1984

You are locked in a room with your greatest fear.  Describe what is in the room.

Fear is an emotion that everyone experiences sometime in their life.  Be it darkness, heights, spiders, cockroaches, loneliness, silence, ghosts etc.

Being Halloween season, it is a time to dress up in spooky outfits and scare the wits of your friends.

I believe that living humans are more scary than any ghost. There are many humans who harbor vengeance, racism, prejudices, anger and lust and these humans can be very dangerous.  For some reason they have suffered a traumatic childhood or abuse of some kind and they grow up crying for attention.  Such individuals need the help of society and if not they can resort to killing innocent people or wreaking havoc with peoples lives.

The greatest fear is of a repressed person – person who grows up in a family with stoic parents or is bullied in school or a wife who suffers daily abuse.  When we lose our freedom of speech and expression an individual bottles up his/her feelings and eventually it will flare up and lead to an outburst.  Societies who have been treated like slaves for years, have risen in revolt and overthrown dictatorial rulers.

So being locked in a room alone or with such a person is my greatest fear – fear of bondage.

Other interesting posts in this category:
1) https://thoughtsofajunkiemisfit.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/hell-evator/
2) https://rogershipp.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/wolf-spiders/
3) https://ladyleemanila.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/1984-daily-prompt/
4) http://movingtowardsthelight.com/2015/11/02/alone-3/
5) https://lekhamisra.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/a-dark-fear/
6) http://momsorganicbohofoodfun.com/2015/11/01/most-frightening-thing-is-me/
7) https://mattandhiscats.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/1984-the-daily-post/
8) https://varshaav.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/room-of-fear/
9) https://flowersandbreezes.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/fears-in-my-heart/
10) https://isimonfiction.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/daily-prompt-1984/

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Truth Serum

You’ve come into possession of one vial of truth serum.  Who would you give it to
(with the person’s consent, of course) – and what questions would you ask?

Always say the truth they said
‘I swear’  was my anchor
But can truth be extracted through fear
Or administering a serum?

Will you tell the truth
If a lie could save a life?
Or tell your kid that Santa is a farce
And ruin his Christmas dreams?

There are no gags, no chains
All an illusion of the mind
Bondage is only ignorance
The truth will set you free

Like a free bird
Let us shed our inhibitions and fears
And rise like a phoenix from the ashes
Every time we fall

The truth is not a diktat
A decree etched in stone
Listen to the sweet song
Of your inner voice

© copyright skm, 1^st October 2014

Other interesting posts in this category:
1) http://emo1956.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/the-truth-will-set-you-free/
2) http://tombalistreri.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/you-cant-handle-the-truth/
3) http://iamj0ann.com/2014/09/30/b101-truth-serum/
4) http://theempathyqueen.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/the-truth-is-not-only-words-but-experience-daily-post/
5) http://msbstories.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/consent-and-truth-serum-dont-mix/
6) http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/2014/09/30/daily-prompt-truth-serum-the-truth-always-hurts/
7) http://yzhengblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/if-i-have-a-vial-of-truth-serum/
8) http://bhalsop.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/daily-prompt-truth-serum/
9) http://tnkerr.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/daily-prompt-truth-serum/
10) http://lindaswritingblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/the-whole-truth/

Release Me

Tell us about the blog post you were most nervous to publish — and what it was like to set it free.
Photographers, artists, poets: show us FREE.

I have no qualms about being sincere when it comes to blogging.  It feels a lot easier to write about anything than tell it to someone. So, I have written a lot about my character, my likes, dislikes, inhibitions etc in my posts.

I find that there is no point in holding any secrets, misconceptions, prejudices, false notions etc in your heart. We have to release these things….We have to  let go… and live a carefree life… a life of freedom!

Like a boiling frog if we keep our worries and anxieties to ourselves, one day we will be overwhelmed and then it will be too late.

