A few words to start with

First of all, I would like to thank Gopal for having come with this great idea of creating SoftlinkersWorld. Its indeed exciting to know that there is a place where you can write, and there are certain people who are going to read it. I have often found myself being accused of making offensive statements, hence, writing, to me, seems a safer option. I can at least read it several times, and apply various ethical formulae to it, to ensure that it is not offensive, and if at all it is offensive then it is offensive to all and sundry and no one in particular.

 Well, I really experience a sense of freedom because of the fact that unlike Shashi Tharoor,  I do not owe an explanation to anyone for whatever I write. This freedom reminds of its counterpart, that exists by virtue of the law of duality, the fear, that surrounds us in our everyday life. On a close scrutiny, one would realise that, it is this fear, that has taken all our individuality away from us. We are forced to do things in a certain way, we are forced to follow a certain routine, we are forced to live our lives in way that resembles pressurized water flowing through a pipeline. Always under pressure, tensed, marching ahead towards a destination that has not been chosen by us but the destiny.
 Further introspection leads us towards the fact that we ourselves have created this fear for us.  And we are slave to it. Fear of losing peer recognition, fear of losing social recognition, fear of being odd man out, fear of losing job, fear of losing money and other countless phobias. We often try to fool ourselves by going on vacations, by being away from this routine life for a small period, to assert our freedom. But it hardly helps. We are back to our cocoon within a few days and become a part of the same cycle.
 Now one will ask,  what am I trying to say here ? Well, I am not suggesting anything. Just a food for thought. I myself am struggling with this fear, I too am a victim of myself. But I have begun my struggle against this fear. I salute all the comrades who are there with me in this struggle, whether I know them or not. I wish you all the best if you want to join.

I remain.

Abhai.