This is not the first time I am writing something but this is the first blog post that I am ever writing. Two things that I wanted to say in the first blog post were (1) why am I starting now to write blog posts? And (2) Why the name “Expressions….Emotions….Explanations”
To answer the first, I still don’t have a concrete reason as to why start now… but this is how it has happened, last week I met with an external trainer who had come to the organization in which I work to give training on a particular subject…. I was one of the people who attended the training, part of my nature is to continuously interact in all the trainings I attend, it also helps me keep awake. So I raised a few questions which I wanted to further discuss and they were addressed very well by the trainer…… she was very good with the subject no second thoughts about it… but the interesting part of the discussion happened over lunch… we were just chatting & then topics migrated from workplace & training to cover a wide variety of topics which covered current affairs, religions, social set up, hypocrisy in society, taboos, relationships in urban world, personalities etc etc…… infact the discussion starting over lunch continued between us almost 2 hours after the training in my office cafeteria…. It was a very intriguing discussion to say the least and we both contradicted each other on a lot of occasions… and each one of us put forward our viewpoints as to why we believe in whatever we believe in… at the end of it all when she had to leave to catch her late evening flight back to her city.. she said that she had rarely come across people like me who have very different views on everything and can so well articulate what their thoughts are…. Whoa… that coming from a trainer who has over 15 years of experience in training & interacting with people across industries, across organizations, across cultures, across geographical locations was a big compliment…. And she strongly recommended that I start writing as this would help me further improve my articulation skills. This actually made me think, over a long period of time I have consistently got this feedback that I can explain things very well…. From my friends, from my college professors, from the kids I use to teach when I was in college, from the management for all the organizations I have worked for….. and since I do think about a lot of things (trust me thinking is one thing I do a lot) & already have the habit of putting them down on paper… why not put it on a blog post and so here it is…. My blog containing ‘my expressions’, ‘my emotions’ & ‘my explanations’.
Now on to the second… took me a couple of days to think of a name which I would want to have (just reemphasizes what I mentioned in the first para, I think a lot….) but the name should represent what the blog posts will contain:
Expressions: For me expression is the inference which I derive from observing anything around me and the action it results in… for example me stopping my car to allow a lady to cross the road by blocking traffic behind me even though the guy in the car behind me is honking his way to glory, or stopping an elevator when I see someone rushing towards the same and it is about to get closed with me inside it, or hold open the entrance of my apartment building if I see someone carry multiple carry bags loaded with groceries and the examples can go on & on.. these are expressions or gestures which I execute and many more which I come across on a daily basis… all of them give me a lot of food for thought.
Emotions: Emotions for me are outlets of feelings from observing anything around me and the feelings becoming the actions and the observation not resulting in any action…. (well so much for clear articulation……) for example feelings when you see marriages of your friends breaking down left, right & center, feelings when you see people fighting after a road accident instead of paying attention to the wounded, feelings when I see how screwed up the social set up around me is & the hypocrisy it advocates for, feelings when I see people who have trapped themselves in their own worlds & are convinced that they have seen everything…. And once again the list goes on & on… these also get me thinking… thinking a lot…..about human society, evolution, maturity and all the social institutions itself…
Explanations: Now for me everything has an explanation & I spend a lot of time trying to find explanations. Expressions & Emotions… one results in action and the other may not result in action but both of them for me always have an explanation attached if we are willing to think enough, look enough or simply wait long enough…. Anything which I write be it about an emotion or expression will always have an explanation attached to it….. Explanation does not prove that someone is right or wrong… for me explanation is the reason behind the action which one takes for an expression or feelings one experiences for emotions…… it is the advanced sub conscious section of your brain pulling strings for you to either do those actions or have those feelings…
So “Expressions….Emotions….Explanations….” lets see where I go with it….. Cheers.......
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