Mind of my Stroked Brain

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 &

Is there something called a wrong choice? Almost all of us have 20/20 vision in hindsight. Most things feel it could have been done differently in hindsight. Right and wrong are relative. We can be arguing till the cows come home what is right and wrong. Disagreements will invariably be a case of "what is right for me is wrong for somebody else". The lens of morals and ethics and such matters are imposed by society and always changing. What is acceptable today would have been unthinkable in another generation! Then there are situations where one causes harm to someone else - or themselves. It is undoubtedly incorrect . However, from their perspective, that is the next best thing to do for them. If they can think more and consider more things, very likely they will choose different. But, in that instance, considering what they can consider - can someone make a wrong choice? Not by the lens from anybody else, from their own perspective, can they make a wrong choice? Can anyone

I was having a chat recently with a good friend of mine and we we talking about "stress". I thought about it afterwards and some thoughts came up: One of the most widely used factors for contemporary diseases is "stress" (along with lifestyle). I often wondered for a very very long time - what does it mean.  Generally I knew that something we were doing was not right, but I didn't know what it was . After many years, I found out the definition. (It may not be entirely right, but it is how I have understood it). Basically, when we are in anxiety (mostly caused by fear - real or imagined), the body releases hormones to support the "fight or flight" response. (It's a very primitive and helpful response to safeguard us and we can't stop it). In primitive days, we would actually "fight or flight" and the extra hormones would be used up. However, in today's world, we don't "fight or flight", instead go back angry and mumbl

Almost any news I tune into from the world over, there are two major news  (i) the war  (ii) the economy as a result of the pandemic and war.  Almost everyone is screaming in unison of a looming recession. Shrinking GDPs, increasing inflation etc. But why is this a recession? Definitely for you and me and everyone else, it is certainly a very painful time, but is it a recession. On the one hand, we keep screaming "climate change", its ugly impacts etc.  We can mince our words and say it in many unintelligible ways, the harsh truth is that this planet cannot sustain this level of population and its demand for resources. Apart from India and many other asian and African countries, the population is staring at a collapse due to lowering birth rates. that is a very big problem for us as well. But is it? It's painful for us but isn't it great for humanity and the planet. Why do we need the economy, demand and growth every year. Why don't we aim for a controlled reducti