Somali's Omnibus

A little while ago, I chanced to find the majestic beauty of the rainbow up there in the sky. It seemed to be so reachable all at once, but I was proven wrong altogether. That is to say, I was running after the castles in the air as if it was a mirage. Then it was time to come back home. I had to return with a broken heart. Suddenly, I had a thought on it, "We all desire to touch the sky. Who doesn't? All things are not meant for everyone. Oil floats on water." However, right then, my positive self replied, "There's nothing we can't do, because we all are the offsprings of Nature (disobedient though sometimes); we all are made of flesh and blood. So, there is no question of inequity." I became silent for a few minutes. Then I had made up my mind, "Maybe, we can't touch and catch that rainbow, but we can easily behold the colours. Again, can we deny that we can't find it somewhere else as well? Where? Well, as and when our eyes are too ful...

The scorching heat of the summer in West Bengal does blister you from skin to bone. Thanks to the issues of climate change and global warming, the floating clouds that cause no rain at all add fuel to the fire. Well, you may wonder why this "stupid fellow" is talking like that. Well, the hotter the season becomes, the crazier people get to drench their dry lips. A drop of rain is the need of the day. Conspicuously, if there is drizzle, even though it brings forth a soothing breeze, is not acceptable that much. A drizzle is supposed to increase the heat. Besides, a heavy rain is what the people keep dreaming of. What is most exciting is that everybody, if the rain comes down to quench the thirst, dances in joy, almost literally. It seems so crazy to watch such an expressive ecstasy, but the earth becomes sodden and full of life once again. Broadly speaking, the entire environment, and each and every human being as if regain the lost life. The dreadful summer does try to snatch...

"Why do you not allow me share a few things? I know that all things are not supposed to be shared. However, most irrationally, I fail several times to barricade between what should be kept private and what should be shared with all." So it goes with a masked human being, this so-called modern world needs it though. Things and circumstances are changing day by day and so are we, sometimes gradually, sometimes rapidly. When you get changed, I freak out. Why? Well, don't I know that who's freaking out here is subject to change as well? Where does the problem lie then? We should dig it out, we have to find out the roots that are so deep that it seems almost impossible for us to reach out. Anyway, there is no alternative. If we try to survive, we must get ourselves acclimatised to what has been going on nowadays. Furthermore, if we try to live this life, we need to work out all such problems. In that case, we need to obtain a constructive decision for a permanent solution,...

  Who are we? What is our identity? Where did we all come from? Well, which is our actual destination? There are questions after questions that buzz in my mind almost always. Wait! I never think that these questions are my monopoly. Neither am I supposed to think that too. Be it sooner or be it later, at some point of time during our lives, we presumably face such questions as if they are pounding out from our within. Broadly speaking, our split selves, perhaps, play a very significant role in this regard. Years roll away like a moving stone without any moss. Yes, time does, does fly away in the twinkling of an eye. We grow old day by day, but the question is: “Do we grow up or do we just grow old?” The answer is given to us on our own, provided we spare some time to listen to our within. It is very easy indeed to speak like this, isn’t it? Yes, you’re right in thinking, absolutely correct, that I’m no exception to this as well. It takes a lot of ease to speak, but it takes a g...

  Today, I am going to share one of my most pondered experiences with you all. We all must die one day. Be it sooner or be it later, we must know that mortality haunts us all at the end of the day. Most irrationally or most surprisingly, we usually speak a few ‘good’ words about everyone. Well, the irony is that we generally do so after the demise of that human being. From time to time, we may observe that death receives the wreath from all of us. How crazy it feels to think of the fact that we usually treat ill with our eyesores during lifetime! The greater irony is that we never stop praising the dead one like a sycophant in his/her funeral ceremony. What’s the use? Life is short, extremely brief; hence, without any further delay, we all must try to live the life to the fullest. We desire to live our dreams, for sure, but when will we learn not to while our time away by criticizing all other people, eulogizing the seniors, poking or bullying the dark horses and all such ugly ...

There are so many things we have to share with one another, right? Well, some of us do misuse this idea of sharing. We say, “Sharing is caring.” The funny thing is that we use the quote in the incorrect context a number of times, sometimes reluctantly, sometimes deliberately. What is our motive behind all these then? Well, do we then take the idea of sharing for granted? It is a matter of misfortune that we, many of us, leap before we look instead of looking before we leap. Why don’t we think a bit deeper? Yes, let’s look back at the opening sentence once again. Let us no more utter, “There are so many things we have to share with one another.” Instead, let all of us utter it a bit differently, “There are so many things that we love to share with one another.” As and when we resolve to speak from the bottom of our hearts using our conscience, we are supposed to bring positive energy not only to ourselves but also to this entire world. Yes, it will take much time indeed. Still, let ...