So release those skeletons from your closet.. and let truth prevail

 
Some other interesting posts in this category:
1) http://zirkusdeslebens.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/release-me/
2) http://stephaniemartinglennon.com/2013/10/20/a-different-kind-of-letting-go/
3) http://soletusknow.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/daily-prompt-challenge-free/
4) http://cobbies69.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/dp-release-me/
5) http://neasblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/free/
6) http://muddyrivermuse.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/setting-me-free/
7) http://kate0murray.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/release-me/
8) http://heymissadventures.com/release-me-letting-go-and-moving-on/
9) http://charronschatter.com/2013/10/20/daily-prompt-release-me/
10)http://mauldinfamily1.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/daily-prompt-release-me/

A matter of choice

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference”

These are the concluding lines of Robert Frost’s poem – The Road not Taken.
We are presented with choices every day of our lives and our decisions lay the blueprint of our future.  So, isn’t choosing a fine art?  Do we allow our emotions to rule when we make our choices or do we go by logic?

I just finished reading a great book “The Art of Choosing” – by Sheena Iyengar.  I found this book very informative and well-researched.  It describes in great detail how culture, upbringing etc influence our everyday choices

Some choices that we encounter do not matter too much as we are not in a life/death situation.  But in life, we are presented with choices like ‘abortion’, ‘euthanasia’ etc.  Here, even consulting experts or our parents is not a solution as even after making such a choice,  we may have to live with guilt if we have not given enough thought in our decision.

The senses of children today are bombarded with videos and sound through gadgets like smartphones, tablets, televisions etc.  They are overwhelmed with media and do not have a chance to look at books and board games, unless, parents can guide them.  So is too much choice necessarily good?

In India arranged marriage is very common.  But if you tell that to a foreigner they will show be taken by surprise.  Why do we sometimes make choices against our best interests? Or are some choices driven by family, society, culture rather than one’s own interests?

Statistics does show that the success of arranged marriages is way higher than love marriage.  One reason is that, love and marriage are not the same.  And living together entails a lot of give and take!  We also find very happy couples in both type of marriages.

So is it actually advantageous to have more choices.  Does it mean we have more freedom if we have more choice or do more choices overwhelm us and make us undecisive?

The course we take can decide the future of our career.  The food we eat can decide our health.  We have a choice whether to exercise or relax.  This exciting book with numerous practical, everyday life examples  is a must-read for all of us who face the thrills and tribulations of making choices everyday.

How do you make important choices in your life?

 

(Sheena Iyengar holds degrees from UPenn, The Wharton School of Business, and Stanford University. She is a professor at Columbia University, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award. Her work is regularly cited in periodicals as diverse as Fortune and Time magazines, the NYT and the WSJ, in books such as Blink and The Paradox of Choice.)

 

 

A Leader

A leader lives a  life of purpose
Working from dawn to dusk
Serving the community
Living steadfast to ideals

Empowering the populace
Bringing education to them
A leader awakens the masses to
Truth,  courage and love

A leader  serves the needy
Cares for  the orphan
Feeds the hungry and
Clothes the destitute

Breaking  bonds of slavery
Ending years of servitude,
A leader frees society from
Fear,poverty and illusion

A leader leaves a legacy
By bringing lasting change
Knowledge breaks caged walls
A nation wakes up to freedom

© copyright skm, 6th July, 2011

Free spirit

 

 

 

Chains bind me
Possessions
Money
Success
Security
Weighing down on me

A stream of thoughts
Leads me astray
Into a maze
Lost
I search
for a way out

Freedom beckons
To explore my  passion
To question, criticize
Undeterred
Fearless
To rise high
On flights of fancy
Serene and peaceful
Where forms and shapes blend
And the world appears as one

When I look back
There are no chains
Is this dream or reality?
A figment of imagination?
Then all of a sudden
A soft voice
A whisper
And I close my eyes and listen
To the flight of the free spirit

© copyright skm, 1st June, 2011

Egypt – A new world order

From the land of sphinxes and pyramids
A million voices rise
Breaking the shackles of bondage,
Stifled voices and  suppressed anger

The veil of ignorance is lifted
A spirited,young, savvy populace
Can no more be fooled
Into subservience

Broken wings and gagged mouths
Empty speeches and hollow promises
People seething in pain
Against years of slavery

The crowds gather at Tahrir
United to the core
Fuelled by a common purpose
Of overthrowing a despot

Bullet shots pierce through the night
Another innocent bystander falls
Truth and freedom will win the fight
Against a merciless ruler

Tanks and guns cannot silence
The brave Egyptian spirit
The cries for freedom proclaim
A new world order

© copyright skm February 6th, 2011