TEENOSOPHY 2.0

  “I feel light today, but the heaviness pulls me back. The breeze wants to carry me with it, but the soil is too insecure to let go of me. The stars want me to twinkle next to them, but the plants demand my growth besides them. The moon wants me to sit on its craters and talk to it, but the animals here don’t want to let go of my chatter this soon. It is a dilemma with a fixed answer. It is a confusion with a road already taken. And it is a tragedy that changes one forever.” Since I was a child, I had always understood death as an unpleasant concept, something which gave grief to the family and something which was irreversible, but I could never really understand what it really was. I knew of it as a journey unknown to man which one had to make irrespective of what they felt about it. As a kid, I believed in stars, and I was pretty sure that my ancestors looked upon me each night as they twinkled next to each other. As I grew up, I understood it as a journey which the soul makes...

  The baby cried- ‘Oh God, it’s so dark in here. I am scared’.   The mother patted her baby bump, smiled and whispered, ‘Shh… don’t worry, I am here.’   The baby replied, ‘But mom, in my previous life, the darkness was always uncomfortable and scary.’   ‘That was because you died, and were buried in a tomb. But right now you are alive and in my womb.’   ‘Mom, I am confused, it was dark there, it is dark here. I was alone there, and I am alone here. I was lost there, and I am lost here. How is it different then?’   ‘Child, the darkness of the tomb was suffocative for you. It didn’t allow you to think or breathe. It was cold and icy. But the darkness of my womb if full of love and warmth, where you can breathe, have your thinking space and fly like a free bird.’   ‘Baby, you were alone in the tomb because you were sad and despite having known numerous people in your ‘previous life’, you had nobody to stand beside you, nobody to li...