tamil.
Theatre and drama in India, as you know, are very ancient. They date back to the 2nd century BC.
Folks in villages found them mostly entertaining in nature. The drama crew showcased a lot of local tales and people sat the whole night watching the cast. They didn’t sleep a wink.
I was attracted to one such drama and fell in love with the female cast. She was beautiful. Flawless in her performance. People clapped each time she appeared on stage.
She was simply a WOW! I had no clue about what the story was about though.
All I knew, I had found my crush.
I went crazy, didn’t miss the show, sneaked through each night, three nights in a row hoping I would meet her and say she did a good show.
On the fourth day the crew packed up and gone. I welled-up in my eyes.
As I grew up, one day my uncle told me that the cast in those dramas were mostly boys and not girls. The girl, he said, I was madly in love with could probably be a boy.
What! Was my first crush a boy?
Gobsmacked! Years have gone, but the memory is still fresh.
Ah yes , I remember it like it was just a decade or so ago . I believe it was grape flavored . It was awesome , then again I’m a cheap date . Soda has to be pretty bad in order for me to say anything negative about them . Wait , I think […]
Prompt : Write about your first crush
Ah yes , I remember it like it was just a decade or so ago . I believe it was grape flavored . It was awesome , then again I’m a cheap date . Soda has to be pretty bad in order for me to say anything negative about them . Wait , I think […]
Prompt : Write about your first crush
What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
I make sure to dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s as they are prerequisites for one to become a writer, director and producer.
How do you want to retire?
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
“An old habit dies hard”. Happy to hear you. Thanks.
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