The tabooed thoughts

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. We all know this is a free verse written by our freedom fighter who fought with the power of words.  I read this poem after our triumph celebration of the 75th Independence Day of India.  I was left alone with heaps of questions......But to begin with - have we actually gotten freedom? I mean each moment of the day even small children live within the prison of their feared minds. What will me teacher say if I didn't finish this......What do my friends think about me?? A few things we c...

Suddenly when there so many new people introduced in my life, I feel caged by my conscience.  Meeting people with different characteristics tends to blow a breeze in these silent lands. Then understanding their personalities, Trying to hide those reactions which I will be judged by, it's quite a mind workout day in and day out.  Accepting differences, slowly getting into a routine I never imagined myself in It's moving a little fast to process what it is actually Finding reason in why people act obnoxiously with spontaneous bursts of energy, Questioning my pre-conditioned mind to let go of the selfishness of only getting my things done Learning about their interests and attitude towards life, left me awestruck with the realization that I only saw the world from my eyes. The knowledge that I'm going to be stumbling upon them for the next three years posed all the things I'll have to change about myself and all the characteristics I already feel bursting out of my mind Th...