Chapter 1: Stillness in motion
A rock getting smashed by a turbulent river asks,
Can you flow quietly
Why do you always hit me harder
Shredding me into pieces
The turbulent river answers sadly,
I have no control over myself
I get pushed from the top
In myself, I drown
I am dragged and pulled down
I reach the depths of the ocean
In merging with ocean, I become nobody
In the middle of the river, a rock laughs and says,
I’m imprisoned here forever
I can’t move or flow as you do
I want to flow and reach the unknown
I can’t move or flow as you do
The sand below the water says with excitement,
I was once a rock
Now broken down to pieces
I flow along to see new places
With calm and composure, the ice on the frozen river bank speaks wisely,
I get frozen to be solid
I get melted to be liquid
I get vaporized to be gas
Again condensed to be liquid
I stay still, fly and flow
Flow when I’m allowed
I stand still to rest and grow
Grow until I’m found
I am stillness in motion
Motion in stillness
I don’t stay in past
I don’t anticipate future
I enjoy where I am
By being here and now
I am in the moment
And the moment is mine
This is a part of the book that I am writing for my son, whose name is Ishaan Inlakesh. Inlakesh means I am you, You are me, in mayan language, A beautiful philosophy. I named him to remember that I should never forget that we are all one and the same, something that I personally experienced one day.
The name of the book is I am you, You are me.
I will add a chapter whenever I feel that I have learnt a life lesson. I started writing around 2022, I started to go through a quarter life crisis, I went through some of the toughest phases.
My attempt is to provide a life’s lessons that highly philosophical in a format that is easily consumable when he grow to a point where he can start reading, and has few years to take those lessons into his heart to navigate the world.
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