Mind of my Stroked Brain

Giving a like has become quite ubiquitous nowadays - across platforms and media. I have even used it in e-mails sometimes. WhatsApp had resisted for a while until they succumbed to it short while ago. We have a handful of options there as well. Emoticons are everywhere in every platform - several of them to express every possible emotion. But are they really? I feel emoticons have actually stripped us off the ability to actually convey an emotion. I have done it several times and continue to do so as well. But why am I doing it? When I give a like 👍🏼, what am I actually liking (in whatever). Shouldn't I convey what I liked instead of an emoticon. What will the receiver understand? I sometimes have done it as a "consolation prize". "I don't know what I like but I want you to see that I liked it when you count the likes!" Sometimes I have done it as a social pressure (social media pressure actually). "Well, everyone will know otherwise - I better like i...

Almost ever country/ nation state has a "defence" minister. I don't know any country which has an "offence" minister. If everyone had only defence, we wouldn't have to worry much isn't it 🙂 This is a bit of a rant. I am complaining against nobody in particular and complaining on everybody in general.... From several weeks, I have been seeing the same kinds of news from across the globe. 1. The imminent threat of a nuclear war: well we don't have to worry do we. We have only defence ministers everywhere . 🙂 Simple Murphy knows that "if something can be used, somebody will". Why are we shocked? We built it didn't we? I mean, it was meant to be used sometime - there was no point building them otherwise. The time to act was before it was built, being built or lying in waiting earlier. What is the point being concerned about it now? Same holds good for everything arms, ammunition, etc. 2. Weaponising energy for war: why is everyone acting ...

The sculptor received a big stone one morning. An absolutely big and lump of rock. "You can make anything you want with it" was told. The plan was very good. Anything could be carved out of it. A very clear image came to the mind and set to work. Chipping away at it piece by piece. At nightfall, it was time to retire. So sleep set. When dawn came, a very surprising thing happened. The sculptor did not wake up at the same place... Instead, a different sculptor woke up in this place - staring at the stone. Except, this had a few chips taken out here and there. "You can make anything you want with it" was told as usual. What was the plan here? There were a few bits gone, but it was not clear what it was supposed to become. A beast, an animal,, a human, some other material, a statue of something, etc. Nonetheless, there were a few bits done - it was a very huge stone, it didn't matter. So a new plan was envisioned and set to work. Chipping away bit by bit. Nightfall...

100% of the people who know me - even very remotely, would know I had a stroke 1-2% of them probably know what a stroke is and what it means. 0.1% probably know which kind of stroke and what happens. 0.01% probably know what that entails and the typical statistical odds of improvement 0% of even extremely qualified and experienced doctors know what can happen and do not predict what will happen. However,  100% of people who genuinely care about me, tell me with 100% confidence that everything will be ok. The math somehow doesn't add up right?

It has been a while since I have written anything. I wish it was just laziness to put it down my thoughts. Unfortunately, I have had no thoughts which I have found worthy of sharing... Getting through the day was getting hard - with not much to do. So, sometime back, I decided to fill it up. With anything I could do. Purposeful, not useful, whatever. Only 3 criteria: 1. It has to keep me involved/ absorbed and not be boring. 2. No social media 3. No games (except for 1 game of wordle a day - I am already addicted to it. It's not a new addition) So, I have succeeded. I don't leave much time to do anything else. To do nothing (except the regular therapy stuff). I am not even able to watch 1 episode of anything on TV as well. The news just keeps screaming at me almost all day. A good consequence of that was that I was forced to use the laptop for a couple of hours everyday. (It's simply impossible to deal with large spreadsheets on the phone). I finally realised the power of ...